Sava Center is the largest congressional, cultural and business center in Serbia, and one of the largest in Europe, whose main role is to organize congresses and art conventions and similar events.

Sava Center was erected in 1977 as a modern building complex in one of the best areas in Belgrade, located just five minutes from the city center and 15 from the Belgrade Airport. The Center has two deluxe category hotels in its immediate vicinity – the Hyatt Regency and the Hotel Continental Belgrade, the latter forming an integrated architectonics space with Sava Center comprising three units:Building A (an office building), Building B (a large concert congress hall), and the Hotel Continental Belgrade.

Sava Center is a modern center with a considerable reputation locally and internationally and more than three decades experience in organizing some of the largest international congresses and art conventions. To date Sava Center has hosted more than 8.000 local and international congresses and events with over 1.600.000 participants, and over 8.000 cultural events which were seen by more than 7.000.000 visitors. Sava Center has also hosted a number of large international congresses such as OSCE, World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting, UNESCO General Assembly, 9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries, EBRD General Meeting, other world congresses on mining, orthopedics, dentistry, surgery... and has been host to some of the greatest celebrities of the world art scene. For many years Sava Center has been hosting notable cultural happenings such as FEST, BEMUS, BITEF…

Over 8,000 national and international events and conferences held at the Sava Center so far were attended by more than 1,600,000 participants. Moreover, the input of it's expertise and professional staff was invaluablefor the start-up of of a number of new congress centres in other countries and for organizing a number of conferences and events all around the globe.
 
The Sava Center has 18 conference halls with various capacities (from 20 to 4,000 people). All conference halls and rooms have state-of-the-art technical equipment to suit the needs of even the most demanding clients. In terms of available capacity, technical equipment and professional experience, the Sava Center is the leader of the congress industry in the region.

In-house team of professional congress organizers (PCO-s) are prepared to come to grips with even the most complex challenges, be it within the Center or outside it. Our clients receive from us the best professional knowledge at all stages of congress organizing, from planning and preparation, to the drafting of the preliminary budget and coordination of a wide range of services in the preparatory and implementation stages.

The Sava Center offers an exhibition space of 3.300 square meters in building «A» (foaye by the main entrance, and area in front of conference halls) and in building «B» (foaye in front of the Great hall), that together with 29.000 square meters of open-aor exhibition space are an ideal venue for commercial presentations and art events.

The Sava Center is affiliated to internationally acclaimed professional congress associations:

	ICCA ( International Congress and Convention Association)
	AIPC ( The International Association of Congress Centres)

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2009

• World University President Summit - WUPS 2009
• 6th International Wine Festival
  
• 18^th Congress of Dermatovenereologists of Serbia with international participation
  
• 31^st General Assembly of the International University Sports Federation - FISU
• The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2009
• 8th Congress of the Serbian Veterinary Society and the Veterinary Chamber
  
• The First International Symposium on Neurocardiology - NEUROCARD
• 33^rd Meeting of the European Strabismological Association - ESSA
• 16^th International Meeting of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology - ESGO
• EAGE Postgraduate Course: The journey from Inflammation to Cancer in the Digestive System & XI European Bridging Meeting in Gastroenterology
• 17^th Telecommunications Forum – TELFOR
  
• 6^th Symposium of Oral Surgeons and Implantologists of Serbia
  
• 46^th Cancerology Week
  
• Synergy 2009
• 40^th International Congress on Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning– KGH
• 6^th Serbian Congress on Diabetes

2002 - 2008

• Eurovision – Song contest
• World Congress and 57th General Assembly of the International Press Institute – IPI
• Meeting of the English Language Teachers Association - ELTA
• 16th Telecommunications Forum - TELFOR
• 39th International Congress on heating, refrigerating and Air-conditioning - KGH
• 6th Ministerial Conference: “Environment for Europe”
• EU – The first 50 years
• Regional Conference on Cyber Crime
• 18th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Mining Professors – SOMP 2007
• 4th European Congress for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology
• 57 Session of the WHO – World Health Organization-Regional Office for Europe WHO/EURO
• WASCON 2006 – 6th International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Constructions with Alternative Materials
• SEE broadband Conference
• European School of Oncology – ESO 2006 - Evidence Based Management of Lung Cancer
• Advanced Colposcopy Course
• Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe – Meeting of the Regional Table and Working Tables
• 18th Congress of Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association – 18th CBGA
• 14th Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – EBRD
• 10th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science
• 6th European Coal Conference – ECC
• EESNET – III Međunarodni Kongres semenara
• 9th Central European Congress of Coloproctology and 4. Symposium of Coloproctology of Yugoslavia
• 5th Congress of the Balkan Union of Oncology
• 10th Congress of the Balkan Stomatological Society – BaSS

1997 - 2001

• 1st International Conference on Environment Protection
• EUCARPIA – 18th International Conference on Maize and Sorghum Genetics and Breeding at the end of the 20th Century
• 1st European Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine
• 2nd Balkan Stomatological Congress
• World Congress on Rehabilitation in Psychiatry

1992 – 1996

• 9th Balkan Sports Medicine Congress
• 3rd Congress of the Woman's Inter-Balkan Cooperation Association
• Non-Aligned Ministerial Meeting - Bali, Indonesia

1987 - 1991

• FIT - 12th Congress of the International Federation of Interpreters and Translators
• 11th Congress of the International Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons
• 7th European Congress of Neuropharmacologists
• IATA - 19th International Conference of  PR Committees
• ICA - 13th International Congress on Acoustics
• 9th Non-aligned Summit
• 5th World Congress of Ergoophtalmologists
• ESOC - 6th European Organic Chemistry Symposium
• 14th ICCA Category Workshop
• EAEG – 49th Congress of the European Association of Geophysicists

1982 - 1986

• AIMAS - 34th International Congress Aviation and Space Medicine
• INTERPOL – 55th General Assembly Meeting
• FISITA - 21st World Congress of Automobile Engineers and Technicians
• FDI - 73rd World Congress of the International Dentists' Federation
• ICCA - International Seminar "Current Trends on the Congress Market"
• FOREX - 26th Congress of the International Association of Foreign Exchange Traders
• AIT – 86th General Assembly of the International Tourism Association
• UNCTAD VI
• AIPC - Annual Conference of the International Association of Congress Centres
• 11th World Mining Congress

1977 - 1981

• UNESCO - 21st General Assembly
• 4th World Congress of Medicine, Informatics and Library Science
• World Bank/ IMF - 34th Annual Meeting 
• MINESPOL II - Conference of Science and Technology Ministers for Europe and North America
• Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Enriching Cultural Heritage

In line with its cultural and artistic mission statement, in the thirty years of its existence, the Sava Center has presented the work of the greatest and most important artists from Europe and all around the world.

To put it numerically, 20.000 cultural events organized in that period were seen by ten million people. The number and quality of national and international programs organized in great Hall enable the Sava Center to rightfully claim that it has the most representative and exclusive concert hall in the country.

Sava Center is the organizer of the Summertime Jazz & Blues Festival, the World Music Festival and the Documentary Feature Film Festival. Significant production support was also provided for the following cultural and artistic events: FEST, BITEF, BEMUS, BELEF, GUITAR ART FESTIVAL, DANCE FESTIVAL, to name just a few.

The Great hall of the Sava Center has 3.672 seats and exceptional technical facilities, including state-of-the-art stage equipment and Dolby Digital system for multi-channel sound reproduction.

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The Sava Center is a member of the following professional associations:

	ILMC ( International Live Music Conference)
	ISPA ( International Society of Performing Arts)

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Many internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles have performed at the Sava Centre, including:

Soloist

Bands

Orchestras

Choirs and National Ensembles

Theatrical and Opera Companies

Ballet

Artistic Spectacles

Festivals

Sava Center
    Congress Culture & Business Center
    Milentija Popovica 9 St,    
    11070 BELGRADE
    Phone: +381 11 220 60 00
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Director
    Dragan Vucicevic
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Deputy Director
    Dragan Cosic
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Protocol & Public Relations Dept.

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Congress Dept.
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Cultural Affairs Dept.
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Catering
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