General Public

The NBS Visitor Centre has set up a standing exhibition and occasionally prepares theme exhibitions which give the general public an opportunity to appreciate historical artefacts that have shaped our social and cultural identity. At the same time, through its interactive educational content, the Centre provides useful information about the financial products and services offered by banks. 

Financial education

• To improve the availability of information and understanding of financial products and the risks they involve, the NBS launched a website www.tvojnovac.nbs.rs. In addition to useful information, the website features a number of calculators providing fairly accurate information about the costs and prices of specific financial services.
• To facilitate dissemination of information about financial products offered in the domestic market throughout Serbia, the NBS opened information and education offices in its branches in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Niš and Užice

Videos

• Dinar - our money (7 min., 3,7MB)
• Euro - our money (8 min., 4MB)
  (ECB)
• History of NBS (4 min., 4,5MB)
• Hyperinflation 1992-1993 (5 min., 5,5MB)
• Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes & Coins (4 min.,7MB)

Videos (4 to 11 minutes) are subtitled in English. Files are in .rm format and you can see them if you have Windows Media Player or Real Player.

Other educational materials

• Glossary of basic economic terms (in Serbian only)
• Standing and theme exhibition brochures intended for the general public
• Presentations accompanying theme exhibitions  (in French only)
  • Presentation accompanying exhibition of archive documents "Central banks of Serbia and France during World War I" 
  • Presentation about the start of operations of the National Bank  – "National Bank of Serbia – National Bank of Belgium, Dossier Boschman 1884/85"

Personal finance management

Together with other members of the Working Group for Corporate Social Responsibility in Banking and Finance which it is currently chairing, the NBS organises free of charge interactive workshops for citizens titled „Personal finance management“. The project aims to provide training and advice to help citizens improve their home budget management. In 2010, 24 workshops were held throughout Serbia (20 in Belgrade, 1 in Niš, 1 in Novi Sad, and 2 on Mount Kopaonik).  More than 300 participants in various workshops assessed the organisation (timing and venue), comprehensiveness, manner of presentation, and usefulness of the workshops with the highest grades. They thought the workshops gave them a better insight into their personal/home budget income and expenditure, saving possibilities, setting and achievement of objectives, and making improvements in their personal/home budget management.