On the occasion of the global campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”, marked by 1700 participating organizations from over 100 countries worldwide, the University of Novi Sad organized in November 2021 a series of online workshops and student activities, as well as three lectures.

The University of Novi Sad is one of the founding institutions of the newly formed Alliance of Universities of Artistic Education (UNIART), which brought together representatives of universities from the region, wider Europe and the People's Republic of China who have art education in their education systems.

The University of Novi Sad has been ranked among the best universities in the world on the recently published Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022 by subject. The new THE rankings by different subjects for 2022 were published in September 2021 for four subject areas so far. According to the newly published results, the University of Novi Sad has been ranked in the field of Phycology for the first time, with the rank 501+, as the only university from the Republic of Serbia to be ranked in this scientific field. Beside Phycology, UNS has been ranked in other three subject areas for the upcoming year as well, where it has maintained last year rankings: Clinical & Health (601+), Life sciences (801+) and Physical sciences (801 – 1000).

At the 22^nd session, held May 14, 2021, the Council of the University of Novi Sad elected Prof. Dr. Dejan Madić, full professor at the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, as the new rector of the University of Novi Sad. Professor Madić will take office on October 1, 2021, serving for the three-year mandate until September 30^th, 2024. The newly elected rector has been a member of the current University leadership, serving as the Vice-Rector for International Affairs.