New Document : IPA II (2014-2020)
The Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) is the means by which the EU supports reforms in the 'enlargement countries' with financial and technical help. The IPA funds build up the capacities ... read more
Documents
WBC-INCO.NET Final Publication - R&D and Innovation in Western Balkans. Moving towards 2020.
Attached please find the WBC-INCO.NET final publication, entitled "R&D and Innovation in Western Balkans. Moving towards 2020." read more
Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2014
This 6th edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) provides a comparative assessment of innovation performance across 190 regions of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland. The RIS accompanies... read more
Innovation Union Scoreboard 2014
The Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) 2014 uses the most recent available data from Eurostat and other internationally recognised sources with data referring to 2012 for 11 indicators, 2011 for 4 indicators... read more
“Enhancing Growth through Regional Action – South East Europe 2020”
In this document you find some talking points of the RCC Secretary General, Goran Svilanovic, at the Closing conference “Enhancing Growth Trough Regional Action – South East Europe 2020” Sarajevo, 18 ... read more
Danube Clusters- Striving for Excellence
In the opening segment of the Danube Cluster Conference "Boosting Innovation Policies with Clusters along the Danube“ on 27th June 2013 in Linz, Austria, Peter Friedrich, State Minister for the Federal... read more
IP Management in Horizon 2020: at the proposal stage
Horizon 2020 is the European Union’s (EU) new framework programme for research and innovation for the period 2014-2020. As the successor to the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Horizon 2020 implements... read more
Questions and Answers on "Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT" calls for proposals
Horizon 2020 – Societal challenge Health, demographic change and wellbeing - Personalising Health and Care workprogramme 2014-2015 (H2020-PHC-2014-2015) contains the following 4 topics related to active... read more
Fact Sheet: Exploitation channels for public research results
This fact sheet has the aim to present tools, tips and practices for public research organisations (PROs) to convert the knowledge resulting from publicly funded research activities into socio-economic... read more
Strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) is committed to and applying the principles of multiparty democracy, pluralism, and market economics in accordance with the conditions specified in Article 1 of the Agreement... read more
Does Growth Generate Jobs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the link from growth to jobs was tenuous in the first decade of the transition, giving rise to the notion of jobless growth. Yet, European countries suffered large ... read more
Linking Rural Entrepreneurs and Diaspora in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina
This report presents the results of a research project, conducted in the framework of the RRPP programme in the period January 2012-June 2013, in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The project was consisted... read more
An Overview of the Current Situation, Main Challenges and Policy Recommendations for Improving Social Science Research in Serbia
The recommendations for improving social science research in Serbia have resulted from the project Establishing a Dialogue between the Research Community and Decision Makers with a View to Improving Social... read more
Practical Guidelines for WBIF Project Application and Submission, January 2014 (Update)
This document aims to provide WBIF stakeholders, particularly officials from relevant institutions in WBIF beneficiaries, with a concise and user-friendly guide to preparing and submitting applications... read more
EU Candidate and Pre-accession Countries Economic Quarterly 4/2013
The growth performance of the pre-accession countries improved in 2013. GDP growth turned positive in the four Western Balkan economies that had experienced recession in 2012 and gathered pace in the... read more
Report on Progress in Quality Assurance in Higher Education
European higher education faces significant challenges. The European Commission, in a series of recent strategy papers, has highlighted these challenges – greatly expanding the student population, raising... read more
History and Politics in the Western Balkans: Changes at the Turn of the Millennium
“At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, the Balkans have, on one side, seemed to have reached an impasse. Not too many democratic changes have been successfully implemented ... read more
Horizon 2020 national launch events and thematic events
This is a handy, one-page overview of all the national launch events and thematic events related to Horizon 2020 held/planned in various locations in Europe from 1 January to 17 March 2014. The "summary... read more
National law relating to the EPC (16th Edition - sept 2013)
With its "National law relating to the EPC" booklet, the European Patent Office aims to provide European patent applicants and proprietors, and all others concerned with the European patent system, with... read more
Working Paper Series on Media Assistance in the Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, FYR of Macedonia and Serbia
This working paper series deals with the central question whether ‘models’ of media systems that have developed in the West can be exported to other countries, where democracy is less consolidated. ... read more
