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Albania also joins the part of the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), which promotes innovation, entrepreneurship and growth in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). read more
On the side of the SEE Forum on Science, Higher Education and Innovation in Budva, Montenegro, the Ministers of Slovenia and Montenegro signed the bilateral agreement between the two states. read more
The EREF (European Regional Economic Forum) is a platform of European regions on knowledge economy and society, and has also acted as a bridge between EU Member states and countries of South-Eastern Europe... read more
The Euroscience Open Forum, taking place on July 18-22, 2008 in Barcelona, Spain, is an opportunity to network not only for academiciens but also for businesses. read more
The Ministry of Education and Research of Sweden published a guide for the better understanding of the internal process of the development of the FP7 Work Programmes which is now available for download... read more
At the beginning of June, the new webportal EURAXESS was launched, streamlining the various services that have previously been offered under the European Researcher Mobility Portal - ERA-MORE Network. read more
The number of experts evaluating projects in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) is remarkably low for the Western Balkan (WB) region: between 2003 and 2006 there were in total only 58 evaluators from... read more
Organisations participating in FP7 projects need now to appoint so-called Legal Entity Appointed Representatives = LEAR. The necessary steps to do this are outlined in the following news. read more
Job description: Coordination of two intertwined EU projects: a network of ministries and agencies from 14 countries on the topic of research cooperation with South Eastern Europe, see http://www.see-... read more
Croatian Chamber of Economy is organising a "Workshop on the Croatian RTD Potential: Rudjer Boskovic Institute" on July 9, 2008 The event will take place at Representative Office of the Croatian... read more
The Austrian Research Centers and the University of Vienna, Austria, are jointly organising the International Science and Technology (S&T) Indicators Conference from September 17-20, 2008 in Vienna, Austria... read more
The workshop "Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries III: Causes, Impacts, Solutions" will take place on September 18-19, 2008 in Graz, Austria. Contributions by interested researchers... read more
The final report of Innovating Regions in Europe working group was published in June.The report offers an overview on innovation system concepts, structural elements, internal interactions and barriers... read more
The Steering Platform meeting was successfully held in Ljubljana on June 13, 2008. The Slovenian presidency has well established the meeting as a point of information sharing, stocktaking and networking... read more
As already presented on this website, the publication "Innovation Infrastructure in the Western Balkan Countries" contains 6 thematic reports providing an overview of the situation as regards... read more
AITA- Information Technology Association of Albania in association with the German Agency for Technical Collaboration ( supported by the German Federal Minisrty for Collaboration and Develpoement), organized... read more
A new collaboration was recently initiated between the Croatian Chamber of Economy and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. This collaboration represents only the first step in a process... read more
The Board of the National Foundation for Science, Higher Education andTechnological development of the Republic of Croatia announces new application deadline for programme Partnership in Basic Research... read more
On June 6 EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potoènik participates in the EUREKA Ministerial Conference in Ljubljana. He welcomed the FYR of Macedonia as a new member to the initiative. During... read more
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic met Commissioner Janez Potocnik on June 10, 2008 and discussed a science development strategy. read more
Western Balkans Info Hub - powered by "Policy Answers" - is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe project "R&I policy making, implementation and support in the Western Balkans", grant agreement: 10105887. The portal builds upon previous initiatives, such as for instance WBC-RTI.INFO and WBC-INCO.NET, which were funded under different Framework Programmes (FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD) of the European Commission and other contracts.
