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In the period between September 21-23, 2008, some of the most powerful technology and business leaders from the SEE Region will come together in Ohrid to exchange policies and ideas on technology in order... read more
The European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry (DG ENTR) is holding an Information Day on September 15, 2008 in Brussels. read more
The "5th International Technology Transfer Days BIOMATERIALS 2009" will be held on 19-20 February, 2009. One of the main objectives of the organising project, "INCOMAT" is to identify... read more
Doing Business in South East Europe 2008 covers 22 cities in seven economies: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The subnational report provides... read more
The European Commission, Directorate General for Research, is organising an international conference entitled: "Challenges for the future: Research on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis" on ... read more
This article offers overwiew of events and activities regarding S&T in Montenegro in the period from November 2007 and July 2008. read more
This article offers overview of recent developments of the S&T cooperation regarding Serbia. Several events regarding S&T cooperation with Serbia took place in May and June, and sveral bilateral... read more
On 22-24 October 2008, Lyon will feature innovation at the 2nd Europe INNOVA conference "Accelerating Innovation in Europe". The conference is hosted by Grand Lyon and co-organised by the French... read more
The meeting of the COST (European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical research) was held on June 18 and 19, 2008 in the Sava Center in Belgrade. read more
The latest report of one the seven Expert Groups is now available on the website, which was set up by DG Research of the European Commission in the context of the follow-up to the Green Paper “The... read more
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
The European Policy Centre, in cooperation with the King Baudouin Foundation and in association with the Institute for Strategic Studies in Ljubljana, invites you to a Policy Dialogue on The Balkans in... read more
With June 30, 2007 the EC funded project "Reduction of environmental risks, posed by Emerging Contaminanets, through advanced treatment of municipal and industrial wastes" ended with a long ... read more
The results and achievements of the the RES-Integration Project (Rural sustainable development through integration of Renewable Energy Technologies), that ran from November 2004 to October 2007, are at... read more
A new project - "Partners for Investment Promotion" - involving EU and Western Balkan Chambers officially kicked-off on June 9, 2008 and will run for a year and a half. The project, co-funded... read more
Brussels Innova – the exhibition on innovation, research and new technologies (57th edition) – will take place on the November 13-15, 2008 at the Brussels Expo, Belgium. read more
The international conference, organised in honour of Professor Françoise Thys-Clément, “The knowledge economy in the 21st century” will take place on the June 19-20, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium. read more
Confrontations Europe is organising the seminar “Towards a European policy for the development of human competencies for innovation” ("Vers une politique européenne de développement des compétences humaines... read more
Following the course of the first ICEIRD 2008 in Skopje and Ohrid the ICEIRD conference in 2009 will take place in Thessaloniki on April 24-25, 2009. read more
The next Steering Platform meeting will be held in Ljubljana on June 13, 2008. The WBC-INCO.NET project will also present itself at this event. Other aspects in the agenda include IPA, EUREKA, Research... read more
An overview on all FP6 Projects in the field of International Cooperation with the Western Balkan countries (Environment and Health) has been published. This gives a good overview on funded projects ... read more
The Balkan Agro Food Network (BAFN), a project financed under FP6 to stimulate agri-food research in the western Balkans, has been running for the last two years and is now coming to its final stages. read more
The Second Congress of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Scientists from B&H and abroad will be held August 27-31, 2008 in Sarajevo. read more
The EC has published a catalogue of 181 projects funded under the FP6 theme 'food quality and safety'. This catalogue will be a useful tool for identifying potential partners, developing new projects ... read more
The European Commission has published a document presenting the list of proposals retained for eventual financing in the first call of FP7 - Cooperation in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. read more
European 'Perspectives for Food 2030' are certainly relevant for the Western Balkan countries: A major food conference organised by DG Research brought together major actors from the fields of food technology... read more
ERA WESTBALKAN+ is organising a strategic brokerage event on the topic Information and Communication Technologies on the June 12, 2008 in Athens, Greece. read more
The EU-funded initiative HAGRID – Gateway to ICT Networks – focusing on increasing the participation of new organizations in EU-funded ICT research aims to organize a collaboration workshop for coordinators... read more
The first South East Europe Programme call for proposals is open until June 13, 2008. read more
Research and scientific collaboration in South East Europe (SEE) will be enhanced through the use of the next generation regional computing & storage Grid Infrastructure and advanced applications, ... read more
ICERI2008, the International Conference of Education, Research and InnovationConference takes place in Madrid, Spain November 17-19, 2008. 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.
