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The third edition of Mitrovica Summer Courses (MSC - July 12-26, 2008) and the fourth International Summer University Macedonia in Ohrid (ISUM) will be organized this year by SPARK (formerly ATA) and ... read more
The international conference 'Global Philanthropists - Partners for a Knowledge based Response to Climate Change' will be held from June 1-3, 2008 in Portorož/ Portorose (Slovenia). read more
The Unique Registration Facility (URF) allows registration of all FP7 participants which then receive a Participant Identification Code (PIC) which can then be modified only by the Legal Entity Appointed... read more
The European Commission has launched the fourth phase of the Tempus programme, which supports the modernisation of higher education in the 28 partner countries of Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central... read more
WBC-INCO.NET thinks that becoming an expert evaluator for the European Commission is one of the best possibilities to learn about programmes and projects, to network and receive information about the ... read more
The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities - at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world - for breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Through... read more
The Research Information Event took place on May 6, 2008 opened by Janez Potocnik, Genc Pollo and Majlinda Bregu. The conclusions are prepared by Giancarlo Caratti and Milena Raykovska (Joint Research... read more
September 26, 2008 is the next collection date for Preliminary Proposals - as with previous successful collection dates this continuous call is thematically open. COST (European COoperation in the field... read more
The 19th and 20th of June 2008 NPO, the Network on Public Research Programming, the Netherlands, is organizing a two-day conference on "Evidence Based Policy Making: International Best Practices in connecting... read more
The Prime Minister Mr. Berisha did a 2 days visit in Estonia, where he had meetings with high state representatives where one of the topics discussed was the position of technology and information in ... read more
The South East Europe Transnational Programme has, as of the May 5, 2008 launched its 1st Call for Proposals. The Call will follow the 2-step procedure, deadline for the first step Expression of Interest... read more
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The European Commission wishes to offload non-political programs such as FP7 and CIP to newly setup Executive agencies. Project officers will be moving from the European Commission to theses new Executive... read more
Projects funded by the European Commission in FP6 and FP7 show tangible results in the Western Balkan countries: upgrading of laboratories is one of the possibilities. A good practice is the FP6 INCO ... read more
COST projects offer a great opportunity to create, enhance, enforce networks with researchers in the European Union. In the Western Balkan countries, researchers can use the funds offered to exchange ... read more
The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF 2008) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from July 18 to 22, 2008. It is a good opportunity for networking activities as some 4,000 scientists, researchers, students, decision... read more
The event "Governance and Management Models in Higher Education - A Global Perspective" is organised by the European University Association on September 3-5, 2008 in Coimbra, Portugal. read more
On May 23-25, 2008 the conference "Innovation and Social Development" will be held in Dubrovnik (Croatia). read more
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Toulouse School of Economics are organising a conference on 'Knowledge for growth - European strategies in the global economy' from July 7 ... read more
On June 1-3, 2008 the National Office for Research and Technology of Hungary will host the 3rd Europe INNOVA Annual Partnering Event. read more
Two training workshops whave been organised in the framework of the WBC-INCO.NET project. The first workshop took place in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 8, 2008, at the Serbian Chamber of Economy.The training... read more
On May 5 and 6, 2008, Commissioner Potočnik visited Tirana and met the authorities to discuss the state of research cooperation between the European Union and Albania. He visited Albania for first time... read more
Lyon will be hosting the 2nd INNOVA Conference from October 22-24, 2008 with the of the French Presidency of the European Union. read more
Budapest to host Annual Partnering Event and Cluster Workshop. 2-3 June 2008 the next Europe INNOVA Annual Partnering Event and the thematic workhshop will take place in Budapest.The event will take place... read more
On 22-23 January 2008, the Swedish Government in collaboration with the Slovenian EU Presidency hosted the European Presidency Conference on Innovation and Clusters in Stockholm. The conference was attented... read more
Please have a look at some important indications concerning general conditions for information and communication within EC (co)-funded projects! read more
The second call in the field of Infrastructures (Framework Programme 7) has been published: It focuses on scientific data infrastructure and GÉANT. Deadline for the submission of proposals is September... read more
After submission of proposals in March for the calls REGPOT and REGIONS, information is now available on the submissions which were received. The calls REGPOT-2008-1 received overall 475 proposals (!), ... read more
PDM URF (Participant Data Management Unique Registration Facility) is an Inter-RDG project to provide simple and efficient communication with and registration of participants in grants of Research DGs... read more
The final report of the public consultation on the future of ERA, published on April 24, 2008, shows that many member states are not in much of a hurry to jointly coordinate their national research programmes... read more
In the field of transport in the Western Balkans, the Slovenian Presidency of the EU is working hard to ensure that the European Commission is given a mandate to open negotiations on an EU 'Transport ... read more
An international conference for Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus and Baltic States on "Science and Education Policies" will take place in Chisinau (Moldova) on September 18-21, ... read more
SEE-ERA.NET summarises its latest news for the INCO-NET journal. Items discussed are - a presentation of the SEE-ERA.NET White Paper at DG Research - new developments based on the SEE-ERA.NET White Paper... read more
Within the framework of the Information Office for the Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan Countries (see-science.eu), the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) has conducted a survey ... read more
The policies of the Government of Albania in the realm of activities in S&T development are an integral part of the generic policies on the economic and social development of the country, expressing... read more
On December 3, 2008, Albania's Education Minister Genc Pollo and Italian Ambassador to Tirana Saba D'Elia signed the third bilateral executive programme of the Agreement of Scientific and Technological... read more
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is committed to participate in the 7th Framework Programme in order to enable its private companies, public organisations and individual researchers to actively participate... read more
In December 2007, a project called “Development of capacities of science and research in higher educational institutions in the Republic of Srpska (RS) for participation in international programmes... read more
Recent communication from the European Commission (EC) on “Western Balkans: Enhancing the European perspective”, which was adopted on March 5, 2008, has provided new insights into the state... read more
eIFL.net has started its work in 1999 with the goal of bringing affordable access to e-resources to former Soviet Union and South-Eastern and Eastern European countries. Today it has a broader programme... read more
The Commission Working Document of March 5, 2008 also reports on the funding programmes for which the WBC are currently eligible. read more
The Slovenian Presidency is organising a conference in Ljubljana on May 13-14, 2008, to consider how culture can be successfully integrated into the European Union's external relations. read more
Another major policy meeting on science, higher education and innovation will take place on July 2-3, 2008, in Montenegro. It is organised by the UNESCO Office in Venice and the Ministry of Education ... read more
"I am extremely glad to be in Skopje again, where in March 2004 I was unanimously elected President of the COST Committee of Senior Officials for the first time" said Professor Francesco Fedi in his address... read more
Srdjan Cvijic reports on the Stability Pacts activities to facilitate knowledge circulation and highlights the development of the scholarship database. read more
Since 2000 Croatia made significant effort in establishing the Croatian national innovation system (NIS) and introducing innovation policy (IP) as a specific policy framework for accelerating transition... read more
The Technology Park Zagreb (TPZ) is the first technology park and entrepreneurial incubator for high technology in Croatia. TPZ was founded in 1994 in the framework of the KONCAR concern. After the summer... read more
At the 23rd meeting of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) on December 7, 2008, a proposal was unanimously accepted to open ESFRI to newly associated countries. read more
On March 4-5, 2008, the Slovenian presidency organised a conference on research infrastructures and their structuring effect within the European Research Area. In focus was also the usefulness of the ... 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.
