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UNDP presents its biggest regional programme in SEE - the Western Balkans Regional Environmental Programme “Strengthening capacities in the Western Balkans countries to address environmental problems ... read more
The Commission adopted new initiatives on March 5, 2008, and enhances existing ones to support the political and economic development in the countries of the Western Balkans, thus helping to accelerate... read more
A summer school on technology enhanced learning (TEL) will be held in Ohrid, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, June 15 to 21, 2008. Scholarships for students from Westbalkan countries are available... read more
The Side Event for the Ministers of Education from South Eastern Europe on the occasion of the Informal Conference of European Ministers of Education on “The Institutional Foundations for Dialogue... read more
On October 16-17, 2008 the Third International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) organised by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective ... read more
Montenegro is the fourth country of the group of candidate and potential candidate countries to join the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) after Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic... read more
On March 27-28, 2008 the 28th Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship will take place in the Hotel Habakuk in Maribor, Slovenia with the leading topic “The Power of Networking”.The Conference ... read more
The EU has launched an innovative programme in the area of SME support, the INNOSME Project, aimed at increasing SMEs' chances of being awarded funding contracts, particularly in the area of information... read more
On February 28, 2008, SEEU and FOSIM ("Foundation Open Society Institute in Macedonia") signed a contract marking the launch of the joint pilot project "Business Incubator in Tetovo", FYR of Macedonia... read more
The EC has recently launched the Enterprise Europe Network, which is an EU-wide support network for enterprises. The network is made up of over 500 contact points engaging 4,000 members of staff and includes... read more
A policy-makers workshop for e-Infrastructures in South-East Europe was held with great success in Athens, on February 21, 2008: "Working towards a common vision and a long term regional strategy... read more
In the course of the final Regional Table meeting of the Stability Pact in Sofia on February 27, 2008, the Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Erhard Busek handed over ... read more
On March 10, 2008 a Seminar on how to better communicate European Research will be held in Brussels. read more
The European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) is launching a call for proposals as part of its new region-wide policy programme: “Think and link” - Regional Policy Programme for Think Tanks and Policy Institutes... read more
The 14th Meeting of the Joint Committee of Ministers will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 29, 2008. read more
In April 2005 the International Commission on the Balkans issued a report titled “The Balkans in Europe’s Future” pointing out that students in the Western Balkans, to a strikingly limited... read more
Administration Organisations and Trade Unions from Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Cyprus and FYR of Macedonia have joined forces to establish a "Research and Innovation Centre in Public Administration... read more
Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS), an interdisciplinary centre at Salzburg University is seeking candidates for 8 doctoral student positions and specifically wants to address candidates... read more
Untill February 28, 2008 you are invited to contribute to the development of the future workprogramme in the field of ICT in future research (with a special focus on challenge 4 - intelligent content ... read more
The Marie Curie Action 'Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways' (IAPP) of the FP7 - that is now open for proposals - seeks to open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations... read more
The partner search project Ideal-ist provides a powerful platform for coupling international researchers for ICT projects of the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7): In two recent calls of the FP7 Information... read more
The Policy-makers Workshop for e-Infrastructures in South-East Europe, organized by the European Commission SEE-GRID-2 project (South-East European GRID e-Infrastructure Development), will take place ... read more
For the first time the University of Cambridge has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a university from southeastern Europe. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ss. ... read more
The seventh edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) was launched by the Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) with the support... read more
The CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest cordially invite to the conference EU Enlargement and Global Implications of the Balkan Problem.The conference... read more
The recently finalised Regional innovation policy impact assessment and benchmarking project MERIPA has produced a toolbox for better innovation policy making, that adresses specifically the needs of ... read more
Bosnia and Herzegovina is committed to participate in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) in order to enable its private companies, public organizations and individual researchers to actively participate... read more
The European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA) will be holding its annual conference AGORADA 2008, entitled 'Towards better RDA-University partnerships for regional economic development', March... read more
"PPP and Private Funding of RTD, Innovation and Education" are in the focus of the EREF-2008 taking place in Nova Gorica, Slovenija, on June 5-6, 2008. Vojvodina (Serbia) is one of the guest regions (... read more
The first Call for Proposals under the new phase of the Tempus IV programme invites the submission of cooperative projects from partnerships comprised of higher education institutions, enterprises, ministries... read more
The initiation of the fourth phase of the Trans-European mobility scheme for university studies (TEMPUS), which is the EU programme that supports the modernisation of higher education inter alia in the... read more
The Research Executive Agency, located in Brussels, was created in December 2007. Managing over 6.5 billion, it starts its work in 2008, and should become fully independent in 2009. The REA reports to... read more
The Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment will issue a call for applying to their international fellowship program. read more
A book launch event will take place in Skopje, FYR of Macedonia on February 15, 2008 at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius organised in cooperation with SEERC. read more
A workshop dealing with "national S&T policies towards global issues" focussing on the activities of the six funded INCO-NET projects will be held in Bled/Slovenia, on March 5, 2008. read more
The currently open Call for Proposals “CoOperate Enlarged – Vienna 2008” aims at enlarging the potential of research and innovation in the region through cooperation projects between Central European ... read more
University of Sarajevo announced the beginning of the scholarships project for short and long-term stays of the students and professors of University of Sarajevo at the universities, of the country members... read more
The "Future of the internet" event will be held in Bled/Slovenia from March 31 to April 1, 2008. read more
If you are interested in serving as an evaluator within FP7, please find here some details and hints for the online registration process. read more
Croatian Minister of Science Dragan Primorac and his visiting Indian counterpart, Kapil Sibal, signed a declaration on strengthening bilateral scientific and technological co-operation on February 2, ... read more
The EC invited the 6 different inco-net projects to be presented in Brussels on January 30-31, 2008. read more
On February 1, 2008, for the first time all 26 partners of the project WBC-INCO.NET came together at the Kick-Off Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The Western Balkan Countries’ INCO-NET (WBC-INCO... read more
The winners of the Business Plan Competition 2007 will be announced in Kragujevac, Serbia in February 2008. read more
WUS Austria invites exceptional students from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo/UNMIK, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, who study law... read more
CORDIS celebrates the first year of the implementation of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme on Research and Development (FP7) which was taking Europe's research community in the direction of several... read more
On January 25, 2008 Montenegro signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Commission which will allow it full access to the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) which runs from... read more
The Conclusions and Recommendations of the Round Table on "Fostering the Human Potential in Higher Education and Research in SEE: The Challenge of Brain Circulation" at the University of Graz on Saturday... read more
On December 14, 2007 the opening and promotion of the Business & Technology incubator of technical faculties Belgrade (BITF) was celebrated and officially inaugurated by the Ambassador of the OSCE Mission... read more
Mojca Kucler Dolinar, Slovenia's Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology highlighted the research priorities of the Slovenian Presidency to members of the European Parliament's Committee... read more
A conference on the development of human resources in science and research will be held in Liberec, Czech Republic, on May 13-14, 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.
