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The 7th DRC Summer School on Regional Cooperation will take place in Pécs, Hungary from July 25 - August 1, 2010 under the title "The Western Balkans: Lessons from the Past and Future Prospects &... read more
The European Satellite Navigation Competition awards the best ideas for innovative satellite navigation applications. It is open to companies, entrepreneurs, research institutes, universities, ... read more
Europeana, launched by the European Commission and the EU's culture ministers in November 2008, is a multimedia library, museum and archive gateway website with Web 2.0 features. It offers direct... read more
The Regional Research Promotion Programme has recently published three new reports on Social Sciences in the Western Balkans. The reports have been compiled by local partners, supported by the Swiss Agency... read more
A new ERA for eInfrastructures in South East Europe has begun with the launch of the European project SEERA-EI (South East European Research Area for eInfrastructures). SEERA-EI kicked off in Athens on... read more
WBC-INCO.NET project organizes a brokerage event for participants from Europe and Western Balkan Countries on EU FP7 Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials & New Production Technologies on 18 June... read more
Speaking at a press conference on April 29, the EC's Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn quoted the text of the "Trust Researchers" petition that funding of European research should ... read more
The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Club International Universitaire and the Austrian Rectors' Conference have established a new web portal on international university cooperation... read more
The December 2008 European Council called for a European Plan for Innovation that could be presented in autumn 2010. The unferlying paper on the future innovation policy is now available and open for... read more
The 7th DRC Summer School on Regional Cooperation, to take place in Pécs, Hungary, will deal with "The Western Balkans: Lessons from the Past and Future Prospects". Its aim is the establishment... read more
Boosting economic recovery, investing in Europe's youth and in tomorrow's infrastructures are the priorities of the 2011 draft budget adopted by the Commission on 27 April 2010. R&D spendings... read more
The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) national coordinators from South East Europe met today to discuss the draft organization’s strategy for 2011-2013, with the aim of its finalisation and subsequent... read more
A News Alert Service on "Socio-economic and Humanities Research for Policy" has been launched by SCOOP project, an initiative supported by FP7. read more
For students of Universities in Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, who are presently enrolled in a Master- or PhD-Programme in the field... read more
The EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, launched a series of new health care research initiatives last week. The European Commission has earmarked €21 ... read more
The European Commission will formally establish a subgroup of at least eight EU commissioners with a stake in innovation policy this week. The committee, chaired by the EU's commissioner for research... read more
Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos began a tour of the Balkans on Tuesday as a representative of the Spanish EU presidency. He said that Spain is ready to continue to provide... read more
The objective of the forthcoming edition of the ePractice Journal (tenth edition) is to showcase the state of the art, present examples of best practice and highlight the challenges of eAccessibility ... read more
The Meet4Cleantech matchmaking event will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on June 2, 2010. It will provide participants with information and networking sessions for business, innovation and research... read more
Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, will put the spotlight on the development of a European Strategy for the Danube Region, as closing speaker of a major conference, taking place... 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.
