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European Commission - Press release Strasbourg, 6 February 2018 The Commission adopted today a strategy for 'A credible enlargement perspective for and enhanced EU engagement with the Western ... read more
EIROforum, representing Europe’s eight large international research infrastructures and services providers, announced its key priorities for the ninth European Union Framework Programme for Research and... read more
Bulgaria took over the rotating EU Presidency for the first time on 1 January, and its programme focuses, among other priorities, on digital economy and skills for the future. With European economy competitiveness... read more
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The second Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting will be organised in Skopje on March 21-22, 2018 within the framework of the European Commission’s Support for the Steering Platform (SP) on ... read more
(...) Science Communication in Southeastern Europe is a reflection of the larger challenges sciences and research are facing. There has been chronicle underinvestment in education and science in recent... read more
The ICAS 2018 Conference has been recognized as a very successful international conference that provides an opportunity to engineers, researchers and expert’s world over to present the latest scientific... read more
For the first time, journalists from the Balkans have been awarded the 2018 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters. read more
Croatia’s new association of science writers has joined the World Federation of Science Journalists, WFSJ. read more
This year's EARTO Annual Conference 2018 will take place on 21-22 March 2018 in Oslo (Norway), kindly hosted by EARTO Norwegian members FFA, NOFIMA and SINTEF. The conference will focus on "Research &... read more
It includes latest developments in the field of IP, new publications, upcoming webinars and training events by IPR Helpdesk. read more
Health Programme 2014-2020: Work Programme for 2018 to focus resources on European Reference Networks for rare diseases, health promotion and mitigating cross-border health threats read more
On 18 January 2018 LERU published a new advice paper “Implicit bias in academia: A challenge to the meritocratic principle and to women's careers - and what to do about it” during a launch event in Brussels... read more
The results of several recent calls under Horizon 2020 on its Participant Portal were recently released on the Participant Portal. read more
For the last three years of its duration, the EU's Research Framework Programme Horizon 2020 Work Programme focuses on fewer topics with bigger budgets, directly supporting the Commission’s political ... read more
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The International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) offers 1 internship to qualified individuals wishing to gain work experience in a policy-oriented research institute. Tasks and responsibilities ... read more
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About the summer school Learn, Experience & Volunteer Have we moved from the post-2014 refugee and migrant crisis management to refugee integration in Europe or are we still in a transitional... read more
The S3 Platform has been recognised as "best practice" by the highly competitive and renowned European Public Sector Awards (EPSA), under the theme "An Innovative Public Sector in 2017: New solutions ... read more
The 10th European Cluster Collaboration Matchmaking mission in Thessaloniki was organised in the context of the Thessaloniki International Fair in close collaboration with the Centre for Research and ... read more
A Workshop on Smart Specialization for the Research and Development (R&D) and Industrial Working Group was organised by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) in Brussels, on 6 December 2017... read more
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The main challenge for South East Europe (SEE) economies is to commit to, and sustain the implementation of, long-term reforms aimed at increasing competitiveness and promoting sustainable, inclusive ... read more
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The overall objective of COORP is to assist in the integration of the Albanian academic community into the international community of researchers; to facilitate networking opportunities and respond efficiently... read more
Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, hosted on December 18, 2017 an informal gathering with the Prime Ministers... read more
On January 1, 2018, a decade after its accession to the EU, Bulgaria will take over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU for the first time. read more
The Western Balkans Process – also known as the Berlin Process – is a joint initiative of 13 European countries and the European Commission. It supports the efforts to integrate the region into the European... read more
ICRI 2018 will take place in Vienna, Austria on 12-14 September 2018 and will be co-organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the European Commission... read more
The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) in cooperation with the European Commission and German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy continued with preparations of the Western Balkans (WB) Digital... read more
The first cycle of the Berlin Process is coming to an end. What can we expect after the London summit, what are the greatest successes of the Berlin Process, as well as on a launching a hub ... read more
2017 ends with record-breaking figures for Erasmus+. According to the 2016 Annual Report, a budget increase of 7.5% allowed the programme to support 21,000 projects during 2016, 15% more than the previous... read more
RItrain, the Research Infrastructure Training Programme -an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aimed at professionalizing the training of managerial and leadership staff in Research Infrastructures- is surveying... read more
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ResInfra@DR project is organising a training to build capacity for ex-ante evaluation of research infrastructures, planning of RIs, monitoring of existing RIs and identification of expected impacts of... read more
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ResInfra@DR project is currently also looking for experienced trainers (experienced science, technology and innovation policy-makers, successful RI managers, established RI reviewers, experts from projects... read more
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The main objective of the Forum is to bring together the main partners for realising international laboratories in South East Europe combining capacity building with bringing nations together following... read more
The EuroScience Open Forum 2020 will be hosted from 4 to 10 July 2020 in Trieste, Italy, and that ESOF 2022 will be organized by Leiden/The Hague, The Netherlands, in July 2022. read more
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ERA-LEARN 2020 offers a training course on the application of foresight-processes for trans-national coordination of strategic research and innovation on 15-16 February 2018 taking place in Vienna . The... read more
The European Commission launched on 27 November 2017 a Horizon Prize in Social Innovation to improve the mobility of older people. Submissions will be accepted until 28 February 2019 from any legal entities... read more
The European Commission has launched the first of six European Innovation Council (EIC) Horizon Prizes, on Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid. EIC Horizon Prizes are part of the European Innovation... read more
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From 22 to 25 January 2018, Porto (Portugal) will host the EUDAT Conference "Putting the EOSC vision into practice": Sharing & preserving research data across disciplines and borders. read more
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Brussels – The 18th edition of policy summit on the Western Balkans under the title: Western Balkans at a Crossroads: New Challenges, Changing Dynamics, organised by the leading Brussels-based think-tank... read more
The Meeting / workshop “Towards a regional on-line knowledge platform on Work-based learning” was organized by the KulturKontakt Austria, Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe (ERI ... read more
Vienna - The 5th meeting of SEE 2020 Strategy Monitoring Committee, organised by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), took place in Vienna on 1 December 2017. read more
Brussels – Workshop on Smart Specialization for the Research and Development (R&D) and Industrial Working Group organised by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) was held in Brussels, on 6 December... read more
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As Western Balkan countries continue the road to the European Union, policy-makers need to change their perspective on informal institutions. It is crucial to close the gaps between the world as it is... read more
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Over 300 people gathered in Brussels on November 24, 2017 for the first Stakeholder Forum of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The European Open Science Cloud will bring together existing scientific... read more
This year it was decided to hold the meetings of the two Platforms together on 28-29 September 2017 in Belgrade. The Ministers met in the mornings of 28 and 29 September to celebrate the 30th anniversary... read more
The leaders of Western Balkans Six (WB6) endorsed the Multi-annual Action Plan for a Regional Economic Area in the Western Balkans Six (MAP), at the Berlin-process summit held on 12 July 2017 in ... read more
Repositories forming a distributed global knowledge network have the potential to promote the transformation of the scholarly communication ecosystem and advance the OA scholarly communication infrastructure... read more
Brussels - Representatives of the Western Balkans presented developments in Open Science and Open Access policies in their economies together with EU Member States at 5th meeting of the EU network of ... read more
The Declaration of Intent for Establishment of the International Scientific Institute in South East Europe was officially signed on 25 October 2017, in CERN (Geneva), by eight countries of the SEE Region... read more
The Prishtina International Summer University (PISU) is organized by the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina” in cooperation with various donors and partners. The aim of PISU is creation of direct... read more
As the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Erasmus come to an end by November 30, 2017, the European Commission has published a report on the achievements of the Erasmus+ programme during 2016. 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.
