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... Facility and Study on Medium Research Equipment and Creation of Joint Research Facility. The consultants will conduct a series of field visits to the mapped research institutions that are eligible to apply for the research grants and for the pilot CoE grants, as well as for other research activities in Montenegro. The consultant will prepare recommendations to research institutions across Montenegro to enable the country to pull together and efficiently use its precious paraphernalia resources through the optimized use of research equipment. The findings will be used by the MoS of Montenegro through HERIC Project in defining new ways to facilitate equipment, to promote networking in implementing research grants and in ...

... will be co-chaired by Sredoje Novic, Minister of Civil Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences. Ministers and high level officials, experts of science, higher education and research from 11 South East European countries will participate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. The Expert Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation for South East Europe to convene on November 22, 2012 as a preparatory event to the round table will discuss the above-indicated STI system capacity in SEE and pay ...

The Global Competitiveness Report 2012–2013 is being released amid a long period of economic uncertainty. The tentative recovery that seemed to be gaining ground during 2010 and the first half of 2011 has given way to renewed concerns. The global economy faces a number of significant and interrelated challenges that could hamper a genuine upturn after an economic crisis half a decade long in much of the world, especially in the most advanced economies. ...

Apart from those presentations given during the plenary sessions, two workshops were organised covering one of these thematic objectives "Strengthening research, technological development and innovation" and "Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs". The conclusions gained during the seminar are being collected in a document as a valid input for the preparation of the next round of programmes in the area, considering the legacies of the current programming period to be maintained and the ...

The survey on consumers’ attitudes, expectations and behaviours towards traditional food is innovative in the Balkans and highlights some interesting results. Generally, Balkan consumers express a positive attitude towards traditional food. In order to explain consumers’ behaviour towards traditional food, it can be said that there are different types of consumers giving more or less importance to components considered as traditional. Thus, the future supply of traditional foods should ...

This paper argues for the necessity of a comprehensive impact assessment of EU financial assistance to Serbia to-date, with the parallel goal of designing better instruments for measuring impact, and thereby contributing to improved policy design for the country’s socio-economic development and future EU accession. The paper explores the scale of EU assistance in Serbia, giving an overview of the history of EU development cooperation over the time period 2000-2012, before going on to provide ...

This publication includes also the presentation of the FOCUS-BALKANS project (Focus on food consumers in the Balkans). This project focuses on the important challenge of filling knowledge gaps and rebuilding networks. The general objective of the FOCUS BALKANS project is to improve competencies and understanding in the field of food consumer science in the Balkans countries. This will result in a stronger participation of WBC scientists in projects related to food consumer science and an ...

... determinants and sensory characteristic of the products) and pressures (society also called interpersonal determinants). Source: Focus-Balkans FOCUS-BALKANS is a small collaborative project financed by the 7th Framework Programme FP7. It covers six different countries in the Western Balkans region: Slovenia as a EU-member State, Croatia as associated country and Bosnia, Montenegro, FYRoM and Serbia as ICP countries. The general objective of the FOCUS-BALKANS project is to improve competencies and understanding in the field of food consumer science in the Balkan countries. This will result in a stronger participation of WBC scientists in projects related to food consumer science and in ...

... The objective of seminar is raising awareness on importance of intelectual rights among SMEs in order to enhance their competitiveness on domestic and foreign market. The lecturers on the seminar were eminent experts of this area from EU and Montenegro, who practically covered: Regulation, procedure and necessary documentation for protection of patent/mark/design/geographic origin on domestic and internation market; Solving disputes within authorized institutions from intellectual property area in EU and Montenegro (practice examples); Role of Commercial Court, Custom Administration and Market Inspection in protection of IP Rights ...

Contact: Đorđe Lazić is project manager in Belit ltd. e-mail: djordje.lazic@belit.co.rs phone: (+381 11) 20 30 403 mob: (+381 62) 301 303 "There aren’t many companies in the domestic market that operate independently for more than 10 years, all the while having continued growth in revenue and number of employees, as well as branching activities in line with modern trends in the IT industry. From a small company Belit has grown into one of the leading companies in the field of ...

Key findings: Morocco improved its business regulation the most compared to other global economies, climbing 21 places to 94, by simplifying the construction permitting process, easing the administrative burden of tax compliance, and providing greater protections to minority shareholders. Since 2005, Morocco has implemented 15 business regulatory reforms. Besides Morocco, 11 other economies are recognized as having the most improved ease of doing business across several areas of regulation as ...

... their life cycles, including start-ups and operations, trading across borders, paying taxes, and protecting investors. The aggregate ease of doing business rankings are based on 10 indicators and cover 185 economies. Macedonia ranks 23 out of 185 countries listed in the report for the ease of doing business, followed by Montenegro in 51st place, Croatia in 84th place, Albania in 85th place, Serbia in 86th place and Kosovo* in 98th place. Bosnia and Herzegovina is in 126th place ...

This report holds new information to inspire policy makers and researchers. One finding is that Poland improved the most in the Doing Business measures in 2011/12, while Singapore maintains its top spot in the overall ranking. Another finding is that European economies in fiscal distress are making efforts to improve the business climate, and this is beginning to be reflected in the indicators tracked by Doing Business, with Greece being among the 10 economies that improved the most in the ...

... Montenegrin Ministry of Science, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Sports is implementing a structural project "Higher Education, Research and Innovation for Competitiveness" (HERIC). The project is financed through a World Bank loan to Montenegro, in the period 2012-2017. The research component of this project will be focused on establishment of a competitive environment for research through financing of a pilot Centre of Excellence and developing a grant scheme for collaborative research projects in the areas where Montenegrin scientific and economic potentials are distinguished. With ...

... and for political decision makers it has low priority. The FYR of Macedonia lost large parts of its industrial base in the past 20 years, and academic research and innovation activities also declined. KT is largely taking place informally. However, there are political activities to improve innovation and KT. In Montenegro, while IP legislation has been put in place, the topic of IP is insufficiently present in the universities. This is due to a lack of interest and lack of funds. However, there are some individual KT activities undertaken by professors. The industrial property office is a major driver of developing ...

The IFC/PEP Southeast Europe is part of IFC (International Finance Corporation), World Bank Group. The programme operates in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and was formally launched in July 2005. It has been established for an initial period of five years. The Private Enterprise Partnership for Southeast Europe (PEP-SE) is catalysing private sector development from a platform of four operational programmes: · Alternative Dispute Resolution; · ...

... of harmonisation, comparable to the EU Member States, has been achieved by Iceland and Croatia. Source: Europe´s Information Society Thematic Portal This study covers market developments in the electronic communications and information society sectors in the nine enlargement countries of the EU: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Kosovo, Montenegro, FYROM, Serbia and Turkey. It furthermore assesses the progress of each country in adopting the EU regulatory framework and aligning national ICT/information society policies with the goals and priorities of the DAE ...

... level 2 regions2 and, for some indicators, the 1 303 NUTS level 3 regions2 of the 27 Member States of the European Union as well as, when available, the regions in the four EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), the acceding country (Croatia) and three of the candidate countries (Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey). As the publication contains many maps, which are the most user friendly way to present regional statistics, a new interactive tool, the Statistical Atlas, is also launched today on the Eurostat website. This tool contains maps of all regions in the EU ...

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