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[Event Announcement and Call for applications] Balkan Peer Exchange: Enhancing Analysis and Research-Based Advocacy in an Era of Open Data
News
6. Jan. 2012
... and Human Rights and Governance Grants Program of the Open Society Foundations, Foundation for Open Society Serbia, National Endowment for Democracy and Balkan Trust for Democracy and open to members of think tanks and advocacy organisations operating in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo (UNSCR 1244 ...
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EC Press release: EU reinstates trade preferences for the Western Balkans until 2015
News
6. Jan. 2012
The autonomous trade preferences should allow all Western Balkans to further benefit from the preferential trade regime, where this is more beneficial than the treatment foreseen in the SAAs. It should notably allow Kosovo to benefit from the current duty-free, quota-free treatment for almost all its exported products, since it does not have an SAA with the EU. Total exports of Kosovo to the EU amounted to about €147 mio in 2010. Background In 2000 the European Union established for the first time ...
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D8.50 (T8.2) Good practice examples of innovation policy approaches and instruments of EU Member States and Western Balkan countries
Document
21. Dec. 2011
As part of WBC-INCO.NETs Work Package (WP) 8 on Innovation support, the underlying task of this report is to collect good practice examples of innovation activities that can be adapted to the region of the Western Balkan countries or to some individual countries of the region. This deliverable presents a collection of good practice examples of programmes, instruments and measures aiming at supporting innovation activities. The examples are presented in two parts: the first part (Chapter ...
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EU to invest almost EUR 1 billion to foster reforms in the Western Balkans, Turkey and Iceland
News
21. Dec. 2011
... countries wishing to join the EU on December 20, 2011. The funding, totalling almost EUR 1 billion, comes under the 2011 budget of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), and will be available to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), Turkey, and Iceland ...
... nbsp; an assessment of the impact of alternative scenarios for the instrument. Currently, the EU is dealing with 5 candidate countries (Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro and Turkey) and 4 potential candidates (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia as well as Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99). By 2014, only Croatia is foreseen to become a Member State. Socio-economic indicators show that, with the exception of Iceland, enlargement countries are still well below the EU average and even below ...
... org/cpi2011/press/ The Western Balkan countries rank as follows among the 183 countries assessed: country - rank - score (maximum score =10) Croatia 66 4.0 Montenegro 66 4.0 FYR Macedonia 69 3.9 Serbia 86 3.3 Bosnia and Herzegovina 91 3.2 Albania 95 3.1 Kosovo UNSCR 1244 112 2.9 Transparency International http://www.transparency.org/content/download/64426/1030807
... nbsp; an assessment of the impact of alternative scenarios for the instrument. Currently, the EU is dealing with 5 candidate countries (Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro and Turkey) and 4 potential candidates (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia as well as Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99). By 2014, only Croatia is foreseen to become a Member State. Socio-economic indicators show that, with the exception of Iceland, enlargement countries are still well below the EU average and even below ...
At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njCCEnSU0C0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL you can access the film which reports about the event and the benefits for Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) under the programme. European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo held an information day about the Tempus programme and provides an event review in the form of a youtube film.
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Structuring inter-regional co-operation, international co-operation, INCO-NET projects
Document
9. Dec. 2011
A booklet called „Structuring inter-regional co-operation, international co-operation, INCO-NET projects‟ outlines the activities of all INCO-NET projects which have been selected for FP7 funding in 2006, 2009 and 2010. INCO-NET projects cover different regions of the world and aim to establish co-ordination platforms by bringing together a range of stakeholders in the EU and relevant third countries. Other objectives include implementing awareness and dissemination activities, strategic ...
... of benchmarking RTDI (research, technological development and innovation) organisations. In 2004, the Network published “The RECORD Manual – Benchmarking Innovative Research Organisations in European Accession Countries”. The Academy of Science and Arts In June 2011, the NRC adopted the document “Guidelines for evaluation of research institutions in Kosovo”. Given the level of development of RTD activities in Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), the NRC considers that research institutions in Kosovo cannot be benchmarked based on parameters generally accepted in Europe, but the evaluation process should rather raise awareness of all parties on the actual situation and come up with recommendations that would improve the position of respective institutions in society. Specific objectives of the evaluation are: to establish an inventory ...
