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This is a report on Bologna Process in BIH made in the form of an interview. It deals with all the main issues regarding Bologna Process. First the description of the important developments relating to the Bologna Process, including legislative reforms, since Bergen is given. Then the measures in place to ensure the co-operation of business and social partners within the Bologna Process are presented. Then the report presents the stage of implementation of the main principles and later ...

This is a report on Bologna Process in Montenegro made in the form of an interview. It deals with all the main issues regarding Bologna Process. First the description of the important developments relating to the Bologna Process, including legislative reforms, since the meeting in Bergen is given. Then the measures in place to ensure the co-operation of business and social partners within the Bologna Process are presented. Then the report presents the stage of implementation of the main ...

This report provides a comprehensive view of the state of European Higher Education - as seen by higher education institutions themselves. More than 900 European higher education institutions contributed to this report, either by responding to a wide-ranging questionnaire, or by hosting visits of research teams, or through providing input in other meetings. EUA is deeply grateful to everyone in the higher education community who has contributed to this common endeavour. The report shows the ...

A significant amount of new borrowing for infrastructure investment isbeing contemplated by SEE countries, often based on bilateral and multilateral funding. This short approach paper seeks to set out the key issues that will need to be kept in mind when evaluating the proposed borrowing and investments. While the note is indicative, and needs to be supplemented by more detailed analysis by each Government, it suggests that caution needs to be exercised in any new borrowing. World Bank (2006): ...

... be adapted according to the decision of the Commission) The EC lump sum contribution for participants from ICPC takes into account the economy of the respective country and is structured in three categories: Economy of the ICPCContribution (researcher/year)Low income8,000 Lower middle income9,800 Upper middle income20,700 Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro belong to the group of countries with lower middle income. For the calculation of the maximum EC contribution, the project partner organisation from an ICPC has to take into account the upper funding limit for the specific type of activity. Funding SchemePublic bodies ...

... be involved, with at least one (two) of them from the Western Balkans. SEE-ERA.NET is funded by the European Commission under FP6. It is coordinated by the Centre for Social Innovation (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation) in Austria, with project partners, research ministries and agencies in the project countries Austria, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. Article published in see-science.eu eJournal spring 07. More Than 300 Valid Project Applications in the First Call The first pilot joint call for the submission of research projects from ...

... meeting of the Joint Committee of CEEPUS Ministers, held in Zagreb on March 16, has proved to be a meeting of milestones in several ways. With the accession of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the objective of integrating all the South East European Countries into CEEPUS has been accomplished. CEEPUS now comprises 14 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. Exchange with Bosnia-Herzegovina is scheduled for the academic year 2008/09, provided that all the necessary legal steps at local level will have been completed by then ...

The S&T ministries from Albania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia are among the partners as well as the official NCP from Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, S&T ministries from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey participate to add critical mass and momentum. The proposed project supports the bi-regional dialogue through the Steering Platform ...

... Enlargement policy. This is done through the Enlargement and Integration Action (E&IA), which is published every year. The main objective of the E&IA is to strengthen collaboration with the New Member States (NMS), Candidate Countries (CC), including Croatia and FYR of Macedonia and Potential Candidate Countries (PCC), including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. More particularly, the E&IA focuses on complex scientific and technical issues within the JRC remit, which underpin EU legislation and cover a wide range of policy areas, such as environment, health, food, energy, chemicals, agriculture and nuclear safety. E&IA consists of a number of ...

... ranging from Prime Ministers to individual institutions, and includes common policies involving the various countries of the Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans, embracing topics from security to research. There are 18 member countries participating in the CEI, extending to Ukraine and Bielorussia in the East and Serbia, Montenegro and Albania in the South ...

... The Department of Science creates European oriented science policy and, in every way, promotes, stimulates and assists in establishing international cooperation. Three years ago, there was bilateral project cooperation with Slovenia and Germany only. Then, this kind of cooperation was for the first time established with Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, France, Albania, the Russian Federation, Japan and China with more than a hundred bilateral projects. In the near future, cooperation with the USA, Israel, Austria and Spain will begin as well. Furthermore, there is an open call for joint project proposals with institutions from countries with which Macedonia has not signed agreements ...

... countries was conducted by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group. The Western Balkans benchmarking study assessed the investment prospects in the food and beverage processing sector for all five countries in the Western Balkan region; in the automotive components sector for all countries other than Albania; and, for Albania alone, in the leather and shoe sector. In addition, the automotive components sector drew special interest because of the massive relocation of vehicle assembly plants in recent years to Central European Countries (CECs) - Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia - in connection with their accession to the EU in May ...

This is a strategy made by the Government of Albania. The goal of the Information and Communication Technologies Strategy project - co-financed by the Open Society Institute, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs , and UNDP Albania - is to facilitate efforts by the Government of Albania, in cooperation with other national and international stakeholders, to develop a National ICT Strategy that identifies mechanisms and legal and fiscal frameworks needed to implement e-government, e-education and e -commerce initiatives, and the continued development of ICT infrastructure. The Strategy builds on the many individual and sectoral e-initiatives already being ...

This report on education in Albania has been prepared within the framework of the Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members of the OECD as a part of its programme of co-operation with the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. The themes covered are teachers, curriculum, governance, and early childhood education and care. Each section provides an overview ...

This Memorandum is based on the results of the Vienna Workshop "Future Perspectives of International Research and Technology Co-operation". This workshop was focussed on the future role – both the opportunities and the challenges – of the non-candidate South Eastern European countries – shortly called the Western Balkan countries – within the envisaged European Research Area and the future research and technology activities of the European Union, in particular the Sixth EU Framework Programme ...

This is a power point presentation held by Milic Uvalic at the UNESCO-ROSTE Workshop in Stockholm in 2004. First, she presents economic constraints for S&T in SEE. Then some main features in SEE are presented: national policies in S&T, investment in R&D, human resources in R&D, impact of S&T on competitiveness and employment. Last but not hte least she focuses on international/regional/bilateral cooperation. Uvalis, Milica (2004): Science, Technology, and Economic Development in South Eastern ...

This is a report on situation in West Balkan countries and EC assistance to help them. It is stated that the EC is the largest single donor in the Balkans, spending over 839 million euro in the region in 2001 alone on top of 956 million euro in 2000 through the CARDS programme. EU assistance is focused on helping the countries to implement the Stabilisation and Association Process – namely, stabilising their internal economies and political relations, promoting regional co-operation between the ...

This is a paper prepared by the European Stability Initiative. It states that the Western Balkans are facing a looming crisis of social and economic dislocation which puts at risk some of the European Union’s most important interests in this strategic region. It is stressed that The European Union should send a strong signal to the countries of the Western Balkans that the promise of Europeanisation is not an illusion. The present policy instruments have been built around the goal of ...

This is a report written by Marko Bonac and John Martin. The topic of this report is the current state of research and education networking in wider Europe. It focuses on geographic variations and in particular on the digital divide between the most developed and least developed National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). A major part of this report is based on a comprehensive survey of NRENs in "Neighbouring Countries" carried out in spring 2003. The survey reviewed the current standard ...

The purpose of this Regional Strategy Paper (2002-2006) is to provide a strategic framework for programming the regional envelope of the European Community’s CARDS assistance programme. This Regional Strategy Paper focuses on promoting closer relations and regional cooperation. The Strategy Paper first outlines the overall framework of the EC’s cooperation objectives in the region and the regional policy agenda agreed by the EU and the five countries concerned. Next it examines the coherence ...

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