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Growth through research and innovation: the moment for action With job creation stagnant and economic growth stalled, the Western Balkans region faces an intensifying need to create knowledge-based economies that can generate higher-value-added jobs and stronger growth. Hoping to foster synergies among their similar interventions and build on a growing collaboration, governments from the seven economies in the Western Balkans developed a regional strategy for research and innovation. In line ...

... The papers that are accepted will require a release form in order to be published in the proceedings book. University American College Skopje will cover all costs for editing and publishing. No fees will be granted to the authors. Thanks to our partners, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, office in FYR of Macedonia, there is no participation fee, and the registration includes free lunch and two coffee breaks. Participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expanses themselves. For abstract & paper guidelines, conference program and other updates, please visit our web page:http://www.uacs.edu.mk/conference Program Committee: Prof ...

This Overview of the research sector in the Western Balkans is a companion piece to the Western Balkans Regional R&D Strategy for Innovation. This Overview provides the background and analysis that informed the development of the strategy. It is informed by consultations with the Advisory Board, as well as by the research commissioned for the preparation of the strategy. This overview outlines the performance of the research and innovation sector, ...

This document was prepared under the Western Balkans Regional R&D Strategy for Innovation World Bank Technical Assistance Project funded by the European Commission (DG ENLARG – TF011064). In 2009 a Joint Statement was developed during a Ministerial Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressing the interest of the Western Balkans region in developing a joint strategy on research and innovation. In September 2011, the World Bank and the ...

... obvious case is Serbia, where the EU has strongly supported the DS and former President Boris Tadić, but where the incentive of EU membership has also resulted in a split (and the final diminishing) of the Radical Party. In other countries there has been less drastic change (Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia), but political elites have nevertheless had to engage with EU integration and progress towards membership in the EU as a key tool of political legitimacy ...

... the values of the great project of European unity,” said Željko Jovanović, Minister of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. For the first time, to jointly improve the quality of research and innovation, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia collaborated to develop a Western Balkans Regional Research and Development (R&D) Strategy for Innovation. This document will serve as a framework for a collective effort to recommend policy and institutional reforms, and promote the Western Balkans’ most urgent priority of increasing innovation, economic growth, and ...

... not yet registered (and you are speaking one of the languages of the region) - WBC-RTI.info highly recommends to register and be part of the community: The network connects more than 3500 members (mostly University professors and Institute researchers who are working in the SEE region – Serbia, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia) and its membership is continually on the rise. AcademLink issues each Thursday newsletter which is distributed to: • All of its members • Scientists who are subscribed to newsletter, but are not members of AcademLink (more than 300 individuals) • All faculties, colleges and institutes in the ...

... as the recommended policy changes contain great potential for multiple positive effects. Original Source: RRPP The Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade, on September 5, featured results from the RRPP-funded research project Making Work Pay in Western Balkan Countries: The Case of Serbia and Macedonia ...

The Progress Report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is part of the 2013 Enlargement Package adopted by the European Commission on 16 October. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was the first country to sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and has been a candidate country since 2005. In the package the Commission concluded that ...

Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2013-2014. This communication by the European Comission sets out the way forward for the coming year and takes stock of the progress made over the last twelve months by each candidate country and potential candidate. http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2013/package/strategy_paper_2013_en.pdf COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

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... and organised crime as well as public administration reform, independence of key institutions, media freedom, anti-discrimination and protection of minorities. Serbia should build on its positive contribution to regional cooperation over the past year, which has included stepping up high-level contacts with neighbouring countries. In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the political crisis demonstrated the excessive polarisation of politics in the country and the lack of normal political discourse. Equally importantly it distracted from grasping the opportunity which last year's package and Council Conclusions had opened. More generally, reforms have however continued and the European Union agenda remains the country ...

... minorities - it strengthens political and economic stability in the aspiring countries and the EU as a whole.'' In the annual reports, the European Commission recommends granting EU candidate status to Albania and, for the fifth time in a row, the opening of accession negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Commission also assesses the progress towards EU accession made elsewhere in the Western Balkans and in Turkey over the past year. The enlargement strategy adopted today confirms the continued relevance of the fundamentals of the Copenhagen membership criteria agreed by the EU 20 years ago. These include the rule ...

... between the beneficiary countries and the experts. Expert Missions, Study Visits and Assessment Missions Who are the Beneficiaries of TAIEX assistance? The TAIEX mandate to provide assistance covers the following groups of beneficiary countries: Croatia (new Member State – still benefitting from assistance programmed); Iceland, Turkey, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo*; Turkish Cypriot community in the northern part of Cyprus; Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine and Russia. The beneficiaries of TAIEX assistance include those sectors who have a role to play in ...

The report covers the period from 24 April to 20 September 2013, and reflects progress in implementation of the RCC Strategy and Work Programme 2011-2013. http://www.rcc.int/docs/0/323/report-to-rcc-board-on-activities-of-rcc-secretariat Regional Cooperation Council

... sector; and representatives from the World Bank, the International Organization for Migration, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI). Primary topics of concern were related to the positive and negative impacts of migration on, and remittances for, family members left behind in FYR of Macedonia and Albania. These impacts included a myriad of topics: Whether remittances in Macedonia affect poverty and inequality; negative long term effects of incoming remittances in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the impact of remittances for macroeconomic stabilisation and development in Macedonia; the role of emigration and remittances as adjustment mechanisms in labour markets, using FYR of Macedonia as an example; whether migration has any impact ...

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