... Kosovowww.invest-ks.orgFYR Macedonia: “Republic of Macedonia: Automotive component industry in the Technological Industrial Development Zone”, Mr. Viktor Mizo - MacInvest - Agency for Foreign Investments of the Republic of Macedoniawww.investinmacedonia.comMontenegro: “Tourism and Marina Development in Montenegro”, Mrs. Budimka Mickovic - MIPA - Montenegrin Investment Promotion Agencywww.mipa.cg.yuSerbia: "Invest in Serbia - the Time is Now!", Mrs. Dragana Zoric and Mr. Bozidar Laganin - SIEPA - Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agencywww.siepa.sr.gov.yuRegion of Vojvodina: “Automotive – metal processing, food and beverage, ICT and shared services in Vojvodina“, Mrs. Maja Grizelj, VIP – Vojvodina Investment Promotion Fundwww.vip.org.yu Success stories will ...
... participating in the programme "Europe for citizens" and is expected to be eligible from 2008.Turkey has not specified when it intends to participate. Countries from the Western Balkans:Albania has officially expressed an interest in participating but it is unclear when it will be eligible (2008 ?).Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro have not specified whether they intend to participate.Furthermore, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have expressed an interest in participating, but it's not yet clear when they will be eligible (2008 ?). Source: EECA Website The Europe for Citizen Programme 2007-2013 is providing instruments to promote active European citizenship, especially ...
This is a paper prepared by SEETO (South-East Europe Transport Observatory). Its overall objective is to bring benefits to transport users within and beyond the SEE Region of improved efficiency, lower costs and better quality of services. The specific objectives of the MAP can be stated as a) providing focus for regional cooperation essential for European integration, b) a base of information on the performance of the Core Network, c) a programme of soft measures to improve the management of ...
This report shows the progress made by Europe’s universities in implementing the Bologna reforms, and outlines the main challenges ahead. It is thus a significant publication for all those concerned with European higher education, whether universities and students, or governments, business and industry, or other stakeholders. It mirrors issues addressed by the stocktaking exercise of the Bologna governments - degree structures, Bologna tools, quality and recognition. In addition it also ...
This is a link to the website of the The ERA WESTBALKAN+ project. The project's main objective during the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) is to accelerate the opening up of the European Research Area to the Western Balkan Countries (WBCs), i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro and Serbia.
http://rp7.ffg.at/erawestbalkan
... to reduce non-tariff costs to trade and transport, reduce smuggling and corruption at border crossings, and strengthen and modernize the customs administrations and other border control agencies. The initial participants in the program include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Romania. Moldova and Serbia and Montenegro joined the Program in 2003. The program is the result of a collaborative effort between the national governments in the region, the World Bank, and the United States in collaboration with the European Union. The project is concluded in September 30, 2005, further informations: http://www.worldbank.org ...
The Italian Ministry and especially the region of Umbria are active in activites to promote regional cooperation and exchange of experiences with the Balkans and especially the region of Vojvodina.
Source: e4business
A feasibility study for a Technology Park on Agro-Food in Novi Sad (Serbia) is presented on August 31, 2007. The study is carried out in the framework of the programme I.Ne.P.S. - Italian Negotiated Programming in Serbia (Ministry of Economic Development, Italy).
The list projects selected by the European Commission in 2006 was published in July 2007. Projects are involving 1244-Kosovo/UNMIKBosnia-HerzegovinaCroatiaMontenegroFYR of MacedoniaSerbia or more than one partner country European Commission (2007): List of Tempus CARDS Joint European Projects selected by the European Commission in 2006. Available from: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/tempus/doc/jep_cards_2006.pdf, accessed August 29, 2007. EC, Tempus ...
In the Panel “Political Perspectives” at the 63rd European Forum Alpbach 2007 (Austria), Prof. Dr. Gordana Ðjurović, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, presented and discussed a paper “Promoting Main Principles of European Integration in Western Balkan Region through Regatta Approach - View from Montenegro”. Main topics discussed in the paper were: "Europesation" as Motor of ChangesChronology of European Integration Process in MontenegroTowards a New Development Strategy of ...
This UN publication leads us through the journey of innovation by analysing the challenges and opportunities that governments in this region have faced to improve their public administration systems. All the innovations highlighted in this publication are significant – whether the innovation is large or small, in one government institution or across the board, a successful transformation or merely a small, first step on the way to reform - they indicate each country’s willingness to change, to ...
This ambitious and far-reaching agreement was signed by the five parties plus Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia in December 2006 following several months of intensive negotiations chaired by the Stability Pact and supported by the European Commission. In addition to harmonising the trade regime among the parties, the agreement also includes new areas of trade policy such as government procurement and intellectual property. Commenting on the speedy ...
... Studies Group, Institute of Sociology, BAS The Information Office would like to thank Dr. Tchalakov for his review and the suggestions for improvement of the reports! We will try to follow as much as possible and improve our work! Footnotes: 1) It is important to know, for example, that in Serbia “38 % of all patents granted at the EPO were in the field of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, followed by mechanical engineering as the second most important field with 18 %”, but I know that under these figure one could identify at least several strong enough research groups, each working in similar or ...
This is a power point presentation held at the European Economic Forum in Nova Gorica on May 30, 2007. It focuses on research at EU level, presents Commission Strategy and the Framework Programme, budget for FP7 and FP participants. Last but not the least it states reasons why is it important to participate FP7.
EC (2007): The Seventh Framework Programme for candidate and potential candidate countries.
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The conference is aimed to encourage development, cooperation and mutual assistance among the countries, industries and companies of South and East Europe and Black Sea Region. The conference will include contributed paper sessions, invited and plenary presentations, round tables and panels. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings after their presentation at the Conference. The Editorial Board of South Eastern Europe Journal of Economics (SEEJE), the official journal of ...
... Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office, Bettina Radner from the Goethe Institut in Belgrade and Markus Bunk from the Vienna-based Volksbanken Academy). The final sessions gave persons from libraries and information offices as well as scholars from Austria, Belorussia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraina and the USA the opportunity to exchange ideas and information on new developments in their institutions and to promote networking and knowledge sharing among libraries, which was high on the agenda of this event. At the conference two new books were presented: Elke ...
... RTD (research and technological development) stance within the European framework as well as improve IST co-operation at regional and international level. The projectThe Great-IST Project (www.great-ist.org), a project financed under the EU 6th Framework Programme, focuses on 11 target countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine. Its primary scope is to encourage convergence of target countries’ countries IST RTD policies with EU ones. It therefore created a wide cooperation platform open to several categories of relevant stakeholders such as science and research centres, universities, governments, institutional levels, industrial associations and companies, aimed at sharing ...
... selected along with 80 students from other countries to participate in this event. Meanwhile, less than an hour’s drive away in Pristina, now the capital city for the Kosovar Albanian population, the University of Prishtina organised its own Summer University, drawing students from 30 countries, including over 20 from Serbia. The university also offered an ambitious and inspiring academic programme, including a wealth of activities that showed how the university is engaging in society. The initiative for both these summer universities comes from a Dutch development organisation, Spark, initially created by a group of students at the end of the ...
... Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Belgrade University through which scientists and researches will get support for their projects with which they will afterwards apply for EU funds.The Minister said she believes these quality research programmes will help improve the quality and conditions of the actual life in Serbia. It also describes that in the Sixth Framework Programme, implemented in the period 2002–2006, scientific workers and researchers took part in a total of 86 projects and received 12 million, as well as access to research that led to projects worth over 170 million. Source: Economy, June 12, 2007 ...
"Established in 1905, operative from 1920
Integrated 6-year curriculum for MD degree (3500 students)
Doctoral studies (3-4 years), academic specialization, professional masters
Health specialization, subspecialization
800+ faculty
Biggest biomedical reserach institution in Serbia"
Source: Self-entry in April 2014.
http://www.mfub.bg.ac.rs/eng/home/
... knowledge in this decade as they saw coal and steel 50 years ago - as a commodity to be prized, as a building block for societies, as a creator of jobs, as a driver for the economy,' EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik told an audience of young researchers in Serbia. The Commissioner laid out how the movement of knowledge, in all directions, is central to Europe's goal of becoming a world leader in science. While 'brain drain' can cause problems if the researchers involved are unwilling to return home, 'brain gain' should not be the focus of efforts, he suggested ...