... sources in all sectors including transport. A long-term view demands that the Commission works very closely with all candidate and potential candidate countries. Negotiations for participation in the CIP have been opened with several potential candidate countries in the Western Balkans region which are also interested to join; and with Serbia and Albania in particular. Europa RAPID Press Release IP/08/367, 03/03/2008 Montenegro is the fourth country of the group of candidate and potential candidate countries to join the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) after Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in October 2007 and ...
Please find enclosed all deliverables of the project Virtual Balkan Power Centre for Advance of Renewable Energy Sources in Western Balkans, under the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 6, Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems. The project ran from January 2005 to December 2007. Deliverables of the project Virtual Balkan Power Centre for Advance of Renewable Energy Sources in Western Balkans (FP6): http://www.vbpc-res.org/ (13.03.2008) Virtual Balkan Power Centre for Advance of ...
... border traffic regime The Regulation on a local border traffic regime was adopted on 20.12.2006 . It creates a framework for conclusion of bilateral agreements between bordering Member States and the Western Balkan countries. Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary have expressed willingness to conclude bilateral local border traffic agreements with Serbia. Bulgaria has expressed a similar willingness to conclude an agreement with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Political declarations to that effect were annexed to the relevant visa facilitation agreements. An agreement between Serbia and Bulgaria on border control and procedures in railway transport, signed on 15.4.2005, entered ...
... grant up to 100 scholarships for postgraduate students from the Western Balkans each year to follow Erasmus Mundus master courses, starting in the academic year 2007-08 (Western Balkans window): academic year 2007-08: the Decision adopted on 14.12.2006 (CARDS 2006, EUR 4 million) covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.academic year 2008-09: the Decision adopted on 5.11.2007 (IPA 2007, EUR 4 million) extended eligibility to Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Exchanges of up to 500 undergraduate and graduate students, doctoral and post-doctoral candidates and academic staff between the EU and the Western ...
Please find attached the press release text in order to inform about our initiatives in your networks. It would be great if you could inform us briefly about your communications: Elke Dall dall@zsi.at Project coordinator WBC-INCO.NET c/o Centre for Social Innovation Linke Wienzeile 246, A-1150 Vienna. Austria. Many thanks in advance! We would like to ask our readers - YOU! - to also inform on their websites and in their networks on the start of WBC-INCO.NET project. In our press release we ...
... work, sociology, public health, human rights & public law, or journalism/media studies. The program does not support scholars in philology, the visual and performing arts, or business. The program may operate in: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo/UNMIK, Kyrgyzstan, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan and Ukraine. AFP fellows are placed in carefully selected university departments that are amenable to change and demonstrate a realistic and clear vision for future development. The program, which represents part of a conscious strategy to combat rain drain, helps universities in the region retain promising young scholars ...
... eccf.su.ac.yu/tid/english.htm In the context of the Western Balkans countries on their way to the European Union, a conference is held with the topic "Corruption, Criminal and Kitsch - the State, Causes, Consequences and the Strategies to Minimize them" September 8-11, 2008 in Palic, Serbia ...
... complex transnational co-operation areas in Europe. It is the only transnational programme area with such a large number of non-EU countries participating (candidates, potential candidates and third countries). The eligible area for TCP-SEE comprises Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, parts of Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Republic of Moldova and parts of Ukraine. The operational programme can be found in the document service of wbc-inco.net at http://www.wbc-inco.net/doc/3230.html (registration is for free). For further information also see the webpage of the Programme: http://www.congress.hu/see ...
The office will inform institutions of details of Calls and deadlines as they are announced by the Commission. The office will provide advice and guidance to individual Serbian scientists on opportunities within FP7 for funding project ideas and how to put together a successful consortium of partners. It will also provide occasional advice and guidance to scientists during proposal preparation to facilitate as many successful FP7 proposal submissions as possible. Regular training workshops on ...
... all WBC will be added soon) The EC has recently launched the Enterprise Europe Network, which is an EU-wide support network for enterprises. The network is made up of over 500 contact points engaging 4,000 members of staff and includes all EU countries as well as additional third countries. Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and FYR of Macedonia have also managed to get a successful bid in the new Enterprise Europe Network, which replaces the old EICC/IRC network ...
Find enclosed the Minutes of the Meeting of the Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan Countries which took place on 29 October, 2007 in Thessaloniki Greece.
Conference organiser were the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and the Greek Ministry of Development. Minutes of the Steering Plattform Meeting on Research for the Westn Balkan Countries in Thessaloniki, 2008 ZSI
Following the launch of the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries on June 26, 2006 in Vienna, jointly by the Austrian Council Presidency and the European Commission, the German Council Presidency and the European Commission jointly held the first regular meeting of the Steering Platform on March 29, 2007 in Berlin/Germany.The meeting was held back to back with the meeting of the Steering Board of the SEE-ERA.Net. Here you find the FINAL minutes of the meeting adopted at ...
The participants noted that the Stability Pact through its activities since 1999 had significantly contributed to the stabilisation of South Eastern Europe. The overall socio-economic situation as well as security in the region has improved and the Euro-Atlantic integration of South Eastern European countries is well on track. From March on, the Regional Co-operation Council will play a key role in consolidating achievements of the Stability Pact to date and in making further progress in the ...
The regional approach is based on integrated policy from a regional perspective, aimed at promoting peace, stability and sustainable development in the Western Balkans. It encompasses Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and Kosovo. In the Balkans, political, military, development cooperation and economic instruments are used in an integrated manner. Strategy for the Development of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in South East Europe, available from: http://sensi.biz/images/stories/sensi_literature_list/regional_approach_for_the_western_balkans.pdf (27.02.2008) Royal Netherlands Embassy ...
The main motivation for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans is providedby the EU, formulating it as conditional for the countries’ EU accession aspirations.Economically, this claim includes the establishment of regional free trade agreements (RTAs)whose direct economic effects are twofold and limited: Whereas inflows of FDI are likely toincrease due to a bigger market, an increase of interregional trade will be moderate and mighteven stall microeconomic restructuring. To gain ...
As a response, this publication aims to address some common misunderstandings aboutuniversity–enterprise cooperation, to offer an understanding of its concepts, and to offeradvice on how best to apply these.It tries to explain how university-enterprise cooperation has evolved in the EU – not on apolitical whim, but as a creative response from the world of learning to its changing roleand environment. It explains the principles of university-enterprise cooperation and offerspractical examples, ...
Doing Business 2007: How to Reform is the fourth in a seriesof annual reports investigating the regulations that enhancebusiness activity and those that constrain it. Doing Businesspresents quantitative indicators on business regulations and theprotection of property rights that can be compared across 175economiesfrom Afghanistan to Zimbabweand over time. Doing Business 2007 Overview, available from: http://sensi.biz/images/stories/sensi_literature_list/doing_business_2007_overview.pdf ...
This report provides macroeconomic indicators and performance tables on GDP growth, inflation, account balances, FDI, etc. of Central eastern Europe and the Baltic states, South-Eastern Europe and Commonwealth and of Indipendent States and Mongolia. EBRD Transition Report 2007, available from: http://sensi.biz/images/stories/sensi_literature_list/ebrd_transition_report_2007_2.pdf (27.02.2008) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
This is the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness with the participation of a broad selection of countries worldwide.
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, available from: http://sensi.biz/images/stories/sensi_literature_list/paris_declaration.pdf (27.02.2008)
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... and promotion of the CEEPUS II programme and for the approval of evaluation reports and the restructuring of the programme. It meets at least once a year.Currently CEEPUS has 14 member countries Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republicand Slovenia. Discussion about the inclusion of UNMIK/Kosovo is currently ongoing. Further information:http://ceepus.scholarships.at The 14th Meeting of the Joint Committee of Ministers will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 29, 2008 ...