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Wealthy societies share one major characteristic—developed science. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, however, investments made by competent ministries in science and research are relatively low. An increasing number of young and capable researchers leave their alma mater to work at universities abroad or choose to conduct research for different NGOs. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s television station, BHT1, has tried to unveil the ...

... counter guarantees to financial intermediaries in the region; and (c) the Technical Assistance Facility to support governments of beneficiary economies in implementing policy reforms supporting the growth of SMEs. To date, three agreements for a total of €60 million have been signed under the Guarantee Facility with ProCredit Albania, Procredit Bosnia and Herzegovina and ProCredit Kosovo in support of local SMEs. Speaking at the signing ceremony in London today, EIF Regional Business Development Director, Hubert Cottogni, said: “We are delighted to sign this agreement in our own name as well as on behalf of the European Commission. Together with the recently signed agreements ...

... Balkan Venture Forum (BkVF) is providing the opportunity for the most promising entrepreneurs from Life sciences, Clean technology and Information Technology to present their activities and meet with an audience of Balkan and international strategic partners, venture capitalists and corporate investors. This time the investment forum will take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina and will be showcasing businesses from all over the Balkans. The main attraction of the Forum will be the Top 40 companies from the Balkan Region that have been selected to pitch their businesses to a pool of local, regional and international investors. Investors can get free access to the ...

... Venture Forum is one of the main objectives of the SEE Programme project VIBE (Venture Initiative in Balkan Europe) and is being co-financed by European Union. Source and more information: http://www.balkanventureforum.org/ On 15-16 May 2014, the 5th edition of Balkan Venture Forum will take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Balkan Venture Forum (BkVF) is providing the opportunity for the most promising entrepreneurs from Life sciences, Clean technology and Information Technology to present their activities and meet with an audience of Balkan and international strategic partners, venture capitalists and corporate investors. This time the investment forum will take place ...

... decision is final and will be communicated to the successful candidates by 31 May 2014. Source and more information: http://www.cost.eu/service/glossary Call for Expression of Interest to participate in the COST Strategic Event: A scientific roadmap for projections of global change impacts on forests in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-28 August 2014. This 2-day event will bring together a group of approximately 30 scientists to discuss the challenges and research needs for making projections about the future of Europe’s forests under climate and global change. The main objectives of the event are to assess the scientific state-of-the-art for ...

... nbsp; The R&D Strategy was adopted by the ministers of science of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia on 25 October 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia. As part of the RCC’s SEE 2020 Strategy a Regional Action Plan for implementation of Western Balkans Research and Development Strategy for Innovation was adopted on April 2, 2014. The ...

... mobility of researchers, the exchange of knowledge, etc. Regional cooperation and participation in several support activities have been one way to tackle the challenges. At the "Horizon 2020 Regional Launch Event for Western Balkans" on March 4, 2014 in Budva, Montenegro it was confirmed that the association procedures for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia are under way and well on track. This means that these WBC will participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms like the EU Member States and not as "third countries". For all currently open calls, participants from the region and their consortia may prepare ...

IPA II (2014-2020) Prepared in partnership with the beneficiaries, IPA II sets a new framework for providing pre-accession assistance for the period 2014-2020. The most important novelty of IPA II is its strategic focus. Country Strategy Papers are the specific strategic planning documents made for each beneficiary for the 7-year period. These will provide for a stronger ownership by the beneficiaries through integrating their own reform and development agendas. A Multi-Country Strategy Paper ...

... reflect on the achievements in European integration until now: 100 years have passed since the beginning of the first World War and 10 years since the biggest round of enlargement of the European Union (EU) with the accession of 10 new countries. Today, the EU perspective is open to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. The European Commission is keen to learn more about what you think: What can today's European Union of 28 Member States learn from its past to help improve its future? What does an enlarged European Union mean to ...

... to WBC-INCO.NET from: European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation; General Secretariat for Research and Technology on behalf of the current Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union; Ministry of Education and Sports (Albania); Ministry of Civil Affairs (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (Croatia); Ministry of Education and Science (FYR of Macedonia); Ministry of Science (Montenegro) and Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia) as well as messages from WBC-INCO.NET partners are included as introductory part of this publication. At this point we would like ...

... Public Service Media in SEE around a joint production endeavour. This cooperation resulted in a 90-minute documentary film entitled “How do I see my neighbour?”, which was jointly edited and aired in all the countries gathered around the project. Renzo Daviddi, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the EU to Bosnia and Herzegovina said that countries of the South East Europe must move closer in the same direction, which is joining the European Union. “This requires thorough economic reforms and the countries that embark on these reforms would benefit from them enormously. The SEE 2020 strategy is in that regard important agenda for ...

... Strategic events Conferences Workshops Seeking researchers’ full involvement by taking up: Partner roles in preparing proposals for COST Actions Leadership roles in COST Actions Initiator roles in scientific committees Grant Holder role Primary target countries are the following COST countries which include both EU-Member States (EU13) and enlargement countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Turkey. Additionally, for other countries there is the possibility to get involved in the COST Actions as a “Near Neighborhood Country”, which is a nomination process for institutions ...

... be able to provide you with more information on the concrete possibilities to join the action. The COST Action BESTPRAC met in Zagreb on March 18-19, 2014 with the objective to create a European network of persons providing professional research support: administrative, legal and financial. As only participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from Croatia are currently part of the network, there is still a possibility to join the activities for research administrators from Serbia, FRY of Macedonia as COST countries and for those from Albania and Montenegro as so-called Near Neighbourhood countries ...

... that have not yet started at the moment of application. Eligible proposals include new or improved products and services, but also the costs relative to market research and intellectual property management. The Call is open to SMEs from the regions involved in the WIDER project: Marche in Italy, Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algarve in Portugal, Catalonia in Spain, Rhone-Alpes in France, Central Macedonia in Greece, and from Slovenia. Applications can be submitted until 31 May. Parallelly with this Call for SMEs, there is a directly linked Call for experts in the innovation and/or eco-smart housing fields. Eligible to apply are experts ...

... is clear in the General Annes to the Work Programmes that the European Commission aims to have the countries associated to the Seventh Framework Programme in principle also to be associated to Horizon 2020 by the time the first grant agreements under Horizon 2020 are signed. This applies to Albania, Bosnia and Herzigovina, Faroe Islands, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey. As mentioned above, for the Western Balkans (except Kosovo*) these proceedures are well on track and shall be concluded soon, making Albania, Bosina and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia ...

... speak about Horizon 2020 both in political as well as in practical terms. The EC delegation was led by Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director General of DG Research and Innovation who spoke to the Minister of Education and Sports of Albania (H.E. Lindita Nikolla), the Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (H.E. Sredoje Novic), Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to Montenegro (H.E. Aleksandar Vasilevski), Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development (H.E. Tomislav Jovanovic) and Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Kosovo* (H.E. Rame Buja). Moderated by Alan Paic from OECD's Global Relations Secretariat, the ...

... bids must be submitted following the instructions set out in the tender dossier. The deadline for submission of bids is 27 March 2014 by 12.00 Central European Time to the following address: Regional Cooperation Council Secretariat, Trg Bosne i Hercegovine 1/V (Building of the Friendship between Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina), 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Website: www.rcc.int The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat is planning to award contract for consultancy services “Support to the Implementation of the South East Europe (SEE) 2020 Strategy – Regional Action Plan in the Area of Justice”. The purpose of the consultancy is to assist in the implementation of ...

... supervision. It consists of those RCC participants contributing to the budget of the RCC Secretariat as well as the European Union. The Report of the RCC Secretary General on the activities of the RCC Secretariat. Contact Dinka Zivalj Spokesperson Regional Cooperation Council Trg Bosne i Hercegovine 1/V 71000 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Tel. +387 33 561 700 Fax. +387 33 561 701 Mob. +387 62 341 881 E-mail: press@rcc.int Website http://www.rcc.int/press/0/236/regional-cooperation-council-presents-champion-of-regional-cooperation-award-for-2013-marks-6th-anniversary?utm_source=press&utm_medium=email On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), the organization’s ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) is committed to and applying the principles of multiparty democracy, pluralism, and market economics in accordance with the conditions specified in Article 1 of the Agreement establishing the Bank. At the same time, the functioning of the state in general, and of its democratically elected institutions in ...

... offers an analysis of the barriers and opportunities experienced by rural entrepreneurs through engaging diasporas in Albania and BiH. The report is a direct result from the RRPP research project Linking Rural Entrepreneurs and Diaspora in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina implemented by the Centre for Economic Development and Research (CEDAR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the Albanian Centre for Social-Economic Research (ACSER) of Albania. The report first provides econometric analyses of models addressing factors determinant of rural entrepreneurial success, leading to the identification of primary obstacles to entrepreneurial activities in rural BiH and Albania. Evaluating the rural entrepreneurship survey's results reveal these ...

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