The goal of the South East Europe (SEE) 2020 strategy of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), is to improve living conditions in the region and bring competitiveness and development back in focus, closely following the vision of the EU strategy Europe 2020. It stresses out the shared vision of the SEE economies to open up to 1 million new jobs by 2020, by enabling employment growth from 39% to 44%, increase of total regional trade turnover by more than double from 94 to 210 ...
It was chaired by Xavier Prats Monné, Director General for Education and Culture at the European Commission, and brought together six education ministers from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as well as their key staff. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama came for the opening of the meeting. Ministerial meeting This year was the first time that the ministers reported on the developments in higher education since 2013, based on the commitments ...
The official conclusions have been prepared for the most of the meetings (starting with the Paris meeting), which summarized main points of the discussion and highlighted specific follow-up activities. 1st Steering Platform Meeting and Launch Event: Vienna, June 26, 2006 2nd Steering Platform Meeting: Berlin, March 29, 2007 3rd Steering Platform Meeting: Thessaloniki, October 29, 2007 4th Steering Platform Meeting: Ljubljana, June 26, 2008 5th Steering Platform Meeting: Paris, December ...
Please find attached progress reports prepared by WBC and other countries and stakeholder on recent developments regarding RTI cooperation in/with/for the Western Balkan countries.
Steering Platform on Research for WBC
... to presentations held and progress reports presented. The 17th Steering Platform on Research took place on June 8-9, 2015 in Budapest. It was hosted by Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade and supported by RCISD (Regional Centre for Information and Scientific Development). The meeting was co-chaired by Latvian Presidency, Montenegro on behalf of the Western Balkan countries and European Commission ...
... rcisd.eu The Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan countries takes place on June 8-9, 2015 in Budapest (at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Budapest, Bérc str. 13-15) thanks to the commitment of our Hungarian hosts, cooperation of the European Commission and the co-chairmanship of Montenegro. Budapest
... T7 Materiality Conference-Programme may be found on http://www.renecon.eu/html/programme3.html The 2nd International Conference with Exhibition S.ARCH with the Theme of “Environment and Architecture” will be held on May 19-20, 2015, at the Maestral Hotel, in the city of Budva, at the Adriatic coast of Montenegro. The event consists of set of Lectures and accompanied Poster Session / Exhibition. SPEAKERS: Winy Maas (MVRDV- the Netherlands) Julien de Smedt (JDS - Denmark) Dietmar Eberle (Baumschlager Eberle - Austria) Luca Nicoletti (NICOLETTI ASSOCIATI - Italy) http://www.renecon.eu/html/s_arch.html Budva
Due to some organisational issues, the 2nd strategic workshop for Western Balkan NCPs was not organised in Montenegro (as previously foreseen in DoW) but in Krems, Austria on November 18-19, 2013. The aim of this Workshop was to offer an outline of the European Research Area funding opportunities, with special focus on Horizon 2020 and multilateral programmes and at the same time to offer stimulating and engaging networking ...
The Regional Energy Research Priorities identified during the consultation session in the field of Energy are (no preference is given by the order): Integral management of river basins Bio gas production from waste Second generation bio-fuels Small hydro–grid connection, system integration, operation and control Geothermal heat-pumps in energy efficient buildings Zero energy buildings Cross-Cutting Priorities identified are: Coordination of national R&D projects – regional Research ...
... and Research in WBC – WBC-INCO.NET’s Findings” includes several reports compiled by the project WBC-INCO.NET on the situation of Science and Research in the Western Balkans and the coordination of relevant policies and initiatives in: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo*. The third part “WBC Innovation Systems in Focus” at hand puts the focus on Innovation and discusses a broad range of topics – from innovation infrastructures, needs and capacities to smart specialisation, innovation and brain drain and RTDI evaluation. This third part includes also some of the WBC-INCO ...
... two WBC partner countries per scheme) were planned. In a second step, a WBC exchange platform should provide to all WBC partners information (experiences made, lessons learned etc.) and the possibility to exchange information and experiences. Part I focuses on the pilot project Strategic Innovation to be possibly implemented in Montenegro. It has the objective to introduce a system that would allow large numbers of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) to make steps forward to improve their innovation capacities. It is important for catching-up countries to increase the number of innovative firms. Up-grading existing firms by stimulating and coaching them ...
... are interested in. Agenda List of participants Report Gallery Presentations: Programi stipendiranja i praksi Mogućnosti za inovacije u Horizontu 2020 Metodologija za upravljanje inovacijama Online Katalog Strateski plan razvoja BI-NTP Univerzitetska inovativna platforma WBCInno projekat There are 9 more Info Days planned in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in the future. Please stay informed about the future events and the project and its activities: http://www.wbc-inno.kg.ac.rs/ The University of Kragujevac organized the WBCInno info day “From knowledge and research results to successful innovative ventures” on April 25th, 2014. The topics was targeted to university ...
Proposals are invited from economists and other social scientists. Projects with a significant commercial aspect or those that seek the funding of the dissemination of previous results (such as book preparation) rather than original research are explicitly excluded. Proposals must be postmarked by 31 May 2014. For further information and details please see the attachment. Questions and inquiries may be addressed to: research.competition@wiiw.ac.at The Vienna Institute for International Economic ...
... 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 to express once again our deepest appreciation for the support and commitment to the WBC-INCO.NET project. The publication ...
Purpose The purpose of the consultancy is to assist in the implementation of the South East Europe (SEE) 2020 – Jobs and Prosperity in a European Perspective (hereinafter: “SEE 2020” or “Strategy”), particularly in the area of Research & Development (R&D) and Innovation under the Smart Growth pillar of the Strategy. The main expected output is development of a detailed programme of actions for improving technology transfer and scientific parks in the region, including outlining elements ...
... The Catalogue provides the overview of structures and mechanisms established at the University of Montenegro, which are engaged in knowledge transfer, advanced research and innovations. The core of the publication is the presentations of centers and laboratories of the University of Montenegro which provides more detailed information on their activities, results, resources, projects (domestic and international), key personnel, as well as provided commercial services , technical ...
... intellectual property aspects, review of innovation cycle phases with financial aspects to the software innovation management support. All of these aspects are elaborated in the separate chapters. The Chapter Intellectual Property Aspects deals with the general IPR aspects in three countries of the WB region: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. The last chapter of this publication gives the detailed definition and description of Idea and Project Management workflows, along with the roles and responsibilities assigned within each of them. These workflows are applied in the software platform that will be developed in accordance with this Methodology ...
The development of Business Incubators (BI) and Science and Technology Parks (STP) is one of the most efficient instruments for boosting the local economic development. This topic was recognized as highly important by WBCInno partners, which was the main motive to elaborate the Strategic Development Plan for BIs/STPs in WBC region. This Strategic Plan presents the trends in the development of BIs and STPs at EU and world level as well as the current state in WBC region in this area. This gave ...
This Platform aims to support the development and growth of a range of KTT activities including commercialisation of research, collaboration between universities and enterprises, and establishing start-ups and spin-offs. It also considers the issues of managing and supporting these activities to optimise success as well as considering ways in which success can be measured and reported. The report recognises that different universities are at different stages of development, have different ...
The publication was intended to provide an overview of the knowledge and technology transfer services and their qualitative and quantitative comparisons. The most relevant KTT services recognized are assisting R&D collaboration, contract research projects and scientific/technological services, commercialization of R&D results by patenting, licensing and student projects with businesses. The publication also presents an assessment of different aspects of KTT in practices that can be ...