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... The mini country reports had the objective to furnish three analytical reports with country specific information: a trend report on innovation policy in the EU, an overview report on innovation funding in the EU and an analytical thematic report on demand-side innovation policies. Attached please find the mini-country report for Albania. Author: Jonida Narazani, Julia Culver, Zef Preci, Nomisma S.p.A. http://www.proinno-europe.eu/inno-policy-trendchart/repository/country-specific-trends
The Erasmus Mundus programme aims to promote European higher education, to help improve the career prospects of students by enabling them to study abroad at top-class institutions, to foster quality and capacity in higher education through academic cooperation and exchanges and to promote intercultural understanding. The latest Call for Proposals for the 2012 selection of joint programmes, partnerships and projects under all three Actions of the programme was launched in December 2011, with a ...
NNO-Policy TrendChart produced 'mini country reports' for each of the 48 countries monitored by the network of country correspondents in the second half of 2011. The mini country reports had the objective to furnish three analytical reports with country specific information: a trend report on innovation policy in the EU, an overview report on innovation funding in the EU and an analytical thematic report on demand-side innovation policies. Attached please find the mini-country report for Bosnia ...
Executive Summaries: WBC Albania The European Union (EU), which Albania aspires to join, has set clear objectives related to research and innovation as part of the “Europe 2020 Strategy” that seeks to make the EU the most competitive economy in the world. Albania has made significant progress in transition reforms in recent years, but important challenges remain. The ...
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[Event Announcement & Call for Applicatons] Summer School: "I don’t need a parachute… to land in Europe!"
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9. Mar. 2012
... a cross border dimmenssion and it is implemented on the EU and Balkan states' territory from December 1, 2011 untill September 30, 2012. The organizers are looking for 100 young people, students or university graduates, age between 18-30 years, resident in one of the EU countries or Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Montenegro, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia), interested to join them in a exciting project. All the costs related to accommodation, meals, free time events and handbooks are going to be covered by the organisers. Also, travel ...
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New Practical Guide to EU Funding Opportunities for Research and Innovation (Update 2012)
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28. Feb. 2012
This new edition of the Guide to EU-Funding opportunities includes a full up-to-date picture of the three sources of funding described in the initial Guide (7th Research Framework Programme, Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme and Structural Funds) completed by information on the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and on the European Fisheries Fund. It also focuses on additional funding opportunities in the field of research and innovation. It includes information ...
... FYR of Macedonia might sign the Memorandum in due time. Recently, FYR of Macedonia has confirmed their intention to participate in the Lifelong Learning Programme as of 2012, and are now in the process of completing the formal steps to become LLP participating countries. The European Commission has announced that Albania will not participate in the Call 2012. For applications to be submitted, this means that organisations from Albania cannot participate as full partners in the applications, but have to be treated as Third Country partners together with remaining WBC. More information are available at http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp ...
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D8.51 Comparative analysis of the innovation capacity in the WBC with particular focus on joint cooperation needs
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23. Feb. 2012
... are lagging behind the leading countries. They are rather familiar with the development of some component of NIS (e.g. research systems) but they are beginners (or moderate) in other components especially those related to science-industry cooperation. The third group of countries are small and geographically isolated economies (Albania and Kosovo UN Res.1244) whose innovation systems are in the beginning phase (Albania) or infancy (Kosovo UN Res.1244). Despite differences, WBC share many similarities that provide a platform for mutual cooperation and possible development of the regional innovation system. One of the most substantial similarities is a ...
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Good practice examples of innovation policy approaches and instruments of EU Member States and Western Balkan countries (D8.50; T8.2)
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23. Feb. 2012
... good practices from the EU Member States (especially The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden) and the second part presents 24 practice examples from the Western Balkan countries. A selection of these examples will be presented and discussed during a High Level Review Meeting on April 4 and 5, 2012 in Tirana/Albania. In order to prepare the Review Meeting, the Working Group of T8.2 (UNU-MERIT, MPI, BMBF and PT-DLR) met in Maastricht on February 15, 2012. After the High Level Meeting in Tirana in April a second review meeting is foreseen in the FYR of Macedonia in autumn in order to ...
... in 2009. By the end of 2011, preaccession assistance allocated to those countries since 2007 added up to a total of €7.461 billion. Assistance given to candidate countries and potential candidates in 2011, including both national and cross-border cooperation programmes: IPA 2011 allocations (in current prices; million €) Albania 94.43 Bosnia and Herzegovina 107.43 Croatia 156.53 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 98.03 Iceland 12.00 Kosovo 68.70 Montenegro 34.15 Serbia 201.88 Turkey 779.90 Multi-beneficiary programme (*) 186.27 Total 1 739.32 (*) Allocation for transition assistance and institution building, excluding cross-border cooperation ...
... co-funded by the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development – Marie Curie Actions. CERES fellowships have a duration of 12 months and are addressed to experienced researchers (researchers already in possession of a PhD or having at least 4 years of professional research experience) from CEI Member States (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine). Deadline: April 30, 2012 ...
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[Call Announcement] Targeted call on 'Innovation for renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions in Mediterranean regions and cities'
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20. Feb. 2012
... cost-efficient way. Please note: An application shall not address more than one Axis. If partners are interested in both axes, they will have to submit two separate applications. WBC Participation: IPA partners: The partners from candidate and potential candidate countries participating to the MED programme (Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania) can participate to this call for projects under the integrated management of ERDF and IPA funds. The global budget of IPA funds allocated to the MED programme between 2010-2013 is 5,4M€ and it will be used without country-specific allocation, to finance the participation of IPA partners to MED projects ...
... The Energy Pre-Check will start in 2012 and will be provided by the Chambers of Commerce in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.Energy Pre-check (part of an energy audit) Experts from the Chambers of Commerce will guide businesses in their regions of competence along the path of outlining an efficient energy use strategy. Energy pre-check offers selected companies in Albania, Bosnia ...
... following ten policy categories: Environmental Health Water (effects on human health) Air Pollution (effects on human health) Air Pollution (ecosystem effects) Water Resources (ecosystem effects) Biodiversity and Habitat Forests Fisheries Agriculture Climate Change Environmental Performance Index– Ranking & Scores (p.11) EPI Rank WB countries: (out of 132 countries) Albania: 15 (Top 10 Trend Index Performers) Bosnia & Herzegovina: 129 (Lowest 10 Trend Index Decliners) Croatia: 20 FYR of Macedonia: 97 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244): n.a. Montenegro: n.a Serbia: 103 (data for Serbia and Montenegro) http://epicharts.activewebdev.com/v01/downloads/2012EPI_Report.pdf
The purpose of this document is to map, for the first time, in Tempus the preferred partnerships between the participating countries, namely the 27 EU Member States and the 29 neighbouring countries and territories benefiting from the Programme. The objective is to highlight the privileged relations among the countries concerned as reflected in the composition of Tempus project consortia and try to distinguish categories of countries. The interpretation of the data available goes far beyond the ...
This deliverable outlines the results of a survey conducted as part of the WBC-INCO.NET project initiative to support innovation capacities in the WB region. The survey aimed to pinpoint both present and likely future research and market needs, as well as identify possibilities for collaboration in the region. The survey was carried out in two rounds, the second building on the results of the first. Two questionnaires were jointly designed by JRC-IPTS and Ivo Pilar. These addressed ...
Dear readers, after about one and a half years of its implementation, WBC-INCO.NET has been involved in a number of different activities and reached several positive results. Thus, in this issue we inform you about the current plans to enhance the project's work towards the field of innovation (see pages 2 and 3). RTD cooperation between all stakeholders in the region is growing continuously, as acknowledged by the Steering Platform on Research during its last meeting in Liblice, Czech ...
... eligibility of the WBC to community programmes and recommend our updated “Needs-Offers-Matrix”. Updates on the focus of research infrastructure are summarised on page 6 and further interesting programmes and initiatives introduced on page 7 and 8. Our regional focus, starting on page 9, is placed on the one hand on Albania, as we introduce their bilateral programmes and on the other hand on Croatia, with a focus on innovation. In this issue, we invited the Stability Pact / Regional Co-operation Council to inform about the transition and effects on the education and research fields on page 12. Some articles give an insight ...
Dear Readers, the 7th edition of the WBC-INCO.NET Journal is published on the occasion of the 10th Meeting of the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan countries, taking place in Ohrid, FYR of Macedonia on May 26, 2011. One of the key issues to be discussed by the Steering Platform is the state of preparation of the Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation as well as the related Enlargement Countries’ Position Paper, compiled in the frame of the Regional ...
The preparations of the forthcoming Steering Platform meeting in Ljubljana (June 13, 2008) have already begun. They actually began in October at the meeting in Thessaloniki about which we report starting on this page. The Slovenian EU presidency (January-June 2008) supports the initiatives of the Platform and will include stakeholders from the region in several activities. In this issue we report on several funding opportunities that can be explored by researchers in the Western Balkans: an ...
