... example the rental of venues, alongside with logistics and physical resources, e.g. consumables, printing costs, small equipment, and so forth. Gruber: How many countries are participating in the Pilot Joint Call? Sidiropoulos: All countries represented in the SEE-ERA-NET project participate in the Pilot Joint Call. They are: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. These countries contribute national funding to this Pilot Joint Call. It was a very pleasant surprise that the whole consortium joined forces in order to create this call for proposals. Gruber: Many researchers ...
The cooperation programme is organised in four-year phases: SCOPES 2000-2004: CHF 14,0 million budget (1 CHF = 0,6 euro)SCOPES 2005-2008: CHF 13,0 million budget The programme mainly comprises Joint Research Projects and Institutional Partnerships, the former focusing on basic research, the latter concentrating on the improvement of general conditions for scientific research. Each project and partnership is composed of a consortium of scientists from Eastern Europe and Switzerland. As SCOPES is ...
... Platform by the Western Balkan countries - as suggested by Commissioner Potočnik in his opening speech in Vienna - happened on October 18, 2006, in Königswinter/Bonn, Germany. Taking advantage of a meeting in the so-called “West Balkan Forum of SEE-ERA.NET”, the participants representing the relevant ministries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, discussed a proposal for the rules of procedure for the Steering Platform.On October 20, during the SEE-ERA.NET Steering Board Meeting, the results were presented to Tania Friederichs from the European Commission and Elke Dall from the Information Office in ...
From this page you can download the pdf of the book:Papon, Pierre, Stane Pejovnik: Guidelines for a Science and Research Policy in Bosnia & Herzegovina. UNESCO Science Policy Series, Volume Nr. 2, UNESCO Venice Office, 2006.
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=33143&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Guidelines for a Science and Research Policy in Bosnia & Herzegovina This report, part of UNESCO's Strategy for Strengthening Cooperation with South Eastern European Member States, was carried out by Pierre Papon with the contribution of Stane Pejovnik on the basis of several missions untertaken in Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout 2005 and was carried out in close cooperation with political authorities ...
... of IZUM are mainly engaged in the development and operation of the COBISS system and services (Co-operative Online BIbliographic System and Services), which represents the core of the library information system in Slovenia and of library information systems in some other countries linked in the COBISS.Net network (Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania). IZUM develops the Information system on research in Slovenia - SICRIS (Slovenian Current Research Information System), which not only includes data on research organisations, researchers and research projects, but also supports the development of similar systems (E-CRIS) in other countries. On the basis of consortium agreements with ...
... interested institutions from non-COST member states without any geographical restriction. In the West Balkans, COST has the following member states: Croatia, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In the frame of its Near Neighbour scheme, COST stimulates the participation of re-searchers from the Western Balkan region (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro), from Mediterranean countries and from European NIS countries. COST supports and funds the attendance of researchers from these countries for the participation in COST Actions (in accordance with COST Financial Rules and Proce-dures). As a precursor of advanced multidisciplinary research, COST plays a very important role in the ...
The ERI SEE Secretariat acts as a regional platform for co-operation in the education area and serves as an interface between ongoing national reforms in South Eastern Europe and current trends and developments in the education sector at EU level.Interesting documents are the newsletters which are published twice a year and the workprogrammes. ERI SEE Newsletter No. 2 (February 2006). Available from: http://www.see-educoop.net/graz_2003/downloads/ERISEENewsletter2005.pdf, accessed: 13. October ...
... years ago when the High Technical School was founded. In 1959 and 1960 there were some intensive activities undertaken on setting up a Faculty. Thus, pursuant to the Decision of the People's Board in the Zenica County and following the Decision from 1961 passed by the Executive Council of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic, the High Technical School was transformed into the Faculty of Metallurgy. The Faculty worked within the Sarajevo University. The next step in development of high education in Zenica was founding of Metallurgical Institute ''Hasan Brkic'' ( i.e. ''Kemal Kapetanovic'' ) on October 1, 1961. It took a long time before ...
... between BiH and European institutions. The main SUS BiH goals are to help the development of the higher education sector in BiH in a sustainable manner in order to reduce the number of young people and academic staff leaving the country and place the emphasis on the future prospects of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through its activities, SUS BiH supports university reforms, which are in line with European standards and the Bologna Process, as well as the establishment of a university network at a local and regional level in Southeast Europe. SUS BiH strives to enable access to information, advice, training, partnerships, exchange programs ...
... East Europe The Austrian ‘Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung’ (GFF) published a book on 'Research and Development in South East Europe' – based on a collaborative research project which pursued the objectives to identify strengths and weaknesses in the R&D structure of national innovation systems in South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia including Kosovo/UNMIK and Romania) and to link the information to the Austrian innovation system and its current activities towards the region.Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung (ed.): Research and Development in South East Europe. Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Wien/Graz, 2006. ISBN ...
The Norwegian Cooperation Programme with the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro) in Research and Higher Education. Norway and the Western Balkan countries have been cooperating in the fields of research and higher education since the year 2000. The programmes are managed by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), which has signed an agreement with the ...
The present paper is the address of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to the people of the country with regard to the problems in the educational system and the necessity of the education reform as of 2002. This document is focused on the reform of educational system in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also deals with higher education and promoting research in ...
... staff rights and obligations as well as those of the students, outlines the responsibilities of the authorities and the role of the advisory bodies in the higher education system and sets forth the quality assurance principles.Attached to the draft Law is the Draft State-Level Framework Higher Education Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina stating the principles of the Bologna Declaration and the Lisbon Recognition Convention based on which the draft Law was worked out. Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the Council of Europe (2003): Draft Framework Law on Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Available from: http ...
The report prepared by the specialists of the Interuniversity Center Dubrovnik offers the hypothesis of the future, which the South-East European (SEE) countries face in terms of their research and development (R&D) situation, by comparative analysis of Croatia with other SEE countries.Throughout history SEE has been the boarder among civilizations and periphery of Europe. Presently some countries in SEE are member states of the EU, some are candidates and some are in transition. This area ...
The report drawn up by the Commission of the European Communities contains the review of the political and economic situation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as of 2004 and recommends the measures and actions to be taken to enable the country to shift progressively its focus from the phase of stabilisation to that of association. Constrained by a difficult budgetary and economic situation, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has made steps to progress in Stabilisation and ...
UNESCO Office in Venice commissioned an expert mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) with two main objectives: to assess the scientific potential of the country and to make recommendations for its future development and integration into the international and European research communities. A decade after the war BiH is still facing a very difficult situation: large sectors of economy have collapsed and ...
The publication summarizes UNESCO’s experience and role in South-East Europe and outlines a proposal for future action in the region.The paper comprises extracts from the Director General’s speeches on South-East Europe as well as the reports presented by the Ministers or Representatives of Ministers of South-East European Member States. The paper also contains the main documents of the High-level Conference on Strengthening Cooperation in South-East Europe (held at UNESCO Headquarters on 4 and ...
The report presents assessment of the science and technology (S&T) status as of December 2004 of five Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia & Montenegro.The author highlights the fact that the objectives posed by EU on its way to the knowledge-based economy are fully relevant to the Western Balkan countries and their aspiration to become EU members in the future implies their adoption of the ...
In the paper the issues with regard to application of the European regional policy to the Western Balkan countries are discussed. The paper offers analysis of possible ways and means of the policy in question. As the Western Balkan states face other threats and opportunities than those existed several years ago, the European policy instruments shall be adapted to meet the new challenges associated with the Western Balkans' economic and social cohesion into EU. So, the EU in cooperation with the ...
The document presents the investigation report by the Institute for International Relations (IMO) on the research and development system in Croatia. The report covers some legislative and institutional issues related to the higher education and science, lays out the aspects associated with financing of the higher education and science, specifies the size, structure and dynamics of the R&D personnel, gives the overview of research organisations and scientific infrastructure, analyses ...
The report provides a general overview of Croatia as a new candidate of EU Accession within the framework of the current status of scientific and technological development. The document contains the general information of the country, national economy and economic indicators as of 2003 as well as the history of the EU-Croatia relations.Substantial part of the report is dedicated to the science and technology (S&T) policy as far as its framework, role and objectives, indicators, coordination and ...
... harmonize as far as possible the EU’s external aid instruments. The draft comprises 21 Articles and 2 Annexes, besides, the comments with respect to every individual Article are provided. The draft regulation constitutes a framework regulation, establishing a unified instrument for pre-accession assistance. The beneficiary countries (i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia und Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Croatia and Turkey) are divided into two categories, depending on their status as either Candidate Countries (listed in Annex II) or potential Candidate Countries (listed in Annex I). The idea is that the potential Candidate Countries will continue to receive assistance ...
"Integration of the non-candidate countries in South Eastern Europe (Western Balkan Countries) into the European Research Area and the future EU RTD activities" The document summarizes the main issues of the Vienna Workshop on integration of Western Balkan countries into the European Research Area and the 6th EU RTD Framework Program (FP6) - from the year 2000. Topic is the strategy of integration of the mentioned countries into European Research Area as well as the EU future RTD activities ...
The online directory is a collection of universities, institutions and companies active in R&D in Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
http://www.westbalkanresearch.net/
The "Department for Scientific, Technical, Educational, Cultural and Sports Co-operation carries out professional and administrative work that is related to: a) preparation, processing and producing of international agreements and programs of scientific, technical, educational cultural and sports co-operation with other states and international organisations; b) the preparation and co-ordination of scientific, technical, educational, cultural and sports co-operation which is realised on the ...