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Two documents are uploaded - a draft strategy from the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia (2005) in English language and an official strategy of the Government of RS on Information Society in Serbia (2006) in Serbian language. The official document is an extensive analysis on objectives, goals and targets of the National Strategy for Information Society; institutional framework for the Information Society development; legislative framework; ...
... expansion of transnational business-driven innovation networks (including SMEs) between Austria and CEE/SEE countries for the development and implementation of innovation and for increasing and strengthening R&D cooperation and technology transfer.Potential partner countries include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR of Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia, and Slovenia.While the majority of the projects in the first call in the year 2006 were 'Networking Projects', the second call, which is now open, is focused on 'Innovations Projects': within this category projects have to feature an obvious element of RTDI and ideally ...
... eJournal fall 2006 and modified in October 2007. The Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices (ASO) Ljubljana and Sofia launch regular calls for proposals for projects in research cooperation and networking between Austria, the ASO countries (Slovenia and Bulgaria) and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia (including Kosovo ...
... been reported in the media. Here some articles on the topic from makfax:Potocnik presented EU's research programme in MANUMacedonia has EC's support for using EU research funds On November 15-16, 2006, Commissioner Potočnik arrives in Skopje for his first state visit to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Several high-level meetings are planned. He also meets the new Minister of Education and Science, Sulejman Rushiti ...
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Draft Programme: Conference "Building Knowledge Society Through Public RTD Funding"
Document
10. Nov. 2006
The first draft programme for the Conference "Building Knowledge Society Through Public RTD Funding" which will be held in Nova Gorica (Slovenia), May 31 - June 2, 2007 has been received and it includes some very interesting ideas for round tables, sessions and workshops.
FIRST DRAFT PROGRAMME, September 18, 2006. not to be cited.
SBRA
A very encouraging and truly sweeping speech was given by European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potočnik at the Conference "Why Invest in Science in South Eastern Europe?" in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on September 29, 2006. This "SPEECH/06/551" is available from the website of Potočnik's speeches http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/potocnik/news/speeches_en.htm. Potočnik, Janez: Why invest in science in South Eastern Europe? Speech held at International Conference ...
... on project-related issues, set up a data base comprising researchers and research institutions and offer partner searches to enhance their countries’ participation in Framework projects.The importance of the NCP system in these countries is for example reflected in the successful participation of researchers from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the 6th Framework Programme (FP6).“The turning point happened when the Ministry got involved into the ERA WESTBALKAN project in May 2004”, says Violeta Atanasovska, overall NCP coordinator and Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Education and Science of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.“As the 6th Framework ...
... 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 in South Eastern Europe cooperate with scientists from Italy ...
... and science/journal publishing (paper and electronic). His results are summarised in the table attached. An important player in the region as regards these aspects is COBISS.Net, a project advancing the free exchange of bibliographic records. In its framework, autonomous library information systems of BiH, Montenegro, the FYR of Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia were already created. The project and the corresponding software are developed by the Slovenian agency ISZUM (Institute of Information Science). This institute is also pushing CRIS (= Current Research Information Systems) initiatives in the region, which are overall coordinated by euroCRIS, an institution aiming at a European-wide interoperability ...
... Science Foundation Since 1990, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), has been conducting a programme of scientific cooperation with Eastern Europe. From the year 2000 onwards, Switzerland and the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) have been cooperating in the framework of the so-called SCOPES-programme (Scientific Co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland ...
... 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 form of a working document, envisaging ...
... activities 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 ...
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COST - European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research
Organisation
17. Oct. 2006
... wide spectrum of activities in research and technology. COST has a geographical scope beyond the EU and welcomes the participation of 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 ...
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 ...
... 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: 3-7083-0377-6 Copies of this book ...
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 ...
... protocols. The administration of bilateral intergovernmental RTD programmes is implemented by the Directorate of Scientific Research. Currently one major aim in Albanian policy is to increase bilateral cooperation. Therefore this year the Ministry of Education and Science, via its Directorate of Scientific Research, has signed protocols with the FYR of Macedonia and Slovenia. Challenges in S&TAlbania has faced a difficult and turbulent decade. It was characterised by the lack of rule of law and economic collapse. Although considerable progress has been made in Albania since 1999, a lot remains to be done. Albanian research suffers from a lack of up-to-date ...
... covering only individual aspects of the matter in question. So, the policy framework section includes the information on the governmental bodies and the legal basis of the R&D Sector denoting the specific Laws and their functioning as well the main principles of performing the scientific activities in FYR Macedonia. The other section briefly summarizes Macedonia’s R&D cooperation with EU. Joint Research Center (JRC, for meeting in Geel – no year): Research and Development (R&D) in the Republic of Macedonia. Available from http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/events/20041026/presentations/barbutov-macedonia-20041026.pdf, accessed 10 August 2006. Internet http ...
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Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Stabilisation and Association Report 2004. Commission Staff Working Paper (Commission of the European Community)
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16. Aug. 2006
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 ...
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 ...
