Capacity building opportunities
Capacity building is an enabling and empowering process; it provides researchers, scientists, R&I managers, etc. with the necessary tools and networks resulting in better chances for producing substantial, excellent research results.
To drive innovation-led economic growth it is nowadays necessary to strengthen the S&T and Innovation Ecosystem. Countries generally have to define their need for science and technology services, while enhancing the capacity of universities to train graduates in high-demand skills. Initiatives are needed to encourage collaborative innovation between and among universities and industry—in order to harness the intellectual capital of countries’ higher-education system to sustainably and efficiently support prosperity. Capacity building initiatives for instance could relate to: improving research qualifications of faculty and staff, boosting research capacity in key disciplines, strengthening university-industry links in high-growth economic sectors, and finally bolstering the policy capacity of higher-education institutions in science, technology and innovation.
Over the past years it has moreover become clear, especially in the WB countries, that there is a need for training programs, workshops and internships as part of capacity building and professional development of staff working in the R&I management environment and support services. Only thanks to a strengthened administrative, research and innovation capacity at national level WB countries can guarantee themselves a successful participation in Horizon 2020 and other national, regional and EU research funding programmes. This is why RTDI capacity and potential in the WB region is again under our spotlight.
Please find below also a selection of the topic related articles. Besides, we kindly invite you to directly upload any further relevant call for papers, training and internship opportunity for young researchers, national training opportunity for administrative project staff etc. When registered at the WBC-RTI.info, you have the opportunity to upload content by yourself. Otherwise, you can contact us at any time and provide the information via office@wbc-rti.info.
RTDI capacity in WBC as well as capacity building opportunities had already been in focus of the WBC-RTI.info newsletter. You can find the related articles here.
News
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[Call Announcement] Call for Participants: Living Lab Summer School for researchers
Join the Summer School organised within the scope of the VITALISE project between 6-7 July in Athens, Greece. The Summer School aims to provide researchers worldwide effective training ...
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[Call Announcement] Open Call for Standardisation Consultants
Join our community of consultants and support R&I projects contribute to standardisation. Consultants will advise EU projects on how to contribute to standardisation in their field. ...
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[Call Announcement] Danube+ WIL Balkans
Danube+ WIL Balkans is a multi-phase capacity building and 21st-century bio-based economy acceleration initiative involving 60 young future water leaders who through regional collaboration will increase...
Events
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Living Lab Summer School for researchers
Join the Summer School organised within the scope of the VITALISE project between 6-7 July in Athens, Greece. The Summer School aims to provide researchers worldwide effective training ...
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Conference: From a strong local community to sustainable peace
Invitation to the conference From a strong local community to sustainable peace Date: 2-3. June 2022 Place: Sanski Most As part of the implementation of the five-year Local Strength Program, supported...
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Collaborative Leadership for Complex Social Change
Join for a short online seminar where we will present the main factors of collaborative leadership, as well as the values and methods of collaborative work, and the development of multisectoral and collaborative...
Organisations
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Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, ICTP seeks to accomplish its mandate by providing scientists from developing countries with the continuing education and skills that they need to...
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The European Network of Innovation Agencies
This is a group of 29 organisations from 28 European countries has established an intense collaboration in the field of the implementation of national technology Programmes. This is to the benefit of ...
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Social Innovation Lab is an organisation registered in Croatia, led by three sucesfull young women: SIL co-founder and President Mirna Karzen (Croatia), Aleksandra Vladisavljević (SIL co-founder, Serbia...
Calls
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Call for Participants: Living Lab Summer School for researchers
Join the Summer School organised within the scope of the VITALISE project between 6-7 July in Athens, Greece. The Summer School aims to provide researchers worldwide effective training ...
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Open Call for Standardisation Consultants
Join our community of consultants and support R&I projects contribute to standardisation. Consultants will advise EU projects on how to contribute to standardisation in their field. ...
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Danube+ WIL Balkans is a multi-phase capacity building and 21st-century bio-based economy acceleration initiative involving 60 young future water leaders who through regional collaboration will increase...
Documents
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The Scoping study for supporting the development of a Code of Practice for researchers on standardisation aims to identify elements of good practice for researchers dealing with standards and standardisation...
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An Assessment of University-to- Society Collaborations in Albania
The report is produced in the framework of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education Project: “University-to-Society Innomediaries in Albania: Co-Production of Knowledge and Research that...
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Implementing the CEI Mission through EU Projects
Since 2004, the participation in EU projects has proven to be an effective tool for fostering the CEI’s main mission: European integration and sustainable development in Central, Eastern and South Eastern...
Links
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Open training platform for building professionals
Building professionals can gain new skills to design and build low energy constructions thanks to Horizon 2020 project PROF-TRAC. This project developed an online platform with free high quality training...
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The policy on research and innovation in Montenegro and STP infrastructure - Overview
A presentation on the development of the R&I ecosystem in Montenegro was given at the "Unveiling Serbia's Smart Specialisation Strategy and exploring the role of incubators, accelerators and S&...
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The ReSTI Infodesk will provide you with support and information on how to manage social and technological innovation projects. It will serve as a first contact point for interested individuals seeking...
Projects
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The flourishing ecosystem of technology transfer and innovation in the Western Balkans EU4TECH PoC (Western Balkans Proof of Concept Scheme) is an EU-funded project supporting technology...
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Open European Quantum Key Distribution Testbed Fact Sheet
Quantum communication has the potential to protect the EU's sensitive data and digital infrastructure for years to come. A test quantum communication infrastructure will be set up in several European ...
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The South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST) proposed in late 2016 by Prof. Herwig Schopper, a former Director General of CERN and initiator of the international...