The 2012 Researchers Report prepared by Deloitte Consulting for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation looks at the extent to which those prerequisites are already met, since a full understanding of the researcher profession in its complexity is indispensable for sound decision and policy-making. The report (see link below) is accompanied by country fiches - of which we present here the ones prepared for the Western Balkan countries.

In 2008, Montenegro counted 766 full-time research equivalents who together with part-time colleagues and external research associates were employed in the country’s two universities, nine private higher education institutions, government and the private sector. This number corresponds to about 0.3% of the total workforce in Montenegro. In order to attract young people to science and a scientific career, the government has developed a number of activities and programmes, targeting pupils in elementary schools to university students, by engaging them in the regular teaching programmes as well as in national competitions on different topics, camps and visits to the great European and world research institutions.