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This is a report written by Pavel Zgaga from CEPS - Centre for Educational Policy Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The author gives first an overview on the historical background and presents... read more
This is a Statement from the Meeting of South-East European Educational Cooperation Network , which was held in Ljubljana, July 10 – 11, 2003. It states that South-East European Educational Cooperation... read more
This is a study by the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and Joanneum Research commissioned by the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. First it discusses the development of... read more
The UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) for Albania emerged from a nation-wide consultation process on the country’s priorities and targets towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG... read more
On March 23-24, 2004, over 200 national and international representatives of the public and private sector, civil society, and donor community came together for public discussion and debates at a National... read more
This is a study published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. First it presents the origin and characteristics of Albania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Then it presents ... read more
This is an Albanian country profile in German language. It deals with political issues (government, parliament), presents civil society and analyses the development strategy. read more
This is a Wolrdbank workplan to guide is operations in Albania - lending, analytical work, and technical assistance. The World Bank is interested not only to increase development assistance but also to... read more
This is a power point presentation that presents the National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of Republic of Croatia (NZZ). It is stated that its mission is to give... read more
This is a national report on implementation of Strategy of Information and Communication Technology conducted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. First it presents The... read more
This strategy document describes the situation in Croatia as regards investment in science, number of scientists, productivity of science work, higher education and in the end a SWOT anlysis is presented... read more
This documet first presents the purpose and goals for Initiating the Croatian Program of Innovative Technological Development. A purpose of the Program is to mobilize scientific research potentials and... read more
The copy of the website presents the case study of HITRA (presented in 2004) from the Woldbank which states that Croatia lags behind developed countries. However the financial support programme of Ministry... read more
This is a national report on Bologna Process for Croatia for 2004-2005. It is written in the form of an interview with Mirjana Polic Bobic from the Directorate for Higher Education. First a brief description... read more
This is a Strategy Paper presented to the Conference "Southeast Europe on the Way into the European Union" held by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. First strategic dimensions of Southeastern enlargement are ... read more
This is an article written by Radovan Vukadinovic. The author describes the situation in Croatia and states that after Slovenia, Croatia is at this moment the most stable country in the region. Then he... read more
This is an article written by dr. Milica Uvalic. The author states that the economies of South Eastern Europe (SEE) - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia... read more
This is a strategy paper conducted by the International Monetary Fund in 2004. It describes the country's macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as ... read more
This is a strategy conducted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. First implementation of the past strategy is presented. Then the strategy deals with topics like political developments... read more
This is a proposal for a Council Decision on the principles, priorties and conditions contained in the European Partnership with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia presented by the European Commission... read more
This is an OECD publication presenting some higlights in the field of S&T. It states that in recent years, weak economic conditions limited investments in science and technology. Government R&D expenditures... read more
This is a paper written by dr. Slavica Singer and Boris Lauc. It states that in the last 15 years, the SME sector in Croatia has played an increasingly important role in generating new businesses and ... read more
This is a strategy conducted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the period 2003-2008. The priority objective of the Strategy for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and ... read more
This is a Strategic Plan for National Fund for Science, High Education and Technological Development of Croatia (NZZ) for period 2004-2008. The paper is written in Croatian language. It presents visions... read more
This is an EC 2005 Progress Report on Albania. The report describes the relations between Albania and the Union; analyses the political situation in Albania in terms of democracy, the rule of law, respect... read more
This is a report made by State Statistical Office of Albania. It includes several statistical data on demographie, employment, education, health, justice, macroeconomic indicators, financial statistics... read more
This is a paper written by the European Stability Initiative in 2005. It states that the European Commission has produced a draft regulation for an Instrument of Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) which sets... read more
This is a discussion paper written by Claudia Grupe and Sinisa Kusić from the Centre for the Study of Global Governance London School of Economics and Political Science. The paper analyses the role... read more
This is a 2005 survey carried out by the ECUMEST Association in partnership with Relais Culture Europe. The following survey identifies ways of matching support to existing needs by giving a fuller picture... read more
This is an EC paper that describes a progress in stabilisation and reconciliation, internal reform and regional cooperation that Western Balkans made over three years after Thessaloniki. As a result, ... read more
This is a report prepared by Vladimir Gligorov and Hermine Vidovic from the The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. First it describes Croatian macroeconomic development (growth, labour... read more
This is a report conducted by the Independent Expert Group on R&D andInnovation appointed following the Hampton Court Summit. This report presents a strategy to create an Innovative Europe. Achieving ... read more
This is an EC paper introducing the idea of creating a special body - European Institute of Technology. It is explained why Europe needs something new. It is stated that this is a part of an answer to... read more
This is an article written by Izabela Savickien and Kestutis Pukelis. This article discusses dimensions and criteria, which are used to asses the quality of higher education in different countries. The... read more
This is a EC 2005 Progress Report for Croatia. The report describes the relations between Croatia and the Union; analyses the situation in respect of the political criteria for membership; assesses Croatia... read more
This is a cross cutting summary report on seven universities in BIH conducted by the European University Association (EUA). First the whole procedure of evaluation is described (self-evaluation process... read more
This paper summerises conclusions made at the International Seminar on Higher Education in Novi Sad on October 28-30, 2005. The Novi Sad Initiative has been launched to address a set of issues that are... read more
This EC document states that the international S&T cooperation should be a high priority for the EU. It names the main objectives of this cooperation and emphasises that international S&T cooperation ... read more
This is a power point presentation made by Lamija Tanovic from University of Sarajevo. In the beginning she states that the greatest mistake in BIH reconstruction was a permanent neglect of the education... read more
This is a power point presentation conducted by Ivo Slaus from World Academy of Art and Science. First the author presents many statistics on major problems in the world today (terrorism, poverty etc). ... read more
This is a power point presentation held by Azemina Vukovic, presenting at first the main goals of MTDS (Mid-Term Development Strategy) of BiH. Then the activities of the EPPU, Office for Monitoring and... read more
This document is the first annual report on the implementation of the PovertyReduction Strategy paper for Serbia (PRSp), one of the two main pillars in theRepublic’s medium-term development framework, ... read more
This aper was presented at a conference on “Countries in Transition: Experiences and Challenges of European Union Membership,” in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 18–19, 2005 organized by LAREfi Universite Montesquieu... read more
This paper uses the findings of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, a global ranking of democracy, market economy and political management, to discuss different hypotheses. The performance profiles ... read more
This is a power point presentation conducted by Robert Burmanjer, (previous) Head of Unit, “International Scientific Cooperation Policy” in DG Research/ European Commission. Firstly, aims of international... read more
This is the Final Report from the European Evaluation Consortium (TEEC) on the Impact Assessment of the International Science and Technology Cooperation (INCO 2) Programme. The objective of this assessment... read more
The present report by prof. Uvalic gives a general assessment of the situation in 2005 regarding Research and Development (R&D) in the five Western Balkan (WB) countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina... read more
The 2004-2005 Annual National Program of the FYR of Macedonia has been prepared on the basis of the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP). The Program defines the plans for forthcoming activities in implementing... read more
This paper deals with research and development in the FYR of Macedonia. It presents the main stakeholders involved in R&D policy and the country's legal framework of the R&D sector. Last but not the least... read more
This is a report made by dr. Dijana Plaseska from the Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. First some general data on Macedonia are presented... read more
Western Balkans Info Hub - powered by "Policy Answers" - is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe project "R&I policy making, implementation and support in the Western Balkans", grant agreement: 10105887. The portal builds upon previous initiatives, such as for instance WBC-RTI.INFO and WBC-INCO.NET, which were funded under different Framework Programmes (FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD) of the European Commission and other contracts.
