Western Balkans

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

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News archive - Call for projects: Higher education in the Western Balkans

The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, within its project "Higher education in the Western Balkans" provides support to launch academic cooperation initiatives for institutions and research centres in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) and to assist those already launched. The goals are to support them in their exploratory research, enabling better identification of needs in local training, and by promoting French educational engineering to meet those needs, while maintaining a European dimension with the aim of better attracting European funds.

This project is part of France's strategy for the Western Balkans, endorsed by the Presidency of the French Republic in March 2019, in which higher education and research must form one aspect of our soft diplomacy, with a view to France’s renewed bilateral commitment in this region.
This selective call for proposals aims to help supply meet demand by financing 10 bilateral projects (one or two per country for a maximum amount of €38k) and two regional projects (maximum €60k per project with at least two partners from two Western Balkan countries and at least one French partner), all of which must be jointly developed by two partners or a dedicated France-Balkans consortium. The technical and operational implementation of the project activities will be handled by France Education International, which will report back on its activities to the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE).

Deadline for the project submission: May 30^th 2021:

For more information see the call text attached, or visit the call anouncement (the website text is in French; the documents are provided in both French and English).

Country

France

Geographical focus

Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo*
Montenegro
Serbia
Western Balkans

Scientifc field / Thematic focus

Cross-thematic/Interdisciplinary

Attachments

aap_es-balk_en.pdf (pdf, 936.33Kb)

Entry created by Admin WBC-RTI.info on May 10, 2021
Modified on May 10, 2021

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Kosovo* (This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.)