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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One of the consequences of the information age is the wealth of information that you can receive about nearly any topic. There are several eJournals, eNewsletters, and eNewsgroups that distribute news about research and higher education topics in South East Europe. One big advantage of the electronic services is the speed in which news gets around, but sometimes the amount of information can be somewhat overwhelming, for example when your inbox is bursting with messages after only a three days vacation. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the selection of the information providers to your interests and time-budget. The following profiles should help you to do this, but please note that the selection and the assessments provided here are based on the personal opinions of the author.

eJournal of the Information Office of the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries
The team from this publication with the wordy name provides information four times a year about latest developments in research and research policy in the region of the Western Balkan countries and South East Europe. As you are at the moment holding the latest issue in your hands (or reading it on your computer), I understand that you are familiar with the benefits of our publication. Further subscriptions can be made at: http://see-science.eu/ejournal/list

CORDIS - Community Research & Development Information Service
The Community Research & Development Information Service for the Seventh Framework Programme on RTD (FP7) is the supplier of official news and provides several services:
CORDIS Express is a weekly briefing on European research and innovation news, combining highlights of the week's news on European innovation and research with a summary of particularly important national or regional initiatives.
The CORDIS focus Newsletter is a magazine bringing together selected articles of particular importance from the CORDIS News Service. You can get it online or in paper version.
CORDIS Wire is a platform for European innovation and research stakeholders to disseminate information and press releases about their own activities. It can be found at: http://cordis.europa.eu/news/

Balkan Academic News (BAN)
Balkan Academic News is an electronic email group encompassing over 1,300 scholars, activists, government officials, students and others dealing with or interested in the exchange of academic information in the Balkans. It distributes calls for papers, conference announcements, book reviews, queries and academic discussions on the region. This list is one of the best sources for information; as this list is moderated you will receive approximately 5-6 emails issued around two times a week. In order to subscribe send a blank email to: balkans-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Imp@ct
Imp@ct is a monthly eNewsletter from the Euroregional Centre for Democracy in Romania that I highly recommend. It spreads information in English about funding opportunities and event announcements in South East Europe; to subscribe send an email to: impact-subscribe@host.regionalnet.org (do not try to subscribe on the website as this is rather complicated).

News from internationale-kooperation.de
This information portal of the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides email alerts in German and English on international cooperation in education and research. At http://www.internationale-kooperation.de/emailabo.php you can select areas of interest to you and you can later modify your interest profile at any time. The information provided has a focus on Germany.

Academic Information Network of South East Europe (AINSEE)
The AINSEE daily newsletter has been developed to provide up-to-date information about higher education in South East Europe to the academic population. At the moment the newsletter is only published sporadically. To subscribe go to http://www.ainsee.info/index.php

e-Network of Academia in Social Sciences (e-NASS)
e-NASS aims to deepen interaction within the academic community of scholars, professionals and students from all branches and sub-disciplines of the social sciences in SEE and beyond. The list is not moderated, but those with a big inbox will get interesting information through this service. It is published in Turkish and English. To subscribe send an email to: e-nass-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Balkan Women
Balkan Women and Friends is an electronic email group to facilitate discussions and exchanges of information between social scientists and others who conduct research about women in the Balkans. The information is focused on gender aspects and women, but the information is somewhat similar to that from Balkan Academic News. Subscribe by sending an email to: BalkanWomen-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Newsletter di BalcaniCooperazione
Published in Italian, this newsletter provides information with a strong focus on the Italian regions and their cooperation with the Balkan countries, including social, economic and scientific cooperation. It also publishes calls for project proposals. Subscribe for the newsletter at: http://www.balcanicooperazione.it

Article published in eJournal winter 06/07.
Author: Florian Gruber, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI).

Entry created by Florian Gruber on March 5, 2007
Modified on March 6, 2007

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.

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.)