Based on presentations of the status quo of human potential and measures related to brain circulation in the South East European Countries as well as on inputs from experts and discussions, the Round Table organised at the University of Graz on November 24, 2007, led to a set of conclusions and recommendations for immediate and long-term action.
The conclusions and recommendations aim at supporting the creation of a supportive environment and favourable conditions that are sufficiently attractive and promising for young researchers to stay, for the scientific diaspora to co-operate with their home country and maybe return, and for researchers from neighbouring countries and from other European countries to collaborate on a distance, also in the course of shorter and longer research and teaching assignments in SEE. The results of the Round Table shall also feed into the discussions of the Steering Platform.
Suggestions include that the public management and governance of higher education should be professionalised. This could for example be achieved by developing regional twinning programs and summer schools, by establishing regional centres of excellence and attractive satellite infrastructure facilities and by enhancing the co-operation between higher education, research, business and industry. Furthermore, the Web Mob Portal (http://www.wbc-inco.net/news/2652.html) and existing information tools and data bases such as e.g. http://www.westbalkanresearch.net/ should be further promoted and programmes such as the ones run by the World University Service Austria or the Austrian American Foundation should be continued and enlarged.

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