The consortium consisted of seven partners from six different countries (Greece, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Croatia), geographically covering the whole region.
During the lifetime of the WEB-MOB project, the partners have identified existing obstacles to incoming mobility in every country, and which in many cases had not been identified by administrations in charge of research. More specifically, mobility guidelines were developed so as to be useful to national governments for the formulation of common policies in terms of enhancing researchers’ mobility and eliminating mobility barriers in the region. The mobility guidelines include recommendations for measures and policies needed to improve national legislation and national research strategies.
Furthermore, the most important dissemination tool developed has been the WEB-MOB portal (http://see-science.eu/link/2595.html). The portal is a single-access point which provides visitors with the opportunity to exchange useful information about problems in the area of mobility of researchers, provide information on research organisations and universities and news related to the WEB-MOB project implementation.
Even though the project has just been completed (October 31, 2007), the impact already seems to be not only on a national, but also on a European level, since WEB-MOB project has contributed to national and EU actions related to the mobility and career development of researchers. Another important impact of the project has been the valuable experience on mobility policy issues gained by partners from the Western Balkan countries leading to the establishment of national ERA-MORE Networks (the Serbian national network and the Croatian one). Finally, synergies with European research organisations, universities and Mobility Centres have been encouraged and have influenced the visibility of researchers, universities and research organisations active in R&D in the Western Balkans region.

Article published in see-science.eu eJournal fall/winter 2007.