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ESOF – the Euroscience Open Forum – is the biennial European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation created by Euroscience. The next Euroscience Open Forum ESOF 2010 will ... read more
ITEA 2 supports coordinated national funding submissions within the EUREKA framework and is a major contributor in the European Research Area (ERA). Its programme is open to partners from large industrial... read more
The Centre for Education Policy, a Belgrade based educational think tank has recently published a study on "Financing Higher Education in South Eastern Europe", covering Albania, Croatia, Montenegro... read more
The new Task Force of the RCC on Fostering and Building Human Capital was put in charge to promote coherency and coordination between education, higher education and research by creating a platform of... read more
The Albanian Government, supported by the United Nations Development Programme in Albania, has recently founded a Brain Gain Programme focussing at the Albanian Diaspora. The Programme seeks to counter... read more
On February 24-25, 2009, the European Forum on Research and Development Impact Assessment - EUFORDIA - took place in Prague in frame of the Czech EU presidency. The aim of EUFORDIA... read more
The project FOCUS BALKANS with the general objective to improve competencies and understanding in the field of consumer food science in the Western Balkan countries (WBC) will be running from 2008 to ... read more
As announced by the EU on February 12, 2009, the Lifelong Learning Programme 2009 is opening up for the participation of the Republic of Croatia and of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ... read more
The Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP) announces two short-term fellowships for students from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. read more
The Serbian Ministry of Economy and Regional Development/Department for SMEs and Entrepreneurship is organising the first International Conference on Clusters - "Challenges and Opportunities for ... read more
The European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) is a report prepared by the wbc-inco.net project partner Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) on... read more
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), with financial support from The World Bank, the Austrian Ministry of Finance and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank... read more
The Fourth Fulbright Academy Conference explores innovation in "small places". Some fascinating developments are coming out of smaller countries: USA, India, China and other big countries do... read more
If you are working in the field of Health and Biotechnology and are interested in EU funding for research & technology development, we cordially invite you to a 1 day training workshop on the participation... read more
Are you looking for opportunities to get to know ICT experts all over Europe and beyond? Would you like to publish your knowledge online, to advertise your events and get involved in virtual scientific... read more
The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) awards research fellowships for the academic year 2009/10. The program, which is generously supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation, is focused on South-Eastern... read more
Recently signed agreements between FYR of Macedonia and EU on the further implementation of the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA), will support the Macedonian participation in programmes for cross-border... read more
The first European SME Week, taking place from 6 to 14 May 2009, is a campaign to promote entrepreneurship across Europe and to inform entrepreneurs about support available for them at European, national... read more
The European Technology Platform Food for Life offers now a research project database which can help you to find project partners in the field of food sciences and to learn about state-of-the-art projects... read more
CORDIS informs in its newsletter regularly on the currently open calls. The CORDIS newsletter No. 014 was published on February 16, 2008 and informs about the following calls in the Cooperation, Ideas... read more
The EU-funded U-KNOW ('Understanding the relationship between knowledge and competitiveness in the enlarging European Union') project will hold its final conference in Brussels, Belgium, on February 17... read more
The publication Art & Science: creative Fusion aims to explain the theory behind the art-science interface and illustrates this academic perspective using concrete examples, including projects, institutions... read more
The Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office in Sofia promotes Austrian grant schemes and has recently started its annual grants campaign. By means of two presentations in Bulgaria (Sofia and Plovdiv... read more
The organisers of the "X. Bled Forum on Europe" - Bled Forum on Europe Research Association, Manchester Business School, Centre for eGovernance Development for South East Europe (CeGD), Austrian... read more
The report ‘EU regionally relevant activities in the Western Balkans 2008/09’ published by the European Commission, addresses the main improvements and initiatives supporting the political... read more
An Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Republic of Montenegro and the Government of the Republic of Croatia was signed on January 26, 2009 in Podgorica. The Minister of Education... read more
The SCOPES programme, which is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), boosts scientific co-operation between research... read more
A workshop on "the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance: Regional policy in the (potential) candidate countries" took place on October 9, 2008 within the frame of the European Week of Cities... read more
The Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana/Slovenia and Sofia/Bulgaria (ASOs) launch a call for scientific networking and project cooperation between research institutions in Austria, ... read more
“Students from the Western Balkans: The experience of EU countries regarding admission and misuse of procedures” . Highlights from an interesting research study in terms of student mobility... read more
The conference from April 28-29, 2009 will build on the momentum created by the European Commission and the French Presidency in line with the EC Communication “Better Careers and more mobility: ... read more
COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology - invites researchers throughout Europe to submit proposals for research networks and use this opportunity to exchange knowledge and to embark on ... read more
The Jean Monnet Programme is designed to increase knowledge and awareness about European integration by promoting teaching, research and debate on European Union matters (including the EU's relations ... read more
The ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens... read more
A new internet portal named ResearchGATE has been launched this year as the leading social network for natural scientists. It offers many cutting-edge tools and applications for researchers to interact... read more
Each year, the European Parliament and the Council chose a specific theme to which the year shall be devoted, in order to raise awareness of the issue issue, to stimulate policy debate and research and... read more
A Foresight Training Seminar on "South East European Knowledge Societies and the Future of Europe" will be taking place in Bled/Slovenia on March 5 and 6, 2009. The call for... read more
"Can the United Nations be Taught?" was the provocative title of a three day event which took place in November 2008 at the Diplomatic Academy, the Vienna University Law School, and the UN ... read more
This call is framed within the EU programme on "Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security Related Risks" for the period 2007-2013. This programme proposes... read more
A call for interest for four Senior Researcher vacancies at the Information Society unit of the IPTS (Seville, Spain) has been published on the IPTS web site. read more
A recent official publication of the European Communities examines the key figures in science, technology and competitiveness key figures, covering the years 2000-2006. The report illustrates substantial... read more
The King Baudouin Foundation has recently published a study on student mobility in the West Balkans, conducted by Milos Besic, a political science Professor at the University of Podgorica. The survey ... read more
The second call for proposals under Tempus IV (covering the phase of 2007-2013) has been lauched and is open for applications for Joint Projects and for Structural Measures until April 28, 2009 at 16.... read more
The Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana/Slovenia and Sofia/Bulgaria (ASOs) announce a Call for proposals for projects in Research Cooperation and Networking between institutions in... read more
On December 9, 2008, a joint meeting of Steering group and Project Management Committee of the Serbian EURAXESS network took place in Niš. The Serbian EURAXESS initiative is a newcomer in wider... read more
In 2008, the European Commission started an initiative for re-branding the overall efforts aiming at development of open, transparent and attractive labor market for researchers in Europe. It is expected... read more
A two-day WBC-INCO.NET workshop has been taking place within the framework of task 4.4 - "Benchmarking of NCP System" - in Vienna on January 22-23, 2009. On of its main focusses was to ... read more
UNESCO-BRESCE organises an international seminar on Regional Cooperation in South East Europe: perspectives and challenges for the International Community in Venice on January 30, 2008. read more
The International Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) invites concept papers for cross-border student initiatives from the following Southeast European (SEE) university... read more
The website http://www.ideal-ist.net/ regularly publishes "partner searches", i.e. announcements of project proposers looking for partners for current calls within the framework of the EC's 7th. framework... 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.
