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The 2008 Eco-innovation Call was open to all legal persons that are based in the 27 EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Israel, Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or Montenegro... read more
The Steering Platform meeting held in Ljubljana on June 13, 2008 has introduced the good practice of WBC co-chairing. Mira Vukcevic describes the experiences of the Montenegrin Co-Chair on behalf of the... read more
ERI SEE, the Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe, is providing an update on its 2008 initiatives - complementing activities which are focused on the research sector. Several dates for ... read more
In August new Marie Curie Work Programme was published. Regarding previous Work Programmes there are some novelties in the "People" Work Programme 2009. read more
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) and Turkish research and business organisations will hold an... read more
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (Das Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche - wiiw) added a new database focusing on Eastern Europe and a new database on FDI (... read more
NISPAcee is asking users from the field of public administration institutes and schools to compile the attached questionnaire on events held at the institiution/school, visiting professors and recent ... read more
The Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) in the Western Balkans focuses on Social Sciences and has a perspective of 10 years. In the end it will cover six countries in the region: Albania, Bosnia... read more
Under the patronage of the prime minister of Romania Calin Popescu Tariceanu, office of prime minister in partnership with National Authority for Scientific Research and Romanian Academy the conference... read more
On September 3, 2008 new calls were published in the 7th Framework Programme ("Cooperation" and "Capacities"): Further Information on Call for Proposals regarding call fiche, work... read more
Božidar Đelić, vice-president of the government of Republic of Serbia and minister for Science and Technological Development, was born in 1965 in Belgrade (Serbia). read more
Nominations for the ACES (Academic Interprise Awards Europe) Awards, the first pan-European awards programme for spin-out companies, are requested till September 30, 2008. This is the first pan-European... read more
EUROCHAMBERS - Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry represents over 19 million enterprises in Europe through 46 members (45 national associations of Chambers of Commerce and Industry... read more
nter@nic network, the Comptence Centre South East Europe at the University of Graz and the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen are organizing an international conference " Ethnic Reconcilation... read more
The NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) seminar is an international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems... read more
The new World Bank publication ‘From fragmentation to cooperation: tertiary education, research, and development in South Eastern Europe’ has been posted for download in the documents section... read more
Pero Stanojanovski is the new minister of Education and Science in FYR of Macedonia. read more
The results of the first TEMPUS IV call show that Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244, Montenegro, Serbia partcipated in the call with... read more
The World Bank’s working paper, published in June 2008, examines the challenges that Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania... read more
The Managing Authority (MA) of the SEE Programme, through its Joint Technical Secretariat (JTS), invites experts to apply for a roster of experts in order to support the JTS in the assessment... read more
The Joint Technology Initiative ARTEMIS (Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems - http://artemis-sra.eu) and the EUREKA Cluster Programme ITEA 2 (Information Technology... read more
Date and location: December 9 - 10, 2008, Versailles/France The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the European Commission are organising the 5th European Conference on Research Infrastructures... read more
From 6 to 9 October, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions are organising the 'Open days 2008 European week of regions and cities' in Brussels, Belgium. The 'Open days' are aimed at... read more
Date and location: October 16-17, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany Increasing the innovation power of countries, regions and firms is one of the most important goals of policy makers. Innovation is seen as the... read more
COST invites researchers throughout Europe to submit proposals for research networks and use this opportunity to exchange knowledge and to embark on new European perspectives. COST’s main objective... read more
The Task Force Fostering and Building Human Capital (BHC) proposes to organise short term placements at key institutions working in the area of cooperation for building human capital. An interesting opportunity... read more
WBC-INCO.NET has joined forces with the project SCORE (“Strengthening the Strategic Cooperation Between the EU and Western Balkan Region in the field of ICT”- who is a chosen exhibitor at ... read more
A new FP7 funded project (total funding: around € 1 million) called ACTION-Grid brings together a consortium of European researchers along with researchers in the Western Balkans, North Africa and... read more
The International Monetary Fund has published a Poverty Reduction Stategy Paper on Albania (PRSP). Poverty Reduction Stategy Papers are published every three years, monitoring macroeconomic... read more
Deadline: September 10, 2008 In March 2007, the European Council commmitted to an integtrated climate and energy policy with ambitious targets for 2002 and beyond. read more
Brussels, June 23, 2008 — the European Council of Ministers today agreed to provide 100 million euro from the EU Seventh Framework Programme to top up the at least 300 million already provided from... read more
Deadline: September 30, 2008 The EC is inviting all stakeholders (esp. energy companies, project developers, equipment manufacturers, governmental services, the agricultural and forest industry and environmental... read more
The EC has launched a public consultation on deforestation and its impact on climate change and biodiversity loss. It seeks to gather opinions on a number of critical issues and policy options related... read more
The European Research Council (ERC) has opened the second call for it's Starting Grants, targeting researchers with three to eight years of experience since gaining their PhD. read more
A comparative Worldbank Report has been published online on the Conditions for doing business in WBC. For further information, please go to: http://www.wbc-inco.net/object/document/14046.html?saved=1 read more
The improvement of living conditions in urban communities through trans-national co-operation is the main aim of one of the priority axes of the South East European Transnational Cooperation Programme... read more
WBC-INCO.NET organises a training workshop on ERA-Indicators in the Western Balkan countries on October 2-3, 2008 in Belgrade. read more
The EC-Directorate general for Transport and Energy (DG TREN) held an energy information day in Brussels on June 20, 2008. Both DG TREN and DG Research have opened calls within the framework of FP7 on... read more
A conference entitled 'Social sciences and humanities facing the climate change challenges' will take place in Paris, France, on September 22 and 23, 2008. On the occasion of the French Presidency of ... read more
The Conference "Migration and Development in Albania and the Western Balkans: Remittances, Return and Diaspora"will take place in Durrës, Albania, on 26-27 September 2008. read more
With the handing over of the Presidency of the European Union from Slovenia to France on July 1, CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has launched a new internet portal ... read more
The French took over the EU Council Presidency from Slovenia on July 1. During their time at the helm, they plan to focus on four main areas: energy and the climate, migration issues, agriculture, and... read more
The European Commission launched a booklet on the main activities of the ongoing INCO-NET projects. read more
The IRE (Innovating Regions in Europe) published a guidebook with the focus to introduce innovation policy impact assessment and benchmarking at the regional level. read more
Janez Potočnik, EU Science and Research Commissioner, spoke at the Science, Higher Education and Innovation Policy Forum in Budva, Montenegro. He pointed out that the South Eastern European region should... read more
In his two speeches on "Opportunities for Montenegro in the European Research Area" and "Progress and the Knowledge Triangle in South Eastern Europe", the Commissioner Janez POTOČNIK... read more
The European Commission has published two calls for proposals for the Ideas programme under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). read more
The 8th European conference on research for protection, conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from November 10-12, 2008. read more
The Annual JRC National Contact Points meeting was held on June 5-6, 2008, in the JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), in Geel, Belgium. read more
The Business Incubator BIOS Ltd. will organize the 2nd International Conference on development of entrepreneurship: "KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPETITIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP" from September 4-6, 2008 in... 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.
