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“EU and Western Balkans in 2019”, organised by European Fund for the Balkans (EFB), Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and European Western Balkans (EWB), took place ... read more
PERFORM project held its final event on December 18, 2018 presenting the results achieved over the past four years in close collaboration with its partners. read more
The 7the meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) South East Europe 2020 (SEE 2020) Strategy’s Monitoring Committee took place in Vienna on 19.12 marking the beginning of the new SEE 2020 monitoring... read more
Visa-free travel brings important benefits for Europe and its partners, reinforcing social, cultural and economic ties. It also comes with responsibilities to ensure that the progress achieved during ... read more
The updated versions of the multi-annual roadmaps for cooperation in research and innovation with key partner countries and regions are now published. read more
Large-scale research infrastructures produce a huge amount of scientific data on a daily basis. For their storage and future (re)use, data need to managed according to the FAIR principles, i.e., be Findable... read more
European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn and Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic signed in Brussels a portion of the Instrument for Pre... read more
The Stabilisation and Association Council reviewed the state of EU-Serbia bilateral relations. read more
Sinisa Marcic is Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina). read more
Minister of Science, Dr. Sanja Damjanović, presented today the scholarships for doctoral research, grants for innovative projects and European Social Survey and awards for scientific achievements in 2018... read more
Key WBIF stakeholders attended the 19th WBIF Steering Committee meeting on 06 December 2018 in order to discuss strategic developments for the Framework as well as approve more than €200 million ... read more
Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation attended the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal (5-8 November 2018) where he was presented with The Lisbon... read more
EU flagship event on industrial policy in February 2019 read more
Upcoming technical R&I meeting of the Western Balkans Steering Platform on Research and Innovation read more
The Council of the European Union endorsed the agreement reached in the trilogue negotiations with the European Parliament on the EU budget for 2019. The total commitments are set at €165.8 billion... read more
This conference was organised in Vienna on 28th and 29th November 2018 as an officialevent of the Austrian EU Council Presidency. It targeted researchers from SSH and arts-based research as well... read more
On 13 November 2018, COST’s governing board, the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO), have confirmed the funding of 40 new COST Actions, starting in Spring 2019. 35% of the 40 network proposals cover ... read more
ICT 2018 Imagine Digital – Connect Europe took place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. The event was focused on the European Union’s priorities in the digital transformation of society and industry. It ... read more
Delegations of Montenegro and Serbia have opened new negotiating chapters at their twelfth and ninth Accession Conference in Brussels, respectively. Montenegro has opened Chapter 27 – Environment and ... read more
WBC-RTI info aims to disseminate information towards the Western Balkan countries, also about key relevant events to possibly attend. Participation in the EU-level events is indeed crucially important... read more
The Slovenian Business and Research Association organized a topical conference on the value of Social Science and Humanities in Europe on December 6, 2018 in Brussels. read more
The Regional Cooperation Council established a Regional Working Group of high-level representatives of South-East Europe (SEE) ministries responsible for environment, water resources, land, energy and... read more
The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) partnered with the Brussels-based think-tank Friends of Europe (FoE), with the support of the European Commission, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, United Nations Development... read more
On 30th November 2018, the Council agreed its position (partial general approach) on the regulation on Horizon Europe. Horizon Europe is the next framework programme on research and innovation for the... read more
The European Union has so far provided grants of €1.68 million through the WBIF to support the Health and Education Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina by expanding the Clinical Centre to a Medical Campus... read more
The Ministry of Science has approved 17 scholarships for doctoral research this year, for which it has allocated funds in the amount of about EUR 700,000. read more
Learn what research impact is and how to create it. Discover what drives research impact and why. read more
Th Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar (Croatia), within the Cost Action ENRESSH, held this training school in February 2018. The training school provided participants with insights into the theories... read more
New declaration signed during Startup Europe Summit read more
The Serbian Institute of Social Sciences is one of the oldest scientific institutions in the field of social sciences in the region of Southeast Europe. For the past 60 years, it has oriented its research... read more
Learning workshop in Sofia read more
ResInfra@DR project's consultation event in Budapest read more
The World Bank's most recent report on the Western Balkans economies includes research and innovation as well as broader economic trends read more
A series of three workshops on science journalism is being organised by science journalists and by the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commision, that provides funding covering all costs... read more
H2020 open calls in the Societal Challenge 5 cover a wide range of topics covering topics from contributes for implementing the Paris climate agreement, finding solutions to cope with the impacts... read more
Bosnia's Federation government targets a 44% share of renewable energy in the entity's electricity mix in 2020. This was recently reported by SEE NEWS and "Renewables Now" platforms. read more
The countries are among those that improved their 2018 scores in the area of green transition compared to 2017, while the scores of Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Kosovo* and Montenegro, remained unchanged... read more
According to a roundtable recently organized by UNECOOP with the support of the Association of the Cement Industry of Serbia (CIS) and the Faculty of Applied Ecology – Futura, Serbia’s cement industry... read more
According to Balkan Green Energy News Serbia’s budget fund for improving energy efficiency in 2019 will be worth RSD 500 million (about EUR 4.22 million), which was the fund’s overall value over the past... read more
At the conference "Impact of Research and Innovation Policy at the Crossroads of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation“, speakers from all over the world discussed the role and importance ... read more
On 8 November 2018 several European university associations released a position statement on Horizon Europe focusing on the issues of excellence and cooperation. read more
Improving perspectives for young researchers in the Western Balkans read more
The two-day annual economic conference was entitled “Balkan and European union — a five-year cycle of the Berlin Process” and was held in Budva, on 25 and 26 October 2018. read more
Biotechnology, food and nutrition, material testing, holocaust and natural environment are among the topics covered by the six new pan-European research infrastructure projects that were announced today... read more
During the Forum it was announced that future EU budget doubles to Euro 10 billion. read more
Results of social innovation – new ideas that meet unmet needs – are all around us. Social Innovation has furthermore been increasingly perceived as answer to the rising number of societal challenges ... read more
Six Western Balkan (WB6) economies agreed to step up their work on research infrastructure in the region. read more
Recently a press release by the World Bank was issued and focuses on "higher but fragile" growth in Western Balkan countries which is supported by public investment and spending. read more
The United Nations released 17 Sustainable Development Goals that communities all over the world have to meet. The BBI Public-Private Partnership published a series of BBI JU projects that have met the... read more
On October 11 the Commission has put forward an action plan to develop a sustainable and circular bioeconomy that serves Europe's society, environment and economy. 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.
