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There are only a few days left to take part in the competition for the “Best Science Based Incubator”. Applicants just need to fill out a web questionnaire (15 - 20 minutes). Participating... read more
Interested stakeholders are invited to submit their abstracts and participate in the Annual Edition of INTED 2010, the International Technology, Education and Development Conference, that will be held... read more
The European Commission has decided on a course of action to secure a sustainable future for the European Research Council (ERC) as a world-class funding organisation supporting leading-edge frontier ... read more
The 12th CEI Summit Economic Forum (SEF) will take place in Bucharest, Romania on November 12 under the 2009 Romanian Presidency of the Central European Initiative. As in previous years, the SEF 2009 ... read more
A new website, which is part of the FP7 funded project NMPTeAm, offers a partner search tool dedicated to the fields of nano sciences, nano technologies, materials and new production technologies... read more
The European Commission has opened a call for proposals for the 2010 Researchers' Night in the frame of FP7/PEOPLE. A wide range of activities is eligible to be funded under this call. The overall budget... read more
We would like to explicitly invite all our readers to join us promoting this portal as a primary source of information on news, events, calls and relevant documents and contacts in relation to science... read more
The 5th ICT call (http://www.wbc-inco.net/call/59928.html) closed on Oct. 26, 2009. The following overview informs briefly about the projects which were handed in and will now be undergoing independent... read more
In the following article you find the official conclusions: The Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries met in Zagreb on 29 October 2009. The meeting was co-chaired by the Swedish... read more
For the 15th time, the most successful achievements in applying modern ICT by will be honoured with the DISKOBOLOS award. The competition is open until 21 November, 2009. read more
The European Commission has recently published a Communication on "Investing in the Development of Low Carbon Energy Technologies". The idea is to better organise research efforts across Europe... read more
As part of its second revision of the financial rules for EU-funded programmes, the European Commission has launched a public consultation inviting beneficiaries and managers of public funds to send in... read more
The partners of WBC-INCO.NET and relevant experts compiled reports on the research system in the field of environmentfor each Western Balkan country. The reports have been discussed in a workshop for ... read more
In the course of the Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan countries, the need to include more evaluators from the region in the European Commission database was discussed. The European Commission... read more
The 2010 issue of the Croatian Economic Survey , to be published by the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, Croatia in April 2010,will focus on "Welfare and Well-Being in Post-Socialist Europe"... read more
The "Cross-border programme Croatia - Montenegro", a programme in the frame of IPA, is seeking project proposals for its current call. Deadline: 18/11/2009 read more
The FP6-funded project "SIROCCO - Silencing RNAs: organisers and coordinators of complexity in eukaryotic organisms" is looking for up to three additional project partners with experience in... read more
The conclusions of the meeting will be shared as soon as possible (some language checks are still pending), but the meeting has successfully concluded on October 29, 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia. The... read more
The 3rdseries of FP7-NMP calls for Large, Small and SME targeted collaborative projects were published on 19 November 2008. The following article informs about the evaluation proceedure for this specific... read more
The recently published ERAWATCH Country Report 2009 - Croatia characterises and assesss the evolution of the national policy mixes in the perspective of the national goals for R&D investments, and... read more
The 10th international Conference on Current Research Information Systems will take place in Aalborg/Denmark from June 2 to 5, 2010. New Deadline: The call for papers which highlight the role and... read more
From 2010 onwards, research under the SSH programme (Social Sciences and Humanities) will be following an overall integrated "Strategic Research Roadmap" covering the period 2011-2013. It enables... read more
The EU Office of the German Ministry for Education and Science offers an online partner search facility for the Science in Society Programme. read more
With three Priority Setting Workshops held in May and June 2009, the series of five consultation sessions was concluded bringing together relevant stakeholders from the WBCs and EU Member States from ... read more
The European Commission, DG RTD, shared on the occasion of the Steering Platform meeting some data on the submissions from the Western Balkans to the Research Potential Call specifically launched... read more
A WBC-INCO.NET project workshop, lead by WBC-INCO.NET team member Boris Cizelj, will take place in Maribor, Slovenia on November 12, 2009 in the frame of the COBISS 2009 conference (upon invitation... read more
The FP7-funded project "Gender in Research" offers training opportunities on how to integrate gender aspects into research in order to promote gender equality in scientific research within the... read more
A two-day conference on higher education ‘Building Capacity for Change in the Western Balkans’ will on October 30 open in Sarajevo at the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat. The... read more
The Regional Economic Forum for South East Europe - REF SEE 2009 will be held in Sarajevo under auspices of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from November 19-20, 2009 read more
The booklet ”Scientific results of the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call“, edited by Jana Machačová and Katarina Rohsmann, has been printed and is also available online. read more
The Applied Research and Communications Fund (ARC Fund) is a leading Bulgarian think-tank in the field of innovation policy and technology transfer. During the last few years the ARC Fund expanded its... read more
A number of FP7 Work Programmes is available in the document section of http://www.wbc-inco.net (select “programme descriptions”). For further information on current calls, please see the ... read more
WINS-ICT has recently released a new deliverable, namely the Cooperation – Opportunities Matrix. read more
Electronic Government (eGov) can increase efficiency, enhance transparency, collect more revenue and facilitate a reform of the public sector that aims at improved services for the citizen, reinforced... read more
The project SEE-ERA.NET, which had started in September 2004, was successfully finished in August 2009. The last months of the project were especially dedicated to the production of the booklet on the... read more
An expert meeting on developing the Regional Strategy for R&D for the WBCs was held on September 7, 2009 at the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat in Sarajevo. read more
Between September and November 2009, the two FP7 support actions ICT-WEB-PROMS and WINS-ICT are organising a series of ICT training workshops and joint networking events. read more
The Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office in Ljubljana in cooperation with the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), the UNESCO Venice Office and the Center for eGovernance Development for SEE (CeGD... read more
JOANNEUM RESEARCH (JR), one of Austria’s largest research organisations with its headquarters in Graz/Styria, can look back on a longstanding and successful cooperation tradition with SEE countries... read more
On the occassion of the meeting of the RCC's Task Force Fostering and Building Human Capital on June 24, 2009 in Zagreb, a Plan of Action for the current and upcoming year was adopted. read more
research*eu is a European Union research magazine, written by independent professional journalists, which aims to broaden the democratic debate between science and society. read more
As a continuation of the successful cooperation within the SEE-ERA.NET project, a Joint Call for European Research Projects has been published on September 1, 2009 within the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS project. ... read more
(with an emphasis on ICT) - Version 2.3 - by Myer W. Morron (EFPConsulting Ltd) read more
TransBonus (Transport EU-Western Balkan Network for Training, Support and Promotion of Cooperation in FP7 Research Activities) is an initiative put in motion by the European Commission under the 7th Framework... read more
In August 2007 the “White Paper on overlaps, gaps and opportunities in view of the extension of bilateral RTD programmes and initiatives towards multilateral approaches” and its accompanying... read more
The benchmarking of research activities within corporate and public research organisations is one of their main challenges, but also one of the key success factors for the success of corporate and public... read more
A regional agency helps to enhance the academic cooperation with the Western Balkan countries by granting scholarships and supporting foreign students and researchers. This special service is needed in... read more
COIN is a joint initiative launched by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth (BMWFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit). There is a special focus... read more
On June 29, 2009, European Commissioner for Research Janez Potočnik attended the EU Research Information Event “Towards integration into the European Research Area” in Belgrade, Serbia. read more
The Steering Platform for Research for the Western Balkan countries (WBCs) met in Liblice on May 28, 2009. The Platform was co-chaired by the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which... 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.
