Potocnik: Let's open our doors
Janez Potocnik (EU Commissioner for Science and Research) is publishing a personal blog - his entry of June 22, 2007 titles "Let's open our doors" and deals with the association agreements signed with... read more
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FP7 Health: SICAs with the Western Balkans are now called for
A topic for Specific International Cooperation Action (SICA) with the target region Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Western Balkans is called for: HEALTH-2007-2.2.1-10: Childhood and adolescent mental... read more
FP7 Research Infrastructures: Call for support for policy development and programme implementation
The topic INFRA-2007-3.3 (call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-2) is open for proposals in the field of "Studies, conferences and coordination actions supporting policy development, including international cooperation... read more
EC Publishes Updated FP7 2007 Work Programmes
On June 15, 2007, the EC published updated 2007 Work Programmes for most parts of the FP7 Co-operation Programme (Health; Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology; ICT; NMP; Energy; Environment... read more
Event Annoucement: Science for the Future, Science for Society. The Parliamentary Perspective
A Conference of representatives of S&T Parliamentary Committees of South-Eastern European Countries is organised on June 27-29, 2007 by UNESCO in Romania. read more
Event Announcement: Univ-SOE Project Final Conference
The Univ-SOE Project has provided the programme for its final conference on June 29-30, 2007 at the University of Graz in Austria with the title "Institutions of Research and Tertiary Education in Central... read more
Lump-sum method for ICPCs adopted
The Commission finally adopted the simpler payment scheme for participants from countries not associated to FP7 (International Cooperation Partner Countries - ICPCs). read more
Slovak Development Aid adresses also academic and research institutions
Slovak Agency For International Development Cooperation has opened calls for project proposals in the area of Official Development Assistance Slovak Aid (Deadlines: August 1, 2007/August 15, 2007). Although... read more
FP7 Food-Agriculture-Fisheries-Biotechnology: Call for proposals 2A launched
The currently open call in the field does not specifically target the region of the Western Balkan countries, but according to the FP7 rules all Associated Countries can participate on equal grounds as... read more
FP7: ICT Call 2 now open
The ICT theme of the Cooperation Programme announced its second call for proposals on June 12, 2007 with a deadline on October 9, 2007. Three activity lines are specifically addressing the Western Balkan... read more
Serbian's Accession to FP7 as a step towards EU Accession
Serbian Minister of Science Ana Persikan presented her view on the accession to EU's Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development at a press conference in June 2007. She stressed... read more
Celebrating Association to FP7
Three Western Balkans countries and Turkey join FP7 On June 13, the Republic of Croatia (Minister for Science, Education and Sports Dragan Primorac), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Minister... read more
European Science Foundation intensifies cooperation in Social Sciences with Croatia (and other CEE countries)
The European Science Foundation strengthens links with Central and Eastern European countries in social sciences - among which is also Croatia. read more
Event announcement: FP7 Health partnering event between Austria and the Western Balkan
The ERA WESTBALKAN+ initiative is supporting the Western Balkan Countries (WBC), i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia in participating in the 7th EU Framework... read more
News from the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)
Here we publish a summary / link digest on the news which we provide from the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. read more
Energy as a Priority Area in FP7
“Energy” is one of 10 priority areas in the Specific Programme ‘Cooperation’ in the 7th Framework Programme on RTD. According to a speech by Raffaele Liberali, from the Energy ... read more
Event Announcement: JRC Research Information Event in Serbia
The Joint Research Centre and Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia organise a Research Information Event in Belgrade on June 12, 2007. read more
FAQ: What are the financial models to be applied in FP7 and what is the ‘lump sum funding method’ for ICPC?
The see-science.eu Information Office also receives some frequently asked questions on FP7 and for the see-science.eu eJournal issue of spring 07, we asked Ralf König to summarise the information available... read more
From Stability Pact to Regional Co-operation Council
Launched on June 10, 1999, the day that the last of the 1990s conflict in the Balkans ended, the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe was conceived to be the first comprehensive conflict-prevention... read more
Italy’s S&T Relations to the Western Balkan Countries
Italy’s relations with the countries of the Balkans are a natural priority in the panorama of Italian foreign policy as a result of political tradi-tion, geographic location, and cultural affinity. Our... read more
