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Croatia will participate fully in the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme and Youth in Action Programme from January 2011. A 'memorandum of understanding' was signed at the recent meeting... read more
The EU and Serbia have signed a bilateral agreement on Serbia's accession to the WTO on January 11. The agreement was signed by Mladjan Dinkic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional... read more
Hungary has drawn up the six-month work programme, which shows in detail which questions will be on the Council's agenda in the first half of 2011 and which of them will be priorities for the Hungarian... read more
On December 20, 2010, the Agency of Research, Technology and Innovation co-organized with the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) the workshop "... read more
The Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems will be held in September 2011 for the 6th consecutive time. The call for papers is now open. Abstracts due... read more
The Austrian Institute of Science and Technology is currently collecting applications for its PhD programme focusing on Biology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, and interdisciplinary areas. Students with... read more
The Parliament of Montenegro elected a new Government on December 29, 2010, after the resignation of the former Prime Minister, Mr Milo Djukanovic. The new Prime Minister is Dr Igor Luksic. Among the ... read more
The Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Montenegro has opened a vacancy for the position of an expert in the field of Conservation and sustainable use of Agro Biodiversity for a period of 30 months... read more
In the frame of the expressed interest of Albania becoming a EUREKA member, a delegation from EUREKA composed by Mr. Luuk Borg, Director of the Secretariat of the EUREKA and Mr. Svatopluk Halada, Coordinator... read more
Our team is taking a few days off and will be back in office on January 10, 2011. We would like to use this opportunity to convey our season's greetings and wish you all the best for 2011! read more
The Bavarian ministry for science, research and art will sponsor scholarships for the academic year 2011/12. Graduates from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia... read more
This conference taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, will welcome researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, consultants, educators, service providers, i. e. all of the creative people working with issues... read more
A network of experts is currently in the course of evaluating the performance of the European Commission's Cohesion and Innovation policy in the 2007-2013 period by looking at the physical and financial... read more
WBC-INCO.NET is planning to redesign its website in the first quarter of 2011. To this end, we are currently undertaking a user survey. Please help us to make this website (and our other communication... read more
This consultation aims to gather comments from all stakeholders in order to redesign the future role of the Regional Initiatives for Gas and Electricity on the basis of the European Commission Communication... read more
Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), Hido Biscevic, met in Brussels yesterday with EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, and exchanged views on RCC activities related... read more
The Framework Programme 8 (FP8) is due to start in 2014. The ICT for Health (eHealth) domain is expected to be an important element of the ICT research field, part of the FP8. The European Commission... read more
The European Council decided to grant Montenegro the status of candidate country, as recommended by the Commission in its Opinion of November 9, 2010. read more
The Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) programme (part of FP7) publishes policy briefs to communicate research results in a structured way in only a few pages (getting policy insights at a glance... read more
On December 1-3, the Joint Monitoring Committee of the “IPA Adriatic CBC Programme” (2007-2013) approved the first 32 ordinary projects for a total funding of 75 million, 25 for each of the... read more
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has opened a new regional representation office in Belgrade in November 2010. Loans totalling EUR 325 million were signed for infrastructure and energy sectors. read more
The target group of this workshop are research institutions in Europe which want to implement or improve Gender Action Plans. Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality... read more
The 6th IW Conference ''TQM 2011 - Belgrade'', organised by the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Belgrade (Serbia) and CIRP, Paris (France) will be taking place from June 7 to 11, 2011 in Belgrade, Serbia... read more
23 members of European Union agreed, on Friday 10 December to work together on the single patent system to protect the design of products sold across their border. As there will apparently... read more
Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), Hido Biscevic, met in Brussels today with the European Commission's Director General for Enlargement, Michael Leigh, to discuss... read more
The present report on national RTD policies and programmes with regard to research on climate change in the WBCs has been updated in October 2010. This study was carried out by the Centre for Social Innovation... read more
Interested young researchers and scientists are invited to apply to participate at the RRPP Annual Conference. The main objectives of the conference are to provide opportunities for younger researchers... read more
The I-SEEMob project has created search engine for anyone interested in R&D Industries in SEE, allowing both for a simple keyword search and for an advanced search concerning particular sectors and... read more
On 8 December 2010, the European Commission adopted the EU Strategy for the Danube Region following a request from Member States. This is a comprehensive Strategy, covering several Community policies... read more
Over 300 participants from 20 countries have participated on 21 and 22 September in the annual conference organised by the South East Europe Programme in Thessaloniki, Greece. Under the title "Transnational... read more
Tempus is the European Union’s programme which supports the modernisation of higher education in the Partner Countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean ... read more
Analytica in cooperation with the Swiss NGO “SEED” (www.seedlearn.org) is launching a new project on Micro-Entrepreneurship. The goal of the project is to involve 20 young men ... read more
EU researchers, businesses and citizens can have free and open access to EU-funded research papers thanks to OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), which the European Commission... read more
The P2P Programme, one of the three strands of the Civil Society Facility, provides a prime opportunity for civil society organisations (CSOs) in the candidate and potential candidate countries and... read more
To participate at the 4th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development, 5 - 7 May 2011, Ohrid, FYR of Macedonia, abstracts from more than 280 authors from 33... read more
Research Ministers of the EU Member States and Associated Countries, together with the European Commission, are announcing in Brussels on November 29, 2010 three new pan-European energy research infrastructures... read more
On December 1, 2010 at a conference at the European Parliament, distinguished speakers from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Belgian Presidency of the European Union will give... read more
First contracts within the framework of the grant scheme Science and Innovation Investment Fund, in the total amount of €2.624.706,05, were signed at the end of October 2010. The projects aim... read more
The conference for policy makers and practioners of impact assessment and evaluation will take place as a Belgian EU Presidency Conference in Brussels on December 8, 2010 at BELSPO - EWI. It is the final... read more
Business clusters have become one of the engines driving economic development and innovation in the EU today. However, a recent conference in Brussels concluded that to compete internationally, greater... read more
The Transition Report by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) is a unique source of information on developments in central and eastern Europe and the CIS. read more
The ERC has bestowed a starting grant onto Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Institute of Bioengineering), for the project "Nanopore integrated nanoelectrodes... read more
EurActiv.com, an independent media portal fully dedicated to EU affairs published the following article on Serbia's next step towards EU membership: On November 24 Enlargement Commissioner Štefan Füle... read more
The XXII ISPIM Conference – Sustainability in Innovation: Innovation Management Challenges - will be held in Hamburg, Germany on 12-15 June 2011. Organised by ISPIM and hosted by The Technical University... read more
The South East Europe (SEE) Renewable Energy 2010 Conference will be held on 26 November 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. In the event, an eminent panel of speakers will be discussing a number of the hot issues... read more
The 19th International Congress of Mediterranean Federation of Health and Production of Ruminants is bringing worldwide recognized experts in the field of veterinary science to Serbia. IMPORTANT... read more
On November 23, 2010 OECD - SEE Investment Compact Committee - 7th Meeting - November 23, 2010 took place in Paris, France. Please find the conclusions and some interesting papers presented in the meeting... read more
The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2008, published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, covered the EU27 Member States, Norway and Croatia. The survey contains a broad ... read more
7.6 million euro to be invested at Petnica Research Centre for reconstruction of existing facilities and construction of new ones as well as the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment. read more
The €1 million EU-funded project that came to an end on November 18, 2010 has helped Albanian SMEs to improve their businesses with the objective of supporting economic growth in Albania. The ... 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.
