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In a world that is being put to the test on a daily basis by global societal challenges, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have a unique opportunity to increase their contribution and impact on society... read more
Croatian Central Finance and Contracting Agency is seeking proposals for infrastructure investment (development of new and existing business related infrastructure in existing business zones and new and... read more
The European Commission's long standing commitment to visa free travel for the people of the Western Balkans was confirmed on July 14 with the adoption of a proposal for granting visa free travel to the... read more
The European Commission is organising an information day on the upcoming call for proposals dubbed 'The ocean of tomorrow' on 16 September in Brussels, Belgium. Participants will learn about the rationale... read more
Dr. Radovan Fuchs is appointed as new Minister in the Croatian Ministry for Education, Science and Sports. read more
VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, has taken the initiative to study the prioritisation mechanisms in the EU Framework Programmes (FP) as well as in RTD funding in ... read more
A public debate on Draft Strategy on Science Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Action plan had been open by July 6, 2009. The Draft Strategy was developed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, ... read more
The European Commission has published an updated version of the Work Programme 2009 for the Specific Programme "People". It replaces the older version of this document from August 2008. read more
The Southeast European Era-Net SEE-ERA.NET has published a booklet on the Scientific results of its Pilot Joint Call, a pilot case for the cooperation of the project partner countries in the field... read more
A statistic analysis of the Second Call for proposals Tempus IV (EAC/1/2009) is now available for download. It includes a breakdown of applications by country of the applicant and by type of projects, ... read more
The EUREKA XXIV Ministerial Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 19 June 2009 confirmed the affiliation of two new countries to the network. They are Bosnia and Herzegovina, which joins EUREKA as a National... read more
An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic... read more
The EU executive will propose next week to allow citizens of Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia to travel to the bloc without visas from the start of next year, the EU justice commissioner said on July ... read more
The importance of a well-functioning knowledge triangle in the form of interaction between education, research and innovation has been emphasised by EU leaders since 2006. During its Presidency of the... read more
The European Commission is organising a major policy conference on October 21-23 in Brussels in order to discuss and further elaborate a number of important questions relating to the European Research... read more
During his visit to Serbia (see related news), Janez Potocnik announced a special call for proposals to be launched during the summer that will address the specific needs of the region with respect to... read more
More focus. That is how the vision for research and innovation presented to the Swedish EU Presidency at a conference in Lund can be summarised. 400 prominent researchers, politicians and others want ... read more
CERGE-EI, with financial support provided by the Global Development Network (GDN) announces a research competition in all fields of the social sciences. Proposals are invited from economists, demographers... read more
The draft, which is prepared for public debate has been published at the end of June 2009 by the Ministry for Science and Technological Development. Mobilnost.rs has compiled an extract of this draft ... read more
eChallenges e-2009, the nineteenth in a series of annual technology research conferences supported by the European Commission, will take place in Istanbul/Turkey from October 21-23, 2009. The event... read more
COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology - COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in S&T, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European... read more
Eureka representatives from 38 countries pledged to support the development of the European Research Area at the body’s 14th annual meeting in Lisbon in June 2009. Eureka has an important role to... read more
COST regurlarly organises information days across Europe to promote and inform the science community about its activities. This latest edition will take place in Belgrade/Serbia on September 2, 2009. read more
CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has announced the launch of ten new National Services, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Russia... read more
With the new calls for proposals expected at the end of July 2009, and deadlines from November, the European Commission will be looking to identify new evaluators. As with many such opportunities, getting... read more
For those who always wanted to "LEARN BALKAN!" and prove their knowledge with an MA degree, the University of Vienna offers an Interdisciplinary Balkan Studies training programme (2009-... read more
The Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union begins on 1 July and will continue to the end of 2009. The new presidency's work programme has been published, clearly outlining its priorities... read more
EVAL-INCO is a database of evaluators which is used to facilitate the assessment of proposals for research projects, submitted in the context of the Joint Calls of regional ERA-NETs. Researchers are invited... read more
On June 29, 2009 Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, participated in an EU Research Information Event in Belgrade. He addressed scientists, business representatives and representatives... read more
Commissioner Potocnik also maintains a personal blog in which he discusses a "theme of the week". You can read his views on different topics, in June he wrote for example about "Greening... read more
COST invites researchers throughout Europe to submit proposals for research networks and use this unique opportunity to exchange knowledge and to embark on new European perspectives. A continuous Open... read more
With a deadline on October 5 (each year) Fraunhofer Institutes of Germany are having a call for researchers. Fraunhofer Attract offers researchers with an exceptional track record the opportunity to develop... read more
All visitors to the ICT-WEB-PROMS website from the Western Balkan countries (WBC) are invited to complete the online questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies in the WBC. With this survey... read more
On June 2 the EuropeAid call with the reference 128150 was published with the deadline on August 3, 2009: IPA 2007 Cross-border Programme between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania. ... read more
The Cross-border Programme Serbia – Montenegro under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) Component II has been published on June 25, 2009 with a deadline on September 23, 2009. Budget... read more
As the Czech presidency comes to an end, sciencebusiness bulletin covers the an interview with Bjarne Kirsebom, Minister responsible for Research at the Swedish Permanent Representation in Brussels, looking... read more
The European Commission's DG INFSO has launched a competition in the field of ICT for energy efficiency - "The Best ICT4EE Project Award". The winner will be selected by... read more
The “Research in Industry and Academia” Grant is a Croatian grant aiming at increasing mobility of young scientists and experts between academia and Croatian industry as well as to strengthen... read more
The partners of WBC-INCO.NET and relevant experts compiled reports on the research system in the field of health for each Western Balkan country. The reports have been discussed in a workshop for priority... read more
The HIDE project (FP7) invites to the workshop "Restrictions in the Implementation of EU Data Protection Directive for Public Interest, Security and Defense" in Ljubljana, September 17-... read more
Within the FP7 project EVOLUNIMONT, the University of Montenegro organises a three day workshop on evaluation of research and universities, on July 6-8, in Kotor-Montenegro. Experts from Manchester... read more
The Steering Platform for Research for the Western Balkan Countries met in Liblice on 28 May 2009. The Platform was co-chaired by the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union – which... read more
As a continuation of the successful cooperation within the SEE-ERA.NET project, a Joint Call for European Research Projects will be published on September 1, 2009 within the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS project. read more
The deadline for submitting research project proposals in the framework of the CEI Research Fellowship Programme – CERES, scheduled on 28 June 2009, is rapidly approaching. read more
Videos of "Research Connection 2009", the research conference and exhibition which took place in Prague under the Czech Presidency of the European Union from May 7 to 8, 2009 . Each session ... read more
The second Westbalkan Science Day in Vienna - A Matching Event for Researchers from Austria and the Western Balkan Countries takes place on June 22, 2009. A few places are still left if you wish to attend... read more
A new Europe Innova call for proposals on "Sustainability of Novel European Innovation Support Tools" is open until August 31, 2009. read more
The European commission has launched a new information portal for the FP7 Health research theme. Specific sub-sites of the Health Portal are devoted to Health Biotechnology, Genomics & Systems Biology... read more
The Summer University Programme of the Centre international de formation européenne that still has a few places available in different Eastern European cities and in Turkey. A limited number of... read more
On June 15, 2009, the Research Executive Agency (REA) was officially granted its administrative and operational autonomy by the European Commission. The REA is located in Brussels, Belgium, and will become... 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.
