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Festim Halili, Director General at the Fund for Innovations and Technology Development (FITD) was a panelist at the international conference "Core Days 2023: Growing Smart and Green: Local, Regional, ... read more
Get started with this funding scheme and learn how to prepare a successful proposal. read more
Three calls were submitted from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia (each), and one from North Macedonia. The MSCA and Citizens call has attracted altogether 134 proposals to organise the next two editions... read more
POLICY ANSWERS have published the Monitoring Cards regarding the implementation of the Western Balkans Agenda in September 2023. read more
We are sharing the news article published by the Science and Innovation for Development without modifications. (Please find the original article here.) On October 15, 2023, Center Science and Innovation... read more
SAVE-THE-DATE! MSCA Staff Exchanges: Opportunities for researchers from the Western Balkans, a dedicated Regional Awareness Raising Event will be organised by the MSCAdvocacy and POLICY ANSWERS projects... read more
Currently, three MSCA calls await your application: MSCA Call for Staff Exchanges 2023 MSCA Doctoral Networks Call 2023 MSCA COFUND call 2023 read more
Local partner of POLICY ANSWERS, the Science Technology Park of Montenegro has recently organised capacity-building events for the preparation and implementation of Horizon Europe projects. After these... read more
POLICY ANSWERS asked Bojan Blagojevic to tell about this COST Action and about the types of mobility that COST can offer for researchers. Bojan Blagojevic is a full professor in Meat hygiene at the Department... read more
The European Commission is inviting stakeholders to provide their input on a draft Code of practice on industry-academia co-creation for knowledge valorisation and a draft Code of practice on citizens... read more
Three Western Balkans economies moved up the rankings out of 39 European economies covered in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2023. Serbia and North Macedonia are frontrunners, while Albania advanced... read more
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of North Macedonia, in cooperation with the Education Reform Initiative of the South Eastern Europe (ERI SEE) Secretariat, gathered some of region’s ministers... read more
Eureka Network project grants are coming to Albania! These grants aim to boost the productivity and competitiveness of industries by funding and supporting international collaborative market-driven ... read more
The 2nd ESFRI Stakeholder Forum Meeting took place on 27 September in Tenerife, Spain. This is an annual event, organised under the Spanish EU Presidency, that brings together a diverse range of ... read more
The network was introduced by UN-ECE and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) to stakeholders on 20-21 September 2023 in Przno, Montenegro. It aims to create value through supporting evidence-based... read more
The matchmaking map has been published, highlighting European regions that have expressed their interest to become a Regional Innovation Valley by applying to the call for expression of interest launched... read more
POLICY ANSWERS organised its major conference in Sarajevo in September 2023 under the umbrella of a whole series of events: the conference "Policy Dialogue on Aligning Priorities in the Western Balkans... read more
These new guides provide useful information on the rights and obligations of researchers and staff members funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions under Horizon Europe. read more
The Commission published the list of actions that Member State and Associated Countries to Horizon Europe are doing in support of the New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA). This announcement is based ... read more
The European Council appointed Iliana Ivanova (Bulgaria) as new European Commissioner on 13 September 2023, by common accord with the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The appointment... 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.
