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The overarching ambition of DANUBE4all is the development of a strategic Danube Basin Restoration Action Plan (DBRAP). The DBRAP will form an important basis for the next update of the Danube and National... read more
Project Website: https://www.danube4allproject.eu/about
PRIMA fosters joint research and innovation activities among Mediterranean countries, aiming at developing innovative and sustainable solutions in agriculture, food production and water provision, encouraging... read more
Project Website: http://www.prima4med.org/wp/
The newly launched REMEDIES project focuses on the restoration of our oceans and waters, provision of clean water, as well as measures that contribute to climate protection. The REMEDIES project will... read more
There is an urgent need to strengthen marine conservation and restoration globally. One of the key measures to achieve this is to ensure that enough sea area is protected in effective ways. This requires... read more
DALIA project is focused on the Danube River basin and fresh water, it is an innovation event, and it is supporting the new EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030. It is implemented with the ... read more
Project Website: http://dalia-danube.eu/
The Green Agenda for the Western Balkans is the growth strategy for the region that aims to tackle the challenges of climate change and green transition and assist the Western Balkan (WB) countries to... read more
Project Website: https://www.undp.org/serbia/pr ... nda-serbia
Learn about the new Green ERA-Hub (GEH) project within the Horizon Europe framework, that started in September 2022. The GEH will provide clear perspectives for ERA-Nets, ERA-Net Cofunds, national ... read more
Project Website: https://greenerahub.eu/about-us
The EcoDaLLi project is a CSA supported by the «Restore our oceans, seas and waters by 2030» Mission. The project is coordinated by the Steinbeis Europa Zentrum and was officially launched in January ... read more
Balkan Green Ideas (BGI) is a program that supports the development of local and sustainable small green ideas in the Balkans. BGI aims to stimulate and encourage innovation for green ideas while... read more
Project Website: https://www.balkangreenideas.org/about/
Balkan Green Academy is a two-week long program consisted of modules that covers three main pillars: policy-economy-society. The Academy uses a cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary approach... read more
Project Website: https://www.balkangreenideas.o ... about-bga/
What is the YEA network? The Young European Ambassadors (YEA) platform is a creative network of future young activists from across the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro... read more
Project Website: https://webalkans.eu/en/yea/
Startup Europe strengthens networking opportunities for deep tech scaleups and ecosystem builders to accelerate the growth of the European startup scene. Startup Scaleup initiative Startup Europe... read more
Project Website: https://digital-strategy.ec.eu ... tup-europe
In the frame of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Union, ERIAC is launching a new project: ERIACNET4EU: ERIAC NETWORK TO ADVANCE ROMA INCLUSION BY COMBATTING AND... read more
Project Website: https://eriac.org/eriacnet4eu/ ... _kgmN73qiA
The European Union supports the Western Balkan countries in building a modern, climate-neutral and resource-efficient economy. read more
Project Website: https://www.umweltbundesamt.at ... ws220208en
The European Union’s HORIZON Europe, the key funding programme for research and innovation within the EU, has awarded the project RECHARGE €2.9 million, to reinvigorate community participation as added... read more
Project Website: https://fashionheritage.eu/wp- ... elease.pdf
The Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project, titled "Curricula innovation in climate-smart urban development based on green and energy efficiency with the non-academic sector (SmartWB)" ... read more
Project Website: https://www.smartwb.ucg.ac.me/
The main aim of the VOICES COST Action is to increase visibility of inequalities faced by Young Researchers and Innovators (YRIs) from a gender perspective and to promote a sustainable dialogue between... read more
Project Website: https://gendervoices.eu/
WeBaSOOP aims to reinforce in Serbia coordinator (VINCA) and partners institution (IRMB,PHIB) research hub by knowledge and skills related to PM monitoring and assessment, with the aim of association ... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
The RM-ROADMAP project will be led by the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA), in collaboration with key network organisations, institutes and research-active companies... read more
Project Website: https://earma.org/roadmap/
The European Innovation Council (EIC) supports game changing innovations throughout their lifecycle, whereas the Enterprise Europe Network (ENN) is a business support network aiming to help businesses... read more
EDIRE aims to create a networking collaboration between the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) and four renowned research institutions in France, Italy, Ireland and Spain, with... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
The principal objective (PO) of MONTEVITIS is to strengthen, homogenize and augment UDG and its involved faculties’ and labs’ research and collaboration capacities and performance, both in Montenegro ... read more
Underwater Sensor Networks (USNs) are becoming increasingly popular due to their advanced capabilities in oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, exploration of natural undersea resources... read more
Project Website: http://www.monusen.ucg.ac.me/
PharmGenHUB aims to strengthen IMGGE’s PGX R&I potential by exchanging knowledge between IMGGE and EU partnering institutions: University of Patras, Greece (UPAT), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
The Horizon Europe twinning project CROPINNO aims at supporting a key scientific institution on climate-smart crop production in the Western Balkans, the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
STREAMLINE aims to enhanced strategic networking and reinforce research and innovation potential of the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE) in order to develop IMGGE as a high... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
TwinSubDyn aims to establish a research knowledge hub at UNSPMF, Serbia, on the impacts of organic soil amendments (OSA) on the fate of contaminant-, and nutrient dynamics in the soil subsurface and implications... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
Coordinating organisation: TEHNOLOSKI FAKULTET NOVI SAD The overall objective of TwiNSol-CECs is to raise scientific and innovation excellence of the Faculty of Technology Novi Sad (TFNS), Serbia, ... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
TWINNIBS aims to strengthen the Institute for Medical Research - IMR’s research and innovation (R&I) as well as research management and administration capacities and to develop it into a prospective... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
The project UR-DATA aims to strengthen significantly the research capacity and scientific excellence at the Faculty of Economics, University of Niš (FEUN) by enhancing networking activities with Poliedra... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
The general objective of the TwinPrebioEnz is to advance the research and innovation capacity of the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy (FTM) in the area of prebiotics technology by collaboration with... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
Coordinating organisation: University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences The SmartWaterTwin project aims to boost knowledge and research excellence in the area of sustainable wastewater treatment and... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
SUSNANO's overall aim is to boost the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in sustainable nanosensors for water pollution detection of Universiteti i Tiranes (UT) and its high-quality Twinning... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
Twinning to address the PFAS challenge in Serbia aims to enhance networking activities between UBFC and two top-class counterparts, who are leaders in PFAS analysis (CSIC from Spain) and innovative (bio... read more
Project Website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/fund ... 90/details
DANUBIUS-RI will be a pan-European distributed research infrastructure supporting interdisciplinary research on large river-sea systems. Surface waters have a key role in global biogeochemical cycles... read more
Project Website: http://www.danubius-ri.eu/danu ... /partners/
GreenFORCE aims at fostering excellence in the "Western Balkans' green transition" scientific research and innovation of Co-PLAN (Albania), CEA (North Macedonia), and UB-GEF (Serbia), as a means to enhancing... read more
Project Website: https://greenforcetwinning.net/
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, PREP4BLUE is a €4.9 million, three-year project that will set the foundations for co-creating and co-implementing the research and innovation required... read more
Project Website: https://prep4blue.eu/
The project is supporting the EC in a more strategic orientation of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions focusing on 20 countries and 6 regions. The MSCAdvocacy project combines knowledge on and supports... read more
The South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST) proposed in late 2016 by Prof. Herwig Schopper, a former Director General of CERN and initiator of the international... read more
Project Website: https://seeiist.eu/
Detailed project description Rationale "Since 2018, when the EC spoke about the “year of hope“ for EU Enlargement, until today there was not much room for optimism. The French No to opening negotiations... read more
Project Website: https://www.wb2eu.eu/?page_id=239
Time Machine is aiming to join Europe’s rich past with up-to-date digital technologies and infrastructures, creating a collective digital information system mapping the European economic, social, cultural... read more
Project Website: https://www.timemachine.eu/
Wearable technology is set to supercharge the catwalk. Our clothes are becoming smarter with the integration of stretchable electronic circuits into textiles. The STRENTEX project’s ERA Chair action aims... read more
Project Website: https://strentexproject.com/
The Balkan Translations Collider project developed out of the partners’ common commitment – as literary NGOs, associations, small publishing businesses, literary agents, book fairs/ festival organisers... read more
Project Website: https://coopwb.cultureinextern ... -collider/
Regional Programme on Local Democracy in the Western Balkans 2 (ReLOaD2) is a continuation of a regional project effort funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Development... read more
Project Website: https://www.undp.org/montenegr ... -2-reload2
(Non)Aligned Movements aims to boost the creative and collaborative potential of contemporary dance practices in the Western Balkans. It will reinforce the social impact of Balkan contemporary dance by... read more
Project Website: https://coopwb.cultureinextern ... movements/
The EU-Catalyst partnership brings together the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Bill Gates, founder... read more
Project Website: https://research-and-innovatio ... 2-01-11_en
NCP_WIDERA.NET Project is a 3 years Coordination and Support Action financed by the European Commission established with the aim to empower the network of National Contact Points (NCP) for WIDERA* under... read more
Project Website: https://ncpwidenet.eu/
Funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme under Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education, the CeOS_SE project aims to raise awareness of mainstream Open Science (OS) and Citizen Science (CS... read more
Project Website: http://ceosse-project.eu/
The Western Balkans Green Recovery and Support Program contributes to the acceleration of climate action and green growth efforts in the context of post-pandemic recovery, in the countries of the Western... read more
Project Website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/p ... s-programs
Innovative bio-inspired sensors and microfluidic devices for saliva-based theranostics of oral and systemic diseases Oral hygiene is the cornerstone of good oral health and World Health Organization... read more
Project Website: https://salsethproject.com/
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.
