... in Enlargement Countries” as recently established frameworks for support to the development of Public Administration and Civil Society in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The conference will bring together around 70 participants from civil society, European Institutions and national authorities from the six WB countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia) and Turkey to discuss: Standards and good practices of CSO participation in public administration reform in the EU Experiences from the region Results of research on current state of play in region Proposals for improvement of CSO involvement in PAR Who can apply ...
... and with other actors that support and assist in promoting the matters that the Foundation advocates for; Exchange of experiences with all relevant institutions and organisations in the country and abroad, toward carrying out the Foundation’s activities. The SEE region, consisting of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, has experienced the triple transition from conflict to peace, central planning to free-market economies, and socialism to fledgling democracies. On the near future time-horizon lies the tantalizing prospect of EU membership, with Croatia already entering the EU on June 1 2013, and other countries still racing for the ...
... declaration titled “The Podgorica Initiative”, adopted at the meeting, the ministers supported a regional approach to environmental and climate change issues and commended the cooperation with the RCC which has supported the establishment of the Regional Working Group on Environment. The chairing of the Working group was passed on from Montenegro to Serbia today. The Ministers also asked the host country of this meeting to convey the declaration to the Paris Western Balkans Summit in the summer of this year. The partner organisations for today’s high level meeting also include the Global Water Partnership Mediterranean, Umweltbundesamt - the Environment Agency of ...
... approach for a sustainable and attractive region Home to more than 70 million people, the Region plays a key role in strengthening geographical continuity in Europe. The Strategy builds on the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, which concern eight countries. EU Member States: Croatia Greece Italy Slovenia Non-EU Countries: Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Serbia Informations about the Strategy: EUSAIR Source: Info Regio The 1st Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR), jointly organised by the European Commission and the Government of Croatia, will take place in Dubrovnik (Croatia) on 12/13 May 2016. This event will take stock ...
... The South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning is an independent, non-profit institution founded in 2009 on the initiative of eight (8) South East European countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey. Keen on ensuring a more definite contribution of education to their competitive standing, the countries of South Eastern Europe have signed up to a number of benchmarks which aim to promote more developed learning economies. Enshrined within the European Charter for Small Enterprise and the Small Business ...
Drobnic pointed out that social policies are firmly rooted in the foundations of the European Union, and one of the EU ambitions in Montenegro is to support the establishment of social welfare standards similar to the European Social Model. -Protection of vulnerable and marginalised groups, and their empowerment, was one of the key challenges for policy makers and civil society organizations. Their efforts should be synchronized and thus create synergies, in order to achieve ...
... Europe and countries of the Eastern Partnership. The Workshop ‘Building Bridges in Social Welfare Policy in Eastern Europe’ takes place on 19 September 2016 in Vienna. It aims at gathering and exchanging expertise from researchers, policy makers and practitioners on Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Call for Papers The organisers invite scholars and experts with expertise in innovative approaches in labour market policy and health and social care (long-term care) arrangements in the above countries to submit an abstract for either an academic paper or a good practice by online submission ...
... quality investigative reporting in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe, providing recognition and visibility to the work of remarkable journalists from the region. The Call is open to nationals of the 18 CEI Member States: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The winners will be awarded during the South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF) taking place in Belgrade on 21-22 November 2016. Deadline for submission of applications: Tuesday, 31 May 2016 (23.59 CEST). Useful links: Call for ...
... making on EU, national and local level of governance. (Bojan Radej, 2016 [4]) Increasing need for establishing critical mass of evaluators led Slovenian Evaluation Society to propose establishing Western Balkan Evaluation Network (WBEN) to Evaluation Society in B&H in 2012. Today WBEN involves founding members also from Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Serbia. In October 2015 the first Western Balkan conference on Evaluation was held in Sarajevo, beeing organized by Evaluation Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHeval) as a member of Western Balkan Evaluators Network (WBEN). Conference also adopted a joint evaluation statement to be disseminated to national and regional ...
... International Cooperation, Sociologist Đurđa Timotijević, RRI Tools trainer, Center for the Promotion of Science; Department of International Cooperation, Psychologist Apart from being one of the partners at the RRI Tools project, the Center for the Promotion of Science also acts as the SEE (Southeast) Hub Coordinator in Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN) in Serbia is a public institution established by the Law on Scientific Research with the task to promote science and technology. The Center, according to its mandate, cooperates with research and educational institutions (universities, research centers and schools ...
... nbsp; Faculty of Electrical Engineering is one of the oldest units at the University of Montenegro, with over 2000 undergraduate and graduate students. The Faculty cherishes high teaching standards and fruitful research activities. It is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, learning and understanding in the service of society. It is located in the heart of the University campus, in the quiet part of the capital ...
... research, teaching and training, and other projects, as well as in policy analysis and decision-making processes. The list of collaborators and partners in the Western Balkans starts with a considerable number of PhD students from neighboring countries and extends with the most prestigious institutions and universities in Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, international networking capacities of the FEUT extend beyond the region, covering most of the European countries, as well as USA. Contact regarding SouthEasteuropean Hub: Esmeralda Sheha esmeralda.alb@aida.gov.al http://cosebs.feut.edu.al ...
... the media. In addition, this idea has attracted significant attention at various regional gatherings as a progressive message coming from Serbia that could serve as a model to be applied in other countries, including those that are more developed. Based on this model, other countries in the region, such as Montenegro and Bosnia, have elected their «Women’s governments». Contact related to SEE RRI Tools Hub: Svetlana Kisic Zajcenko svetlana.kisic@gmail.com http://www.zenskavlada.org.rs/eng/about_us.html
... regional priorities of all the partner countries involved Strengthening the links between higher education and society Applications that involve enterprises Priority/ies mentioned above in relation to the concerned partner country/ies The project involves six universities, both state-owned and private, from three regional countries, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, and two large local enterprises, one from Serbia and one from Bosnia and Herzegovina. By fostering the exchange of academic knowledge from universities and expert knowledge from enterprises, the project strengthens the links between academia and both industry and society at large. Source: BAEKTEL The wider objective of this project ...
... especially through training and regional / international conferences. The RRPP is coordinated and operated by the Interfaculty Institute for Central and Eastern Europe (IICEE) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). The RRPP is aimed at fostering and promoting social science research in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). Social science research aids in the understanding of the specific needs for reform and in identifying the long-term implications of potential policy choices. Researchers receive support through research grants, methodological and thematic trainings, as well as opportunities for regional and international exchange and networking. RRPP http://www.rrpp-westernbalkans ...
... around GREEN TECH and drives this excellence to multi-ethnic Western Balkan countries to contribute to their better governance and social cohesion, and further connect the region to the global economy Green-Tech-WB is an Erasmus Mundus action focused on partner countries in lot number 2: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro & Serbia. GREEN-TECH-WB mobility includes 153 grants (28 for Europeans and 125 for WB) around the triangle: cooperation in higher education, research and innovation and under the umbrella of the thematic field of green technologies. . Green-Tech-WB http://green-tech-wb.uvigo.es ...
... of the following priority areas: 1) Governance and decentralization 2) Migration 3) Social disparities and welfare state Papers to be presented should display valid research results and handle topics within the region in a comparative manner or deal with the processes of change in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia respectively. All interested candidates should submit a single PDF file containing a short Curriculum Vitae (max. 1 page), an abstract of the proposed conference paper (max. 300 words) and a short letter of motivation (max. 1 page) by ...
... and Herzegovina: Ministry of Science and Technology Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banja Luka) Sinisa Marcic s.marcic@mnk.vladars.net Croatia: University of Rijeka Foundation Croatia (Rijeka) Iva Rincic iva.rincic@medri.uniri.hr Ericsson Nikola Tesla Croatia (Zagreb) Darko Huljenic darko.huljenic@ericsson.com Montenegro: Ministry of Science Montenegro (Podgorica) Milena MiluNovic milena.milunovic@mna.gov.me Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro Montenegro (Podgorica) Zoran Veljovic veljovic@ac.me Serbia: Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts of Serbia Serbia (Belgrade) Zoran Markovic zoranm@turing.mi.sanu.ac.rs University of ...
... Kupper f.kupper@vu.nl Poland Foundation for Polish Science Varsaw Adam Zielinski zielinski@fnp.org.pl Portugal Ciencia Vica - Agencia Nacional para a Cultura Cientifica e Tecnologica Lisbon Carlos Catalão calves@cienciaviva.pt Spain Irsi Caixa Barcelona Rosina Malagrida rmalagrida@irsicaixa.es Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Albania and Montenegro Center for Promotion of Science Belgrade Nemanja Đorđević nemanja.djordjevic@cpn.rs Sweden Vetenskap & Allmänhet Stockholm KarinLarsdotter karinl@v-a.se United Kingdom University College London London Melanie Smallman m.smallman@ucl.ac.uk http://www.rri-tools.eu/who-we-are
The programme consists of following 4 priority axes: Improving the quality of the services in public health and social care sector; Protecting the environment and nature, improving risk prevention and promoting sustainable energy and energy efficiency; Contributing to the development of tourism and preserving cultural and natural heritage; Enhancing competitiveness and developing business environment in the programme area. The total available funds within the 1st Call is EUR ...