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[Call for Applications] Two PhD Scholarships for Doctoral Programme in Comparative Politics
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12. Jan. 2012
Scholarship recipients will receive a monthly stipend to cover the tuition fee and cost of living. The scholarship is awarded for three years, conditional on timely fulfilment of all academic and project-related requirements. The call is open to citizens from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244), FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. More information is provided in the document attached below. Additional information about the Doctoral programme in Comparative Politics is available at http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr or by email at dboban@fpzg.hr. As part of the Norglobal research project entiled 'European integration in higher education and ...
The proceedings of the Danube Rectors Conference 2011 which took place in Vienna on November 17 and 18, 2011 are attached below including the agenda, all presentations etc. In case you are just interested in specific presentations and do not want to download the full proceedings, all presentations have also been individually linked in the programme available on the website: www.boku.ac.at/drc2011.html ...
... for doing business and their attitudes towards corruption. The paper is based on a survey conducted on the sample of over 1800 business owners and managers in the Western Balkans region. Using the original survey data collected in 2010 for seven countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – the authors explore business people’s views on the ways in which the business sector is dealing with corruption as well as on the perceived role of private and government agents in curbing corruption. The findings provide useful policy recommendations for countries in the Western ...
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[Event Announcement and Call for applications] Balkan Peer Exchange: Enhancing Analysis and Research-Based Advocacy in an Era of Open Data
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6. Jan. 2012
... the Balkans, Think Tank Fund and Human Rights and Governance Grants Program of the Open Society Foundations, Foundation for Open Society Serbia, National Endowment for Democracy and Balkan Trust for Democracy and open to members of think tanks and advocacy organisations operating in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo (UNSCR 1244 ...
The 4th issue of the SEERA-EI newsletter (December 2011) is available now and include the following topics: Eastern Europe Partnership Event: Policy Makers and National Representatives from the Region Gathered to Deliberate on the Enhancement & Sustainability of eInfrastructures in Eastern Europe National Programme Cookbook Joint Action Plan South East Europe i* Forum took place in Sofia ICT Turkey 2012 Event Bilateral Cooperation between Ministries of Bulgaria and Montenegro ...
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EC Press release: EU reinstates trade preferences for the Western Balkans until 2015
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6. Jan. 2012
... Kosovo to the EU amounted to about €147 mio in 2010. Background In 2000 the European Union established for the first time exceptional unlimited duty-free access to the EU market for nearly all products originating in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo) in Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000). Only wine, sugar, certain beef products and certain fisheries products enter the EU under preferential tariff quotas, as negotiated under the SAAs. The regime was renewed in 2005, and due to expire on 31 December 2010. Therefore, on 22 February ...
‘Our cities possess unique cultural and architectural qualities, strong forces of social inclusion and exceptional possibilities for economic development. They are centres of knowledge and sources of growth and innovation. At the same time, however, they suffer from demographic problems, social inequality, social exclusion of specific population groups, a lack of affordable and suitable housing, and environmental problems.(Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities ( Agreed on the ...
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D8.50 (T8.2) Good practice examples of innovation policy approaches and instruments of EU Member States and Western Balkan countries
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21. Dec. 2011
As part of WBC-INCO.NETs Work Package (WP) 8 on Innovation support, the underlying task of this report is to collect good practice examples of innovation activities that can be adapted to the region of the Western Balkan countries or to some individual countries of the region. This deliverable presents a collection of good practice examples of programmes, instruments and measures aiming at supporting innovation activities. The examples are presented in two parts: the first part (Chapter ...
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EU to invest almost EUR 1 billion to foster reforms in the Western Balkans, Turkey and Iceland
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21. Dec. 2011
... aid programmes to support reforms in countries wishing to join the EU on December 20, 2011. The funding, totalling almost EUR 1 billion, comes under the 2011 budget of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), and will be available to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), Turkey, and Iceland ...
... nbsp; been overtaken by Sweden and Greece. No proposals were received from Finland, Lichtenstein and Slovakia. Norway has the highest rate of submissions of the associated non-EU countries. The Former Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Montenegro are participating for the first time and have a representation of 5 and 2 participants respectively. (Participant means coordinator or partner of a proposal, and number of proposals equal to number of coordinators.) In total there are 37 eligible countries: EU27, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Croatia ...
