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The 2013 Free Market Road Show® will bring together leading business people, outstanding scholars and students, opinion leaders, policy experts, elected officials, diplomats and other interested parties from across Europe to discuss these questions. Panel discussions at each conference stop along the Road Show will consider the current Euro-zone crisis, explore what kind of Europe people want, examine the ‘conundrum’ in which the European Union finds itself in and discuss ways to turn the ...

The overall objective of the Project was to strengthen education-research-innovation (eri) triangle and to improve knowledge transfer from academia to industry by building structural and legislative framework and by implementation of recognised good practices. The project focused on education-research- innovation (eri) triangle. In this report the achievements of the projects are explained: such as an impressive number of case studies and good practicerecipes offering possible solutions in ...

The document addresses: 1) The role of doctoral education in boosting research and innovation/technology transfer at the University of Vienna 2) The role of technology transfer system within Saarland University (correlation and cooperation) 3) The present status of the education-research-innovation activities related to knowledge transfer and academic entrepreneurship: towards a better understanding 4) Reflection from the university perspective as well as analysis of ...

In 1993 the European Union took the decision to open its borders to the new democracies of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Eight of them joined in 2004 and two more in 2007. However, the most ambitious European project ever has yet to be concluded. This book examines the state of play anno 2012. What have we learned from earlier accessions and how does this affect the perspectives of the remaining (potential) candidate countries? What explaines the much stricter conditionality of ...

With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty the protection of minorities became an explicit founding value of the European Union. In its external relations the EU has with the membership perspective and increased integration in the common market strong instruments at her disposal to promote and foster the protection of human and minority rights in the Western Balkan states. The question, however, arises to which extent the EU made and makes use of this leverage in its enlargement policy. ...

... countries? The South East Europe 2020 Strategy - Goran Svilanović,Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Assessment of key development challenges in the Western Balkans and Turkey - Cihan Sultanoğlu, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, Regional Director, UNDP Expectations of, and ownership by the Beneficiaries – the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Orhideja Kaljosevska, Head of NIPAC Office, Secretariat for European Affairs Expectations of, and ownership by the Beneficiaries – Turkey - Ahmet Yücel,Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry for EU Affairs Expectations of, and ownership by the Beneficiaries – Bosnia and Herzegovina - Nevenka Savić,National IPA Coordinator, Directorate for European Integration Expectations of, and ownership by ...

After mapping the economic situation and the competitiveness of the countries in European neighbourhood, the paper proceeds to an analysis of the selected aspects of these countries’ competitiveness The economic impacts of existing agreements between EU Member States and neighbouring countries. A simulation of various scenarios covering free trade in goods between the EU and some of its neighbours is attempted. Where possible, the effects of bilateral agreements on the growth and productivity ...

... Providing think tanks from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia with training and networking opportunities, the TRAIN programme seeks to foster a fruitful policy dialogue between think tanks and political actors in the Western Balkans. During a series of seminars, participants will receive training on the conduct and efficient communication of policy research and will have the ...

... Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, FYR of Macedonia is both mobile and networked from a formal point of view, but the statistical results indicate something completely different. For example, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, only 0.1% of the total number of mobile students are from FYR of Macedonia, and statistically 0% of the foreign students come to FYR of Macedonia. The data for the teaching staff is similar. Additionally, according to the data obtained from the 2010 Erasmus Mundus program, 124 requests for mobility were submitted from FYR of Macedonia, and only 17 were approved, taking FYR of Macedonia at the bottom of the list when it comes to the ...

... Klisarovska Elena, Organizing Committee email: klisarovska@uacs.edu.mk Source: UACS University American College Skopje is proud to initiate the 8th annual international academic conference on European integration Out of the crisis: EU Economic and Social Policies Reconsidered which will be held on May 16, 2013 in Skopje, FYR of Macedonia. This inter- and multi-disciplinary one-day conference seeks to reconsider the current EU complexities across diverse policy areas and suggest perspectives on growth and ways leading out of the crisis ...

... Belgium) Lund University (Sweden) Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria) University of Heidelberg (Germany) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy) University of Zagreb (Croatia) Western Balkan partner institutions: Fan S. Noli University Korce (Albania) South East European University Tetovo (FYRO)Macedonia Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje (FYRO)Macedonia University Luigj Gurakuqi of Shkodra (Albania) University of Belgrade (Serbia) University of Kragujevac (Serbia) University of Montenegro (Montenegro) University of Niš (Serbia) University of Novi Sad (Serbia) University of Prishtina (Kosovo) University of Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) University St. Kliment Ohridski Bitola (FYRO)Macedonia Associates King Baudouin Foundation Polytechnic University of Tirana ...

The presentation included information about: available grants application procedure study and research plan selection procedure. The deadline for application is February 1, 2013 and all mobilities should start before December 31, 2013 (except for staff). TV interview is available here. From December 17-20, 2012 the Erasmus Mundus Project Basileus IV was presented in FYR of Macedonia.

... to contribute to integration of statistical systems of the countries of the Western Balkans into a joint European statistical system through development, processing and distribution of statistics in the area of education on the basis of single standards and harmonised methodology. The delegations of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Turkey and Serbia participated actively as did the representatives of Eurostat, Centre for Research in Education and Innovation (CERI/OECD), European Training Forum (ETF), National Educational Council of Finland, International Network of Educational Policy Centres, KulturContacta, UNICEF, Centre for Educational Policy and Belgrade University. The workshop participants concluded that ...

Views from any discipline within the social sciences and humanities are accepted (interdisciplinary studies are especially encouraged). Language: English Deadline for abstracts: Please send a one page (or less) abstract of the proposal chapter by January 31, 2013. Please include (Times New Roman 12, 1.5 spacing, medium margins): - The name of the proposed chapter - The abstract - Key words - A short biography of the author (several sentences only) Send the proposal page to the address ...

... the Best Gaming App was x3m-games (FYR of Macedonia). Source: SPICE Update No 105 End of November 2012 the Mobile AppCamp in Skopje, FYR of Macedonia brought together developers and start-ups with business incubator managers, accelerators, investors and international tech experts with an aim to advance the development of commercial mobile applications. Widened and deepened skills of attendees for ...

... regularly updated blogs, links, news and galleries Source: The University of Edinburg, School of Law The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (CITSEE) is a study of the citizenship regimes of the seven successor states of the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia). It is funded by an Advanced Investigator Award for basic research made to Jo Shaw by the European Research Council and runs for five years from April 1, 2009. CITSEE http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/citsee/about ...

... are already met, since a full understanding of the researcher profession in its complexity is indispensable for sound decision and policy-making. The report (see link below) is accompanied by country fiches - of which we present here the ones prepared for the Western Balkan countries. In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Ministry of Education and Science is fully responsible for the development and administration of national R&D funding as well as for research and education policy. The ministry’s Department of Science and Technology Development decides on the promotion of education and science, the development of the national ...

This report also provides in-depth statistics about the composition of project consortia: 74.5% of all the grant agreements involve at least one SME and 11.1% of all the projects have an SME as its coordinator. The average EU contribution going to SMEs participating in thematic research projects so far has been about €275000 per project. When looking at FP7 in its entirety – including Research for the Benefit of SMEs and the Marie- Curie Actions – the conclusion is that of the about 91000 ...

The Report establishes the baseline for annual updates and for monitoring the European Research Area (ERA). It is based on qualitative and quantitative data. It also provides the basis for further analysis on the observed correlation between a lower degree of openness in terms of some of the indicators for the research profession used in this report and low performance on the Innovation Union Scoreboard2, and for identifying clusters of low-performing countries. The qualitative data comes ...

At the end of October 2012 we have published the 100th issue of the e-newsletter of the Western Balkan countries INCO-NET. This was also a good opportunity to look back and think about developments achieved so far in the region in the fields of S&T and Innovation. Thus, we have issued a call in ...

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