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... was headed by Radivoje Mitrovic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia. According to the regulations of both Parties, the Committee selected 12 bilateral projects. Serbia joined DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) The mission of DARIAH is to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts. DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support ...

... to an improved service-friendly climate and new qualification of programme management and support staff. In total, nine SME innovation and competitiveness support measures were evaluated: Project for Supporting SMEs to Invest in Innovation Project for Supporting the Development of Competitiveness of SMEs and Innovation Project EEN (Enterprise Europe Network) in Serbia 2009–2010 CIP/EIP Programme in Serbia 2009–2010 Competition for Best Technology Innovation EU FP7 Programme Business Incubator Network Innovation Fairs Innovation Projects These programmes are implemented by the Government of Serbia and managed by the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development (MoERD), the Ministry of Science and Technological Development (mSTD) – integrated within the ...

... would have a comprehensive approach integrating the three axes of the knowledge triangle, namely education, research and innovation. As a launching event for the two-year activity, the World Bank, in cooperation with the European Commission, the Regional Cooperation Council and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia, has organised a workshop in Belgrade on November 23–25, 2011. This workshop aimed at setting the ground for a regional strategy preparation, namely by addressing the questions why to cooperate at regional level; what should be the areas for cooperation; how this cooperation should be implemented; and how ...

... will take place in Vienna in early 2014. Furthermore, a business plan for sustaining the “Regional RTDI Evaluation Platform”, based on a fee-based membership system, will be developed. The EVAL-INNO project is coordinated by the Centre for Social Innovation (Austria) with partners from Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro and Serbia: Applied Research and Communications Fund – Bulgaria National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Special Account for Research Grants – Greece Public Foundation for the Development of Industry – Hungary University of Montenegro (International Relations Office) – Montenegro Mihajlo Pupin Institute – Serbia Despite the fact that innovation systems in ...

... Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science emphasised that “the Vienna Declaration is a major contribution to a future research agenda on social innovation”. In the frame of the conference, WBC-INCO.NET co-organised the session: “Social innovation for inclusion and integration” including the following speakers from Croatia, Serbia, the USA and Portugal: Paul Stubbs (Institute of Economics, Zagreb), Sanja PopoviÊ PantiÊ (Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade), Sanja CrnkoviË-PozaiÊ (consultant, Zagreb), Dennis P. Culhane (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) and Ana Vale (consultant, Lisbon). Consultation session in the field of SSH: Identification of research topics of regional priority for the WBC ...

... held under the title “Women revitalize European creativity”, was the establishment of the first association of women innovators and entrepreneurs in Europe − EWI. Representatives of the governmental and non-governmental sector in BiH, the European Association of Inventors, French, German and Swedish associations of inventors, and innovators from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina attended the conference which took place in Banja Luka on September 8 to 11, 2011. “It is our desire to create the preconditions for the development of programmes and strategies to protect intellectual property, marketing of new ideas, to exchange experiences on supporting innovation such as ...

... NET PLUS Joint Call, EVAL-INCO was also used in the implementation of joint calls in other international ERA.NETs like the BLACK SEA ERA.NET and ERA.NET RUS (an ERA.NET for cooperation with Russia). In addition, EVAL-INCO supported also the international peer review process in national calls in Serbia and Russia. Well, where do the evaluators in EVAL-INCO come from? As an initial step in late 2008, the “International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union” (INTAS) – already being in liquidation – contacted all evaluators (more ...

... innovation infrastructures in the WBC region, covering several important aspects of the National Innovation Systems (NIS) and presenting the status quo of innovation institutions and programmes in the Western Balkan Countries (WBC). The reports identify in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Kosovo (UN Res. 1244), Montenegro and Serbia: Innovation-related key government institutions and Key programmes as well as Key innovation infrastructures such as Technology and Innovation Centres (TICs), Clusters, Technology and Science Parks (TSPs), Business Start-up centres (BSCs), Technology Incubators (TIs) and other related organisations. In addition, an exhaustive Conclusive Summary Report complements and summarises all seven national ...

... turn for the worse in recent months. In its latest forecasts, published in October 2011, the EBRD significantly cut its forecasts for growth in the region in 2012 by an average of more than two percentage points relative to the July forecasts. The biggest reductions were in Albania, Romania and Serbia. The main reason is the worsening crisis in the eurozone, the effects of which are bound to be felt throughout SEE because of the close trade, investment and financial linkages that this region has developed with the eurozone. Vulnerabilities are particularly severe at present, and confidence is low (see &ldquo ...

... Renewable Energy Sectors Clustering Potentials in the Cross-Border Area” – FRESC was to map opportunities for development of clusters among SMEs belonging to the food industry and renewable energy sectors in the cross-border area in order to improve long-term competitiveness and sustainable development of bordering areas of Hungary and Serbia. The results of the project are, among others, the study “Food Industry Clustering Perspectives” and several visits of stakeholders to Serbia and Hungary, respectively ...

Institute Vinca is the largest multidisciplinary institute in Serbia. Founded in 1948 as the Institute for Physics, a nuclear science research center, during the two subsequent decades its program changed in favour of non-nuclear issues associated with the country’s industrial development. Today 820 people are employed in the Institute, ~400 are researchers working in 16 laboratories which cover ...

Serbian National Agency for Regional Development, Coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network in co-organization with Serbian Chamber of Commerce, partner of the Enterprise Europe Network Serbia, are organizing a brokerage event that will take place during the X International Trade Fair of Entrepreneurship BUSINESS BASE on the 2nd of December 2011 in Belgrade, Serbia. B2B Topics: Civil construction Metal industry Electrical engineering & materials Recycling The brokerage event aims at initiating business and technology co-operations such ...

... has been identified as a role model – a country with desirable innovation practices. The workshop itself was organized with the aim of presenting the results of reports on the current situation within the national innovation system of the WB countries; namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia and Serbia. The second day included a guest lecture by Jadranka Švarc, PhD, on the topic Sustainability of the Innovation System in Croatia in terms of the Global Crisis and included a methodological workshop, describing the possibility of using data from the Community Innovation Survey. The workshop closed after the discussion on ...

... After its successful application to the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS Joint Call EVAL-INCO was also used in the implementation of joint calls in other international ERA.NETs like the BLACK SEA ERA.NET and ERA.NET RUS. In addition EVAL-INCO supported also the international peer review process in national calls in Serbia and Russia. All personal data in EVAL-INCO are held strictly confidential according to the privacy statement of PT-DLR. Since EVAL-INCO is a living database, DLR likes to invite experts in all fields of S&T to register at http://www.eval-inco.pt-dlr.de/ in order to be prepared ...

... Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina/EU Special Representative, Ambassador Peter Sorensen. “The encouraging messages of the European Commission’s latest Enlargement Package such as the acknowledgment of Croatia’s preparedness for membership in mid-2013, recommendations to open accession negotiations with Montenegro and to grant candidate status to Serbia, serve as a strong incentive for others to embrace a greater responsibility in fulfilling the necessary reforms”, said Secretary General Biscevic. “By pooling together all regional stakeholders around concrete projects in the fields of rule of law, freedom of expression, economic cooperation, research and innovation, transport and energy ...

... nbsp; RECENT EVENTS High Profile Speakers Since the start of the 2011-2012 academic year, LSEE has hosted a number of high-profile speakers, including policy roundtables with the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Finance Minister of Montenegro and a public lecture by the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia. Read More Involvement in the Region LSEE has also significantly contributed to a number of important international commitments, including the 4th International Black Sea Symposium, the Summer School for Democracy in Belgrade and the Regional Cooperation Council conference on “New Skills for New Jobs in the Western Balkans ...

... and value chain development, youth employability, migration and remittances, human capital, other); 3) "Managing Diversity” (national, ethnic and religious identities, gender, youth, minorities incl. Roma). Papers to be presented can revolve around the region in general or focus on specific processes in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Selected candidates will be able to present and discuss their work in one of the many methodological or thematic workshops to be defined based on participant selection. All interested candidates should submit their Curriculum Vitae (1 page), an abstract of their proposed conference paper (max. 300 words) and a short ...

On this page you can find progress reports on recent developments regarding S&T cooperation in/with/for the Western Balkan Countries for download. These reports have been provided by the members of the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries in preparation of the Platform Meeting taking place in Sarajevo on December 1, 2011. Please visit this page again if you are searching for a particular country report which is not available yet because further ...

... zoran.cica@etf.rs Please find more information in the document attached below and at the conference website: http://hpsr2012.etf.bg.ac.rs/index.php Date: From: 24 June 2012 To: 27 June 2012 IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing 2012 will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, June 24 - 27, 2012. The Call for Papers has just been launched (deadline for submission is January 20, 2012). Contributions from interested parties (universities, institutes, companies) in the West Balkan region is very welcome. ...

Recommendation 13 of the White Paper reads as follows: Functional STI policy dialogue fora between the EU and EECA countries should be further advanced: It is suggested to policy stakeholders from EU MS, the European Commission, and EECA countries to assess present formats of STI policy dialogue among both regions in order to identify options for the dialogue to become more efficient and effective as well as to increase the active participation of the countries in both regions in such policy ...

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