... Croatia (16 locations), one in Bosnia and Herzegovina (6 locations) and Serbia (7 locations). Within WP1 of the project an attempt was made to compare water resources, current status of water supply, water quality as well as wastewater management in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. A joint paper was delivered titled “Water resources and waste water management in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and State union of Serbia and Montenegro, which is published in Water Policy. Furthermore two workshops were organized in the region, dealing with the problem of contaminants: 1st EMCO workshop entitled " ...
... of the project implementation, we will be able to tell policy makers in the EU and the Western Balkans what further actions are needed to boost long-term and sustainable FDI,” said Dirk Vantyghem, Director of International Affairs at EUROCHAMBRES, during the official launching event of the programme in Podgorica (Montenegro). “Moreover, by creating these partnerships between Chambers, we’ll create avenues for long term economic cooperation between regions from the EU and the Western Balkans.” The level of foreign direct investment (FDI) in these countries, both from outside the region and intra-regional investment (EUR 1,200 Mio ...
Participants are expected from EU27, countries associated to the Framework Programme (such as Norway, Turkey) and the Western Balkan countries.The agenda is attached below.
The next Steering Platform meeting will be held in Ljubljana on June 13, 2008. The WBC-INCO.NET project will also present itself at this event. Other aspects in the agenda include IPA, EUREKA, Research Infrastructures, SEE-ERA.NET White Paper etc.
The document is a catalogue of all specific targeted research projects (STREPs) and coordination actions projects (CAs) supported under the specific programme “International Cooperation - Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area” of the 6th Framework programme. Each project is identified by its objectives, its activity area and the expected results and includes the list of all participating organisations and contact persons. European Commission (2008): International Cooperation ...
... Eurokompozit 369 509185 Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning 369 509185 Studio R 369 509185 Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy 369 509185 Institute for Material Characterization “Skopje” 369 509204 Macedonian Geothermal Association 375 509205 University ‘Sts. Cyril And Methodius’ - Faculty of Electrical Engineering 377 Serbia and Montenegro 509160 Mihailo Pupin Institute 353 509161 University of Belgrade - Faculty of Electrical Engineering 355 509161 Electrical Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) 355 509163 Institute for Water Resources Development “Jaroslav Cerni“ AD 357 509163 University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture 357 509165 A.D. Metalna Industrija Alfa-Plam vranje 359 ...
... research activities within the food, agriculture and biotechnology of theme FP7 Contract n°: 043119 Website: www.etat.gr Project co-ordinator: Gorgias Garofalakis ETAT garof@etat.gr ipet@etat.gr EU contribution: 570,864 WBC partners: Sustainable Economic Development Agency (Albania), Agency for International, Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Technical Cooperation (Montenegro), University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture (Serbia), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Directorate for International Cooperation (Croatia) FOOD-N-CO cooperation network of national contact points with a special focus on ...
... the following WBC partners are involved: Ministry of Education and Science of Albania, Directorate of Scientific Research (Shpresa RAMA) Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia, Directorate for International Cooperation (Lada BENZON) Ministry of Science of Serbia (Suzana VOJINOVIC) Agency for International Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Technical Cooperation of Montenegro, Department for International Scientific and Technical Cooperation (Tamara TOVJANIN) Source: http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/ssh_fp7_project_synopsis_en.pdf The European Commission has published a document presenting the list of proposals retained for eventual financing in the first call of FP7 - Cooperation in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities ...
The ERA WESTBALKAN+ initiative is supporting the Western Balkan Countries (WBC), i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia in participating in the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7). This partnering event encourages researchers from WBC to find mainly suitable Greek partners for a consortium during the fourth/fifth open call in the thematic priority "ICT" (the next call is expected to be published in November 2008).It ...
... in Europe. The initiative is coordinated by the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET) and the project consortium consists of representatives from Albania (Polytechnic University of Tirana), Armenia (IIAP-NAS-RA), Bosnia-Herzegovina (University of Banja Luka), Bulgaria (IPP-BAS), Croatia (RBI), F.Y.R. of Macedonia (UKIM), Georgia (GRENA), Hungary (MTA-SZTAKI), Moldova (RENAM), Montenegro (University of Montenegro), Romania (ICI), Serbia (University of Belgrade), Turkey (TUBITAK), as well as the European Centre of Nuclear Physics (CERN) in an advisory role. In order to ensure the necessary critical mass, thirty regional Research and Academic institutions have been selected to participate in the project as third-parties to the consortium partners ...
... of transnational partnerships and joint actions on matters of strategic importance. The SEE Programme Area includes 16 countries. For 14 countries the eligible area is the whole territory of the country, namely for Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Moldova. In Italia and Ukraine only certain regions are eligible. The Managing Authority of the SEE Programme is Hungarian National Development Agency. The global and specific objectives of the programme will be pursued through Priority Axes, which contribute differently to the specific programme objectives: Priority Axis 1 ...
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... stability and competitiveness through the development of transnational partnerships and joint actions on matters of strategic importance. The Managing Authority of the SEE Programme (Hungarian National Development Agency) and the partner states (Albania, Austria, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine) are launching the first call for projects for transnational cooperation in the South Eastern area of Europe to be co-financed by ERDF and IPA under this programme. In the first step, applicants are requested to submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) based on a ...
The Regional Balkans Infrastructure Project, Transport - in the following referred to as REBIS - commenced in June 2002. The project is financed by the EU Commission and covers the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYRO Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro, including Kosovo which is under international administration in line with UNSCR 1244 of 10 June 1999. REBIS aims to assist these countries in developing coherent strategies for transport infrastructure development. It focuses in particular on the development of a regional Core Network and on the identification of projects suitable for ...
... expected. Out of the 475 proposals submitted, 190 (!) are coordinated by Turkish institutions, 74 by Greek and then 38 by institutions from Serbia. 30 proposals were submitted from Poland and on the fifth rank is Croatia with 24 proposals. FYR of Macedonia was also very active with 12 proposals, from Montenegro 4 proposals were recorded. In total coordinators were from 18 member states (among those the most active apart from Greece and Poland are Bulgaria, Romania and Estonia with more than 10 proposals from those countries) and 6 associated countries (apart from the mentioned WBC, there was also one proposal submitted ...
The report focuses on the process of implementing the Charter for Small Enterprises in the Western Balkans. The report represents the first comprehensive and comparative assessment of progress in the Western Balkan countries and UNMIK/Kosovo since they adopted the European Charter for Small Enterprises (the Charter) in 2003. Small enterprises are the backbone of the Western Balkan economies. They make a major contribution to job creation and economic development and are behind the expansion of ...
... participate as well. The forum will take stock of what has been done and what more or better should be done to strengthen in particular the human resources capacity in the region. Another major policy meeting on science, higher education and innovation will take place on July 2-3, 2008, in Montenegro. It is organised by the UNESCO Office in Venice and the Ministry of Education and Science of Montenegro ...
Due to the transition of this journal from the see-science.eu project, which is funded under FP6 and ends in April 2008, to the WBC-INCO.NET project, funded under FP7 from January 2008 till December 2011, several changes are currently being implemented, which are visible already. Changes made The layout has been professionalised by subcontracting a company focused on graphic design. Furthermore, the content has been enriched by the partners of the INCO-NET consortium and therefore, the volume ...
... Societal Dynamics, Food Security.■ Bosnia & Herzegovina: Environmental Security, IT, Forecast and Prevention of Catastrophes, Defence Against Terrorism. ■ Croatia: Environmental Security, Forecast and Prevention of Catastrophes, Human & Societal Dynamics, Border Security / Transport Security.■ FYR of Macedonia: Environmental Security, IT, Biotechnology-Bioscience, Human & Societal Dynamics, Food Security, Advance Technology.■ Montenegro: Environmental Security, IT, Biotechnology-Bioscience, Forecast and Prevention of Catastrophes, Human & Societal Dynamics.■ Serbia: Environmental Security, IT, Biotechnology-Bioscience, Forecast and Prevention of Catastrophes, Human & Societal Dynamics, Food Security, Advance Technology, Defence Against Terrorism. Budget:The amount of funding of many of the funding types is decided on a case-to-case basis ...
... was to support the further development and differentiation of the national Science and Technology (S&T) system and S&T policy in the Western Balkan countries by benefiting from the German experiences and knowledge. Science administrators from the respective ministries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia participated in the management training in Bonn, Germany. The participants of the management training were introduced to the national S&T system and S&T policy of the Federal Republic of Germany including relevant aspects of European and international co-operation. Furthermore, they got an overview on ...
... in their parliaments in order to sign the executive programmes. Several agreements were signed in the period of 2005 to 2007, but especially the SEE-ERA.NET project has contributed to the enlargement of bilateral cooperations. In the near future, Albania will intensify its bilateral co-operation and is in discussion with Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo and France. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the right to sign new intergovernmental S&T agreements. The MOES is, together with the DSR, responsible for the implementation. The actions to be financed in the framework of bilateral agreements are: 1. Joint Research Projects (JRP) in priority ...