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... countries.To get more information on possible participation in a Eurostars project, please contact your EUREKA national project coordinator which can be found at http://www.eureka.be/contacts/home.do. Such contact points for the EUREKA programme are located in the WB countries Albania, Croatia, FRY of Macedonia and Serbia. Source: EUROSTARS and EUREKA websites, IRE Weekly newsletter. EUREKA's Eurostars Programme is the first European funding and support programme specifically dedicated to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The projects under this programme can address any technological area, but must have a civilian purpose and be aimed at the ...

The Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP) aims at establishing and strengthening research capacities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The programme has an implementation perspective of 10 years and will support the development of research capacities in the area of social sciences, especially in topics relevant to transformation. It should offer a cooperation platform to researchers in the region, particularly those that are to become the driving force of ...

... progressive technologies and new materials, renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency, and social sciences and humanistic sciences. The Protocol of the Second Session of the Joint Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation was agreed on and signed between the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia and Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. The cooperation in the field of science and technology is based on the signed Memorandum on the initiation of programmes of scientific-technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia, signed by the Minister of ...

... Faculty of Physics, as well as engineers from “Zastava tools” who had produced hydraulic parts for the big LHC Detector System. Djelic recalled that Yugoslavia was one of 12 CERN countries founders which had ratified founding Convention, to quit it then for a while, but today’s Serbia is Serbia which is coming back into the world and Serbia which will come back into the CERN. The giant accelerator, 27 km-long circular tunnel with vacuum tube located 100 m under ground, had started up on September 10, but due to a LHC massive quench the experiment was stopped and its re-start delayed till April 2009. CERN, The European Organization ...

... has expressed interest in becoming associated to the Seventh Euratom Research Framework Programme (2007-2011). With respect to the integration into the European Research Area, Serbia has still to adopt a national strategy aimed at increasing public and private investment in research and promoting scientific careers and mobility of researchers. Moreover, Serbia has not yet developed an integrated research policy. Overall, Serbia needs to continue its efforts to develop and adopt actions to facilitate its integration into the European Research Area. In the 2008 progress report for Serbia, Chapter 4.1.9 deals with Education and Research. The assessment of the EC in the S&T sector is copied here ...

Assistant Minister Viktor Nedovic opened the meeting. He welcomed the participants, who came from 30 different European countries, and expressed his pleasure that such an important meeting was being held in Serbia. He added that a collaboration between European scientists, which is the priority of the COST programme, is of great importance to Serbia. The meeting was being chaired by Francesco Fedi, the director of COST. During his stay, Prof. Fedi also met with the Serbian Minister of Science at that time ...

... flexible, inclusive, open and creative, is a matter of the survival of the nation. The experience, which Latvia has accumulated over the past decade in life-long learning, has become attractive to the FYR of Macedonia and Croatia. These countries expressed their willingness to participate in collaborative projects. Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro are involved in TEMPUS projects. In the area of research relations between the WBCs and Latvia started under the EC’s 6th Framework Programme. The leading country was Croatia (participating in 53 projects with Latvia), followed by Bosnia Herzegovina (5), Serbia (5), and Albania (3). There are ...

... priorities. Apart from the presentation of the State Secretary, the Rector of the University of Belgrade, Prof. Dr. Branko Kovacevic, participated in the 22nd Rector's Meeting and had presentation under the topic ''The role of the University in the 21st Century''. Source: Viktor Nedovic, Ministry for Science and Technological Development Serbia Dr. Snezana Pajovic, State Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology Development of Serbia, participated at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society forum which was held from October 5 to 7, 2008 in Kyoto (Japan). She participated in a ministerial round table presenting the ...

Partners for Investment Promotion is a 18 months programme co- financed by the European Union which aims at helping the business communities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to develop a favourable environment for attracting foreign investments (FDI). The project was launched in May 2008 and is endowed with a total budget of approx. 1.1 million Euros. Main project objectives: to strengthen the role of Chambers of Commerce in the Western Balkans to attract and retain foreign ...

... to strengthen its national research capacity in terms of research infrastructure and human resources and reforming the funding of national research projects. International cooperation is being improved. A bilateral S&T agreement was concluded with Slovenia on 3 July 2008, and agreements with other countries (Albania, Croatia, Greece and Serbia) are in the pipeline. The memorandum of understanding associating Montenegro to the Seventh EC Research Framework Programme (FP7) was signed in Brussels on 25 January 2008 with effect from 1 January 2008. The implementing measures (setting up national contact points, relations with the Board of Governors of the Joint Research ...

... eLeadership Programme for the Western Balkans, which will aim to introduce important innovations for Southeast Europe to capitalize on the benefits of ICT use in the governance processes. The eSEE Initiative membership includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and UNMIK/Kosovo. In addition to the eSEE members, the bSEE Taskforce also includes Greece. Source: RCC website The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat hosted a meeting of the Electronic South East Europe (eSEE) Initiative Working Group and the Broadband South East Europe Taskforce (bSEE), at its premises in Sarajevo ...

... ERA-MORE values through awareness campaign, including promotional events, dissemination of printed material with valuable information and delivery of information and services through national researchers’ mobility portal www.mobilnost.rs, linked to pan-European Mobility Portal http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess. Source: Viktor Nedovic, Ministry of Science and Technological Development Serbia At November 3, 2008 the kick-off meeting of the Serbian national mobility network development was held in Belgrade, at Faculty of Information Technology. The mobility center will establish a structured network to assist researchers in their mobility experiences. The mobility portal can be found at www.mobilnost.rs, linked to ...

The network's main aims are the following: to contribute to raising the level of innovative development in Serbia, awareness-raising concerning the need for innovation support to influence the creation and strengthening the core of the knowledge-based economy to promote innovation as a key factor for the development of individuals and communities to contribute to the transfer of knowledge and technology from research to the business sector through joint ...

In this training workshops are promoted two different aspects: first, policy makers are trained in the use of statistical indicators for policy-making while the second part is oriented toward the applications and production of indicators geared towards statisticians. The target for the learning group are national statistical offices dealing with Science and Technology statistics in Western Balkan Countries (WBC), and the representatives of the relevant ministries, responsible for S&T ...

... research institutes and industrial communities in the EU's convergence and outermost regions, to fully utilise their research potential; strengthen their capacities and increase participation in the Framework Programmes. The network offers its 16 partners from: Greece (coordinator), Poland, Romania, Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain, Malta, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Israel, Serbia and Croatia, the means to collaborate and establish a system of mutual learning which will result in better services that will be tailored to the needs of researchers. Source: Karen Fiorini The ResPotNet website, www.respotnet.eu launched earlier this year by the NCP network, has been developed to facilitate ...

The Serbian delegation was headed by Viktor Nedović, PhD, Assistant Minister for International Scientific and Technological Cooperation within the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia.and Croatian delegation was headed by Mrs. Ivana Puljiz, Director of the Directorate for International Cooperation and European Integration within the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. Starting from the need to support the scientific and technological cooperation based on mutual interest, while respecting national ...

Young Scientists of various disciplines (geography, history, polical science, law, sociology and economics) from CEE/SEE and Austria shall have the opportunity to present their papers and/or projects and to exchange proposals and ideas on the theme of the conference. Further aims of the Forum are to encourage Young Scientists to deal with the CEE/SEE region, to support the building of networks and to support the mobility of Young Scientists, particularly from SEE. A collection of papers will be ...

On that occasion, Minister Djelic asked Commissar Potočnik to include Serbia in the EURATOM research Program. Commissar Potočnik promissed to visit Serbia again in spring of 2009 in order to present the 7th. Framework Programme to Serbian researchers. During the discussion, he supported the initiative to reopen calls for regional projects concerning the WBCs. He also met Viviane Reding, Member of the EC in charge of Information Society and Media, Joaqu ...

... in accordance with EU standards, and established mechanisms to introduce and promote new businesses throughout the region. The dutch NGO SPARK has undertaken some effective initiatives to help launch promising SMEs in the Western Balkans. By establishing local Business Start-Up Centers (BSCs) in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia as well as creating a pan-region Southeast European Network of Start-Up Centers and Incubators (SENSI), SPARK aims at building an enabling environment for entrepreneurs under 35 years old ...

... and potential candidates over the next years. Financial assistance plans for the Western Balkans and Turkey The European Commission has completed the strategic planning of EU financial support for 2008-2010 to the candidate countries and potential candidates: Croatia, Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo. The money is intended to boost political and economic reform and development, so as to help the countries realise their European perspective. The overall indicative amount under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) is € 4.47 billion. The strategies adopted set out the priorities for EU financial ...

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