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... in EU Member States and candidate/potential candidate countries which share borders. The latter is designed to support investment in the same way that regions within the Union are supported under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund. Articles covering Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia explain different ways in which these beneficiary countries are preparing to make the best use of IPA funding. Authors from the IPA countries give some insight into their experiences, including on implementation on past IPA-type projects. A special report from Ruse, Bulgaria, shows how EU funds have been put to ...
... double this annual allocation. This would enable several hundreds additional students to receive a scholarship. In the academic year of 2009/10, the current Western Balkans window will be transformed into a "Western Balkans and Turkey Window", including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, as well as Turkey. Sources: Rapid Press Release of March 5, 2008; http://www.mespom.org, as accessed on January 8, 2009. Within the "Erasmus Mundus – Western Balkans Window", starting in academic year 2007/08, up ...
... the Commission intends to double this annual allocation. This would enable several hundreds additional students to receive a scholarship. As the "Western Balkans and Turkey Window" has been created especially for the region, interested parties from the WBC (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99) and Turkey are only applicable under this particular scheme (and not under the main ERASMUS MUNDUS external cooperation window). The scholarships cover travel and accomodation expenses as well as well as the complete tuition fees (21.000,00 EUR for a ...
... Challenge is financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation. In the implementation of the Balkan Case Challenge, WUS Austria is depending on the cooperation with partners that support the event financially or in-kind. Source: e-mail from organisers WUS Austria invites exceptional students from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, who study law, economics, political sciences, international relations, information technologies or related disciplines to take part in the BCC 2009 ...
... obstacles to FDI in the region Consultation of ca. 1 000 companies of all sectors/ sizes in the beneficiary countries plus ca. 1000 companies of all sectors/ sizes in the EU 3) Participation in EUROCHAMBRES Academies 10 middle/ senior staff from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia will be selected to attend EUROCHAMBRES Academy, a top-range development programme for the Chamber Network. Organisation: Liaison Officers appointed in each of the six partner organisations. The project is endowed with a total budget of EUR 1.1 Mio and will run for a period of 18 ...
The main objectives of this deliverable are - as agreed upon at the workshop in Bled (March 2008, see D3.14) - to develop the technical platform (online questionnaire and homepage for data retrieval) for the information system and to collect data about national RTD policies and programmes with regard to Climate Change Research in Western Balkan countries. For further information on climate change research in WBCs see also D2.12 "Report on each of the thematic priorities defined in the second ...
The European Commission Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies have publicised the European Economy Economic Papers No. 346 on the 'Adjustment capacity of labour markets of the Western Balkan countries', with a focus on labour markets, and background studies on several countries of the region. The main question addressed in this study is the performance of the labour markets in the Western Balkans; to find ...
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Progress reports on recent developments regarding S&T cooperation in/with/for the WBC (July – December 2008)
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9. Dec. 2008
On this page you will find progress reports on recent developments regarding S&T cooperation in/with/for the Western Balkan Countries. These reports have been provided by the members of the WBC Steering Platform on Research in preparation of the Steering Platform Meeting in Paris on Dec. 19, 2008. Please visit this page again if you are searching for a particular country report which is not available for download yet because further reports are being uploaded continuously. ...
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Strengthening the Strategic Cooperation Between the EU and Western Balkan Region in the field of ICT Research
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9. Dec. 2008
The SCORE Policy Paper presents the regional/common ICT Research & Development priorities of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia. The priorities were defined following a two-phase consultation process that involved more than 320 ICT stakeholders in the region. Moreover, the paper presents concrete recommendations on what the Western Balkan countries on the one hand and the EU on the other hand could further undertake in order to ...
The Chamber of Commerce Belgium-Luxembourg South-Eastern Europe is an officially certified Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Belgium and Luxembourg in charge of Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece,Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia including Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), and Slovenia, aswell as of cooperation with Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Turkey.One of the prominent goals of the Chamber is, acting both on the federal levels and on those of the Regions, support of business expansion with the different countries of ...
The Med programme covers the coastal and Mediterranean regions of nine Member States (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italia, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and United-Kingdom). The Med programme has invited Mediterranean countries which are candidates or potential candidates to the European Union to join the programme. With the starting of the programme, its cooperation area includes Croatia and Montenegro. These countries participate with the European funds of the Instrument for Pre-accession ...
... processes’ first phase. Solid progress has been notified in all spheres, namely – very good in documents security, good one in border management, asylum and migration and substantial one in public law and order, Vice-Premier in charge of European Affairs Ivica Bocevski said at a press conference. FYR of Macedonia has been making substantial progress in regard to biometric passports. Accordingly Macedonia expects from the EC in early 2009 to initiate the legal procedure with the Council of the European Union for introducing a free visa regime in the course of next year. Source: www.seeurope.net, www.vlada.mk A current report on the Road Map for visa liberalisation is considered ...
"Policy Background The integration of Western Balkan countries (WBCs) into the European Union (EU) is a major political and economic project designed to assure stability and development in the region. The association of these countries to the Seventh (EC) research framework programme (FP7) has to be seen as a means to facilitate this integration and support their economic development through joint research efforts and allowing the WBCs to get familiar with the EU decision-making on research ...
... on Croatia's ability to meet the conditions for EU accession. The indicative timetable may need to be adapted in light of the progress achieved by Croatia. The ball is now firmly in Croatia's court. The Commission will closely monitor the fulfilment of the conditions.” The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has made good progress on judicial reform and implementation of SAA obligations and continues to consolidate multi-ethnic democracy by implementing the Ohrid Agreement. However, the country needs to ensure free and fair elections and to improve the dialogue between major political parties and actors. There has also been some progress ...
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Regional School of Public Administration promoting cooperation in Western Balkans
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3. Dec. 2008
... today. The reform of public administrations is essential for both candidate and potential candidate countries in their path towards the EU. The future activities of the School will strengthen the administrative capacities of the signatory Parties while promoting regional co-operation. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, acting on behalf of Kosovo pursuant to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, shall, after signature, engage to ratification, acceptance or approval in accordance with their respective legal requirements ...
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Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the "Seventh European Framework Programme"
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24. Nov. 2008
... of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the "Seventh European Framework Programme" on November 24, 2008. Bosnia and Herzegovina have thus become the 12th associated country to the EC's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). The other Associated Countries are Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRoM), Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania ...
... investsciencesee.info/infrastructure.html For futher information: Slavi Krusic http://www.wbc-inco.net/users/155.html Ministry for Higher Education, Science and Technology - Slovenia http://www.wbc-inco.net/organisation/93.html SEE-ERA.NET’s International Conference on Evaluation and Benchmarking October 8-9, 2008 in Ohrid, FYR of Macedonia A systematic approach to the different types of R&D evaluation is of interest for in Western Balkan Countries (WBC). For this reason, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany and the Ministry of Education and Science of the FYR of Macedonia jointly organised an International Conference ...
... of Serbia he signed Stabilisation and Association Agreement in Luxemburg on April 29, 2008. The World Economic Forum (DAVOS) recognized his achievements in business and politics by nominating him for the title of “Young World Leader” for the period from 2005 till 2010. Pero STANOJANOVSKI - FYR of Macedonia Pero Stanojanovski, new minister of Education and Science of the FYR of Macedonia holds a degree in electrical engineering from the SS. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Through his career he held various positions in the educatIonal as well as the private sector. He started his career as a member of the professional team, as a mentorteacher in natural sciences and as ...
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The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia accedes to the European Patent Convention
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19. Nov. 2008
... the following 35 member states as from 1 January 2009: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Further information concerning the effects of this accession and the provisions which the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has enacted or will enact for the implementation of the EPC will be published in later issues of the Official Journal. http://www.epo.org/patents/law ...
... signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalising the Republic’s entry to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation pillar of CIP. Montenegro is the fourth country of the group of candidate and potential candidate countries to join the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) after Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in October 2007 and Turkey in February 2008 ...
