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Civil service professionalisation in the Western Balkan, SIGMA Paper No. 48
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27. Sep. 2012
SIGMA Paper No. 48 examines the performance of Western Balkan countries in professionalising their civil service. It assesses the degree to which these countries' civil service systems 'fit' the European principles of administration and it identifies the main drivers of professionalisation. The Paper shows a mixed picture of achievements and persisting weaknesses, and identifies low levels of reform sustainability.
Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
Ministers, State Secretaries, Deputy Ministers and/or their Representatives from Member States of the Central European Initiative, together with High Officials from the European Commission, attended the CEI Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology - held in Trieste (Italy) on September 19, 2012 - under the chairmanship of Mr. Sulima Yevhen, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sport on behalf of the CEI Ukrainian Presidency. Please find attached the Final Communiqué ...
This document provides a detailed analysis of FP7 participation patterns in 2011. For FP7, the number of Associated Countries is as high as never before, with 14, mainly European countries, currently associated, including all of the Western Balkan States. This makes FP7 a true Pan-European programme and strongly underpins the objective of building a wider ERA. Candidate for Accession and Associated Countries constitute a heterogeneous group, which in 2011 accounted for around 8% of the ...
In section 2 this document provides a detailed analysis of FP7 participation patterns in 2011. FP7 implementation management and quality issues are the focus of section 3 and include the current situation with regard to the simplification process and also the results of a survey on the perception of FP7 implementation and simplification by National Contact Points (NCPs). Section 4 presents some of the elements of the Framework Programme which deserve a special focus. Section 5 looks at the ...
This booklet includes information about Western Balkans - Coordination and support actions: - SEE-ERA.NET PLUS - Further integrating key research institutions from south-east Europe into the European research area - WBC-INCO.NET - Coordination of research policies with the western Balkan countries. Both projects are coordinated by ZSI (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Austria). Source: http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?pg=allpublications Publication Projects in ...
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Regional Innovation Monitor Annual Report: Governance, policies, and perspectives in European regions
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18. Sep. 2012
This report analyses trends in innovation systems across different types of EU regions. It is a central deliverable of the RIM project (http://www.rim-europa.eu) aiming at disseminating most up-to-date information about trends in regional innovation policy and lessons learned from the practical implementation of support measures. The analysis will contribute to establishing a better understanding about both common and region-specific challenges as well as the strategies and policies planned ...
The study showed that while the EU has a strong research base it does not seem to have an environment to attract the world’s top researchers. The place of preference for leading scientists is the USA, while other countries, such as China or India enter the world competition for scientific excellence as very strong contenders. A striking difference with the United States is the focus on the quality and excellence of research that characterises the American system, which strongly correlates with ...
... areas etc. The activities should therefore build on already existing scientific results. The contractor has to be a research institution from Austria. The compulsory consortium composition has to include one partner from Austria, at least one partner from Kosovo and at least one partner from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro or Serbia. Research institutions from other European countries can participate in the projects but without funding provided under this call (as so-called ‘silent partners’). All ethnic groups in Kosovo are explicitly invited to participate in the call. Proposals should contribute to significant scientific regional cooperation with (a) research institution ...
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INNOPOLIS Final Conference: "In search of Innovation: Can Knowledge exchange practices within University City Regions create a positive effect for regional development"?
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13. Sep. 2012
... INTERREG IVC. For more information on the project visit INNOPOLIS: http://www.knowledgecities.eu Source: http://conference.knowledgecities.eu/ A two-day conference illustrating how knowledge exchange practices in University City Regions can benefit regional development will take place in October coordinated by the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia - Thrace (DAMT), within the framework of the INTERREG IVC project “INNOPOLIS”. The Conference will showcase policy practices that promote successful knowledge exchange between universities and business, successful cases of knowledge exchange between universities and enterprises, and tools available to support the exchange of knowledge ...
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HP-SEE project opens pilot call for proposals for project access to HPC resources in South East Europe
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12. Sep. 2012
... Eligible applicants are scientists affiliated with academic or research insititutions from Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, FYR of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. In total, around 4,6 Million CPU core hours and 1.8 Million GPU Core hours will be available for the selected scientific projects. The number of cores available in the HPC systems range from 256 to 4096 for the CPU ...
