This is a report on Bologna Process in BIH made in the form of an interview. It deals with all the main issues regarding Bologna Process. First the description of the important developments relating to the Bologna Process, including legislative reforms, since Bergen is given. Then the measures in place to ensure the co-operation of business and social partners within the Bologna Process are presented. Then the report presents the stage of implementation of the main principles and later ...
This report provides a comprehensive view of the state of European Higher Education - as seen by higher education institutions themselves. More than 900 European higher education institutions contributed to this report, either by responding to a wide-ranging questionnaire, or by hosting visits of research teams, or through providing input in other meetings. EUA is deeply grateful to everyone in the higher education community who has contributed to this common endeavour. The report shows the ...
This is a report on Bologna Process in FYR of Macedonia made in the form of an interview. It deals with all the main issues regarding Bologna Process. First the description of the important developments relating to the Bologna Process, including legislative reforms, since the meeting in Bergen is given. Then the measures in place to ensure the co-operation of business and social partners within the Bologna Process are presented. Then the report presents the stage of implementation of the main ...
A significant amount of new borrowing for infrastructure investment isbeing contemplated by SEE countries, often based on bilateral and multilateral funding. This short approach paper seeks to set out the key issues that will need to be kept in mind when evaluating the proposed borrowing and investments. While the note is indicative, and needs to be supplemented by more detailed analysis by each Government, it suggests that caution needs to be exercised in any new borrowing. World Bank (2006): ...
The Macedonia Community Development Project (MCDP) has evoked considerable interest among those involved in CDD because it focuses on sustainable development in a post-conflict environment and in the context of a recent decentralization initiative. Although the MCDP had a total budget of only $8.7 million and was completed in less than three years, it embodied a number of features that led to significant results. This was largely due to an innovative design that integrated multi-sector ...
... each project partner has to know whether it is really located in an International Cooperation Partner Country (ICPC) or not (which is and has been difficult to decide in the phase of the first open FP7 calls for proposals for applicants/partners in countries like Croatia, FYR of Macedonia and Serbia) andwhat amount of lump-sum contribution for participants from ICPC the European Commission has foreseen. The first question has already been extensively discussed in this journal. Basically, a list of the international cooperation partner countries is published on the CORDIS Website “Participate in FP7 - Eligible countries” (http://see-science.eu/goto/1793 ...
... and finally the internal adoption procedure at the level of the European Commission and in the respective Association Countries.The Memorandum of Understanding enters into force as soon as it is signed and is retroactive to January 1, 2007. This means that research entities from Croatia, FYR of Macedonia and Serbia are eligible for participation and funding as Associated Country for all calls since January 1, 2007. The signing ceremony will take place at the same time with all three Western Balkan countries. The Croatian Minister for Science, Education and Sports, Dragan Primorac, the FYR of Macedonia Minister of Education and ...
... the European Commission under FP6. It is coordinated by the Centre for Social Innovation (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation) in Austria, with project partners, research ministries and agencies in the project countries Austria, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. Article published in see-science.eu eJournal spring 07. More Than 300 Valid Project Applications in the First Call The first pilot joint call for the submission of research projects from 14 countries was successfully concluded on March 31, 2007. Expectations were really exceeded with a total of 321 ...
... be a meeting of milestones in several ways. With the accession of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the objective of integrating all the South East European Countries into CEEPUS has been accomplished. CEEPUS now comprises 14 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. Exchange with Bosnia-Herzegovina is scheduled for the academic year 2008/09, provided that all the necessary legal steps at local level will have been completed by then ...
The S&T ministries from Albania, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia are among the partners as well as the official NCP from Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, S&T ministries from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey participate to add critical mass and momentum. The proposed project supports the bi-regional dialogue through the Steering Platform on Research for WBC, as well as ...
... done through the Enlargement and Integration Action (E&IA), which is published every year. The main objective of the E&IA is to strengthen collaboration with the New Member States (NMS), Candidate Countries (CC), including Croatia and FYR of Macedonia and Potential Candidate Countries (PCC), including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. More particularly, the E&IA focuses on complex scientific and technical issues within the JRC remit, which underpin EU legislation and cover a wide range of policy areas, such as environment, health, food, energy, chemicals, agriculture and nuclear safety. E&IA consists of a number of integrated instruments aimed at ...
... at all levels, ranging from Prime Ministers to individual institutions, and includes common policies involving the various countries of the Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans, embracing topics from security to research. There are 18 member countries participating in the CEI, extending to Ukraine and Bielorussia in the East and Serbia, Montenegro and Albania in the South ...
... Actions in 2006. The Department of Science creates European oriented science policy and, in every way, promotes, stimulates and assists in establishing international cooperation. Three years ago, there was bilateral project cooperation with Slovenia and Germany only. Then, this kind of cooperation was for the first time established with Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, France, Albania, the Russian Federation, Japan and China with more than a hundred bilateral projects. In the near future, cooperation with the USA, Israel, Austria and Spain will begin as well. Furthermore, there is an open call for joint project proposals with institutions from countries with which Macedonia has ...
A study of foreign direct investment costs and conditions for two industrial sectors in five Western Balkan countries was conducted by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group. The Western Balkans benchmarking study assessed the investment prospects in the food and beverage processing sector for all five countries in the Western Balkan region; in the automotive components sector for all countries other than Albania; and, for Albania alone, in the leather and ...
This is a report conducted by Jadranka Djuricic (2004). First it presents the structure of the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Republic of Serbia. Then some ongoing activities are described. The the author focuses on research in Serbia and international cooperation. Last but not the least some future activities are presented.
Djuricic, Jadranka: Ministry of Science and Evironmental Protection - Republic of Serbia.
Ministry of Science and Evironmental Protection
This report has been written in the framework of the programme "Regional decentralisation of education management in Serbia: twinning of ministry of education regional departments with European counterparts" initiated by the Austrian Government in April 2002. It is based on a one-week fact finding mission accomplished in Serbia between the October 13-19, 2003. The aim of this report is to analyse the progress of the educational decentralisation process ...
This is a discussion paper written by Djuro Kutlaca in the year 1998. First he presents the analysis of the Science and Technology System in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Then an innovation survey of the Yugoslav metal-processing, chemicals and textile industries is described (first for the period 1987-1991 and then for the period 1992-1996). In the end the main differences between the two periods surveyed are presented. Kutlaca, Djuro (1998): The Science and Technology System in the ...
This is a power point presentation held by Milic Uvalic at the UNESCO-ROSTE Workshop in Stockholm in 2004. First, she presents economic constraints for S&T in SEE. Then some main features in SEE are presented: national policies in S&T, investment in R&D, human resources in R&D, impact of S&T on competitiveness and employment. Last but not hte least she focuses on international/regional/bilateral cooperation. Uvalis, Milica (2004): Science, Technology, and Economic Development in South Eastern ...
This is a report on situation in West Balkan countries and EC assistance to help them. It is stated that the EC is the largest single donor in the Balkans, spending over 839 million euro in the region in 2001 alone on top of 956 million euro in 2000 through the CARDS programme. EU assistance is focused on helping the countries to implement the Stabilisation and Association Process – namely, stabilising their internal economies and political relations, promoting regional co-operation between the ...
This is a report written by Marko Bonac and John Martin. The topic of this report is the current state of research and education networking in wider Europe. It focuses on geographic variations and in particular on the digital divide between the most developed and least developed National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). A major part of this report is based on a comprehensive survey of NRENs in "Neighbouring Countries" carried out in spring 2003. The survey reviewed the current standard ...