Steering Platform on Research and Innovation for Western Balkans

The Steering Platform, established in 2006, facilitates the interaction between the Western Balkan Countries, the EU member states, the candidate and potential candidate countries and other states associated to the Framework Programmes for RTD and the European Commission. Its main objective is to support the enhanced integration of the WBCs in the European Research Area. It is a strategic body to deal with European, multilateral and regional issues of Science, Technology and Innovation policies in and with the WBCs. It acts as an information exchange centre, clearing house for joint ideas and activities, and coordination forum for needs, suggestions and proposals of the WBCs to the European Commission, the EU28, candidate and potential candidate countries and the countries associated to Horizon 2020 and vice versa. In this spirit, the Platform continues and intensifies the progress achieved under the EU-Balkan Countries Action Plan on Science and Technology since 2006. In 2017 new scheme for the support of the SP meetings was introduced funded by the European Commission (International Cooperation Support Facility of the European Commission).Within this facility it is planned to organise two Steering Platform meetings in 2017 and in2018, as well as three thematic meetings including the preparatory meetings for the SP. Next SP meeting will take place in Belgrade on 27-28 September 2017.

Updates on SP meetings will be available at the WBC-RTI.info website - Information Platform funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and implemented by Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) - in this way actively supporting the Steering Platform meetings.

SP was in focus of the WBC-RTI.info newsletter in July 2015. Related article is available here. Following the 18th SP meeting held in Sarajevo in June 2016 an update was prepared. All SP related articles are available below. Please note that some articles are available only to SP members and are not publicaly available.

News

Conclusions of the 2nd Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting held in Skopje on March 21-22, 2018

The second Western Balkans Research and Innovation meeting was organised in Skopje on March 21-22, 2018 within the framework of the European Commission’s Support for the Steering Platform (SP) on Research...
[Call Announcement] Call for papers for conference: Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research

The conference invites submissions of extended abstracts and/or posters in particular by: academic researchers policy makers (including research councils and funding agencies) and representatives...
[Event Announcement] Austrian EU Council Presidency Conference on Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research

This conference will bring the valuation (i.e. the provision of added value through SSH and arts-based research) and impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative...

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Events

Austrian EU Council Presidency Conference on Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research

This conference will bring the valuation (i.e. the provision of added value through SSH and arts-based research) and impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to transformative...
Ministerial meeting - Western Balkan Platforms on Education & Training and Research & Innovation

The 20th Western Balkans Steering Platform on Research and Innovation will be organised in Brussels on the morning of the 25 June 2018 within the framework of the European Commission’s Support for...
Austrian EU Council Presidency Conference on Impact of R&I Policy at the Crossroads of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Research, Technology and Innovation policy is more than ever charged with demonstrating societal impact. This raises new issues at all levels of policy design, implementation and evaluation.

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Organisations

Open Data in Europe and Central Asia

Open Data in Europe and Central Asia (ODECA) is a platform to support government representatives, civil society activists, tech activists and citizens that care about and work with open data. ...
European Open Science Policy Platform

The mandate of the Open Science Policy Platform is to: advise the Commission on how to further develop and practically implement open science policy, in line with the priority of Commissioner Moedas...
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - Kosovo*

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in Prishtina is responsible for both the development of the scientific research and the higher education system, and for the promotion of innovation and...

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Calls

Call for papers for conference: Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research

The conference invites submissions of extended abstracts and/or posters in particular by: academic researchers policy makers (including research councils and funding agencies) and representatives...
Call for Papers for the Conference: Impact of Research and Innovation Policy at the Crossroads of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation

This call comes from the largest conference in Europe dedicated to R&I policy evaluation that in 2018 is organised in Vienna on 5-6 November under the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European...

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Documents

Key findings of the 2018 Report on Kosovo* (Enlargement Package)

There is some level of preparation in the area of public administration reform. Some progress has been made especially with the review of agencies and (semi)independent bodies. Kosovo* continued its efforts...
Key findings of the 2018 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (Enlargement Package)

Bosnia and Herzegovina is at an early stage with the reform of its public administration and no progress has been achieved in the past year. A country wide public administration reform strategy is being...
Key findings of the 2018 Report on Albania (Enlargement Package)

Albania has continued to participate actively in regional cooperation and maintain good neighbourly relations. Important steps have been taken to address bilateral issues with Greece. Albania has made...

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Projects

Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area

PRIMA fosters joint research and innovation activities among Mediterranean countries, aiming at developing innovative and sustainable solutions in agriculture, food production and water provision, encouraging...
OpenAIRE2020

50 partners, from all EU countries, and beyond, will collaborate to work on this large-scale initiative that aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability...
EUDAT2020

EUDAT’s vision is to enable European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment, as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure...

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