Steering Platform on Research and Innovation for Western Balkans

The Steering Platform on Research and Innovation for Western Balkans was established in 2006 to facilitate 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. Therefore 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 moreover 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 EU Member States, 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, plans include the organisation of two Steering Platform meetings in 2017 and in 2018, as well as three thematic meetings including the preparatory meetings for the SP. The last 20^th Western Balkans Steering Platform on Research and Innovation was organised in Brussels on the morning of the 25 June 2018. Back to back with this SP meeting, the 7^th Ministerial Western Balkans Platform on Education and Training was also held on 25-26 June 2018.

Updates on SP meetings are available at the WBC-RTI.info website - Information Platform funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and implemented by the 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. The related article is available here. The 18th SP meeting was held in Sarajevo in June 2016 (find an update here) while the 19th SP was held in September 2017 (information is accessible by clicking here.) All the latest SP-related articles are available below. Please note that some of them are not public but restricted to SP members only.

News

Third Western Balkan Research and Innovation meeting will be held in Spring 2019 in Sarajevo

As reported in the Conclusions of the Steering Platform on Research and Innovation Ministerial Meeting that was organised in June in Brussels, the next WB Research and Innovation meeting will...
Conclusions of the Western Balkans Steering Platform on Research and Innovation and the Ministerial Meeting (Brussels, June 25, 2018)

The Western Balkans (WBs) Steering Platform (SP) on Research and Innovation was organised in Brussels in the morning of June 25th, 2018. The meeting was co-chaired by the European Commission (DG Research...
Third Austrian Council Presidency - RTI priorities

Starting on 1 July 2018, Austria is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) for the next six months.

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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...
20th Western Balkans Steering Platform on Research and Innovation and 7th Ministerial WB Platform on Education and Training

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

Harnessing the potential: Research Capacity in the Western Balkans

The present study has been conducted under the European Commission’s initiative «Support to the Higher Education Reform Experts» (SPHERE) by a small team of experts. It discusses the research capacity...
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...

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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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