Research and Innovation Policy in Western Balkans - some recent developments
In recent years the Western Balkan countries have made some important efforts to overcome the negative consequences of the economic and political transition and its impact on the region’s research and innovation sectors: They adopted a variety of strategies, laws and programs to improve the performance of the sector on the national level and they improved the regional cooperation in R&D for example by committing themselves to “Western Balkans Regional R&D Strategy for Innovation” and Smart Growth pillar of the “South East European 2020 Strategy” (SEE 2020). All countries are also associated to Horizon 2020; the preliminary results show some first success stories however overall participation rate is quite low. WBC also agreed on the establishment of “Western Balkans Research and Innovation Centre” (WISE) by the end of 2015 aiming at strengthening the regional research, innovation and technology systems by providing support, advice, information and recommendations to the states, public and private institutions, non-governmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders. However, social and political problems are still more pressing in WBC than the low level of R&D investment (Serbia and Montenegro spend on around 1% of GDP on R&D, while other countries in the region spend up to 0,3% of GDP) or support for technology transfer activities. The importance of the education, research and innovation for the overall success of the EU-integration efforts of the Western Balkans was again confirmed during the 1st Joint Science Conference held on July 15-17, 2015 in Halle and Berlin and during the second Summit Meeting on the Western Balkans held in Vienna on August 27, 2015 – both events in the framework of the Western Balkans Process, also known as the ‘Berlin process'.
Research and Innovation Policy in Western Balkans - some recent developments was in focus of the WBC-RTI.info newsletter in August 2015. Related article is available here . Please find below also a selection of the topic related articles.
News
-
New research projects on Coronavirus include also WB partners
On 30 January 2020, the European Commission launched a request for expressions of interest entitled “SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020: Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the [COVID...
-
Montenegro: EUR 200,000 earmarked to encourage participation in Horizon 2020 and COST programmes
The Info Day on the Call for Applications of the Ministry of Science in Montenegro for encouraging participation in Horizon 2020 and COST programmes was held on January 17th at the University of Montenegro...
-
Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, opened the 8th Ministerial Meeting of the Western Balkans Platform on Education and Training in Belgrade, Serbia. ...
[ Show all News ]
Events
-
ENTRENOVA Conference (ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference) is a multi-disciplinary conference dedicated to examining, comprehending and discussion the economic, management, organisational...
-
Better Future of Healthy Ageing (BFHA 2020)
The Croatian EU Council Presidency Conference on Better Future of Healthy Ageing 2020 (BFHA 2020) will take place in Zagreb from 6 to 7 April 2020 at the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University...
-
European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with Canadian Institute of Technology will organize the 8th ICSD 2020 International Conference on Sustainable Development...
[ Show all Events ]
Organisations
-
Ministry of Education and Science - Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina
-
The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) was officially launched at the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) in Sofia, on 27 February 2008, ...
-
Ministry of Science and Technology - Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ministry of Science and Technology performs administrative and other professional duties which refer to: • Science-research activities; strategy of the technological development of...
[ Show all Organisations ]
Calls
-
Participate in the MORE4 survey on the mobility of researchers
Support data collection and analysis concerning mobility patterns and career paths of researchers ! The study has two main strands: mobility within Europe and outside Europe.
-
Job opportunity: Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans
The European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) undertakes and supports initiatives aimed at strengthening democracy, fostering European integration and affirming the role of the Western Balkans in addressing...
-
Danube Transnational Programme - 2nd Call open! Deadline 6 June 2017
The Danube Transnational Programme is launching the second call for proposals for its priorities 1, 2 and 3. The Programme offers ...
[ Show all Calls ]
Documents
-
Smart Specialisation and the Wider Innovation Policy Context in the Western Balkans
Enhancing the innovation potential has been on the policy agenda of the Western Balkan economies for years. Hence, innovation policy-making has led to a number of policy documents and strategies that ...
-
This regional study is prepared within the project “Creating synergy in Western Balkans for strengthening education, research and science”, supported by Western Balkan Fund. It is implemented by a team...
-
WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletters sent in 2018
WBC-RTI.INFohas prepared several newsletter issues in 2018. Thematic articles were drafted while relevant stakeholders contacted and in some cases also interviewed.
[ Show all Documents ]
Projects
-
Advanced design rules for optimMAl Dynamic properties of Additive Manufacturing products
Additive manufacturing (AM) belongs to key enabling technologies where Europe has the leading research role. The AM technologies put considerably fewer limits on shape of the manufactured objects than...
-
AUTOMATED FUNCTIONAL SCREENING OF IgGs FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
The project proposes to organize the exchange of staff of three Academic institutions from Serbia (coordinator), Turkey and Finland, two SMEs from France and Turkey and three TC institutions (two from...
-
Twelve-member IPANEMA consortium implements competences of participating academic & industry beneficiaries and 3rd country partners to 1) create a knowledge/experience-sharing network of scientists...
[ Show all Projects ]
