Balkan Cities Network kicked off

Mayors and municipality representatives from the wider Balkan region met in Istanbul on 29-30 November 2021 at the kick off meeting of the B40 – Balkan Cities Network where they signed a Declaration.

Balkan Barometer 2021 highlights the added value of regional cooperation

As reported by the EC web news, the 7th edition of the Balkan Barometer 2021 was published on 24 June.  

Results and documentation related to the Brdo Summit

The Summit came after over 19 months of fighting a pandemic. The EU and its Member States have stood by the Western Balkan partners, demonstrating their solidarity with an unprecedented package of €3....

Butterfly Innovation & Business Forum

Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) are organising the first regional Butterfly Innovation & Business Forum on 16-17 December in a hybrid format in Skopje, North...

6th Annual EUSAIR Forum

Priorities of the Slovenian Presidency 2020–2021 to be followed at the 6th EUSAIR Annual Forum:

Cross - Macro-regional Strategies session IPA

This event will be organised within the framework of the 2nd Macro-regional Strategies Week; 1-5 March 2021.

Western Balkans Fund

WBF is an international organization established by the governments of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia and Serbia. The governing bodies of the Fund are the Council...

The Balkan Association of Science Journalists

The Balkan Association of Science Journalists (BASJ) is a regional association of journalists from the Balkan's printed and electronic media, which report and research on all scientific topics. Apart ...

The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group

The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) is an open group of policy analysts, scholars and researchers, established as a joint initiative of the European Fund for the Balkans and the Centre...

Call for Albania-Montenegro cross-border projects

The IPA Albania-Montenegro Cross-border Cooperation Programme has launched its third call for proposals. Through projects implemented under this call, the programme aims to strengthen good neighbourly...

The Western Balkans in 2035: participate in foresight study and co-design future looking STI policies today!

With the COVID-19 crisis, the world is experiencing unprecedented disruption to daily lives and to the social, economic, and governance systems that support them.

Open Call for Research Papers “Impact of COVID-19 on sustainability of Civil Society Organizations in the Western Balkan region”

Supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, through the Embassy of Japan in Tirana, the Call,  aims to better comprehend the impact of COVID-19 to the activities and functioning...

Brdo Declaration, 6 October 2021

The EU-Western Balkans summit took place in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, on 6 October 2021. EU leaders agreed on the Brdo declaration, with which the Western Balkans partners have aligned themselves.

Implementing the CEI Mission through EU Projects

Since 2004, the participation in EU projects has proven to be an effective tool for fostering the CEI’s main mission: European integration and sustainable development in Central, Eastern and South Eastern...

THE BALKANS: OLD, NEW INSTABILITIES: A European Region Looking for its Place in the World

1. After the Nineties: A Never-Ending Political Transition 2. Europe and the Balkans: The Need for Mutual Integration 3. Making Inroads: Competing Powers in the Balkans Dimitar Bechev 4. EU, ...

Strategic foresight

Foresight is the discipline of exploring, anticipating and shaping the future to help building and using collective intelligence in a structured, systematic and systemic way to anticipate developments...

Common Regional Market - website

The Western Balkans Common Regional Market – a catalyst for deeper regional economic integration and a stepping stone towards EU Single Market At the Sofia Summit on 10 November 2020, the leaders of...

Multi-country – financial assistance under IPA II

The page informs about the multi-country programme of the IPA II assistance provided to the enlargement countries by the European Union. The support includes the TAIEX instrument and technical assistance...

EU4Tech PoC

The flourishing ecosystem of technology transfer and innovation in the Western Balkans EU4TECH PoC (Western Balkans Proof of Concept Scheme) is an EU-funded project supporting technology...

WESTERN BALKANS AT THE CROSSROADS: WAYS FORWARD IN ANALYZING EXTERNAL ACTORS' INFLUENCE

"Western Balkans at the Crossroads: Ways Forward in Analyzing External Actors' Influence,” run by the PSSI, is a follow-up project that aims to build upon a knowledge base established in the...

Western Balkans Enabling Project for Civil Society Monitoring of Public Administration Reform

Western Balkans Enabling Project for Civil Society Monitoring of Public Administration Reform – WeBER – is a three-year project funded by the European Union and co-financed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands...