All events related to Regional and Macro-Regional Strategies for and with the Western Balkans

• Seed Money Finance Seminar for Applicants / Danube Region Programme

  The SMF lead applicant webinar will be held on December 7, 09:30-12:30 hrs CET. Registration deadline is December 6, 2023, 12:00 hrs CET.

• Smart Specialisation in the Western Balkans and Türkiye. Main achievements and challenges ahead

  The JRC organises this online event on November 27, 2023, 10.30 to 14.15.  During the last decade, Smart Specialisation has become one of the core strategic approaches to Research and Innovation...

• 11th International Stakeholder Conference of EUSDR Priority Area 9 "People & Skills"

  The 11th International Stakeholder Conference of EUSDR PA9 will be held online on 13 and 14 November 2023 afternoon "A More Resilient, Safer and Smarter Danube Region at Challenging Times...

•  “Embedding RRI into the Green Agenda in Western Balkans” Open dialogue and mutual learning event of the WBC-RRI.NET project

  The WBC-RRI.NET representatives Co-PLAN, Institute for Habitat Development and Albanian Ministry of Tourism and Environment organise a series of hybrid events October 11-13. 

• TESI Summer School: Training and Education in Social Innovation

  𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 the TESI project invites to 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 for the first 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹, an enriching experience that awaits participants from the six Adrion Countries involved...

• Take part in the EUSAIR revision process!

  Have you ever felt a strong desire to contribute to positive changes in your region? Are you passionate about having a voice in decision-making processes that shape the future? Well, now is your time ...

• 25th Steering Group Meeting of Priority Area "Knowledge Society" of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region

  On 2 June 2023, the Steering Group of Priority Area 7 of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region meets in Bratislava. POLICY ANSWERS is among its Flagship projects and will be presented there.

• Online Info Session “Regional Innovation Valleys - calls for proposal" 25 May 2023

  On 25 May 2023, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) is organising an informative webinar to learn more about the Regional Innovation Valleys (RIVs) calls for proposals...

• Online Info Session "Discovering Regional Innovation Valleys" (Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Lithuania)

  Lithuanian RDI Liaison Office in Brussels (LINO), the NCBR Office in Brussels – Business & Science Poland, the Slovenian Business & Research Association, the European Office of Cyprus – Brussels...

• RIINVEST Institute providing inputs for National Research Programme in Kosovo*

  Participants at the roundtable discussion from the research community and other stakeholders, organized by Riinvest Institute, welcomed the publication of the Draft National Research Program prepared ...

• 8th Annual EUSAIR Forum

  The 8th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) organised by Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Commission with the support of the EUSAIR Facility...

• Policy Dialogue on Aligning Priorities in the Western Balkans - POLICY ANSWERS conference

  POLICY ANSWERS organises the conference on aligning priorities in the fields DIGITAL, GREEN and HEALTH.

• European Week of Regions and Cities 2023

  The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. It has grown to become a neutral platform to discuss common challenges...

• 12th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region

  On 24 and 25 October 2023 the 12th forum takes place in Slovenia under the topic of : "Entering the decade of the future".

• Empowering Cooperation: Opening Event of the Slovenian EUSDR Presidency & informal NC-PAC Meeting

  The Opening Event of the Slovenian EUSDR Presidency, organised by the Republic of Slovenia with support from the European Commission and the Danube Strategy Point, will take place on 1 and 2 December ...

• 11th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR)

  “Sustainable and Secure Danube Region” RECOVERY.DEVELOPMENT.UNITY The 11th EUSDR Annual Forum, jointly organised by the Ukrainian EUSDR Presidency, the former Slovak EUSDR Presidency, the European...

• 28th Conference of the ERCO-PGV

  The 28th Conference of the ERCO-PGV will be held in Ohrid, Macedonia, from 22 to 24 sept. 2022. It will be organized by the University in Skopje and will focus on : COOPERATIONS AND ENLARGEMENT: TWO CHALLENGES...

• Srebrenica Youth School 2022

  This July, as part of a program to mark the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, in cooperation with the Srebrenica Memorial Center, the Center for Post-Conflict Research (CPI) is organizing the...

• Political Regime Developments in Southeast Europe - International Conference

  Despite democratic stagnation, the undermining of checks and balances and the attraction of support via ethnopopulism and clientelism in some cases, the ascendance of would-be authoritarian elites has...

• Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the Western Balkans – opportunities and obstacles

  The war in Ukraine is pushing Europe to get out of fossil fuels’ import dependence as soon as possible which means building vast amounts of renewables has to become a reality now – and not tomorrow. Moreover...

• Good Energy Festival

  GOOD, BECAUSE IT IS IN THE HANDS OF CITIZENS Good energy is clean energy produced by citizens and local communities from renewable sources. Such energy is also called community energy. ...

• Kick-off meeting of the POLICY ANSWERS project: R&I POLICY making, implementation ANd Support in the WEsteRn

  The new project supporting the Western Balkans Info Hub as well as a broad set of activities relating to the support of policies in the Western Balkans organises its kick-off meeting on April 14-15, 2022...

• Responsible Research and Innovation – a requirement for excellence in research

  The team of the WBC-RRI.NET project is organising the first hybrid project event (in Novi Sad and on zoom). The agenda tackles different RRI concepts and the situation in the Western Balkans and...

• Manifesta 14 Prishtina

  Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, changes location every two years. Founded in the early 1990s, Manifesta rethinks the relation between culture and civic society, investigating and instigating...

• 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.

• 2nd EU Macro-Regional Strategies Week (EU MRS Week)

  From 1 to 5 March 2021, DG REGIO will host the 2nd EU Macro-Regional Strategies Week (EU MRS Week) that will take place digitally.

• Contribution of EUSAIR/EUSDR priorities to the Economic and Investment Plan of the Western Balkans

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

• 5th Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region

  5th Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) jointly organised by the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the European Commission with the support of the EUSAIR...

• 5th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR)

  The 5th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) will be virtually hosted in Belgrade (Serbia) on 28-29 January 2021 under the slogan “Strengthening the resilience of...

• DRC GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2020

  Dear Rectors of the DRC member universities, we would like to cordially invite you to the DRC General Assembly 2020 taking place on Friday, 6th of November 2020, at 10:00-12:00 CET via ZOOM.  

• New momentum for the environmental agenda in the Western Balkans and Turkey

  On 22 October 2020, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and ENV.net, a regional network of environmental CSOs in the Western Balkans and Turkey, are organising an online conference for citizens’ environmental...

• European Cluster Conference 2020

  The first fully virtual European Cluster Conference is organised on 10 and 11 November 2020 by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and...

• Looking back, looking forward: Regional cooperation in the Western Balkans

  On 6th October the European Commission will release its Enlargement Package for the Western Balkans together with a new Investment Plan for the region. According to Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, ...

• European Research and Innovation Days: ‘‘Towards an innovation agenda for the Western Balkans”

  The Western Balkans are a strategic priority for the European Commission. The EU has increased its efforts to boost the economic growth and support reforms required for the region to move forward on the...

• Advancing R&I ecosystems in the Western Balkans with regard to their ERA integration (WBC-RTI Roadshow at ESOF 2020)

  Two virtual sessions are being organised by the International Service Facility on behalf of the EC DG R&I at ESOF 2020, to inform and promote the strong potential of the Western Balkans' R&I capacities...

• Industrial R&D: Europe First? A Science|Business Public Webcast conference

  The COVID crisis has highlighted how prone a highly-interdependent world economy is to disruptions. Production sites closing in one part of the world, coupled with interruptions to global trade, has immediate...

• The Future of EU Enlargement and Partnership Policies: EU Actorness in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Neighbourhood - An International Conference

  After the completion of the 2004/07 enlargement round and Croatia’s accession in 2013, the EU seems to have forgotten its other neighbours who are still hoping for an ‘EU future’. The hope that Western...

• Academic Conference 30 Years of Transition - Ljubo Sirc Centenary

  Faculty of Law and Business Studies at Catholic Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia is organizing a two day conference to bring together the thoughts and analyses of scholars to address the development, performance...

• 2020 RSA Annual Conference

  Transformations: Relational Spaces, beyond Urban and Rural The Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference 2020 #RSA20 is being held in partnership with the School of Economics and Business, University...

• Balkan Forum

  The Ministry Of Interior (Sector Macedonia & Thrace), in cooperation with the Managing Authority of INTERREG programmes are organising the 2nd Balkan Forum in Thessaloniki in Emilios...

• ESOF 2020 - EuroScience Open Forum Trieste

  The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to deliver stimulating content...

• Third meeting of the SEEIIST Steering Committee

  The subject of the session of the Committee will be to determine further steps in the implementation of the so-called preparatory phase of the project, which includes the preparation of the main design...

• 7thInternational Conference on Political Science & International Relations (IC-PSIR 2018)

  The aim of the conference is to further facilitate the exchange of knowledge between innovative scholars, academics, young researchers, post-graduate students, doctoral candidates, field experts and professionals...

• 3rd Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR)

  The Forum is organised by the Italian Republic in close cooperation with the European Commission and with the support of the EUSAIR Facility Point.

• Smart Specialisation and Technology Transfer as Innovation Drivers for Regional Growth

  The conference is organised by the European Commission European Commission under the auspices of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU. It will consider the opportunities and challenges...

• 2018 SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development

  Four years have now passed since smart specialisation officially entered European policy. This approach to territorial development through the promotion of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth represents...

• 10th RCC Anniversary and Champion of Regional Cooperation Award Ceremony

  This year Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) marks 10 years since its establishment. On the occasion of its 10 anniversary RCC is to host a reception for its partners, stakeholders in Sarajevo on 14 March...

• 2018 Cycle of Consultations on the SEE 2020 Strategy Programing Document 2018–2020

  The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat and the SEE 2020 National Coordinators from each of the South East Europe (SEE) 2020 Strategy participating economies are organising new cycle of national...

• Fourth Meeting on Donor Coordination in the Western Balkans

  The Fourth Meeting on Donor Coordination in the Western Balkans is organized by the Regional Cooperation Council and will address needs and priorities in the region, providing an overview of the ongoing...

• Regional Conference on Public Service Delivery across the Western Balkans on “Initiatives and Innovations towards the EU

  The Regional School of Public Administration (RESPA) is organizing the Regional Conference on Public Service Delivery across the Western Balkans on “Initiatives and Innovations towards the EU”, in Tirana...

• 6th International Conference on European Studies (ICES’17) "Local, Regional and Global Governance", Tirana, Albania

  Epoka University, in Tirana, Albania, organizes the 6th International Conference on European Studies (ICES'17). The conference titled ‘Local, regional and global governance’ will be held on 5-6 November...

• BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU

  The EU has pledged to continue membership negotiations with countries in the Western Balkans. But the region faces many challenges, including lack of progress in restructuring the economic model to ensure...

• Europe- Western Balkans Youth Meeting "Connecting Youth Work and Youth Policy" - youth participation, civic engagement, youth mobility

  The Europe-Western Balkans Youth Meeting "Connecting Youth Work and Youth Policy" aims at following-up the recommendations of the Western Balkans Youth Conference “Connecting Youth” (Paris, 4th July 2016...

• 5th Annual Expo and Energy Investment and Technology Conference

  Gathering top energy leaders from all Balkan countries this year the event will even broader cover the energy and electricity deployment across the Balkans discussing opportunities for conventional and...

• 4th ESEE Dialogue Conference on Raw Materials

  The ESEE region (East & South-East Europe), where almost 100 million Europeans live in countries like Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary...

• South East Europe 2020 Strategy Governing Board Meeting

  The third meeting of the Governing Board of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)’s South East Europe (SEE) 2020 Strategy will be held on 30 May, in Pravets, Bulgaria.

• Conference: Public Governance as the Foundation of European Integration

  Based on the new approach of the European Commission in the enlargement process: Fundamentals first, the conference will examine regional and national ‘best practices’ towards achieving the three pillars...

• Annual Meeting 2016 of the Regional Cooperation Council

  The Annual Meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) will take place on 31 May 2015, in Pravets, Bulgaria, back-to-back with the SEECP Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.