All documents related to Health | COVID-19 emergency

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] Research and Innovation Infrastructures for Efficient Implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies – Bio4Campus (Health and BioTech)

  Teodora Ilic, Engineer of Organizational Sciences, Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation, Serbia presented the topic above as part of the "Best Practice Highlights: Lessons and...

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] Overview of the Western Balkans Region on its Pathway towards Modern Health Policy

  Marija Jevtic, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia presented the topic above as part of the "Key Highlights and Insights on Instruments and Opportunities for Aligning Priorities...

• [Presentation PA Conf. Sept. 2023] The Western Balkans Agenda and how it works towards Alignment of the Thematic Priorities

  Keynote Talk from Bernhard Fabianek, Senior Expert for Horizon Europe Association, DG RTD, European Commission in the first Plenary Session of POLICY ANSWERS conference on "Policy Dialogue on Aligning...

• CEI Plan of Action 2021-2023

  Elaborated by the CEI-Executive Secretariat, in cooperation with the CEI Member States*, the CEI Plan of Action 2021-2023 is conceived as a flexible and dynamic tool for manifold cooperation in the framework...

• Economic Inclusion of Women Entrepreneurs During Covid-19 in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  The main aim of this chapter is to analyse the economic inclusion of women entrepreneurs through government support schemes in the time of COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Balkans. The chapter discusses...

• SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2022

  SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2022 Assessing the Implementation of the Small Business Act for Europe Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are essential drivers of sustainable...

• Designing active labour market policies for the recovery

  Active labour market policies (ALMPs) that connect people to good jobs will help to promote an equitable and sustained recovery from the COVID‑19 crisis. Labour demand measures have been vital to preserve...

• One year of SME and entrepreneurship policy responses to COVID-19: Lessons learned to “build back better”

  This paper provides an analysis of the diverse range of SME and entrepreneurship policy measures implemented during the course of a year since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, with a view to identify...

• COVID-19 crisis response in South East European economies

  This note focuses on the multi-faceted structural challenges in the Western Balkans, which have exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it assesses the economic impact of COVID-19 on the region, with...

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): SME policy responses

  OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19) This note discusses how SMEs are affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic, reports on early evidence and estimates about the impact, and provides ...

• Global education monitoring report 2022: gender report, deepening the debate on those still left behind

  he 2022 Gender Report presents fresh insights on progress towards gender parity in education with respect to access, attainment and learning. It showcases the results of a new model that provide coherent...

• Arts and health: supporting the well-being of forcibly displaced people

  The European Commission, the World Health Organisation and the project CultureForHealth have published an analysis of how art activities help improve the health and well-being of displaced people. ...

• Summary of the 13th Days of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS)

  The 13th Days of  Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS), the largest annual scientific and educational conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was held in Sarajevo...

• ILO Sectoral Brief: COVID-19 and the media and culture sector

  This brief highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the media and culture sector, hit hard by unemployment and closed productions. It analyses how the sector’s diversity in terms of contract types and occupations...

• The scientific, technological and societal conditions for the end of the COVID-19 crisis

  The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world as we know it. Europeans and European businesses are finding their resilience tested to the limit. Importantly, for us at EU level, resilience is not...

• Getting Stronger After COVID-19:Nearshoring Potential in the Western Balkans

  The COVID-19 pandemic threw global supply chains into disarray, decimating foreign direct investment and generating uncertainty unlike anything since World War II. It is unclear what global production...

• 2020 Strategic Foresight Report: Charting the course towards a more resilient Europe

  President von der Leyen’s political guidelines set a strategic long-term direction to achieve the transition towards a green, digital and fair Europe. They lay out a path for Europe to become the first...

• Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020

  The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre has produced the "Science for disaster risk management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow", the second of its series.

• Wiiw Policy Briefs and Reports: Value Chain Integration of the Western Balkan Countries and Policy Options for the Post-COVID-19 Period

  In this policy brief, we study the development of trade integration, specifically the participation in global value chains, of the Western Balkan countries.

• GENDER ANALYSIS 2020 EC COUNTRY REPORTS FOR THE WESTERN BALKANS

  This is the third Kvinna till Kvinna Gender Analysis of EC Country Reports for the Western Balkans. The aim is to show progress year on year in the gender-mainstreaming of the Country Reports and attempt...

• Communicating Science in Times of COVID-19, A selective overview of good practices

  The CCA on Science Communication has produced a publication on how to communicate science in times of COVID-19. On 22 July 2020, the COST CCA on Science Communication held a webinar on science communication...

• Communicating Science in Times of COVID-19, A selective overview of good practices

  The CCA on Science Communication has produced a publication on how to communicate science in times of COVID-19. On 22 July 2020, the COST CCA on Science Communication held a webinar on science communication...

• [WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletter] - Update on Tackling COVID-19 emergency (special issue)

  Since the Covid-19 outbreak, the EU and its member states are working together to reinforce national healthcare systems, contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus and mitigate its socio-economic impact...

• Article: General covid-19 response in the WB economies

  The COVID-19 pandemic hit the six Western Balkans (WB6) amidst a reacceleration of economic activity and promising economic outlook for 2020. With the rapid spreading of the coronavirus in the Western...

• [WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletter] - Tackling COVID-19 emergency (special issue)

  On 30 January, the World Health Organisation declared the Corona Virus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern while, on 11 March, it characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic...

• JRC Report: RAW MATERIALS: Critical Raw Materials for Strategic Technologies and Sectors in the EU, A Foresight Study

  This study looks at the supply chains of the nine technologies below used in the three strategic sectors renewable energy, e-mobility, defence and aerospace. It also attempts to provide a first answer...

• Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019

  The Regional Risks for Doing Business report offers a business perspective on the impact of global risks and illustrates how they are experienced differently across regions. In an increasingly complex...

• JRC Cybersecurity, our digital anchor

  The Report ‘Cybersecurity – Our Digital Anchor’ brings together research from different disciplinary fields of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service.

• Can R&I save the day?

  While research and innovation (R&I) are at the core of the response to the pandemic itself in the areas of virology, vaccines development, treatments and diagnostics, it will be crucial also in the...

• European Cultural and Creative Cities in COVID-19 times

  Empty cultural places, drastically reduced mobility and tourism blockade as an effect of COVID-19 confinement measures not only generate an evident economic damage to cultural institutions, companies ...

• Balkan Barometer 2020

  Balkan Barometer is an annual survey of public opinion and business sentiments in six Western Balkans economies, commissioned by the Regional Cooperation Council.  It is examining aspirations and...

• Balkan Barometer - COVID19 pandemic Impact Assessment Infographics

  The Balkan Barometer 2020 edition presents for the first time the perception and sentiments on COVID19 pandemic Impact Assessment. COVID19 pandemic Impact Assessment infographics booklet features some...

• The entrepreneurial employee in public and private sector – What, Why, How

  Entrepreneurial employees that drive innovation and change have become a sheer necessity for many established organisations in public and private sector. This report gives a science-based overview of ...

• ESIR Report: Protect, prepare and transform Europe: Recovery and resilience post COVID-19

  ESIR is a high level advisory group to the European Commission on how to develop a forward-looking and transformative research and innovation policy.

• THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Economic impact, policy responses, and short-term sustainable solutions

  The COVID-19 pandemic hit the six Western Balkans1(WB6) amidst a reacceleration of economic activity and promising economic outlook for 2020 (EC, 2020). With the rapid spreading of the coronavirus in ...

• Reinforced EU support to the Western Balkans (Infographic)

  This infographic provides an overview of the EU financial support mobilised jointly with the European Investment Bank to the benefit of the Western Balkans' citizens in tackling coronavirus crisis and...

• COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS

  Support to the Western Balkans in tackling COVID-19 and the post-pandemic recovery. Commission contribution ahead of the EU-Western Balkans leaders meeting on 6 May 2020. In ths document the European...

• JRC SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE IN A TIME OF CRISIS

  From the preparation of guidelines and control materials for testing and better characterisation of the pandemic, to the detailed analysis of epidemiologic and economic impacts, the JRC is evaluating ...

• Quartely Review of academic literature on research and innovation

  This is a Quartely Review of academic literature on research and innovation for the first quarter of 2020. The current issue provides several insights on sustainability. We had a particular ...

• Guidelines 04/2020 on the use of location data and contact tracing tools in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak

  The guidelines on geolocation and other tracing tools in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak aim to clarify the conditions and principles for the proportionate use of location data and contact tracing...

• Joint European Roadmap towards lifting COVID-19 containment measures

  The joint European Roadmap towards lifting COVID-19 containment measures, presentedby the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, responds to the European Council...

• Testing for COVID-19: A way to lift confinement restrictions

  The OECD has published a new report on efficient testing strategies. The report recommends very wide testing strategies, with greatly increased government testing capacity. The number of asymptomatic...

• How to strengthen prevention and treatment in mental health

  In February 2020, scientists, clinicians, patients and industry representatives met in Stockholm to discuss how governments, education systems, and new technologies can help treat and prevent mental health...

• EU support for the Western Balkans to tackle coronavirus

  The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis, a severe public health emergency for citizens, societies and economies. The virus knows no borders. It is a global pandemic that requires a ...

• Coronavirus: EU global response to fight the pandemic

  The European Commission and the High Representative set out plans for a robust and targeted EU response to support partner countries' efforts in tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

• First “ERAvsCorona” action plan: short-term coordinated reseach and innovation actions

  EU leaders committed to do everything possible to support research, to coordinate efforts and seek synergies within the European scientific and research community. They also underlined that there is an...