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2nd International Conference: "KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPETITIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP"
The Business Incubator BIOS Ltd. will organize the 2nd International Conference on development of entrepreneurship: "KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPETITIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP" from September 4-6, 2008 in the town of Osijek. |
6th SEEITA & 5th MASIT Open Days Conference
In the period between September 21st and 23rd, 2008, some of the most powerful technology and business leaders from the SEE Region will come together in Ohrid to exchange policies and ideas on technology in order to impact the ICT development in the SEE Region. |
FP7 Security Information Day
The Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry (DG ENTR) of the European Commission is holding an Information Day on 15 September 2008 in the Breydel building, Avenue d'Auderghem 45, in Brussels. |
5th International Technology Transfer Days BIOMATERIAL 2009
The "5th International Technology Transfer Days BIOMATERIALS 2009" will be held on 19-20 February, 2009. One of the main objectives of the organising project, "INCOMAT" is to identify where biomedical research could make a significant impact on the quality of life of all European Citizens whereby the main focus is on those of Western Balkan Countries (WBC) and Newly Independent States (NIS). |
New Doing Business Report on South East Europe
Doing Business in South East Europe 2008 covers 22 cities in seven economies: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The subnational report provides detailed data on business regulation, and benchmarks four areas of regulation that are subject to local jurisdiction and enforcement: starting a business, obtaining licenses, registering property, and enforcing contracts. |
International conference "Challenges for the future: Research on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis"
The European Commission, Directorate General for Research, is organising an international conference entitled: "Challenges for the future: Research on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis" on November 13-4, 2008 in Brussels. The organisers are specifically interested in receiving participants from the Western Balkan countries! |
Overview of recent developments regarding S&T in Montenegro
This article offers overwiew of events and activities regarding S&T in Montenegro in the period of November 2007 and July 2008. |
Recent developments regarding the S&T cooperation with Serbia
This article offers overview of recent developments of the S&T cooperation regarding Serbia. Several events regarding S&T cooperation with Serbia took place in May and June, and sveral bilateral agreements regarding collaboration with Serbia were signed. |
The 2nd Europe INNOVA Conference - Accelerating Innovation in Europe
On 22-24 October 2008, Lyon will feature innovation at the 2nd Europe INNOVA conference "Accelerating Innovation in Europe". The conference is hosted by Grand Lyon and co-organised by the French EU Presidency and the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. |
New report from the ERA expert group on international cooperation in S&T available
The latest report of one the seven Expert Groups is now available on the website, which was set up by DG Research of the European Commission in the context of the follow-up to the Green Paper “The European Research Area: New Perspectives” adopted by the Commission on 04 April 2007. The report deals with the matter of international cooperation in science and technology. |
Albania signs up to EU’s entrepreneurship and innovation programme
Albania also joins the part of the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), which promotes innovation, entrepreneurship and growth in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). |
Slovenia and Montenegro sign bilateral agreement
On the side of the SEE Forum on Science, Higher Education and Innovation in Budva, Montenegro, the Ministers of Slovenia and Montenegro signed the bilateral agreement between the two states. |
ESOF2008: WBC researchers invited for networking
The Euroscience Open Forum, taking place on July 18-22, 2008 in Barcelona, Spain, is an opportunity to network not only for academiciens but also for businesses. |
New Publication: A rough guide to the FP7 Work Programmes
The Ministry of Education and Research of Sweden published a guide for the better understanding of the internal process of the development of the FP7 Work Programmes which is now available for download on the website. |
New weportal EURAXESS for information of young scientists
At the beginning of June, the new webportal EURAXESS was launched, streamlining the various services that have previously been offered under the European Researcher Mobility Portal - ERA-MORE Network. |
FP6: Analysis of FP evaluators reveals low participations of evaluators from WBC
The number of experts evaluating projects in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) is remarkably low for the Western Balkan (WB) region: between 2003 and 2006 there were in total only 58 evaluators from the region. The file that this analysis is based on, is accesible on Cordis website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/experts.htm. The analysis is based on nationality affiliation stated in the file. |
FP7 - Legal Entity Appointed Representative
Organisations participating in FP7 projects need now to appoint so-called Legal Entity Appointed Representatives = LEAR. The necessary steps to do this are outlined in the following news. |
Job Opening: "EU Project Coordination: Network in the area of research cooperation with South East Europe"
Job description: Coordination of two intertwined EU projects: a network of ministries and agencies from 14 countries on the topic of research cooperation with South Eastern Europe, see http://www.see-era.net and its follow-up project SEE-ERA.NET PLUS Full-time employment (40 hours/week), starting September or October 1, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. Applications welcome till July 15, 2008. |
Event Announcement: Workshop on the Croatian RTD Potential: Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Croatian Chamber of Economy is organising a "Workshop on the Croatian RTD Potential: Rudjer Boskovic Institute" on July 9, 2008 The event will take place at Representative Office of the Croatian Chamber of Economy. |
Event announcement: International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators
The Austrian Research Centers and the University of Vienna, Austria, are jointly organising the International Science and Technology (S&T) Indicators Conference from September 17-20, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. |
Event Announcment: Climate Change in South Eastern Europe
The workshop "Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries III: Causes, Impacts, Solutions" will take place on September 18-19, 2008 in Graz, Austria. Contributions by interested researchers are requested to be sent by July 28, 2008. |
IRE Working Group 'Effective regional innovation systems' - Final report
Final report of Innovating Regions in Europe working group was published in June.The report offers an overview on innovation system concepts, structural elements, internal interactions and barriers. |
Steering Platform Meeting in Ljubljana
The Steering Platform meeting was successfully held in Ljubljana on June 13, 2008. The Slovenian presidency has well established the meeting as a point of information sharing, stocktaking and networking. Commisioner Potocnik sent his message to the participants through Alessandro Damiani and Tania Friederichs from the Commission Services: he emphasises the strong ownership of the platform, the stronger use of the steering aspects in the process of integration and reaffirms the committment to take up the inputs from the platform. The Montenegrin co-chair highlighted the achivements of the past years as 5 years ago regional cooperation did not exist and now the activities show concrete results and determination to persist in the integration. The Slovenian co-chairs highlighted the aspect of partnership and trust building. |
Conclusions on Innovation Infrastructures
As already presented on this website, the publication "Innovation Infrastructure in the Western Balkan Countries" contains 6 thematic reports providing an overview of the situation as regards “Innovation Infrastructures” such as clusters, technology and innovation centres, technological and science parks, business-start-up centres/ technology incubators and some further related organizations in the Western Balkan Countries. Besides the mapping, some common recommendations were issued. |
First ICT Sector Database will be implemented in Croatia
A new collaboration was recently initiated between the Croatian Chamber of Economy and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. This collaboration represents only the first step in a process that will bring the Croatian scientific and the economic sectors closer, and will also lead to the creation of the first Croatian ICT sector database. |