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Thu, 03/09/2015
Poet, writer and translator Kateryna Kalytko was born in 1982 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Her poems have been included in numerous anthologies of Ukrainian literature, and her works have been translated into English, Polish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Armenian, Italian and Serbian. She translates literature from Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. She has received several important national awards for her literary work as well as an award for her translation of works by Miljenko Jergović. Kalytko is also the founder of the Intermezzo Short Story Festival, the first of its kind in Ukraine.
Wed, 26/08/2015
Know-how provider LVIA (Italy) - in cooperation with MAG2 Finance (Italy) - is successfully carrying out the KEP AUSTRIA project “New micro-credit scheme to women empowerment” aimed at improving the local labour market and the development of SMEs in the Albanian Shkodra Region. In order to foster gender equality, a specific loan product dedicated to women entrepreneurs named “Luleborë” and a micro-credit fund of 40.000 EUR (5.643.000 Lek) for the disbursement of the loans have be
Fri, 21/08/2015
The CEI is supporting the Serbian NGO “Radovi U Toku” in implementing the Mediation4Roma project, co-funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme.
The project aims at empowering the Roma community through a European Roma mediation framework. The implementation of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) certification for Roma Mediators is expected to recognise professions according to their features and needs.
The project aims at empowering the Roma community through a European Roma mediation framework. The implementation of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) certification for Roma Mediators is expected to recognise professions according to their features and needs.
Wed, 19/08/2015
Among the recommendations included in the Communiqué adopted by the CEI Ministers for Foreign Affairs at their meeting in Ohrid on 15 June 2015, are the need to contribute to global peace and security by establishing adequate measures for combating illegal migration and related crime, including radicalisation, violent extremism, terrorism and the foreign terrorist fighters phenomena.
Fri, 07/08/2015
Discontinuous drinking water supply, water loss of up to 70% of the overall volume supplied, and contamination of the drinking water by wastewater are amongst the pressing problems of the aqueduct of Tirana. In this framework, the CEO of the Italian company Idrostudi met the representatives of the Regulatory Body for Water Supply and Sewer System of Albania (DPUK) and of the Tirana Water Supply and Sewerage Company (UKT) in the Albanian capital on 27 – 29 July.
Fri, 07/08/2015
The press conference held on 31 August in Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the framework of the KEP AUSTRIA Project Development of the ICT business incubator in Gradiška reaffirmed the importance of promoting entrepreneurship and providing assistance to young entrepreneurs, newly established companies as well as to experienced firms.
Tue, 04/08/2015
GRAPHSENS, designed by the Laboratory for Nanostructure Epitaxy and Spintronics on Silicon (L-NESS), Como, Italy and implemented in collaboration with the University of Novi Sad (UNS), Serbia aims at designing, creating and testing hybrid sensors based on graphene for monitoring concentrations of various environmental pollutants. Serbian researchers will be granted access to Italian equipment and know-how and the collaboration should yield sensors to be tested in realistic environmental conditions.
Fri, 31/07/2015
The SUSAGRI project is designed and implemented by the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA, Italy), the Research Institute for Horticulture in Skierniewice (RIH, Poland) and the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Sarajevo (SUFASA), in collaboration with the Administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Plant Health Protection (PHPA), a central authority within the Ministry
Thu, 30/07/2015
The Italian Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies and the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac, Serbia, have joined forces in the implementation phase of the project PACKSENSOR - The impact of the controlled atmosphere on quality and safety of close-seal-packaged food applied in the SMEs of south Serbia.
Wed, 29/07/2015
The administrative and eligibility check of the applications for co-financing CEI Cooperation Activities - Call for Proposals 2015 - has been carried out.
Applications classified as eligible will proceed to the second evaluation phase and possible allocation of a CEI contribution. Applicants will receive a notification regarding the final decision on co-financing (awarding/rejection).
Applications classified as non eligible will not proceed to the second evaluation phase.
Applications classified as eligible will proceed to the second evaluation phase and possible allocation of a CEI contribution. Applicants will receive a notification regarding the final decision on co-financing (awarding/rejection).
Applications classified as non eligible will not proceed to the second evaluation phase.
Tue, 28/07/2015
The Danube:Future White Paper was prepared in a bottom-up process involving around 50 researchers in the humanities and natural and social sciences, during the First Danube:Future Workshop in Klagenfurt, on 8-10 April. It deals with research and capacity building needs as well as with challenges and opportunities for the development of a sustainability-oriented knowledge society of the Danube River Basin.
Mon, 27/07/2015
The main international forum on molecular biology of small DNA tumour viruses, the 46th DNA Tumour Virus Meeting, took place in Trieste on 21-26 July.
Mon, 27/07/2015
The School, held in Trieste on 20-24 July, was organised by the OGS (Italian National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics) in collaboration with several partner-institutions and in line with the objectives of the EU Blue Growth Initiative.
Tue, 21/07/2015
The SEEMORE project successfully fostered sustainable mobility in eight European coastal tourist regions through a variety of actions ranging from the provision of tourist-tailored mobility information to the establishment of new forms of cooperation between tourism and mobility professionals.
Wed, 15/07/2015
The workshop on 2 July, was organised in the framework of the Danube-INCO.NET EU-funded project where the CEI participates as one of the 19 partners from the Danube macro-region. The event was organised within Work Package 3, implemented by the CEI and dedicated to “Tackling societal challenges: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in a Bio-based Economy”.
Mon, 06/07/2015
During a two-day visit on 6-8 July 2015, directors and project engineers of the Albanian water management company, UKT met with the representatives of their Italian counterparts Idrostudi and BM Tecnologie in Trieste and Padua respectively, in the framework of the project “Water supply, sewerage networks, and future city development: Theoretical update and on-the-job training of the UKT staff members in view of the Territorial Reform”.
Wed, 24/06/2015
In order to collect valuable feedback on S2BIOM project interim outputs from a selected audience of experts, an interactive validation workshop was held in Brussels on June 16, on the occasion of the European Sustainable Energy Week.
Fri, 19/06/2015
Following the successful outcome of the European Workshop on Advanced biofuels, biorefinery and bioeconomy, in Bratislava on 25-27 March and jointly organised by the CEI and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), further activities are under organisation.
In particular, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia has proposed to organise a comprehensive conference, in Bratislava, in the framework of Slovakia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second semester of 2016.
In particular, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia has proposed to organise a comprehensive conference, in Bratislava, in the framework of Slovakia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second semester of 2016.
Wed, 17/06/2015
Politicians, diplomats and experts from CEI Member States, including representatives from the academia, attended the international conference on “European Integration through Regional Cooperation-Perspectives of Macro-Regional Strategies”, in Skopje on 21 May 2015.
Mon, 15/06/2015
The Meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the CEI Member States, under the Macedonian CEI Presidency, in Ohrid (Macedonia) on 15 June, was opened by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Nikola Poposki.