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The CEI University Network General Assembly Meeting was hosted by the Adam Mickiewicz University - Centre for European Integration in Poznan on 3 June 2011.
7 Projects have recently been approved within the call for proposals launched by the KEP AUSTRIA Programme with a total CEI grant of 200.000.
High ranking academics, experienced foreign service officers and young diplomats gathered on 2 - 4 June on the occasion of the 14th CEI Dubrovnik Diplomatic Forum organised by the Croatian Diplomatic Academy in cooperation with the CEI.
On the occasion of the 24th Meeting of the BSEC Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs on 8 June in Bucharest, CEI Deputy Secretary General, Zoran Jovanovic emphasized that the Memorandum of Understanding, recently signed between the CEI and the BSEC, is paving the way for future activities in strategic fields of common interest such as transport and logistics, higher education, renewable energy and science and technology.
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On the occasion of the 12th International Competition for Chamber Music Ensembles “Premio Trio di Trieste”, which took place in Trieste from 23 to 28 May 2011, the CEI Award for Outstanding Performance (Euro 3.000) was assigned to the Duo Enescu (Alina Bercu and Dragos Manza) from Romania.
In the context of the CEI Research Fellowship Programme – CERES, co-funded by the EU under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, 10 fellowships were awarded to scientist from CEI countries, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Twelve Ministers for Foreign Affairs and six Deputy Ministers participated in the Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Central European Initiative held in Trieste on 10 June 2011 and took the opportunity for a large number of bilateral meetings.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member States of the Central European Initiative (CEI) held their annual meeting in Trieste on 10 June 2011. It was organised in cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the CEI-Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES).
The 7th Meeting of the SEETAC Project (South East European Transport Axis Cooperation) took place on 30-31 May in Trieste at the CEI premises where the steering committee discussed the new developments of the project (database collection and future transport scenarios) and planned the future technical activities.
The European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), a new European legal instrument designed to facilitate and promote cross-border cooperation, was presented on 27 May in Gorizia in the presence of Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini and the Mayors of Gorizia, Nova Gorica and Šempeter-Vrtojba.
CEI representatives, co-organizers of the EGTC through the ADRIA A Project (funded under the Cross-border Cooperation Programme Italy – Slovenia 2007-2013) also attended the event.
The first official technical meeting of the ATTAC Project took place in Miskolc, Hungary, on 23-26 May 2011.
Contemporary public art practice was the core issue of the fifth CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, organised on 1 June at the Headquarters of the UNESCO Regional Office in Venice by the "Trieste Contemporanea" Committee in cooperation with the CEI.
The Adria A Project was successfully presented at the European Parliament on 23 May in Brussels during an event co-organised by the CEI and hosted by Hon. Antonio Cancian (Member of the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament).
The CEI Parliamentary Committee Meeting took place in Belgrade under the Serbian Chairmanship on 19-22 May.
Delegations from 13 CEI Member States (Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Ukraine) participated.
The meeting of the Co-ordinators of the National Small Business Act (Istanbul, 17-18 May 2011), was the first meeting of the project on “Monitoring SME Policy Implementation in the Western Balkans”.
The participation of CEI Secretary General, Amb. Gerhard Pfanzelter in the Knowledge Economy Network Workshop in Gorizia (Italy), organised within the Alps – Adriatic and Danube Rectors’ Conferences on 13 May 2011, was an opportunity to illustrate the CEI contribution to the implementation of the Danube Strategy in the fields of education and science and technology.
On the occasion of the XI edition of the Adriatic and Ionian Chambers of Commerce Forum (AIC Forum) on 11-13 May in Budva CEI Alternate Secretary General Giorgio Rosso Cicogna and the President of the AIC Forum Jadranka Radovanic signed a Partnership Agreement.
On 12 May 2011, the CEI attended the Annual Conference of the South East Europe Programme in Sofia, Bulgaria.
A European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) was established by the Mayors of Gorizia, Nova Gorica and St. Peter Vrtojba in the presence of the CEI Secretary General on 13 May at the City Hall in Gorizia.
On May 13, 2011, the Conference of the Ministers for Agriculture of the Central European Initiative was opened in Belgrade by Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic.
In his speech, he emphasised his government’s commitment to the Organisation, during this year’s Serbian Presidency, acting as a promoter of regional cooperation for a closer European Integration in the field of agriculture as well as in other priority fields.