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The CEI joins the many around the world mourning the loss of Pope Francis, an authoritative voice of our time, who, until the very end, bore witness to a pontificate committed to addressing imbalances and inequalities in the pursuit of justice and peace among peoples.
Last October the CEI was granted observer status at the intergovernmental committees of the Council of Europe’s Youth Department.
On 7-10 April in Trieste, the CEI-Executive Secretariat, in collaboration with AREA Science Park and with the financial support of the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG), organised a study visit for twenty-five local development practitioners from North Macedonia.
On April 8-9 2025, partners of the Project GRETA - Greening Regional Freight Transport in Functional Urban Areas met in Budapest to discuss the progress of the project, focusing on pilot activities carried out in Budapest (Hung
During an official visit to Zagreb, CEI Secretary General Hon. Franco Dal Mas, met with the Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Gordan Grlić-Radman.
The main results and conclusions included in the report “Connecting science and diplomacy in Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries” - elaborated by the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Trieste in cooperation with the CEI-Executive Secretariat - were presented at the “Workshop on Science Diplomacy Training”, an event organised by t
On 29 March 2025, the international conference "The Potential of Cargo Bikes to Transform Last-Mile Delivery" was held at the Destil Creative Hub in Tirana, Albania. The event brought together policymakers, urban planners, logistics experts and civil society representatives from CEI countries and the Western Balkans.
The third and final Stakeholder's Roundtable, led by CEI - Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) within the framework of the SUSTANCE project, took place in Trieste on 3 April 2025. The event brought together representatives from the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Municipality of Trieste, Trenitalia, and EGTC GO.
CEI Secretary General Hon. Franco Dal Mas, paid an official visit to Podgorica on 2 April, where he met with the Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Ervin Ibrahimović.
The regional capacity-building and networking initiative held in Belgrade on 25 -27 March 2025, brought together representatives of civil society organisations, local democracy actors, institutional stakeholders and experts from across the Western Balkans and beyond, with the scope to strengthen institutional capacities and support good governance and European integration pro
On 25 and 26 March 2025, the CEI-Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) attended the “Global Ministerial Dialogue on Science Diplomacy”, in Paris at the Headquarters of UNESCO. The programme envisaged a multistakeholder high-level conference and a global ministerial segment.
On 25 March, the ASAP Steering Committee, led by the CEI – Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES), convened in Portorož, Slovenia, for a key project meeting hosted by the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the University of Ljubljana (UL-FPP).