Climate Environment and Rural Development

The Italian National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) and the University of Trieste are organising an Advanced Master’s Course in Sustainable Blue Growth for researchers, scientists and managers interested in bringing scientific excellence and technological innovation at the center of initiatives and strategies for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea area.

The second Central European Women Farmer Gathering, organised by Serbian non-profit civil organisation “Ama – Centre for the Care of People and Nature“, took place in Vrmdža/Serbia on 18-20 October.
 
17 women farmers from Central Europe met for three days to share their experience.17 farms were presented in detail and 16 farm business models were defined and improved with future development opportunities.
 

The “Leap forward with flexible and appropriate wastewater solutions in Moldova - WaterLEAP” project is implemented by the Moldovan know how recipient, the Basin Water Management Authority of Moldova and the Romanian donor institution,  the Business Development Group.
 

The system for monitoring, weather forecasting and early warning of the Emilia-Romagna region has become an example to follow for Serbia. The project ALERT: Strengthening Serbian multi-hazard early warning and alert system. PHASE II launched its activities in Belgrade in March this year.

The participants at the kick-off meeting were the director of Hydro-Meteo-Climate Service of ARPAE, Carlo Cacciamani, Andreja Mladenovic, vice-mayor of the city of Belgrade and Milan Bojovic, the vice-mayor of the city of Cacak.

The European Network of Environmental Law Organizations, Justice and Environment, held its Annual General Meeting in Bratislava on 14-17 March, 2016. The forum aimed at sharing know-how and views between EU and non-EU NGOs on nature conservation and biodiversity protection, as well as at enhancing future cooperation within this field.  Participants  from non-EU countries were able to  gain knowledge  on how EU countries regulate and implement these issues.

The Department of Water Management at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Florence, (Italy) jointly organised the two-day workshop “StepInWEAP - Stepping Beyond Conventional Water Resources Management with WEAP”.
 

The high-level workshop on infrastructure development on “Building on the Virtual WB Regional Centre for Hydrometeorological Services and Climate Change” took place in Skopje, Macedonia on 23 September 2015.

About 20 female organic producers from 9 CEI countries gathered for the first time during The Central European Women Farmers Gathering 2015 held on 29 August - 2 September in Pirot, Serbia. The gathering was hosted by the Amma – Center for the Care of People and Nature and co-financed by the CEI Cooperation Fund. The Global Federation of WWOOF Organisations and the Pirot Municipality participated as project partners.

The Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union organised, in cooperation with the CEI, a high-level Workshop on Advanced Biofuels on 28 November in Belgrade.

Ambassador of Italy, Giuseppe Manzo, and Milorad Milovančević, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering opened the event at the University of Belgrade.

On 19 June 2014, the first conference of the project “Improving Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Prevention Capacity in Drina river basin – Phase II” was held in Trebinje, Republic of Srspka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The gathering involved the Regional Agency for Disaster Prevention and Environment (ARPA ER) of the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) as know-how provider and national Hydrometeorological Service of Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as well as the Hydrometeorological and the Seismological Institute of Montenegro as beneficiaries.
 

The major outcomes of the project “Improving environmental and disaster prevention capacity in Serbia” were presented during the final conference held on 25-26 February in Bologna, Italy.

The project is implemented in the framework of the Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP), financed by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, entirely supported by the Italian Government, with a grant of 35.500 EUR and total cost of the project of  80.200 EUR.

The EBRD Private Sector for Food Security Initiative gives voice to private sector needs and facilitates the private sector’s contribution in the process of setting priorities for global food security. The Initiative was launched in November 2011 and is led by the EBRD Agribusiness Department and the Office of the Chief Economist.