The participants in the inaugural Conference on Science Diplomacy (SD), held on 20-21 November 2024 at the CEI Headquarters, included diplomats, academics, and science diplomacy practitioners from across Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe.
In 2024, Dreamups - a company fostering startup growth to turn meaningful ideas into globally impactful companies - organised the 10th edition of its Upcelerator programme, designed to support early-stage tech startups.The programme was conducted entirely online and free of charge from March to June 2024 and aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs in Mo
The fifth event of the promotional roadshow of the “Big Science Business Forum” (BSBF) – a joint effort of the CEI-Executive Secretariat, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and the BSBF organising committee - was held in Budapest on 7 May 2024.
A year ago, ICTP set up the 'CEI-ICTP Researchers' Mobility for Sustainable Development' initiative with CEI to encourage early-career scientists from seven non-EU CEI member states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine) in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to participate in ICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL) programme. The initiative’s first round saw four fellows spending time immersed in an international research environment in selected Italian labs before returning to their home institutions.