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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 15 April 2025, the CEI Committee of National Coordinators gathered at the premises of the Serbian Mission to Brussels, under the Serbian CEI Presidency 2025.
Partners of the GreenPATH project, co-funded by the Interreg Central Europe Programme, convened in Trieste for the third Steering Committee meeting on 15–16 April 2025.

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.

During an online institutional exchange on 10 april 2025, between the CEI Secretary General. On. Franco Dal Mas and WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, both parties reaffirmed their strong partnership, underscoring the importance of continued collaboration to promote health and well-being through regional cooperation.
We are glad to announce that our annual Call for Proposals of the CEI Cooperation Fund is open for applications!

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

The CEI - Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) has supported once again this year's OberMUN titled "Diplomacy: Our path to peace". It is the Model United Nations simulation (MUN) that is annually organised by the Trieste-based high school Liceo Scientifico “Guglielmo Oberdan” involving students from various countries.
The Regional Policy Dialogue on Good Governance and Women’s Leadership in Southeast Europe brought together over 70 high-level participants from across the region and the EU, on 1 April 2025 in Sarajevo. The event was organised by the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) in partnership with the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and Women on Boards Adria (WOBA), with co-funding from the CEI, the America for Bulgaria Foundation, and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC).
The International Conference Equal Pay Day 2025, held in Prague on 25-26 March under the theme “Potential”, brought together some 1.800 participants and featured 30 speakers at the main conference, with a hundred of attendees at the second event, Empower Day.

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.

A new Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) project financed by Italy through the CEI Fund at the EBRD and titled CEI for Ukraine’s Future. Empowering Ukrainian Municipalities through Polish Expertise in Fund Management and Project Practices for Pre-Accession Readiness of Ukraine has commenced in March this year.

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).

On 26 March 2025, the Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Antonio Tajani, paid an official visit to the CEI - Executive Secretariat.

On 21 March 2025, the CEI-Executive Secretariat participated in the workshop the “Role of Science Diplomacy in Water Supplies”, held in Venice in the framework of the UN World Water Day and the World Day for Glaciers.

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