News
Fri, 07/08/2015
The press conference held on 31 August in Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the framework of the KEP AUSTRIA Project Development of the ICT business incubator in Gradiška reaffirmed the importance of promoting entrepreneurship and providing assistance to young entrepreneurs, newly established companies as well as to experienced firms.
Tue, 04/08/2015
GRAPHSENS, designed by the Laboratory for Nanostructure Epitaxy and Spintronics on Silicon (L-NESS), Como, Italy and implemented in collaboration with the University of Novi Sad (UNS), Serbia aims at designing, creating and testing hybrid sensors based on graphene for monitoring concentrations of various environmental pollutants. Serbian researchers will be granted access to Italian equipment and know-how and the collaboration should yield sensors to be tested in realistic environmental conditions.
Fri, 31/07/2015
The SUSAGRI project is designed and implemented by the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA, Italy), the Research Institute for Horticulture in Skierniewice (RIH, Poland) and the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Sarajevo (SUFASA), in collaboration with the Administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Plant Health Protection (PHPA), a central authority within the Ministry
Thu, 30/07/2015
The Italian Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies and the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac, Serbia, have joined forces in the implementation phase of the project PACKSENSOR - The impact of the controlled atmosphere on quality and safety of close-seal-packaged food applied in the SMEs of south Serbia.
Wed, 29/07/2015
The administrative and eligibility check of the applications for co-financing CEI Cooperation Activities - Call for Proposals 2015 - has been carried out.
Applications classified as eligible will proceed to the second evaluation phase and possible allocation of a CEI contribution. Applicants will receive a notification regarding the final decision on co-financing (awarding/rejection).
Applications classified as non eligible will not proceed to the second evaluation phase.
Applications classified as eligible will proceed to the second evaluation phase and possible allocation of a CEI contribution. Applicants will receive a notification regarding the final decision on co-financing (awarding/rejection).
Applications classified as non eligible will not proceed to the second evaluation phase.
Tue, 28/07/2015
The Danube:Future White Paper was prepared in a bottom-up process involving around 50 researchers in the humanities and natural and social sciences, during the First Danube:Future Workshop in Klagenfurt, on 8-10 April. It deals with research and capacity building needs as well as with challenges and opportunities for the development of a sustainability-oriented knowledge society of the Danube River Basin.
Mon, 27/07/2015
The main international forum on molecular biology of small DNA tumour viruses, the 46th DNA Tumour Virus Meeting, took place in Trieste on 21-26 July.
Mon, 27/07/2015
The School, held in Trieste on 20-24 July, was organised by the OGS (Italian National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics) in collaboration with several partner-institutions and in line with the objectives of the EU Blue Growth Initiative.
Tue, 21/07/2015
The SEEMORE project successfully fostered sustainable mobility in eight European coastal tourist regions through a variety of actions ranging from the provision of tourist-tailored mobility information to the establishment of new forms of cooperation between tourism and mobility professionals.
Wed, 15/07/2015
The workshop on 2 July, was organised in the framework of the Danube-INCO.NET EU-funded project where the CEI participates as one of the 19 partners from the Danube macro-region. The event was organised within Work Package 3, implemented by the CEI and dedicated to “Tackling societal challenges: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in a Bio-based Economy”.
Mon, 06/07/2015
During a two-day visit on 6-8 July 2015, directors and project engineers of the Albanian water management company, UKT met with the representatives of their Italian counterparts Idrostudi and BM Tecnologie in Trieste and Padua respectively, in the framework of the project “Water supply, sewerage networks, and future city development: Theoretical update and on-the-job training of the UKT staff members in view of the Territorial Reform”.
Wed, 24/06/2015
In order to collect valuable feedback on S2BIOM project interim outputs from a selected audience of experts, an interactive validation workshop was held in Brussels on June 16, on the occasion of the European Sustainable Energy Week.
Fri, 19/06/2015
Following the successful outcome of the European Workshop on Advanced biofuels, biorefinery and bioeconomy, in Bratislava on 25-27 March and jointly organised by the CEI and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), further activities are under organisation.
In particular, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia has proposed to organise a comprehensive conference, in Bratislava, in the framework of Slovakia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second semester of 2016.
In particular, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia has proposed to organise a comprehensive conference, in Bratislava, in the framework of Slovakia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second semester of 2016.
Wed, 17/06/2015
Politicians, diplomats and experts from CEI Member States, including representatives from the academia, attended the international conference on “European Integration through Regional Cooperation-Perspectives of Macro-Regional Strategies”, in Skopje on 21 May 2015.
Mon, 15/06/2015
The Meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the CEI Member States, under the Macedonian CEI Presidency, in Ohrid (Macedonia) on 15 June, was opened by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Nikola Poposki.
Fri, 12/06/2015
The event, organised for the 16th year in a row by the Economic Policy Institute, gathered 34 young experts from public institutions, research centres and think-tanks from 9 CEI Member States (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine) and Turkey. The main goal of the Seminar is to build a training hub among the region’s future decision-makers in order for them to improve their professional skills and establish fruitful mutual cooperation for the years to come.
Tue, 09/06/2015
Within the framework of the 2015 Macedonian CEI Presidency, a meeting of the CEI Parliamentary Committee was held in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. The gathering, in Skopje on 20 May, was chaired by the acting President and Head of the Macedonian CEI PD Delegation, Aleksandar Nikoloski. The topic of the meeting was "Relevance of EU Macro-Regional Strategies as an Opportunity for Cross-Border Cooperation among CEI Мember States: the Role of Parliaments."
Tue, 09/06/2015
Students and experts, in clinical engineering from the CEI region, i.e.
Tue, 26/05/2015
The WIDER project final event and 2nd EU Road-show took place in Brussels on 21 May 2015, under the title "Ageing at home: fostering eco-designed and marketable solutions in MED area SMEs through innovation vouchers".
Around one hundred participants gathered to witness the presentation of 39 awarded innovative projects, whose design and implementation was possible thanks to WIDER Innovation Vouchers.
Wed, 20/05/2015
The CEI Dubrovnik Diplomatic Forum is traditionally organised by the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, with the University in Zagreb and its Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) in Dubrovnik, as well as in conjunction with the London Academy of Diplomacy (LAD), which has a strategic partnership with the University of Stirling.