News
Fri, 20/03/2015
A two-week study visit (3 - 17 March 2015) took place in Albania in the Shkodra, Malesi e Madhe and Puke Districts (Shkodra Region), in the framework of the one-year KEP AUSTRIA project for the development of a “New micro-credit scheme to women empowerment”. The Project is co-financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation with around 50.000 EUR.
Fri, 20/03/2015
Public and private institutions registered in a CEI Member State as well as international and regional organisations are invited to apply to the CEI Cooperation Fund for innovative actions favouring mobility and networking. Proposals need to focus on capacity building by transferring and sharing know-how, in particular from EU CEI Member States to non-EU CEI Member States. The activities can take the form of conferences, seminars, workshops, and training activities.
Tue, 17/03/2015
In order to comply with the European rules on public procurement, the CEI Secretariat – Office for EU projects has established a list of economic operators for the most convenient provision of goods and services.
Tue, 17/03/2015
The Central European Initiative (CEI), in compliance with the “General Procurement Notice” of 31 July 2014 is drawing up a list of experts in order to meet the specific needs in the field of European affairs of availing itself with professional and technical knowledge in this sector.
Tue, 03/03/2015
The Central European Initiative is pleased to announce that the next Calls for Proposals within the CEI Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) will be launched this spring as follows:
- KEP AUSTRIA: planned to be launched the last week of March, with a closing date in early June. The indicative budget for this call is 170,000 EUR.
Tue, 03/03/2015
The Central European Initiative (CEI) and OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale) signed a Protocol for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, on Friday 27 February 2015.
Tue, 24/02/2015
Eighteen women from Foca, Srebrenica and Bratunac participated in a two-day training on power and economic leadership from 31 January to 1 February 2015 in the framework of the project “Smallholders Farmers’ Access to Markets in Eastern and Northern Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Albania” . The event focused on exploring the concept of power amongst women from different backgrounds, including entrepreneurs, farmers, civil society members and representatives from local communities.
Mon, 23/02/2015
''The CEI is a valuable tool which has grown over time, adapting to new developments and today has new potential". This is what the Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC), Michele Valensise, told ANSA News Agency during his visit in Trieste on 20 February. Valensise also highlighted the new challenges ahead, especially in relation to the EU macro-regional strategies. He underlined the need for promoting closer relations between the CEI and the Adriatic Ionian Initiative, in a spirit of complementarity.
Mon, 16/02/2015
The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from non-EU CEI countries (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine). The winner will receive a cash award of 5,000 EUR for a three-month residence in any CEI Member State of the candidate’s choice. During this period, the selected author will work on the literary project he or she proposed in his/her application.
Fri, 13/02/2015
The principles and tools of public participation in budgeting process were the topics of dicussions at the two seminars on “Public Participation in Budgeting Process on Local Level” held in Cherkassy city on January 20-21 and in Vinnitsa city on January 22-23, 2015.
The seminars were organised in the framework of the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI Project entitled "Performance budgets in Cherkasy and Vinnitsa - support for good governance and financial transparency of local governments in Ukraine".
The seminars were organised in the framework of the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI Project entitled "Performance budgets in Cherkasy and Vinnitsa - support for good governance and financial transparency of local governments in Ukraine".
Fri, 13/02/2015
On 12 and 13 February, a meeting of bilateral (Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden in particular) and multilateral donors, including the main IFIs supporting the SEE 2020 Strategy for Jobs and Growth, was organised in Sarajevo by the Regional Cooperation Council – RCC.
Thu, 12/02/2015
The CEI Cooperation Fund, financed by all Member States, supports small-scale projects mainly taking the form of seminars, workshops, short training courses or other kinds of events. Within the Call for Proposals 2014 the CEI is co-funding 59 projects with an overall approved amount of 466.350,00 EUR and an average grant per project of around 7900 EUR. All of the activities will be implemented in 2015 in the CEI region.
Tue, 10/02/2015
The interdisciplinary project, “GisNS - Development of Online Geodata Portal of Cultural Heritage in Novi Sad” was successfully concluded on 22-23 January 2015 in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Mon, 09/02/2015
The Serbian Institute for Public Health “Dr. Milan Jovanovic Batut” as project beneficiary institution, hosted the Meeting at its headquarters in Belgrade on 26-29 January 2015.
Mon, 09/02/2015
On the occasion of the first Committee of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting under the Macedonian CEI Presidency 2015 in Skopje on 3 February, six Technical Assistance projects were approved. They will be financed by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, fully contributed by Italy, with a total value of 1.045.000 EUR.
Fri, 06/02/2015
Fifty scientists from institutions located in ten CEI Member Countries, and representatives from the CEI Science and Technology Network took part in a Workshop on "Various Instruments to Support Research in Less performing Countries" on 5 February in Trieste. The event was organised by the Central European Initiative in cooperation with the Directorates for Research and Innovation and for the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission.
Thu, 05/02/2015
On 4 February 2015, this year’s Macedonian Presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI) and the CEI Secretariat organised a Promotional Event in Skopje. It served as a platform for presenting the priorities and programme of the Macedonian CEI Presidency and of the overall activities of the CEI. In particular, the CEI funds, programmes and instruments of cooperation were illustrated before the representatives of the Embassies, National Coordinators and above all Macedonian Institutions (both private and public and NGOs).
Thu, 05/02/2015
On 3 February 2014, Skopje hosted the first meeting of the Committee of National Coordinators (CNC) under the Macedonian CEI Presidency. It was opened by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Macedonia, Nikola Poposki, who outlined the main priorities of his country.
Thu, 05/02/2015
Countering youth unemployment in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (40%) is high on the agenda of the Municipality of Gradiška. It is developing a new ICT business incubator, which aims at meeting the needs of young entrepreneurs for infrastructural, technical/education and ICT services for supporting the main economic branches in the region: agriculture and commerce.
Wed, 04/02/2015
Targeted participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine took part in the First Clustering Workshop on the European Research Consortium (ERIC), organised in the framework of the Danube-INCO.NET project for Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region.