News
Fri, 10/10/2014
The Conference of CEI Ministers for Agriculture and the Environment on “Energy Turnaround” was held in Vienna on 9 October 2014 under the Austrian CEI Presidency.
Fri, 10/10/2014
On 8 October 2014, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) organised a high-level meeting in Vienna on “Protection of Europe’s Network from Natural and Man-made Disasters ” in the framework of activities of its Economic and Environmental Committee.
Tue, 07/10/2014
The National Petroleum Committee of Serbia (NPCS) presented the results of the project “Implementation of Directive 2009/28/EC in the Field of Biofuels and Transport in the Republic of Serbia - Transfer of Best Practices” (BIOGOS) at the VIII International Forum for Clean Energy Technologies on 30 September - 1 October 2014 in Novi Sad.
Tue, 07/10/2014
The final conference of the ADRIA A Project, taking place in Trieste on 23 October, will close a four-year activity programme: It has brought together the main Italian and Slovenian authorities in the field of transport, namely the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Italian Ministry of Transport, the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure and Land Use Planning together with local authorities, the ports of Trieste and Koper and several pa
Wed, 01/10/2014
The Central European Initiative (CEI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), in special partnership with the German political foundation Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), have announced the winners of the “CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism” 2014: Brankica Stanković in the section “Professional Journalists”, Sadeta Fišić, Jovana Kljajić and Maida Salkanović in the section “Young Professional Journalists”.
Mon, 29/09/2014
The project “Public Accountants Certification Training” aims to improve public accounting capacities by introducing international accounting standards and best practices to up to 40 students in 2014-2015, with a possibility of extending the activities to 2015-2016. A training of three local trainers per module is also envisioned. The opening event took place on 18 September 2014 in Skopje.
Fri, 26/09/2014
The SEEMORE project was presented at the international conference Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning: Efficient Transport for Smarter Cities and Better Quality of Life for Citizens organised by AREA Science Park in Trieste on 25 October 2014. The event was held within the framework of the BUMP (Boosting Urban Mobility Plans) project.
Fri, 26/09/2014
Ministers, Deputy Ministers and High Officials from the Member Countries of the Central European Initiative (CEI) and from the European Commission met in Trieste (Italy) on 24 September 2014. The welcome addresses were delivered by the CEI Secretary General, Ambassador Caracciolo di Vietri, by the Director General of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy, Mr. Elmar Pichl, on behalf of the CEI Presidency, and by the President of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia Region, Debora Serracchiani.
Fri, 19/09/2014
On 11-12 September 2014, RAIL4SEE Project Partners gathered in Zagreb, Croatia for an additional Project Meeting. Following the project extension, partners discussed the results of single pilots related to the hubs of Budapest, Thessaloniki, Bratislava, Zagreb, Vienna, Bologna, Venice, Trieste, Ljubljana, Sofia and Bucharest.
Thu, 18/09/2014
The Seminar was attended on the level of Deputy Foreign Ministers (Belarus, Moldova) and high-level government officials (Austrian CEI Presidency, Ukraine, Poland, Serbia). The EU was represented by its office in Minsk, the CEI Secretariat by the Alternate Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General. Students from the Minsk State University, Faculty of Foreign Relations, participated in the discussion session.
Wed, 10/09/2014
The Serbian designer Ivana Sovilj, born in 1977, is the winner of the CEI Award presented in the framework of the International Design Competition “Trieste Contemporanea”.
Tue, 02/09/2014
As part of the project Smallholders Farmers’ Access to Markets in Eastern and Northern Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Albania, a workshop and a roundtable were organised in the framework of the International Plumb Fair in Gradačac (Northern Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Fair - on 27-30 August this year - is the biggest scientific and economic event related to plumbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The target audience were plumb producers and organisations creating a business environment.
Tue, 02/09/2014
The Presidency of the Central European Initiative is increasingly concerned about the situation in parts of Eastern Ukraine and urges Russia to stop the increased flow of weapons, military personnel and militants across the Russian Ukrainian border as those are blatant violations of international law. While firmly condemning the intensified aggression towards Ukraine, the CEI Presidency requests that Russia immediately cease all forms of support for the separatist groups in Ukraine.
Mon, 25/08/2014
László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Vilenica 2014 Award, is the special guest of the Vilenica pre-opening event taking place on 2 September 2014, at the CEI Headquarters in Trieste. The event is organised by the Slovene Writers' Association in cooperation with the CEI and Group 85.
Mon, 25/08/2014
Born in Mostar in 1982, Mirko Božič writes poetry, prose, columns and essays. His poems have been published in literary anthologies and numerous literary magazines in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. As emphasised in the laudation by the international jury “Mirko Božić's literary project is a unique reading of the history of his motherland written on the basis of uncommon material tightly related to his family and personal life.
Fri, 08/08/2014
Thirty-four students from 20 countries participated in the 2014 Edition of the EU and Legal Reform Summer School held on 13-18 July in Igalo, Montenegro. Fifteen students came from 7 CEI Member Countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine), whose mobility was co-funded through the CEI Cooperation Fund, contributed by all CEI Members.
Wed, 06/08/2014
The eligibility check of the applications for co-financing through the CEI Cooperation Fund - Call for Proposals 2014 (deadline: 27 May 2014) - 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 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).
Mon, 04/08/2014
In the context of the Advanced Training Programme for Young Officials from CEI Member Countries on the Management of EU (co) Funded Projects, the CEI is offering up to four fellowships of 1.500,00 EUR per month for a duration of six months.
The selected candidates will join the Secretariat of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Trieste.
The selected candidates will join the Secretariat of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Trieste.
Thu, 31/07/2014
S2BIOM, Danube-INCO.NET and EBTP-SABS are the three ongoing CEI projects dedicated to promoting the development of bioeconomy in CEI Member Countries presented at the “Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy” event, organised by the European Commission’s Jo
Fri, 25/07/2014
On 16 - 22 July 2014, farmers from Bratunac, Srebrenica and Milici were trained on which measures to be applied for saving their production, heavily damaged by the recent floods. Meanwhile, 16 representatives from 10 smallholder farmer’s organizations from Posavina area attended a training on 21 July focused on improving their management skills.