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The international and interdisciplinary conference "Participatory Governance in Culture: Exploring Practices, Theories and Policies. DO IT TOGETHER" in Rijeka, Croatia on 22-24 November gathered more than 180 participants, researchers, theoreticians, cultural operators, artists, practitioners, activists, policymakers and decision-makers worldwide and from a broad range of disciplines.
 
The two-day international conference held in Skopje, Macedonia on 9-10 November centered around the topics of the SME Instrument and Horizon 2020. The event was opened by Natascia LAI from the Executive Agency for SMEs, European Commission, who presented the possibilities the programme offered to companies, explained what the Commission was looking for in an innovative project and what the future brought in terms of funding of innovative ideas.
 
The Meeting of the CEI-PD Parliamentary Assembly in Minsk on 28 November was held under the leadership of Irina Starovoitova, Chairperson of the CEI PD, and Head of the Parliamentary Delegation of Belarus and attended by national parliamentary delegations from Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Serbia. The participants witnessed an exchange of views on "Digital Technologies In Terms Of Ensuring Geopolitical Security".
 
The CEI and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), in special partnership with the Media Program South East Europe of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), have announced the winners of the “CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2017”:
Victor Mosneag in the section “Professional Journalists” and Yevheniia Motorevska in the section “Young
Professional Journalists”.
 
The testing phase of the Freight Quality Partnership (FQP) of the SULPiTER project (Sustainable Urban Logistics PlannIng To Enhance Regional freight transport) has officially started.

Under the guidance of the Regional Union of the Chamber of Commerce of Veneto, these new joint coordination tools – designed to define policies for urban freight distribution – will initially be assessed in seven European cities (i.e., Bologna, Budapest, Maribor, Poznan, Prescia, Rijeka and Stuttgart).

The expert conference on "Transport & Logistics - Optimization of the distribution of goods in the regions" took place in Opatija, Croatia on 9 November 2017. The event was organised by The Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE) and was attended by more than 85 participants from over eight European countries.

The COME-IN! project is proud to announce that the Archaeological Museum of Udine is the first museum of the consortium to have successfully adopted and applied the COME-IN! Guidelines for Accessible Museums and Exhibitions.
The first thematic conference of the COME-IN! project entitled "Inclusive museums - challenges and solutions" was held in Udine/Italy on 9 November. The gathering aimed at presenting COME-IN! achievements such as the COME-IN! guidelines to organise museums and exhibitions in an accessible way.

The Istituto Superiore di Sanità hosted the International conference “Problem Based e-Learning (PBe-L) as an innovative methodology for enhancing cooperation and transferring knowledge in emergency management on public health issues: a policy stakeholders conference” in Rome on 23 October.
 
The Festival Identity meeting took place on 26-28 October in the framework of the 21st Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
 
The event - gathering directors and programmers of documentary film festivals from all over Europe and beyond - included a  large number of CEI countries, offering a unique networking platform to share know-how and professional experiences.
 
The second Central European Women Farmer Gathering, organised by Serbian non-profit civil organisation “Ama – Centre for the Care of People and Nature“, took place in Vrmdža/Serbia on 18-20 October.
 
17 women farmers from Central Europe met for three days to share their experience.17 farms were presented in detail and 16 farm business models were defined and improved with future development opportunities.
 
The CEI Ministerial Conference on Science and Technology was held in Minsk on 26 October gathering representatives of 12 CEI member countries.
 
The three-day event took place in Trieste on 16-18 October at Music Conservatory “Giuseppe Tartini” and focused on the exchanges between representatives of institutions and music festivals of the Central European area, promoting active participation, and giving the possibility to lay the foundations of a system of cooperation among academic and professional institutes. 
 
Art curators, artists, architects and relevant exerts gathered in Trieste, on 28 October, to resume the topics of the CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators and present the “Harbour for Cultures H/C” project to the citizens of Trieste.
 
On 26 October 2017, the Regional Western Balkans Master Programme in Public Procurement Management was launched in Belgrade. The University of Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy manages the course in partnership with the EBRD to be held at the campus of the University of Belgrade. The Programme is co-financed by the CEI Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) through the CEI Fund at the EBRD, sponsored by Italy.
 
The XIII Central European Forum of Aquileia EuroRegion took place in Udine on 5 October 2017. Organised by the Mitteleuropa Cultural Association, in cooperation with a consortium of public and private stakeholders, the Forum gathered representatives of public institutions, diplomats, politicians and academics from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkan area.
 
The Port Authority of Trieste hosted the Kick off meeting of the project SECNET (Crossborder institutional cooperation for Port Security Enhancement) funded under the Interreg Crossborder Programme Italy-Slovenia on 12 October.

Organised by the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, in partnership with the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the University of Travnik, the 10th International Symposium New Technologies in Sport "Entrepreneurship and Business in Sport" was successfully held in Sarajevo on 13-14 October. 
The Film New Europe CEI AV Innovation Day at the International Co-production Forum Regiofund in Katowice, Poland on 5-6 October was made up of panels, case studies and industry networking to explore how innovation and technologies are impacting the audiovisual industry in the region and Europe.
 
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