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On 18 May 2017, the results achieved by the KEP ITALY project "Development of a training program on management of disaster prevention, preparedness and rapid response" were presented in Montenegro.

The CEI has recently become a member-partner of the Silk Road Think Tank Network (SiLKS), an informal international network initiated in 2015 by think tanks, relevant international organisations, and institutions jointly with the Development Research Center of the State Council of China. The network currently counts 54 members and partners.
 
The 3rd Committee of National Coordinators’ meeting, under the Belarusian CEI Presidency, took place at the CEI Headquarters in Trieste on 16 May.

Participants focused on recent and forthcoming events of both the CEI Presidency and of the Secretariat. In particular, the Presidency presented the latest organisational, protocol and logistics regarding the forthcoming meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs in Minsk on 22 June.

The Forum was organised in Venice on 12 May at the premises of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee.
 
On 13 May, the Central European Initiative celebrated in Trieste the 300 years after the birth of Maria Theresa of Austria.
 
In the framework of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the CineLink Drama workshop took place at the Obala Art Centar in Sarajevo.
 
The CEI is glad to announce a new Call for Proposals for the CEI Know‐how Exchange Programme (KEP) ‐ ITALY. The projects will be co‐financed by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, entirely financed by the Italian Government.

Proposals are to be in line with the CEI Plan of Action and meet the criteria comprehensively outlined in the Call for Proposals and Application Guidelines.

The Annual Report 2016 of the CEI Fund at the EBRD contributed by Italy was presented during the CEI Steering Committee Meeting at the EBRD Headquarters in London on 6 April 2017. Guido Paolucci, Programme Manager at the Office for the CEI Fund at the EBRD, briefly introduced the main elements of the report.
 
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 courses.

The COME-IN! Project Partners met in Piran on 10-11 April on the occasion of the 2nd Steering Committee meeting in order to exchange views on two important documents: the Report on accessibility to culture for all users in Central Europe and the COME-IN! Guidelines, a set of rules, technical requirements and legal references allowing open access to collections and exhibitions in small and medium-sized museums.

On 7-10 April, the RomArchive - Roma Film Archive - Workshop & Film Festival took place in Budapest, Hungary. The event was organised in the framework of the long-term project RomArchive– Digital Archive of the Roma, which aims at becoming an internationally accessible virtual discursive space that makes the cultural heritage and history of the Roma visible and responds to recurring stereotypes by a counter-history told by the Roma themselves.
 
On 6-7 April the NATO Defense College Foundation organised the conference "Balkan Networks and Stability - Connecting Co-operative and human security" in Rome.
 
The CEI Steering Committee (SC) and the CEI Committee of National Coordinators (CNC) met on 6 April at the Headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.
The Youth Forum on Refugees and Migrants in the New Media in South-East Europe and Central Europe, organised by the Association for Education Mladiinfo International, offered the opportunity to examine the process in which migrants and/or refugees are transformed from object to subject in media representation in South Eastern European and Central European countries.

The 5th edition of the popular science festival “Nauk nije bauk” was held in Niš, Serbia on 31- March – 1 April.
 
In the framework of the International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy, 5-9 April 2017), the CEI and SEEMO jointly organised the panel “Press freedom in south-east Europe” on Wednesday, 5 April.

Contributions were delivered by the Croatian journalist Zrinka Vrabec Mojzes, editor of the weekly Nacional, and the investigative journalists Besar Likmeta, from Albania, and Anna Babinets, from Ukraine.

On 21-24 March, a study tour in Trieste was organised in the framework of the project “Maritime Cluster Cooperation Italy-Montenegro - MaCCIM”. The project’s main goal is to support Montenegrin partners in setting up a district related to 'blue economy' businesses. This project is co-financed by the CEI Know-how Exchange Programme through the CEI Fund at the EBRD with 40,000 EUR.
 
The Central European Initiative (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 opened the Call for Applications 2017 of the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism. The Call is divided into two categories: “Professional journalists” (4.000 EUR) and “Young professional journalists” (1.000 EUR).
The CEI is pleased to announce the launch of the Call for Applications for Advanced on-the-job Training for Young Professionals from non-EU CEI Member States.

The CEI is offering up to three fellowships of 1,200.00 EUR per month for a duration of six months.
The selected candidates will join the CEI Secretariat in Trieste.

The 14th Coordination Meeting of Regional Organisations was held at the CEI Headquarters, in Trieste, Italy on 27-28 March. It was attended by the Adriatic - Ionian Initiative (AII), the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC), the Central European Initiative (CEI), the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the Danube Commission, the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat (UFM Secretariat).
 
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