Dear readers,

we send you the newsletter of the Western Balkan countries INCO-NET (project on Coordination of Research Policies with the Western Balkan Countries) which providing news articles, event and call announcements as well as newly added documents.

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Elke Dall, Ines Marinkovic and the WBC-INCO.NET Team (http://www.wbc-inco.net/users/team)
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... Highlighted News Articles

• Project to strengthen the RCC kicks off
  The project Improving Cooperation in South-East Europe by Actions for Strengthening...
• The Innovation Union Scoreboard: Monitoring the innovation performance of the 27 EU Member States, associated and neighbouring countries
  The text below (MEMO/12/74) provides an overview of the research and innovation per...
• EURAXESS BIH is introducing a WebDroid
  EURAXESS BIH WebDroid is a mobile application for cell phones with Androidâ„¢ op...
• [Call for papers & Event Announcement] "Activating the sources of economic growth in Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 2012"
  On the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the institute, the Riinvest I...
• [Event Announcement] 1st Danube Financing Dialogue: " Financing projects of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Danube Region"
  At the 1st  Danube Financing Dialogue in Vienna, international experts will g...
• "Investing in Success": Croatia involved in 3 out of 15 highlighted successful projects
  The European Commission has published a booklet on the Horizon 2020 website entitled...
• EU research funding reaches 15% target for SMEs
  Latest figures show that the European Commission is keeping its promises on resear...
• EC Press release: Consultation on ERA finds opportunities and challenges for EU research landscape
  Making Europe more attractive for top scientists and globally-mobile private R&...
• [Event Announcement] International Workshop “Intercultural Dialogue in Theory and Practice in SEEâ€�
  The workshop, to be held on February 28, 2012, will bring together experts/researche...
• [CALL FOR PAPERS] 7th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference September 24-25, 2012 Thessaloniki - Greece
  http://www.seerc.org/dsc2012/ Building on the success of the six previous Doctoral c...
• [Event Announcement] AEBIOM Bioenergy Conference 2012
  The AEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference is the third edition of the growing s...
• Taking stock of the ERA and the environment
  The EC has published the results of a study which looks at progress and recommendati...
• [Call for papers & Event Announcement] The Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012
  Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science in partnership with the National Libr...
• [Call for papers & Event Announcement] ERSA Congress 2012: Regions in Motion - Breaking the Path
  The annual conference of the European Regional Science Association is ...
• IS NEWS (Issue No. 6): Information Society Policy Research Unit Newsletterâ€�
  JRC-IPTS has published the 6th issue of a half-yearly newsletter (January 2012). An ...

... Calls

• Bilateral Call: Austria-Montenegro Scientific and Technological Cooperation
  Deadline: 6 April 2012
  The Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Wissenschaftlich-Technische Zusammenar...
• Call for proposals from European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
  Deadline: 30 March 2012
  The European Commission has published a call for proposals from European Cooperation...
• Call for Proposals 2012 for Actions Under The Programme “Intellıgent Energy – Europeâ€�
  Deadline: 8 May 2012
  The objective of the Intelligent Energy - Europe II Programme (“IEE II�)...

... Event Announcements

For more events please refer to our event calendar: http://www.wbc-inco.net/object/calendar/list

• Balkan Peer Exchange: Enhancing Analysis and Research-Based Advocacy in an Era of Open Data
  21 - 23 February 2012, Belgrade, Serbia
  This event is jointly financed and organized by the European Fund for the Balkans, T...
• EUREKA for Smart Regions - Regional Conference
  8 March 2012, Pecs, Hungary
  A priority of the Hungarian EUREKA Chairmanship is to begin exploring the regional d...
• Kick-off "Improving Cooperation in South-East Europe by Actions for Strengthening the Regional Cooperation Council"
  16 March 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  The project Improving Cooperation in South-East Europe by Actions for Strengthening ...
• 1st Danube Financing Dialogue: " Financing projects of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Danube Region"
  22 - 23 March 2012, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) in Vienna, Austria
  At the 1st  Danube Financing Dialogue in Vienna, international experts will ga...
• The Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012
  18 - 19 May 2012, Belgrade, Serbia
  Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science in partnership with the National Libr...
• 20th NISPAcee Annual Conference: Public Administration East and West: Twenty Years of Development
  23 May 2012, Ohrid, FYRo Macedonia
  The annual conferences of NISPAcee focus on a significant theme, which facilitates...
• International Conference: Role of research in sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas, Podgorica
  23 - 25 May 2012, Podgorica, Montenegro
  Agriculture is facing with many challenges on the global level: the climatic changes...
• Central European Congress on Food, Novi Sad - 23-26. May 2012
  23 - 26 May 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia
  Since 2002 CEFood Congress was incepted in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as biennial congres...
• Annual RRPP conference 2012 "Social, Political and Economic Change in the Western Balkans"
  24 - 27 May 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  The annual RRPP Conference will take place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina fro...
• ICEIRD 2012: 5th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development
  1 - 2 June 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria
  The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and the Faculty of Economics and Business...

... Documents

• INNOVATION UNION SCOREBOARD 2011 The Innovation Union's performance scoreboard for Research and Innovation
  This is the second edition of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS). Based on the pr...
• A European Research Area for the Environment
  Taking stock of the progress of the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of t...
• Preferred Partnerships on Tempus (2008-2011), Mapping By Country
  The purpose of this document is to map, for the first time, in Tempus the preferred ...

... Links

• The Database of Good Practices in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility in Serbia
  The development of Good Practices in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility a...
• Review of Potential Domestic and Foreign Funding Opportunities, Serbia January 2012
  Civic Initiatives, the Ministry of Finance and the Social Inclusion and Poverty Red...
• BIOMAP
  A new biofuels mapping tool, BIOMAP, was released on January 18, 2011. The tool map...
• Summer Schools in Europe.eu
  Summer Schools in Europe.eu is a website initiated by Utrecht University (in the Net...

- and in two weeks we will again send you an update!

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