Press Release: SEE-ERA.NET White Paper published

Strategic recommendations for connecting the research systems of Southeast Europe to the European Research Area

• The WHITE PAPER identifies opportunities for developing S&T policy strategies, fostering of institutional reforms, institution building and infrastructure development in the Western Balkan countries
• The WHITE PAPER indicates how the Western Balkan countries can use the full potential of the EU Framework Programmes on Research and Technological Development by recommending new mechanisms to allow the docking of Western Balkans institutions to established European consortia
• The WHITE PAPER is accompanied by a Joint Action Plan which details concrete implementation scenarios in the Regional Programme for Cooperation with South-East Europe (accessible online at http://www.see-era.net/attach/JAP090707doc.doc)
• The WHITE PAPER is presented by the Southeast European Era-Net (SEE-ERA.NET), a networking project, financed by the European Commission and managed by a consortium of 17 ministries and funding bodies from 14 European countries (including all Western Balkan countries)

Please find the whole document for download at http://www.see-era.net/doc/otherdocs/view?id=22025

Further information:

Florian Gruber
Project Manager
Centre for Social Innovation - Vienna

Tel: +43 1 495 04 42 – 56
Fax: +43 1 495 04 42 – 40
Email: gruber@zsi.at
www.see-era.net

inserted by Florian GRUBER on 2007-11-06 14:56:45