News
Mon, 23/02/2015
''The CEI is a valuable tool which has grown over time, adapting to new developments and today has new potential". This is what the Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC), Michele Valensise, told ANSA News Agency during his visit in Trieste on 20 February. Valensise also highlighted the new challenges ahead, especially in relation to the EU macro-regional strategies. He underlined the need for promoting closer relations between the CEI and the Adriatic Ionian Initiative, in a spirit of complementarity.
Mon, 16/02/2015
The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from non-EU CEI countries (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine). The winner will receive a cash award of 5,000 EUR for a three-month residence in any CEI Member State of the candidate’s choice. During this period, the selected author will work on the literary project he or she proposed in his/her application.
Fri, 13/02/2015
The principles and tools of public participation in budgeting process were the topics of dicussions at the two seminars on “Public Participation in Budgeting Process on Local Level” held in Cherkassy city on January 20-21 and in Vinnitsa city on January 22-23, 2015.
The seminars were organised in the framework of the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI Project entitled "Performance budgets in Cherkasy and Vinnitsa - support for good governance and financial transparency of local governments in Ukraine".
The seminars were organised in the framework of the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI Project entitled "Performance budgets in Cherkasy and Vinnitsa - support for good governance and financial transparency of local governments in Ukraine".
Fri, 13/02/2015
On 12 and 13 February, a meeting of bilateral (Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden in particular) and multilateral donors, including the main IFIs supporting the SEE 2020 Strategy for Jobs and Growth, was organised in Sarajevo by the Regional Cooperation Council – RCC.
Thu, 12/02/2015
The CEI Cooperation Fund, financed by all Member States, supports small-scale projects mainly taking the form of seminars, workshops, short training courses or other kinds of events. Within the Call for Proposals 2014 the CEI is co-funding 59 projects with an overall approved amount of 466.350,00 EUR and an average grant per project of around 7900 EUR. All of the activities will be implemented in 2015 in the CEI region.
Tue, 10/02/2015
The interdisciplinary project, “GisNS - Development of Online Geodata Portal of Cultural Heritage in Novi Sad” was successfully concluded on 22-23 January 2015 in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Mon, 09/02/2015
The Serbian Institute for Public Health “Dr. Milan Jovanovic Batut” as project beneficiary institution, hosted the Meeting at its headquarters in Belgrade on 26-29 January 2015.
Mon, 09/02/2015
On the occasion of the first Committee of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting under the Macedonian CEI Presidency 2015 in Skopje on 3 February, six Technical Assistance projects were approved. They will be financed by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, fully contributed by Italy, with a total value of 1.045.000 EUR.
Fri, 06/02/2015
Fifty scientists from institutions located in ten CEI Member Countries, and representatives from the CEI Science and Technology Network took part in a Workshop on "Various Instruments to Support Research in Less performing Countries" on 5 February in Trieste. The event was organised by the Central European Initiative in cooperation with the Directorates for Research and Innovation and for the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission.
Thu, 05/02/2015
On 4 February 2015, this year’s Macedonian Presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI) and the CEI Secretariat organised a Promotional Event in Skopje. It served as a platform for presenting the priorities and programme of the Macedonian CEI Presidency and of the overall activities of the CEI. In particular, the CEI funds, programmes and instruments of cooperation were illustrated before the representatives of the Embassies, National Coordinators and above all Macedonian Institutions (both private and public and NGOs).
Thu, 05/02/2015
On 3 February 2014, Skopje hosted the first meeting of the Committee of National Coordinators (CNC) under the Macedonian CEI Presidency. It was opened by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Macedonia, Nikola Poposki, who outlined the main priorities of his country.
Thu, 05/02/2015
Countering youth unemployment in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (40%) is high on the agenda of the Municipality of Gradiška. It is developing a new ICT business incubator, which aims at meeting the needs of young entrepreneurs for infrastructural, technical/education and ICT services for supporting the main economic branches in the region: agriculture and commerce.
Wed, 04/02/2015
Targeted participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine took part in the First Clustering Workshop on the European Research Consortium (ERIC), organised in the framework of the Danube-INCO.NET project for Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region.
Tue, 03/02/2015
The recently concluded multi-stakeholder Design-MTS project has facilitated enterprises in Europe’s Machine Tool Sector (MTS) to take a strategic approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. Since July 2013, Design MTS partners - in the partly funded European Commission project - have raised the bar for CSR in the machine tool sector by practically integrating a multi-stakeholder approach to raise awareness and socially responsible best practices and to enhance the visibility and value of CSR in the MTS sector.
Fri, 23/01/2015
The implementation of the Project PACKSENSOR, dedicated to sustainable food packaging and monitoring in South Serbia, officially started with a kick-off meeting in Leskovac on 14-15 January 2015.
The project, fully titled PACKSENSOR - The impact of the controlled atmosphere on quality and safety of the close-seal-packaged food applied in the SMEs of South Serbia, aims to provide solutions for monitoring the influence of packaging on food safety, currently not practiced by local firms due to the lack of trained personnel and proper equipment.
The project, fully titled PACKSENSOR - The impact of the controlled atmosphere on quality and safety of the close-seal-packaged food applied in the SMEs of South Serbia, aims to provide solutions for monitoring the influence of packaging on food safety, currently not practiced by local firms due to the lack of trained personnel and proper equipment.
Fri, 23/01/2015
Tiha K. Gudac, born in Zagreb in 1982, was awarded for the documentary film Goli (Naked Island) which, as underlined by the jury, “denounces how a nation’s past can haunt its present”. The CEI Award (3.000 EUR) was presented by Alternate Secretary General, Amb. Margit Waestfelt, on the occasion of the awarding ceremony in Trieste on 22 January.
Thu, 22/01/2015
The representatives of the International Visegrad Fund (IVF) visited the CEI Secretariat in Trieste on Wednesday, 21 January, to exchange views on possibilities of cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Wed, 14/01/2015
The CEI is one of the sponsors of the Trieste Film Festival, the Italian leading appointment with Central and Eastern European cinema taking place in Trieste from 16 to 22 January 2014.
Fri, 19/12/2014
Endorsed and co-funded by the European Commission under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, DESIGN-MTS – Defining Social responsibility Interventions for a Grounded Networking in Machine Tool Sector is ending on 31 December 2014. The project was led by the University of Macerata in partnership with CECIMO, CSR-Europe, IRES and the University of Nottingham and the CEI.
Thu, 18/12/2014
Nearly two decades after the end of the conflict in former Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina remains one of the world's most mine contaminated countries with an estimated 2.5% of its territory at risk. The May floods have complicated the situation further, potentially contaminating the already cleared fields.