News

Sun, 25/10/2020

Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) continues to support Junior Anti-Corruption Practitioners from South-Eastern Europe

This year’s online Summer School of the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) maintained its tradition of partnering with national authorities from the RAI Member States and international organisations.

Just Societies

Thu, 22/10/2020

Innovative companies from CEI Member States meet on PPE HEALTH PORTAL

Businesses and partners from Albania, Italy, Poland and Ukraine, met on 20 October in a webinar focused on the exchange of knowledge and the promotion of innovative products for countering the current health emergency.

Health

COVID-19 Extraordinary Call

KEP

Media freedom

Mon, 19/10/2020

CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2020 announced

Cecilia Anesi from Italy and Natalija Jovanovic from Serbia are the winners of this year’s CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism, promoted by the Central European Initiative (CEI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO). Esmeralda Keta from Albania will receive a special mention.

Media freedom

Media

Wed, 14/10/2020

CEI-WHO from guidance to action: stepping up infection prevention and control in healthcare settings

No country or health system, even the most developed or sophisticated, can claim to be free of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Effective Infection Prevention Control (IPC) needs safe healthcare settings for adequate IPC programmes in all facilities, adequate training and more quality personal-protective equipment.

Health

CEI-WHO Task Force

Mon, 12/10/2020

New Publication: contribution of CEI to UN Agenda 2030 and its implementation in CEI Member States

In the framework of the 5th anniversary of the adoption of Agenda 2030, we are proud to launch “Contribution of CEI to UN Agenda 2030 and its implementation in CEI Member States”.

Health and Social Innovation

Fri, 09/10/2020

Italian Health Institute sets two new CEI projects into motion

The Italian Health Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanità – ISS), has recently kicked off two projects financed by Italy in the framework of the CEI COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals. Both actions will implement activities on Distance Learning on Epidemics and Pandemic outbreaks. One will target the countries of the Western Balkans and the other will target Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.

Health

KEP

COVID-19 Extraordinary Call

Mon, 05/10/2020

CEI Know-how Exchange Programme: Call for Proposals 2020 now open!

The CEI is glad to announce a Call for Proposals for the CEI Know‐how Exchange Programme (KEP) with funding made available by the CEI Fund at the EBRD, entirely financed by the Italian Government.

KEP

Health and Social Innovation

Fri, 02/10/2020

Challenges, lessons learned and preparedness: CEI-WHO on the way forward

“Will we ever be able to be prepared for a pandemic?” This was the theme of the 7th meeting of the CEI-WHO Task Force in response to COVID-19 emergency held on 30 September.

CEI-WHO Task Force

Mon, 28/09/2020

CEI Ministers of Foreign Affairs discuss transition to “new normal” with multilateralism as cornerstone of cooperation

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and High-level representatives of the CEI Member States converged in an e-meeting on 24 September to take stock of the latest developments in the CEI region following the COVID-19 pandemic, as we step into the transition to a “new normal”.

Montenegrin Presidency

Health and Social Innovation

Mon, 14/09/2020

CEI-WHO Task Force resumes briefings with safe school reopening at heart of meeting

Increasing coordination on measures for safe school reopening was the main topic tackled during an e-meeting held in the framework of the CEI-WHO Joint Task Force (TF), on 9 September.

CEI-WHO Task Force

Intercultural cooperation

Thu, 10/09/2020

Yasen Vasilev from Bulgaria wins CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence 2020

Yasen Vasilev, a 32-year old Bulgarian writer educated in theater academies in Sofia and Shanghai was awarded the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence 2020 in an online ceremony on 9 September.

Fri, 31/07/2020

ICARUS and MIMOSA become EUSAIR labelled projects

The requests submitted in June by ICARUS (Intermodal Connections in Adriatic-Ionian Region to Upgrowth Seamless solutions for passenger) and MIMOSA (Maritime and multimodal sustainable passenger transport solutions and services) to become EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) labelled projects, have been successfully accepted.

Thu, 30/07/2020

CEI-led MIMOSA project officially launched

Yesterday the CEI-Executive Secretariat (CEI-ES) chaired the kick-off meeting and first steering committee meeting of the newly launched MIMOSA (Maritime and multimodal sustainable passenger transport solutions and services).

EU projects

MIMOSA

Health and Social Innovation

Fri, 17/07/2020

CEI-WHO inter-country dialogue commits to united action for better health

The CEI and the WHO converged in an e-meeting focused on the key theme of the European Programme of Work of the WHO Regional Office for Europe United Action for Better Health (EPW), on 15 July.

CEI-WHO Task Force

Tue, 30/06/2020

Announcement of awarded CEI contributions in framework of COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals

The Central European Initiative is glad to announce and extend its congratulations to the following awarded proposals submitted in the framework of the COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals.

Health and Social Innovation

Thu, 25/06/2020

CEI-WHO meetings take stock of new development around COVID-19 pandemic

The CEI-WHO Joint Task Force remains dedicated to following the COVID-19 situation and evaluating the transition criteria CEI-wide. Under this perspective, the third and fourth designated e-meetings, which took place on 10 June and 24 June respectively, delved into thematic sessions touching upon the WHO health emergency program, the transition criteria, and surveillance systems.

COVID-19

CEI-WHO Task Force

Economic growth

Fri, 19/06/2020

FORTIS: online workshop on procedure harmonisation in the field of vehicle registration between Italy and Slovenia

In the framework of the FORTIS project on 17-18 June, the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia organised an online workshop on the harmonisation of administrative procedures between Italy and Slovenia in the fields of vehicle registration, licensing and emergency management.

FORTIS

EU projects

Judicial Cooperation

Fri, 12/06/2020

PRE-RIGHTS SURVEY: preventive measures in case of radicalisation and violent extremism leading to terrorism

If you work in the field of Justice, Law Enforcement, Prisons, and Investigations, we kindly encourage you to share your experience with us by answering our survey (completely anonymous) designed in the framework of the EU project PRE-RIGHTS. It aims at gathering deeper insight into practitioners’ perspectives, regarding the enforcement of preventive measures in case of radicalisation and violent extremism leading to terrorism.

Pre-rights

EU projects

Wed, 03/06/2020

CEI Fund at the EBRD provides around 1 million EUR for 6 new technical assistance projects

The National Coordinators have recently approved six new Technical Cooperation Projects (TCs), to be funded under the CEI Fund at the EBRD, entirely financed by the Italian Government. The approved projects have an overall value of 943,290 EUR, with an expected related investment amounting to 293.4 million EUR.

EBRD

technical cooperation

Project Management

Fri, 29/05/2020

CONNECT2CE final conference wraps up three-year results with ideas for future of transport

The CEI-led project CONNECT2CE “Improved rail connections and smart mobility in Central Europe” concluded in a virtual conference held on 28 May.

CONNECT2CE

smart communities

green growth