On 10 December a PA7 ‘Knowledge Society’ Steering Group meeting will be held in Vienna.
In the framework of Work Package (WP) 3 “Tackling Societal Challenges: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in a Bio-based Economy”, the Danube-INCO.NET project is carrying out a mapping exercise aimed to identify the most relevant stakeholders active in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy and the bioeconomy in the Danube Region. The result of this effort will be a constantly upgraded database that will prove an efficient tool for networking, with the ultimate goal to support concrete cooperation activities and the creation of international partnerships.
On the 10th of July 2014 participants from all over the region met in Belgrade to launch Danube-INCO.NET’s policy dialogue on how to work towards achieving the goals of the European Research Area (ERA) and the Innovation Union (IU). Recommendations are now available.
The DRRIF Working Group has been set up to enhance and accelerate the implementation of the goals set in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) Action Plan and Priority Area 07 (PA7) Roadmap.
Five Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), and the Republic of Moldova secured full access to the European Union’s new seven year research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, by signing the association agreement on July 1, 2014.
The Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) is an instrument dedicated to offering co-financing to projects and programmes focused on the transfer of know-how and best practices from EU to non-EU Member States of the CEI. It operates through calls for proposals.