SEEERA NET Marion Haberfellner Project Manager Centre for

SEE-ERA. NET Marion Haberfellner Project Manager Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) Steering Platform Meeting, Zagreb, 28 th of October 2009

SEE-ERA. NET n Ended on 31 st of August 2009 LAST ACTIVITES n Publication of Booklet on „Scientific results of the SEEERA. NET Pilot Joint Call” n Update of the Joint Action Plan (JAP) 2

Booklet on Scientific results of the SEE-ERA. NET Pilot Joint Call The booklet contains: n Foreword: EC (Comissioner Potocnik) + Prof. Tsalidis n Information on the SEE-ERA. NET project: about the Pilot Joint Call in general, its accompanying measures, 27 individual scientific reports on the research and networking projects as well as on summer schools funded by the SEE-ERA. NET Pilot Joint Call n Monitoring report 3

Update of the Joint Action Plan 1/1 n August 2007 Publication of the “White Paper on overlaps, gaps and opportunities in view of the extension of bilateral RTD programmes and initiatives towards multilateral approaches” and its accompanying Joint Action Plan (JAP) n widely distributed – feedback/recommendations n Second revision now in August 2009 n White Paper is designed as a policy paper, the JAP has to be understood as a working paper reflecting the current situation and proposing respective actual measures, gaining momentum through the combination, coordination and adaptation of the individual measures. 4

Update of the Joint Action Plan 1/2 n therefore Joint Action Plan ideal document to be updated from time to time summarising and outlining all combined measures targeting at the strengthening of strategic reform processes with regard to S&T in the Western Balkan countries, the n assuring of a high level of participation of the Western Balkan countries in the 7 th EU Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP 7) and n the promotion of an intensive use of existing cooperation instruments, or, where necessary, n introducing new, coherent and complementary or joint cooperation instruments. n n Finalised in August 2009 and available on the websites of SEE-ERA. NET (PLUS) and WBC-INCO. NET. 5

SEE-ERA. NET and SEE-ERA. NET PLUS contact details Coordinator: Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) Marion Haberfellner see-era. net@zsi. at mhaberfellner@zsi. at Linke Wienzeile 246 A-1150 Vienna, Austria Phone: + 43 1 49 50 442 - 67 Mobile: + 43 699 114 802 80 Fax: + 43 1 49 50 442 – 40 6