EU and Western Balkans deepen cooperation on Research and Innovation

Commissioner Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner and Ministers from the Western Balkans met in Skopje for a series of meetings that highlighted the joint efforts on implementing the Western Balkans Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. They reaffirmed their commitment to intensifying cooperation for stronger integration of the Western Balkans in the European Education Area, in the European Research Area, and in the European Innovation Agenda.

The Ministers discussed the role of the European Research Area and the European Innovation Agenda, which all the Western Balkan partners can fully access, to foster, attract and retain talents through scaling up of the skills required for innovation. The Western Balkan partners have increased resources for research and innovation, particularly for research infrastructures, science and technology parks, academia-business cooperation facilitating technology transfer, and in providing broad sets of innovation support measures. 400 projects in the region are receiving in total €140 million of funding under the EU's research and innovation programme.

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