POLICY ANSWERS – R&I POLICY making, implementation ANd Support in the WEsteRn BalkanS

Project title: POLICY ANSWERS - R&I POLICY making, implementation ANd Support in the WEsteRn BalkanS
Commissioned by: European Commission - Horizon Europe
Project duration: March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026
Project manager: Zoran Aralica
Collaborators: Ljiljana Božić, Anita Harmina (until September 30, 2023), Ivona Krezić

Summary: 
The project aims to continue and scale up the common efforts of the European Union and the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia - for cooperation on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. The goal is to ultimately foster stability and prosperity while strengthening the European perspective of the region.

This Horizon Europe project will deploy a vast array of tools - from high-level meetings to information services, from launching pilot activities to policy recommendations on key innovation issues - to support a better integration of the Western Balkans into the European Research Area (ERA).

Centre for Social Innovation (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI) in Vienna is coordinating institution and the consortium involves 14 partner institutions, the Institute of Economics, Zagreb being one of them.