17. 9. 2018 | PR, Serbia - Information exchange, Slovenian Development Assistance
What are proposals and guidelines for better flow of information related to illegal migration in the communication system of Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia? This will be evident in the workshop which will take place on 19 September 2018 in Belgrade and will be intended for the development of the proposals which will be produced by Serbian colleagues together with colleagues from Slovenian Police and by taking into consideration standards which are used in the EU. The outcome will be presented to the representatives of the leadership of the Ministry of Interior and Police of the Republic of Serbia which are responsible for effective functioning of the system of information flow in the the area illegal migrations. The goal is to optimize the flow of information by putting to better use the current capacities and consequently, respond better to situations related to illegal migrations.
Project is part of program activities implemented in the cooperation with the Ministry of Interior/Police of the Republic of Slovenia and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia in the framework of Slovenia’s Development Cooperation.
15. 9. 2018 | Decentralisation, local self-government, National communities, PR, Public administration, Slovenian Development Assistance, U-LEAD: with Europe
Together with U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme, CEP hosted an international study visit on social and economic development of communities with diverse ethnic population between the 10th and 14th of September. During the five day event, participants from Ukraine visited Slovene municipalities of Izola, Koper and Domžale, as well as Italian municipalities of Trst and Dolina.
On the first day of the study visit, seventeen representatives of local and regional authorities from Zakarpattya, Odesa and Chernivtsi oblast learned about the Slovene system of local self-government, regional development in Slovenia and got acquainted with Italian and Hungarian national communities and the Roma community in Slovenia.
Between the 11th and 12th of September, they visited bilingual municipalities of Koper and Izola, where they met with representatives of the Italian minority in Slovenia, Regional development centre Koper, as well as municipalities of Izola and Koper. They were interested in concrete examples of local development projects and also visited Škocjanski zatok, a great example of a revitalisation of a degraded industrial area into a natural reserve. On the 13th of September they travelled to Italy. Firstly, they met with the director of the Slovene Regional Economic Association in Trst and travelled to the business zone in the municipality of Dolina later that day. The last day of the study visit was spent in the municipality of Domžale, where the participants met with the mayor and learned about their examples of local development projects, such as their new bike park and recreational area by the Kamniška Bistrica river.
Ukrainian representatives gained valuable knowledge on the preparation and implementation of local and regional development projects and acquainted themselves with several good practices, which they will strive to apply in their local communities. They were also genuinely interested in establishing peer-to-peer cooperation with Slovene municipalities and organisations.
A similar international study visit will be organised at the end of this year.
The activities were financed by U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme, a multi-donor action of the European Union and its Member States Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
4. 9. 2018 | PR, Slovenian Development Assistance
Centre for European Perspective (CEP) is one of the 15 consortium members led by Italian ARSProgetti SPA providing experts for different services requested by the European Commission under the framework contract SIEA 2018. SIEA 2018 ’Services for the implementation of external aid 2018’ is one of the main on-going framework contracts in total value of 650 million euros. Frameworks contracts are put in place by EuropeAid Cooperation Office to facilitate the implementation of the external aid through the fast recruiting of expertise in several fields, and may cover any geographical area in the world. The framework contract consists of 6 Lots covering different areas: Lot – 1 Sustainable management of natural resources and resilience, Lot 2 – Infrastructure, sustainable growth and jobs, Lot 3 – Human Rights, Democracy and Peace, Lot 4 – Human Development and safety net, Lot 5 – Budget Support and Lot 6 – Innovative financing for Development. The consortium led by ARSProgetti SPA with its experts will compete with 9 other consortium that are part of Lot 3.
More info on https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/funding/fwc-siea-2018_en.
28. 8. 2018 | European Digital Diplomacy Exchange, PR, Slovenian Development Assistance
The Centre for European Perspective, together with the U. S. Department of State, is organizing another special event in the scope of the project“Enhancing Digital Diplomacy Activities in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe”. All activities will take place in two locations, our state capital Ljubljana and Bled, between September 9th and September 12th. The four day event will bring together participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Ukraine, as well as leading experts in the field of Digital Diplomacy from the U.S. Department of State, academia, private sector and media.
The initiative continues to serve as the hub for education and sharing of best practices in the field of Digital Diplomacy. After two trainings, organized in autumn 2017 and spring 2018, this event will focus on combining all the past and current ideas, knowledge and motivation to build a strong network for the project. It will be up to the old and new participants to BRIDGE different challenges in the field, and contribute to a fruitful program in the future.
The event is also special in two ways, as its activities are included in the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF) and the Young Bled Strategic Forum (YBSF). Experts in the field of Digital Diplomacy will work side by side with the participants of the YBSF assisting them to properly deliver their messages to the target audience. Our project is moving to Bled for the last two days, where the participants will have an opportunity to join some interesting discussions, at one of the biggest international interdisciplinary conferences in Slovenia. Don´t miss our panel discussion titled Digital Bridge: Transformation for Institutional Resilience taking place on Tuesday. Our speakers and programme will remain a secret for now, but follow us on our social media to discover all about it in the next weeks.
24. 8. 2018 | BIH - Entrepreneurs, PR, Slovenian Development Assistance, Start:up Balkan
The founder of the winning start-up of the Start:up Balkan programme Meerkiddo from Bosnia and Herzegovina will at the beginning of September travel to London and visit a global start-up hub. With the 5-day visit of the winning start-up to the global capital and financial centre, the Start:up Balkan programme will conclude its this year’s activities.
A special networking and business boosting programme supported by the British Startup Manufactory company includes several activities from visit to Google Campus and different entrepreneurial meetups to appointments with representatives of some tech start-ups and few entrepreneurship trainings on recent business topics.
Different opportunities and challenges on the British and Irish markets and business support prospects are foreseen topics for the discussion with the representatives of British government’s Department of international trade and Slovenian Embassy in London.
Meerkiddo is one of the over 30 start-ups from the Western Balkan region that were presented on start-up conference in Maribor and were selected as the most perspective through the Start:up Balkan tour. Meerkiddo created a parental control app that helps parents supervise their children using a mobile phone.
Start:up Balkan tour was a part of the Start:up Balkan programme that was conducted in February 2018 through all Western Balkans capitals. In each capital an event was organized with renowned international speakers and guests to support local young entrepreneurs and encourage them to be even better. The main objective of these events was to give local start-ups a chance for a three-minute pitch that was followed by a feedback delivered by experts and potential investors. The best start-ups from each capital were in May 2018 invited to the PODIM conference in Maribor and to take part in the PODIM Challenge pitching competition.
Three wining start-ups of the PODIM Challenge, were awarded with all-inclusive tailor-made programme in London that will take place from the 3rd to the 7th September 2017.
Start:up Balkan was program in the framework of the project ‘Establishing an Integrated Start-up Ecosystem in the Western Balkans’ powered by CEP and PODIM and supported by the BritishEmbassy in Ljubljana.
19. 7. 2018 | Montenegro - EU Accession, PR, Slovenian Development Assistance
In the framework of the bilateral technical assistance project “Assistance to Montenegro in negotiations on accession to the EU” the Centre for European Perspective (CEP) provides assistance to the Montenegrin Securities and Exchange Commission. Two days expert advice that will conclude today, is provided by three experts from Slovene Securities Market Agency (ATVP). ATVP experts focus their consultations on the capital market, different rules on investment firms and investment intermediaries (Negotiating Chapter 9 – Financial services). The project is part of the CEP program activities financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the scope of international development cooperation.
Strokovnjaki ATVP v okviru bilateralne tehnične pomoči svetujejo kolegom iz Črne gore
V okviru projekta ‘Pomoč Črni gori pri pogajanjih o pristopu k EU’ izvaja Center za evropsko prihodnost (CEP) v Podgorici tehnično pomoč sodelavcem črnogorske Komisije za trg vrednostnih papirjev. Dvodnevno svetovanje, ki se zaključuje danes, izvajajo trije strokovnjaki Agencije za trg vrednostih papirjev (ATVP). Slovenski strokovnjaki kolegom iz Črne gore svetujejo v okviru pogajalskega Poglavja 9 – Finančne storitve in sicer na temo kapitalskega trga, investicijskih družb in posredništva pri naložbah. Projekt je del programskih aktivnosti CEP, ki jih financira Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve iz sredstev za mednarodno razvojno sodelovanje.
