Bosna i Hercegovina

EC’s Researchers’ Report 2012: results for Balkan countries

Posted 30 November 2012 by Mićo Tatalović

The European Union needs a million more researchers over the next decade and it plans to devote 3% of GDP to R&D by 2020 to keep up with its main economic competitors and be a knowledge-based economy, according to this year's European Commission Researchers' Report. To achieve all this, it needs equal opportunities for women, attractive working conditions, open and merit-based recruitment, together with cross-border mobility, high-quality and attractive doctoral and post-doctoral training, and greater movement between the public and... Read more

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Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina pledges to revolutionise its “unsatisfactory” science

Posted 9 August 2012 by Mićo Tatalović

Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in the highly ethnically and politically divided Bosnia and Herzegovina, has a new science strategy, complete with an action plan to internationalise its currently dismal science, link it to industry and boost funding to 0.5% of GDP by 2016. The strategy for 2012-2016 was approved by the parliament last month (17 July) and it follows from the new science law that came into effect in January. The current system is "unsatisfactory" and not targeted to... Read more

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Balkan Countries Pin Hopes on More Science

Posted 21 January 2011 by Mićo Tatalović

The breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s created a situation in which research was a luxury for many of its former republics struggling to make it as independent countries. But Balkan countries are betting more and more that science can help them rescue ailing economies. Montenegro's new prime minister, for example, just created the country's first dedicated science ministry. Similarly, Serbia and the neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina have each launched plans for huge increases in research spending in the decade... Read more

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