This Assessment study constitutes a Background Paper for the Expert meeting and Ministerial Round Table ‘Strengthening Science and Higher Education in South Eastern Europe – From Bilateral to Pan-European Cooperation’, held in Tirana, Albania, 21-22 May 2010, and co-organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Albania and UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe.
The Assessment study puts a special emphasis on bilateral intergovernmental RTD and higher Education co-operation programs. In fact, almost all member States exercise different bilateral intergovernmental programmes with other European and third countries encompassing a broad range of rather different programmatic approaches and designs with distinctive regional foci.
