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European Center for Peace and Development - ECPD |
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he European Center for Peace and Development
(ECPD) in Belgrade is a Regional Centre of the
UN University for Peace, established in 1985.The
ECPD represents a unique institution in this
part of the world and has a special significance
to countries of South-Eastern Europe.
The ECPD is involved in research, education, and
consulting activities in several areas of
innovation policy (dissemination of knowledge,
technology transfer, development of
post-graduate education and specialist training,
intellectual property rights, and technical
assistance particularly in the domain of
regional development). In its various
post-graduate study programmes “Innovation and
Enterpreneurship” is given a particularly
important place, and it is positioned into the
context of development problems of economic and
social transition of the region of South Eastern
Europe, and the efforts of gradual integration
of these countries into the European Union.
The primary objective of ECPD is to contribute
to the development of innovative and creative
potential in the region of South Eastern Europe.
In order to reach the numerous innovation
stakeholders the ECPD has created a network of
regional units in all parts of former
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania.
In pursuit of these tasks the ECPD has concluded
long term cooperation agreements in the field of
innovation and transfer of knowledge systems
with the Governments of The Republic of Serbia. |
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Republic of Serbia
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The
Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија or
Republika Srbija is a landlocked country in
Central and Southeastern Europe, covering the
southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the
central part of the Balkan Peninsula. It is
bordered by Hungary on the north; Romania and
Bulgaria on the east; Albania and the Republic
of Macedonia on the south; and Montenegro,
Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the west.
The capital is Belgrade.
With a GDP for 2007 estimated at $54.310
billion, which is $7 234 per capita Purchasing
Power Parity (PPP), ($4 800 nominal), Republic
of Serbia is considered an upper-middle income
economy by the World Bank [37]. GDP growth rate
in 2006 is 5.8%.[38] Growth in 2005 was 6.3%[39]
FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in 2006 was
$5.85 billion or €4.5 billion. FDI for 2007 is
currently estimated at around $2 Billion. Serbia
has an economy based mostly on various services,
industry and agriculture. In the late 1980s, at
the beginning of the process of economic
transition, its position was favorable, but it
was gravely impacted by UN economic sanctions
1992–95, the damage to infrastructure and
industry during the NATO air strikes in 1999, as
well as having problems from losing the markets
of ex-Yugoslavia and Comecon. Main economic
problems include high unemployment and an
insufficient amount of economic reforms.
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NEWS |
8th-9th June 2009
EREF -
European Regional Economic Forum
(Slovenia)
"Human Capital Development and
International Migrations Management for a
more Competitive"
www.eref.si
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