The RCC Secretary General, Hido Biscevic, will present the organization’s Annual Report on regional cooperation in South East Europe 2011-2012 and the RCC Secretariat’s Self-assessment Report on the first year of implementation of the RCC Strategy and Work Programme 2011-2013. The report is expected to be endorsed by the meeting participants, who will also exchange views on developments in regional cooperation in South East Europe within the framework of the RCC and the challenges ahead.

The meeting is also expected to endorse the nomination proposal for the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council.

The RCC Annual Meeting meets at the level of Senior Civil Servants or above. It is open to other countries, international organizations and partners as guests upon request to and/or the initiative of the Secretary General following the consent of the members of the RCC Board.

The event will gather regional practicing media lawyers, legislators, media representatives, members of media regulators and self-regulatory bodies, and academics.

The project will be jointly implemented by ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression and the European Association of Public Service Media in South East Europe, under the auspices of the Regional Cooperation Council and with support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The event is to be co-organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat, RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation, European Association of Public Service Media in South East Europe, and Croatian Radio-Television.

The event is being co-organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat, and Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Open Regional Fund for South East Europe – Legal Reform, with support of the Ministries of Justice of Romania, Slovenia and Serbia.

It will gather heads of the SEE’s central judicial authorities, experts within the ministries of justice, ministries of interior, public prosecutors’ offices and magistrate councils, heads of regional organizations and initiatives in SEE active in the area of justice and home affairs and relevant representatives of the European Union, Chairmanship-in-Office of the South-East European Cooperation process (SEECP), Council of Europe, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Organization for Security and Co-operation Europe (OSCE),  as well as professional associations and international experts.

The aim of the event is to support higher education structural reform in the Western Balkans, by sharing experiences and exploring possibilities of acceleration of the region's convergence towards European Higher Education Area and EU policy in this field.

It will gather a range of constituencies from the western Balkans and EU, along with international organisations involved in the creation of European Union policy in higher education.

Annual Report of the RCC Secretary General on regional cooperation in South East Europe 2011-2012 will be presented for acceptance to the Board members.

The RCC Board holds three regular meetings per year and is chaired by the RCC Secretary General. The Board provides the RCC with operational guidance and supervision. It consists of those RCC members contributing to the budget of the RCC Secretariat as well as the European Union.

The event is being organized by the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in partnership with the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat,  United Nations Development Programme, Microsoft, Oracle, Lexmark and One World – Platform for South East Europe Foundation.

International Girls in ICT Day is an initiative launched by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) members with the idea of creating a global environment that will empower and encourage girls and young women to consider careers in the field of information and communication technologies.

The meeting is to present SEEIC scope of work within Europe 2020 Strategy and develop further mechanisms of consolidating and strengthening efforts for regional cooperation in investment and competitiveness related reforms. In cooperation with the European Commission, the meeting will also include a session on programming regional component of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) dedicated to private sector development.

The event is to bring together SEEIC members from the region, national IPA coordinators, as well as representative of international organizations, donor and business community.

More information about the meeting.

The Platform, spearheaded by the RCC and the USAID’s Partners for Financial Stability Program, will provide a basis for more enhanced cooperation in this area, leading to an improvement of access to finance in the region, which is a key prerequisite for private sector growth in South East Europe.

The signatories of the Platform are Stock Exchanges from Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Tirana, Podgorica and Skopje.

The event is to gather RCC partners and regional stakeholders, as well as representatives of the European Commission and main international financial institutions and agencies.

The project is financed by the European Union through the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance – IPA Regional Programme 2010, and will be implemented by CEI with an aim to contribute to the regional cohesion of South East Europe and the EU enlargement process, as well as to support strengthening of the RCC Secretariat.

Programme of the event.