Project description
Fostering excellence in the Western Balkans’ green transition
Unity is strength for a noble goal: to lead the Western Balkans to a greener future. That’s the purpose of the twinning partnership of the Institute for Habitat Development in Albania, the University of Belgrade in Serbia, the Center for Economic Analyses in North Macedonia, the pan-Nordic research organisation Nordregio in Sweden, the Italian Polytechnic University of Turin, and POLIS University in Albania. The EU-funded GreenFORCE project will foster excellence in the Western Balkans’ green transition. It will enhance the universities’ profile, strengthen research and management capacities of their staff, and contribute to convergence between Western Balkans and the EU. The organisations will work closely to produce and exchange knowledge, transcending from individual learning to institutional learning.
Objective
"GreenFORCE aims at fostering excellence in the ""Western Balkans' green transition"" scientific research and innovation of Co-PLAN (Albania), CEA (North Macedonia), and UB-GEF (Serbia), as a means to enhancing their research profile, strengthening research and management capacities of their staff, and contributing to convergence between Western Balkans (WB) and EU research capacities, as well as to wider policy initiatives for the WB region. This objective is reached through the twinning partnership of five organisations that will work closely to produce territorial knowledge through exploratory research and institutional learning; will transfer and exchange knowledge among partner organisations through applying the knowledge management cycle; and will engage in networking for sharing, cross-fertilizing and amplifying knowledge at the societal level. Ultimately, the ambition is to transcend from individual learning to enabling institutional learning, making sure that research and research management practices become institutionalised within the recipient organisations. GreenFORCE will contribute to the impacts of the destination ""Improved access to excellence"" by enabling pathways of cooperation, exchange, co-design, co-creation with academia, civil society and policy-makers at the regional level. The 5 partner organisations are: Co-PLAN, Institute for Habitat Development in Albania as the coordinating partner; University of Belgrade - Faculty of Geography (UB-GEF) in Serbia and Center for Economic Analysis Association (CEA) in North Macedonia, as the two regional partners; and Nordregio, a pan-Nordic research organization based in Sweden, together with Politecnico di Torino, Italy (POLITO), as the leading EU research institutions. POLIS University in Albania is the affiliate partner of Co-PLAN."
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence
MAIN PROGRAMME
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HORIZON.4.1.2 - Twinning
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Funding Scheme
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-02
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1051 Tirana
Albania
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