The meeting is being organised by the Ministry of Education and Sport of Montenegro, in cooperation with the University of Montenegro and the University of Novi Sad, and under the auspices of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat, the University of Sarajevo, and the University of Zagreb.

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.