23.05.2012 - 26.05.2012

International Conference on Higher Education: Towards Joint Regional Roadmap in Higher Education Structural Reforms, Petrovac, Montenegro

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.

28.05.2012 - 30.05.2012

First Meeting of the SEE Regional Expert Teams on Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters, Bucharest, Romania

The meeting will underpin the process of implementation of the most relevant regional conclusions and recommendations adopted by the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs of the South East European (SEE) countries in the Regional Strategic Document 2011-2013.

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.

29.05.2012 - 31.05.2012

Conference on Investigative Journalism and Data Protection, Pula, Croatia

The conference is a follow-up activity to the conference on public media and security in South East Europe (SEE), held in November 2011 in Croatia. The meeting aims at increasing regional cooperation by using dialogue and exchanges of information, knowledge transfer, views and ideas, with the goal of disseminating international standards related to investigative journalism and data protection and building a more open, transparent and stable environment in South East Europe.

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.

03.06.2012 - 08.06.2012

First Media Law Academy in South East Europe, Zagreb, Croatia

The academy aims at safeguarding media freedoms and the right to freedom of expression by sharing and learning from the best legal national frameworks and practices in the enforcement of media standards in the region. It is expected to enhance cooperation in the development and the implementation of progressive media legislation in the countries in South East Europe in line with international and European media standards.

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.

13.06.2012

RCC Annual Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

The fourth Annual Meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 13 June 2012. The event is being co-organized by the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Chairmanship-in-Office of Serbia and the RCC Secretariat.

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.