Local Coordination Unit of the Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP)

Funding scheme: Regional Research Promotional Program
Team coordinator of the Institute of Economic Sciences: Mihajlo Đukić, PhD
Duration: 2011-2017

Description:
The RRPP is coordinated and operated by the Interfaculty Institute for Central and Eastern Europe (IICEE) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). The programme is fully funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

The aim of the RRPP project was to promote research in the field of social sciences in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). Research in the field of social sciences helps to understand the specific reform needs of countries in the region and the long-term consequences of different public policies. The researchers had different types of support within the project - funding research, methodological and thematic trainings, opening opportunities for regional and international exchange and networking. The Institute of Economic Sciences as the local office of the RRPP in Serbia supervised and provided technical and technical support to scientific institutions and researchers from Serbia who carried out the research.