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Building-up Knowledge Based Society in the SEE: A Fiction or Window of Opportunity trough the EU Accession?

The EU accession is the most important driving force to implement reforms, foster economic and political changes in the countries of South-East European region. The needed progress in human resources development, education and research should be stronger incorporated into the EU enlargements instruments and linked to the current EU Lisbon strategy and future Europe 2020 goals. There is a need for further fostering regional cooperation in the mentioned areas, adopting and implementing the instruments for speeding up the reforms. The paper tries to find out the answer how to foster national education, training, research and innovation policies through reforms, exchange of experiences, good practices and regional cooperation in human resource development and building the knowledge triangle. It aims to identify main strengths and weaknesses, starting from the comparative analyses of the achieved development and key problems. Based on such analyses, the paper draws up some policy recommendations that might help the countries of the region in developing relevant policies.

South-East Europe, EU Accession, Lisbon Strategy, Knowledge Triangle, Competitiveness, Regional Cooperation

The full paper is also available at PECOB - Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe, under the "PECOB's papers series": "Building-up knowledge based society in the SEE: a fiction or window of opportunity through the EU accession?" (http://www.iecob.net/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=248&Itemid=91).