Regional activities held on democratic policing, higher education

TIRANA, Sep. 30 – The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat held in Sarajevo a two-day workshop on democratic policing in Southeast Europe organized with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
The objective of the meeting was to identify concrete steps to translate the good law enforcement practices into daily police work. The participants will discuss basic elements of a reform strategy with regard to managing cultural and structural change in the police, elements of decentralization, and the supervisory role of police managers.
A three-day international forum on higher education reform ended today in Dubrovnik, Croatia, agreeing to focus on a strategic development of Western Balkans’ education capacity over the next 10 years, in the context of the EU higher education area.
The event explored a wider context of European higher education modernization reform and created a platform for an open discussion among rectors, university professors and higher education authorities from the Western Balkans and the EU, other European and international organizations and agencies. Representatives of the universities from the region signed a Letter of Intention, expressing commitment to enhance regional cooperation in doctoral education, i.e. promote and support mobility of doctoral candidates, develop infrastructure for mutual recognition of awarded doctoral degrees, initiate exchange of post-doctoral researchers, and participate in collaborative research grants, in order to increase institutional capacities, both in research expertise and infrastructure.
“If the countries of South East Europe want to meet the challenges of the 21st century and sustain their prosperity in the face of growing global competition, they will have to pull together their own resources in the ongoing process of promoting knowledge as its main factor of competitiveness”, said RCC Secretary General Hido Biscevic.