Meeting of the CEF Advisory Board

This year, the CEF Advisory Board met on September 2 in Bohinjska Bistrica, a day ahead of the signing of the Agreement on Establishing the Center of Excellence in Finance as an International Organization and the High-Level Policy Dialogue on Strategic Planning and Budgeting in South East Europe that…

Annual Meeting of the CEF Advisory Board

The next annual meeting of the CEF Advisory Board, a representative body of the CEF’s donor partners, will take place on September 2, 2013 in Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia. The meeting will be organized back-to-back with the annual Bled Strategic Forum and the signing ceremony of the Agreement on Establishing…

CEF to Become an International Organization

The signing ceremony of the Agreement on Establishing the Center of Excellence in Finance as an international organization will be held on September 3, 2013 in Bled, Slovenia back-to-back with the annual Bled Strategic Forum.  The Agreement establishes the CEF as a non-profit international organization…

Summer at the CEF

As summer is a low season for the CEF, we were delighted to welcome a much younger audience than we usually have at our workshops. A group of forty students from thirteen European countries taking part in the Faculty of Administration Summer School visited the CEF on August 21, 2013. Final-year students…

Two CEF Program Managers Personally Showcase the Importance of Investing in Knowledge

We are extremely proud to announce that two of our staff members, Robert Bauchmüller and Urška Zrinski, recently earned their PhDs. In June 2013, Robert successfully completed his dissertation at the Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Before working for the CEF,…

SPB Newsfeed: First Project Steering Committee Meeting

First SPB Project Steering Committee meeting took place at the CEF, with participants from the SPB project beneficiary countries, the IMF, the EC, and ReSPA, and several observers. The Committee discussed its role, topics related to the SPB development, and aspects of project delivery. The CEF delivers…

In Focus: CEF - Looking Back and Planning for the Future

In 2012, the global economic and financial crisis was a continuing challenge for the CEF as well as our members and partners. The region had less access to funding, even as the demand for capacity development continued to rise. Remaining successful has required a great deal of innovation and hard work. The…

CEF Joins Discussions at OECD SBO Meeting

The CEF attended the 9th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials (SBO) from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European countries, held on June 27-28 in Riga. This year's meeting was co-organized with the Ministry of Finance of Latvia. Budget directors and their deputies from 17 countries…

The EU Strategy for the Danube Region in the Programming Process for 2014–2020

The stakeholders of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region met for the second time to reflect how the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds can support the implementation of the strategy, and how the Strategy can support the ESI Funds, adding a cooperation perspective. Meeting participants…

CEF at the Learn4dev Annual Meeting

With the aim to reflect back on the ten-year history of the learn4dev network and set frames for its future, members and representatives from interested organizations came together in Bonn, Germany for the network’s 2013 Annual Meeting. The meeting focused on new learning trends and processes. From…