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…

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…

We are extremely proud to announce that two of our staff members, Robert Bauchmüller and Urška Zrinski, recently earned their PhDs.

The first SPB Project Steering Committee meeting took place at the CEF in May 2013 with participants from the SPB project beneficiary countries, the IMF, the EC, and ReSPA, and several observers. The Committee…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

In June 2013, the CEF organized, with the help of experts from the IMF, Dutch and Australian universities, a workshop on program budgeting. The workshop addressed the design of a program oriented budget…

The international conference on Structural Challenges of the Slovenian Economy, organized by the Center of Excellence in Finance and the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, concluded on…