09:30 - 10:00	Welcome and Registration
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome message from Dr Iraklis Paraskakis, Academic Director of SEERC Doctoral Programme
10:10 - 10:30	Opening Speech by Mr Zaharis, SEERC Director
	Research Challenges for South-East Europe
10:30 - 11:00	Follow-up speech by Dr. Dimitriadis,
	The Research Student's Path to the 'Holy Grail': Experiences from a recently completed PhD at the University of Sheffield
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
	Session 1: Business and Economics	Session 2: Information Technology and IT Policy	Session 3: Political and Social Issues	Session 4: Psychology and Culture
	Venue: STEIN Auditorium (1st Floor)	Venue: STEIN S1 (3rd Floor)	Venue: STEIN S2 (3rd Floor)	Venue: STEIN Conference Room (4th Floor)
	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:
	Prof. Sinisa Zaric	Prof. Ioannis Vlahavas	Assoc.Prof. Asteris Huliaras	Dr. Vassilis Barkoukis
	Assoc.Prof. Yannis Hajidimitriou	Asst.Prof. Nick Bassiliades	Dr. Antonis Sapountzis	Dr. Efrosini Kalyva
	Chair: Dr. Costas Alexiou	Chair: Dr. Petros Kefalas	Chair: Dr. Sotiris Serbos	Chair: Dr. Erica Sheen
11:30 - 12:00	Mamica Skenderi	Ioanna Stamatopoulou	Maria Xenitidou	Sinan Gokcen
12:00 - 12:30	Vasilis Kafatos	Georgios Meditskos	Maja Gerovska	Fenia Kalogeropoulou
12:30 - 13:00	Maria Chatzipanagioti	Petros Lameras	Sara Hannam	Efthimios Hatzis
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
	Chair: Dr. Leslie Szamoszi	Chair: Dr. Dimitris Dranidis	Chair: Dr. Sean Homer	Chair: Dr. Ana Vivas
14:00 - 14:30	Alexander Karaev	George Tzanis	Ismail Aydil	Sophia Dimopoulou
14:30 - 15:00	Amira Ramhorst	Ognen Paunovski	Despina Syrri	Margarita Diakou
15:00 - 15:30	Aikaterini Markidou	Leonidas Orfanidis	Workshop: Nationalism, Ideology & Balkan Cinema	Lambros Lazuras
15:30 - 16:00	Andreas Bofinger	Anastasios Xanthopoulos		Open Discussion
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
16:30 - 17:00	Closing of Conference - Concluding Remarks

Session 1: Business and Economics
Andreas Baresel-Bofinger, Panayiotis H. Ketikidis, S.C. Lenny Koh, John Cullen	"Implementation of Green Supply Chain Management in South-East Europe - A Literature Review"
Maria Chatzipanagioti, Eleftherios Iakovou	"The Role of Producers and Consumers in Managing Reverse Supply Chains"
Vassilis Kafatos, Leslie Szamosi, John Kawalek	"Alignment of core ideology and organizational values with strategy and tactics"
Aleksandar Karaev, S.C. Lenny Koh, Leslie T. Szamosi	"Cluster Policy and Entrepreneurship Promotion in Transition Countries in SEE: The Case of Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Serbia"
Aikaterini Markidou, Dr. E.Nikolaidou, Dr. S.Mateut	"Wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions in the Greek banking sector"
Amira Vejzagic-Ramhorst, Panayiotis H. Ketikidis, S.C. Robert Huggins	"Development of Clusters in South-East Europe: the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina - a Literature Review"
Mamica Skenderi, Phil Wright, Costas Alexiou	"The Impact of Technological Transfer From Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) - Preliminary Results from Albania"
Session 2: Information Technology and IT Policy
Petros Lameras, Phil Levy, Iraklis Paraskakis	"Pedagogical Developments for Teaching and Learning using VLEs: A Phenomenographic Inquiry into Greek University Teachers' Conceptions and Approaches"
Georgios Meditskos, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades	"Querying and Visualizing the Semantic Web"
Leonidas Orfanidis, Barry Eaglestone, Panagiotis Bamidis	"A Model Framework to characterise the NEHRS Preparedness: Validation Phase"
Ognen Paunovski	"Investigation of Emergent Phenomena within Complex Adaptive Systems"
Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Petros Kefalas, Marian Gheorghe	"A Hybrid Formal Approach for Modelling Change in Multi-agent Systems"
George Tzanis, Ioannis Katakis, Ioannis Partalas, Ioannis Vlahavas	"Modern Applications of Machine Learning"
Anastasios Xanthopoulos, Eleftherios Iakovou	"An Analytical Strategic Model for the Configuration of a Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network"
Session 3: Political and Social Issues
Ismail Aydil, Andrew J. Taylor, Miltiadis Sarigianndis	"A Theoretical Analysis of the Europeanisation Impact in Macedonia"
Maja Gerovska Mitev	"Effects of Europeanisation on Social Policies of Slovenia and Macedonia: convergence vs. disparity?"
Sara Hannam	"Gaining or Losing Identities: An Investigation into Perceptions of the Changing Status of English as a Lingua Franca in Bulgaria and Serbia"
Despina Syrri	"Integrated Border Management: Constructing Cross-Border Spaces"
Maria Xenitidou, Professor Paul White, Dr. Sean Homer	"Talking about migration in Central Northern Greece: The employment of the construct of Greek emigrants"
Islam Yusufi, Andrew Taylor, Miltos Sarigiannidis	"EU Police Missions: from Conflict Management to Institution Building in The Western Balkans"
Session 4: Psychology and Culture
Margarita Diakou, Ana B. Vivas, Rod I. Nicolson	"Visuospatial Attention in Dyslexia"
Sophia Dimopoulou, Efrosini Kalyva, Michael Siegal	"Autism, Communication Impairment, and Gastrointestinal Symptoms "
Sinan Gokcen, Sean Homer, Caroline J. Oates	"Consuming Nationalism: Contemporary Nationalism in Turkish Popular Culture"
Efthimios Hatzis, Erica Sheen, Sean Homer	"In search of the invisible Balkan cinema"
Fenia Kalogeropoulou, Ana Vivas, Peter Woodruff	"Modulation of IOR as a function of SOA value"
Lambros Lazuras, Angelos Rodafinos, J. Richard Eiser	"A Preliminary Study of Greek Adolescents' Estimates of Smoking Prevalence: Beyond the Effects of False Consensus"

The conference program is also available here in pdf format.

The conference book of abstracts is available here.

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in the papers are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the South-East European Research Centre.