For a ninth time in a row this year the Economic Policy Institute (Sofia) successfully organized the traditional Summer Seminar for Young Public Servants from South Eastern Europe "Preparation for EU Accession". The regional training took place within the period June 09-14, 2008 on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, "Albena resort", near Varna. The event was carried out thanks to the kind financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Bern), the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria (Sofia), the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Sofia), the UNDP (Sofia), the Austrian Embassy to Bulgaria (Sofia) and the DZI Bank (Sofia).

On May 19, 2008 the Economic Policy Institute (Sofia) in collaboration with the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) and the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (Stockholm) and with financial assistance of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden to Bulgaria (Sofia) presented the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) Research Report No. 2008:2: "The EU Budget Review: Mapping the positions of Member States". The event was kindly hosted by the Information Centre of the European Union, 9 "Moskovska" Str., Sofia.

On the Eleventh Anniversary of its Foundation, May, 12 2008 the Economic Policy Institute, Sofia officially presented a publication within a successfully completed one-year research project on "The Implication of EU Membership on Immigration Trends and Immigrant Integration Policies for the Bulgarian Labor Market".

The Economic Policy Institute (Sofia), thanks to the kind financial support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy (Belgrade); the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program (London) and the Central European Initiative (Trieste), organized a two-day long Regional training seminar in Sofia on: "E-Governance and Project (Communication) Management - Best Practices for the Public Administration on Central and Local Level in South Eastern Europe" (27-28 March 2008). The public event was the tenth seminar conducted within the framework of the so called "T'Club" Forum - a huge network of young public servants, working in the field of European integration.