Enabling Video conferencing educational services in higher education.

European Higher Education is facing the challenges and opportunities of globalization on one side and localization on the other. New technologies, new types of learning content, new providers, new learners and new types of learning enables deployment of innovative educational solutions. In this paper, major outcomes achieved by deployment of high end videoconferencing systems within Western Balkans will be presented. The three-year ViCES (Video Conferencing Educational Services) Project was launched and financed by the European Commission within the TEMPUS (Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies) programme. The VICES project has provided Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Serbia with an initial technological infrastructure and learning environment that eases student and academic mobility as well as support the process of harmonization of different curricula among educational institutions.