On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the SEENET-MTP, the SAC would like to congratulate all network members, individuals and institutions, for their initiative, efforts and contribution to the training of students and young researchers in the general area of theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology, and to the development of a scientific community in the Balkan region with tight mutual cooperation among themselves and with the community of Europe and worldwide.

The organisation of a series of scientific events, thematic schools and workshops of high scientific level, exchange of students and researchers among Balkan institutions, leading to joint publications, as well as of outreach activities to the general public, despite the difficulties from the political and economic situation, were very important for this goal and should be continued.

Most of these activities would not be possible without the support from the ICTP and UNESCO. It is a fact that scientific cooperation is above politics, religions and ethnicity and can be achieved more easily than in other sectors. CERN, as another important supporter of the Network, is a clear example to follow of European collaboration that started much before the Common European Market and Union.

Our role as SAC is to advise the network on the scientific topics to promote and on the corresponding actions to take, on the scientific events to organise and on possible funding opportunities. We hope that our help will be beneficial to the goals of the SEENET-MTP which can be fulfilled only by the will and efforts of all its members.

Ignatios Antoniadis, coordinator
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bern, Switzerland

Loriano Bonora
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy

Lars Brink
Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

Emilian Dudas
CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Georgi Dvali
String Theory Group, LMU and MPI, Munich, Germany

Marc Henneaux
Physique Théorique Et Mathématique, Université Libre De Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Alexei Morozov
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia

Fernando Quevedo
The High Energy, Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Section, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Ioannis Rizos
Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Timo Weigand
Theoretical Physics, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland