The opening ceremony for the academic year 2013-2014 of the Programme in Intellectual Property Law offered by the The Ss. Cyril et Methodius University in Skopje (Macedonia), and the CEIPI, in partnership with the members of the EIPIN network, will take place on 11 November 2013 at the "Iustinianus Primus" Faculty of Law, SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje (Macedonia).
Guido Westkamp, Professor in Intellectual Property and Comparative Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, will give an inaugural lecture on the topic "Intellectual Property Rigidity and the Evolution of Law". This innovative initiative includes a program in Skopje that concentrates mainly on the international and European aspects of intellectual property (industrial property, copyright, related rights and other affiliated disciplines), and is taught by academic staff from the CEIPI, from its partners of the EIPIN network and from the faculty in Skopje and from neighbouring countries (Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia).