News and updates from BCSDN and the region
To further strengthen the impact of the funding, the Rising Tide Foundation is launching a call for proposals to identify the best projects around the globe that have the objective to promote freedom and prosperity. The Foundation believes that Freedom is the most important explanatory factor driving and shaping human well-being around the world and
Read more →ICNL works to build an enabling legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation around the world. Occasionally, they offer grants CSOs and other actors working to promote and protect civic freedoms, as well as fellowships and internships at ICNL. Some of the current grants announced by ICNL are: proposals to ensure that women
Read more →POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is a project of ACTION SEE regional network that comes out of growing need of the organizations in the region that work on accountability and transparency of governments to share experiences and learn about different initiatives around the world. The participation at the POINT Conference offers the possibility
Read more →The training is designed to give participants the opportunity to experience and reflect upon activities and concepts central to human rights, human rights education and combating antigypsyism, based on experiential learning approaches. The activity will make an effort to go deeper into understanding the complexity of antigypsyism, as well as to focus on the quality
Read more →The one-week summer school will provide multidisciplinary and innovative academic and research-oriented lectures, seminars and projects on issues related to migration situations and migration policies in the EU, its Eastern neighbourhood and worldwide. Teaching will be accompanied by research, practical exercises and interactive discussions. In total, up to 50 students from migration studies, journalism/ media
Read more →The program is designed for senior students in humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences as well as for those who are interested in developing their knowledge and expertise in the topics offered by the BSC Student Conference 2020. The conference tracks: History, Politics, Policy, Law and Governance; Business, Management and Finance; Environment, Energy, Science and
Read more →An interdisciplinary symposium will be organized to introduce and debate the concept of critical youth citizenship, strengthen and promote the civic mission of youth work, foster synergies and collaboration amongst those supporting the political dimension of youth work. The objectives of the Conference are: to introduce and critically reflect on the concept of critical youth
Read more →The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) through the program “Sustainable Civil Society – State Financing of CSOs” announces a public call for grants for CSOs in North Macedonia. The program is implemented by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) in partnership with BCSDN and the Center for Information, Cooperation and Development of Civil
Read more →BCSDN is looking for a consultant to perform a mid-term evaluation for the project “Protecting Civic Space – Regional Civil Society Development Hub” financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The assignment will include evaluation of the Project’s initial setup, the establishment of the Regional Hub including all respective entities and the procedures
Read more →As the EU debates its new post-2020 funding instruments, EU civil society support faces a pivotal moment. The union has been fine-tuning this support in recent years and is now contemplating further reforms. Civil society around the world is undergoing far-reaching changes as new types of informal activism emerge, governments try to constrict civic activity,
Read more →Cooperation between Montenegrin CSOs and the Government of Montenegro is an important precondition for progress towards the EU. Having in mind the political situation in the country where rule of law needs to be improved and corruption tackled, concerns are raised whether CSOs can really make a difference and have their voices heard or their
Read more →The authors of the article state that the first overall impression of the document of the new EU methodology is that it is a small masterpiece of European compromise. The EC has managed to put together a sensible, even innovative, proposal, while at the same time not aggravating any of the member states. It uses
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