News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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Read more →Launched in 2005, the Minorities Fellowship Programme (MFP) is OHCHR’s most comprehensive training programme for human rights and minority rights defenders belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. The overall goal of the Minorities Fellowship Programme is to offer persons belonging to minorities the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the field
Read more →The overall objective of the call is to foster reconciliation and good neighbourly relations in the Western Balkans through cultural cooperation and creation. The specific objectives of this Call are: to increase cultural cross-border cooperation within the Western Balkans region and the EU Member States; to strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries
Read more →The Conference “Western Balkan Youth Conference: Regional Cooperation and Integration” reflects the University’s interdisciplinary and international character by offering a platform for students and recent graduates in arts, humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences from all over the world to exchange their ideas and experience in an intellectually stimulating academic environment. The fundamental objective of
Read more →The Mobility Fund responds to the need for more mobility and connectivity among CSOs experts from the Black Sea Region countries. The overall objective of the Mobility Fund is to support the exchange of best practices/ lessons learnt in specific thematic areas among CSO experts in the Black Sea Region with the aim of strengthening
Read more →The Guidelines for EU support to civil society in enlargement countries, 2014- 2020, have aimed to support and encourage enlargement countries to create legislation conducive for civil society, promote the involvement of civil society in the pre-accession process, and provide a framework for monitoring and evaluation of the results achieved with the EU assistance. Providing
Read more →Ahead of the commencement of the announced Conference on the Future of Europe, BCSDN provides its opinion and offers a proposal on the role and participation of the Western Balkan citizens and civil society in the forthcoming discussions. Considering the critical and uncertain momentum for the EU, enabling a space for citizens to deliberate and
Read more →European Parliament believes that Conference on the Future of Europe should seeks ways of involving representatives of the EU candidate countries in discussions. This is stated in a resolution setting out the vision of this institution for the upcoming Conference. The resolution was adopted with 494 votes for, 147 against and 49 abstentions. People of
Read more →Croatian CSOs, gathered in the informal network Forum 2021, through in-person consultations in five cities, as well as online consultations, to come to an agreement on the priorities for the Presidency of the Council of the EU from January to June 2020. They are cognizant that the Presidency of the Council of the EU presents
Read more →Three decades since the beginning of democratization processes, the Western Balkan countries have built a democratic façade by holding elections, by promulgating legal acts guaranteeing freedom of expression, or by constitutionally declaring a strict system of checks and balances. In reality, however, political elites rely on informal structures, clientelism, and control of the media to
Read more →Prepared within the scope of Monitoring and Enhancing the Enabling Environment for Civil Society Project financed by the EU, BCSDN’ s member from Turkey, TUSEV published a report that includes a detailed analysis of public sector-CSO cooperation in Croatia, Estonia, and France with specific references to the types of mechanisms used or the principles adopted.
Read more →CSOs’ right to privacy has been facing increasing attacks over the past years. New rules were proposed and/or enacted in the name of transparency, protection of national security, countering money laundering and terrorism financing. These rules affect how and what kind of information CSOs have to report and disclose to the public or the authorities,
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