News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The TSI Croatia team formulated a number of significant recommendations to address challenges, elaborated in this latest TSI policy brief. As noted in the policy brief, it is necessary to adjust tax frame to needs of development of the third sector. Also, there is clear need for obtaining relevant skills in the sector such as
Read more →Atlas Corps is inviting CSOs leaders from around the world for its overseas fellowship program. Their mission is to address critical social issues by developing leaders, strengthening organizations, and promoting innovation through an overseas fellowship of skilled non-profit professionals. The U.S. Atlas Corps engages leaders committed to the non-profit sector in 12-18 month, professional fellowships
Read more →Maison des Associations Internationales is hosting the ECIT first Summer University on European citizenship. From 29 to 31 August students, academics, policy makers and civil society representatives from all over Europe will meet in Brussels to exchange views on the gaps and future challenges of European citizenship. During this three-day event, participants from different backgrounds
Read more →Global Perspectives brings together key national and leading international CSOs with high level representatives from politics, the corporate sector and academia to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. How can civil society actors worldwide protect and expand civic space, in order to make meaningful contributions to the implementation of the SDGs and climate
Read more →The OSCE Mission to Serbia in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania is inviting representatives from youth organizations from Serbia and Albania to participate in the OSCE Mission to Serbia project for building bridges. The project aims to support youth actors from Serbia and Albania to improve connectivity, co-operation and dialogue. The project consists
Read more →The first call for proposals under the IPA2CSO Mechanism in Macedonia is to provide support for CSOs in the process of developing sectoral policy analyses, which describe the current situation in one of the sectors identified in the CfP and give suggestions and recommendations for its improvement, as well as implementing related advocacy activities. The
Read more →The specific objective of this call is to support quality media production in the areas related to Montenegro’s European Integration and to enable media to report fairly, freely and in a professional and ethical manner. At the same time the citizens are meant to be further educated about their rights in the context of the
Read more →The specific objectives of this CfP are to: 1) establish, improve or sustain community-based social services, 2) establish and strengthen social business initiatives, and 3) support local-level inter-sectoral measures for decreasing early school leaving, preventing dropout and increasing educational attainment. The overall indicative amount made available under this call is EUR 5.500.000. Any grant requested
Read more →Despite the initial reaction by civil society on 20th May over the sudden adoption of the Decision on the Establishment of the Council for Cooperation between the Government and Civil Society, on 23rd May the General Secretariat of the Government published a Call for selection of 13 members of the Council coming from associations and
Read more →On 13th June, the Agency for Supporting Civil Society (ASCS) announced the list of CSO representatives to become members of the National Council of Civil Society (NCCS), based on the online voting process for the candidates of civil society representatives to the Council. ASCS has published the final results of the voting process, as well as the final
Read more →On 3rd June, the Slovenian Ministry of Finance enacted amendments to the Rules on the Implementation of the Law on Value Added Tax, which stipulate that smaller CSOs are no longer required to issue invoices when selling their products or services, thereby they will no longer be obliged to use fiscal cash registers. The change
Read more →Fundamentalism can encompass much more than religion, and in this report the Special Rapporteur takes a much broader view of the term. He believes that fundamentalism can and should be defined more expansively, to include any movements – not simply religious ones – that advocate strict and literal adherence to a set of basic beliefs
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