News and updates from BCSDN and the region
On 30th of October 2015, the Albanian Institute for Public Affairs organized a roundtable event to present the findings of the occasional policy paper “CSO involvement at EU accession negotiations: Best Practices from previous accession”. The policy research output contributes to the debate in Albania regarding civil society involvement in EU accession negotiations. The references
Read more →Members of global civil society have come together to make the voices of people heard and to hold leaders to account on the commitments they have made, including the Sustainable Development Goals, and key commitments on financing and universal implementation. CSOs from across all regions, involved in current civil society initiatives and platforms active in
Read more →The Civil Society Scholar Awards (CSSA) support international academic mobility to enable doctoral students and university faculty to access resources that enrich socially engaged research and critical scholarship in their home country or region. The awards support activities such as fieldwork (data collection); research visits to libraries, archives, or universities; course/curriculum development; and international collaborations
Read more →The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) is launching its call for applications for the 2016 edition of the TRAIN Programme (Think Tanks Providing Research and Advice through Interaction and Networking) that seeks to foster a fruitful policy dialogue between think tanks and political actors in the Western Balkans. During a series of seminars, participants
Read more →The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is lauded as a new universal agenda, different than anything that came before; an agenda aiming to address social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in an integrated way. However, major questions have been raised: How will the SDGs be implemented? How will the new agenda tackle old problems?
Read more →The Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy (MCFHRD) is the FCO’s dedicated strategic fund supporting our global human rights and democracy work. The FCO has reconfigured its human rights work around three interconnected themes that provide the basis of our funding strategy: 1) Democratic values and the rule of law; 2) The rules-based
Read more →In the framework of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) a Call for proposals has published to strengthen the capacity of CSOs for more effective action in the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Turkey. The Call is divided into two lots: 1) Strengthening civil society’s involvement in the making,
Read more →A Call for proposals has been opened under the Interreg Cooperation Program Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020 for co-financing operations that effectively contribute to the overall aim of the program: to promote a sustainable, safe and resonant border area by adopting smart approaches to conservation, mobilization and management of natural and cultural resources for the benefit of people
Read more →On 26th-27th January representatives of FPA project partners met in Brussels to discuss sustainability of their actions and to brainstorm about recommendations to DG NEAR for supporting the sustainability of project outcomes. The conference, organized by the TACSO Regional Office, was attended by representatives of DG NEAR and around 85 representatives of CSOs participating in
Read more →The FP7 project in which BCSDN is partner in – “Maximizing the integration capacity of the EU” – MAXCAP had its final conference from 22-23 January 2016 in The Hague. The conference was organized by one of the MAXCAP co-coordinating partners, the Leiden University’s Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. The conference brought together prominent
Read more →During the night between 21st and 22nd of January, unknown attackers have broken the windows of the Human Rights House (HRH) Belgrade. HRH reminds the public that attacks have been increasingly happening in Serbia towards representatives of institutions that are critical of the Government, representatives of the opposition parties, and now even human rights organizations.
Read more →On 25th January in Brussels, BCSDN organized a meeting with European Commission’s officials working on civil society in Enlargement and Neighbourhood countries with the aim to share its experience with monitoring the enabling environment in practice. Tina Divjak, BCSDN Board member, presented to the EC officials the Monitoring Matrix methodology and its complementarity with the
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