News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target groups: CSO leaders, aged 21-28 Countries: International Short Description: A year-long program designed to equip civil society leaders with the expertise, skills, and resources to develop multisector approaches and build healthy and engaged communities. The program is composed of a three-month practicum in the US, academy on leadership and civic engagement, and implementation of
Read more →Target groups: Young people, aged 15-29 Countries: International/Europe Short Description: 30 participants will take part in four online workshops of collective intelligence and, with the guide of a coach in Design thinking methodology, will prototype and pitch to a jury concrete and applicable solution that meets the needs of the beneficiarie. Date: 7-10 December Link
Read more →Target groups: Small CSO representative; Grassroot Organizations representatives Short Description: The goal of this program is to support the organizational development of grassroots organizations and will include a set of trainings in order to strengthen their social impact in the community. Program participants will have the opportunity, through theoretical and practical work, to improve their
Read more →Target groups: CSO representatives Short Description: For the first time the deliberative democracy exercise will be carried out in Albania, thanks to this collaborative effort of the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) in consultation with the Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy, in the framework of PACEP project, financially supported by the Swiss Agency for
Read more →Target groups: CSO representative; State institutions representatives Short Description: Aiming to discuss and share successful practices of cooperation between civil society and state institutions at the national level in the context of re-use of confiscated assets for purposes of social causes, the EU TACSO 3 project will organise a regional P2P exchange with examples from Balkans
Read more →In an era of shrinking civic space, CSOs need to build coalitions with other stakeholders to ensure broader support for what they aim to achieve and to promote civic space effectively. Partnering up with other stakeholders beyond our usual suspects, such as trade unions, religious communities, informal activists and groups, and businesses, seems more important
Read more →Target groups: N/A Short Description: The 2021 OGP Academy: The Case for Open Government is a virtual academic conference on open government co-hosted by the Open Government Partnership and the Korean Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management. The goal of the 2021 OGP Academy is to engage academics and experts to share
Read more →Target groups: Researchers and Scholars Short Description: Fellowship designed for researchers and scholars in the fields of history, the arts, philosophy and sociology to reflect on the conditions of knowledge production during and after the Cold War. Scholars and artists are invited to analyze the documentary practices of different agencies and persons on both
Read more →Target groups: Publishers and Interested Volunteers Short Description: Over the course of 24 hours (on 10-11 November 2020), 240+ leading organized crime scholars and practitioners from over 45 countries discussed and presented a diverse range of topics, including environmental crime, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, political corruption, the illicit antiquities trade, drug trafficking and the
Read more →BCSDN is inviting all interested individuals to apply to our Call for a new Policy and Advocacy Officer and join our Executive Office in Skopje, North Macedonia. The senior position assumes monitoring, analyzing and preparing policy outputs/products on EU and civil society development issues. If you have a passion for research and advocacy, are committed
Read more →Target group: undergraduate or graduate students aged from 20 to 25 years old, coming from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia Short description: Western Balkans meet Japan: A Bridge into the Future is a youth exchange program, organized under the MIRAI Program since 2018, aiming to deepen participants’ understanding of Japan
Read more →Target groups: total of 30 young participants coming from European countries between the age of 15 to 29, with a focus on: Young Roma people and other marginalized groups; Representatives of National Youth Councils as networks; Representatives of Local (youth) consultative structures; Representatives of the Local authorities. Short Description: Based on 2020 in-depth, European-wide research
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