News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target groups: CSOs from Western Balkans and Turkey Short Description: The Community Resilience Forum will address one of the most critical issues for civil society – CSOs relation with constituencies and genuine activism. The specific objectives of the event are: (1) To introduce CSOs from WBT with new approaches and good practice models to activism
Read more →Target groups: Youth-led or youth-focused organizations and informal groups worldwide. Short Description: Last year Restless Development published Resilient Realities: The State of Youth Civil Society 2020, which shone a light on the challenges faced by youth groups and organizations as a result of worldwide covid lockdowns, reduced resources, and shrinking civic space. This year, the
Read more →Target groups: Young innovators, age 18 to 35 Short Description: RISE – Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs is a project for the motivated, committed youth, willing to learn and change things for the betterment of the Western Balkans. We aim to support your social business ideas that will make the region a better place. RISE
Read more →Target groups: NPOs from Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Short Description: Catalyst Balkans presents the Catalyst’s Digital Month, a free virtual event consisted of 7 workshops in order participants to learn how to strategically utilize nonprofit tech and digital tools to help grow their association or a
Read more →Target groups: CSOs in the Western Balkans and Turkey. Short Description: The training programme aims to provide theoretical and hands-on knowledge to different range of highly capacitated CSOs including National Resource Centres (NRCs), national and regional networks, re-granting organisations, social service providers, capacity building providers etc. Countries: Western Balkans and Turkey. Date: 28 – 29
Read more →Target groups: Individuals worldwide that will be exploring projects and communities of practice that can help people design, procure, and promote trustworthy AI solutions for their communities. Short Description: The MozFest team is testing out a working group structure to support the technical community interested in building trustworthy AI striving to help to collaboratively make
Read more →Target groups: Human rights institutions, defenders and practitioners, as well as a wide range of partners and social actors, with a particular focus on youth and young people across Europe. Short Description: The Fundamental Rights Forum aims to certify how human rights matter and rebuild trust, showing that Europe cares for its people, while securing
Read more →Target groups: CSOs from North Macedonia. Short Description: EU TACSO 3 organizes training for CSOs from North Macedonia for monitoring, evaluation, and learning at the organizational level. The training aims to strengthen CSOs’ capacities to introduce a system for monitoring, evaluation, and learning in their work, consolidate their strategic development, and improve the position in
Read more →Target groups: Individuals, organisations and groups all around the world. Short Description: The 2021 Innovation Awards will recognise seven individuals, groups or organisations that stand out for their innovative work building people power in support of human rights and social justice for everyone. Submissions are invited under the following topics explored during the 2020 ICSW/virtual
Read more →Target groups: 60 participants from SEE region, among which Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia, but also from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey, as well as guests from youth organizations partners from Germany, France and Poland in the role of mentors. Short Description: The International Youth Conference “European Values
Read more →Target groups: CSOs from the Black Sea region. Short Description: The survey aims to assess how civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Black Sea region implement the CSO development effectiveness principles. Countries: Black Sea Region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine). Date: N/A Link to the original call (Black Sea NGO Forum)
Read more →Target groups: Women from Eastern Partnership (EaP). Short Description: The Women in International Security for Eastern Partnership project (WISEP) is designed to unite and empower women from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries through the development and enhancement of their own leadership skills. The project will strengthen the position of women in international security and politics, as
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