News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Through the Winter University, students will gain a better and clearer understanding of the capabilities and constraints that shape the policies of NATO and EU countries in determining matters of Collective Security. Furthermore, it will provide a great opportunity for participants to see the weaknesses and threats that these security actors will face on 2020.
Read more →As part of its “Rejuvenating politics” initiative the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe will invite one young person per member State to: come to Strasbourg (France) to take an active part, as a youth delegate, in its 38th (17-19 March) and 39th (27-29 October) sessions develop their own grass-roots
Read more →MCW Global’s year-long flagship program is for participants between the ages of 18 to 26, who are prepared to become leaders of positive change in their communities by obtaining tools and skills needed to transform passion into action. The program is based on 3 phases: Summer Program. The program begins with an intensive, 10-day summer
Read more →Three decades after it began, the democratic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe has ground to a halt. From within, the region is challenged by ruthless power politics, political polarization, weak institutions, beleaguered civil society and media, reform fatigue, and a return of traditional nationalism and phobias. Given these mounting challenges, the region and its
Read more →The Policy Leader Fellowship of the School of Transnational Governance provides a unique opportunity for policy professionals from around the world to further develop their policy work and professional skills whilst participating in workshops, training and skills development sessions, conferences and other events, in addition to interacting with the other fellows, policy makers and the
Read more →GlobalGiving is seeking applications from nonprofit organizations for its 2020 Giving Season Accelerator in order to build skills, access tools, and grow their base of supporters to achieve crowdfunding success. GlobalGiving is the largest global crowdfunding community connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country. They help nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds
Read more →The main purpose of the conference organized by the European Civic Forum will be to coagulate the contribution of civil society to the strengthening of European democracy, fundamental rights and values, building on the outcomes and proposals stemming from our two-year campaign “Make Europe Great for All” engaging civic actors across Europe in the context
Read more →With financing assured through the Programme for “Advanced On-the-Job Training”, supported under the CEI Cooperation Fund provided by all Member States, the CEI is launching a call for selection of three Young professionals from CEI Member States to assist the CEI-Executive Secretariat in Trieste (Italy) in carrying out the CEI’s institutional and EU project activities.
Read more →The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility has launched a call for its 2020 Fellowship Programme. Young civil society activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine with new ideas for improving local communities will have a unique opportunity to take part in trainings and other capacity building activities, as well as implement individual projects
Read more →Pursuant to the Decision establishing the Council for Civil Society Development, in accordance with the procedure implemented in accordance with Articles 23 and 24 of the Council’s Rules of Procedure, the Government of Croatia appoints members and alternate members of the Council from associations and other CSOs in areas such as: democratization, the rule of
Read more →The Youth Initiative for Human Rights will be hosting its 5th Youth Summit in Skopje, North Macedonia from December 3 to 5. The Youth Summit is a unique 3-day event for young people from Western Balkans and beyond to share their views on pro-democracy discourse and to use their knowledge, skills and the chance to
Read more →The training course will support the implementation of the Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education through building the competences of trainers to develop and apply quality human rights education activities with young people at national/local levels and to advocate for the further mainstreaming of human rights education in youth policy and
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