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CfA: Public Call to Nominate Candidates for CSO Representatives Their Deputies in the Seventh Convocation of the Civil Society Development Council for the Period 2020- 2023 (Deadline: 15 January 2020)

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

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CfA: Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education with Young People 2019/2020 (Deadline: 24 November 2019)

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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CfA: Second Call for Resonant Voices Fellowship (Deadline: 25 November 2019)

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Commission for International Justice and Accountability and the Foundation Propulsion Fund are encouraging journalists, researchers and writers from across Europe to apply for the second Resonant Voices Fellowship programme. It offers fellowships consisting of 3,000-EUR bursaries and mentoring to explore related difficult questions at the intersection of identity, migration, democracy,

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CfA: Young Global Changers Program in Berlin, Germany (Deadline: 1 December 2019)

The Young Global Changers program brings together young people from around the world who are working towards a global paradigm shift, combining their talents and together becoming a strong voice for change. Successful applicants will receive a full scholarship to participate in the Global Solutions Summer School and the Global Solutions Summit from April 17-22,

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CfA: Job Announcement for The Recruitment of EU TACSO 3: Country Coordinators in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey (Deadline: 8 November 2019)

The Technical Assistance to CSOs in Western Balkans and Turkey (EU TACSO 3) project main goal is to strengthen the capacity CSOs to actively take part in the democratic processes and to stimulate an enabling environment for civil society and pluralistic media development. The Country Coordinator will be responsible for facilitation, organization and implementation of

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CfA: 6 th Prague Populism Conference: Current Populism in Europe: How to (re)act? (Deadline: 31 January 2020)

The scope of next year’s conference is to analyses countermeasures and actions against populism to highlight what effect they have had on the development of populist parties and movements and to assess future possibilities for successful re/actions towards populism. The conference will particularly focus on radical right-wing populists, their capacity to use nationalist or even

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CfA: Regional Forum: Youth Regional Compact for Europe Network, & November, Prishtina (Deadline: 21 October 2019)

The thematic forum under the title Youth in the region: seeking strategic responses to meet the challenges of demography and labour market trends will gather more than 50 participants from youth organizations in the Western Balkans that would focus on youth networking and knowledge sharing in the field of structured dialogue and reforms in rule

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CfA: The 28th NISPAcee Annual Conference, Split 14- 16 May 2020 (Deadline: 31 October 2019)

The conference is Organized in co-operation with Faculty of Law, University of Split. The Main Conference Theme “Governance and citizens’ rights in the era of Europeanization, globalization and digitalization”. The working group is focused on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their participation in governance in the states and regions of Central and Eastern Europe. The broad

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CfA: Open Competition for Participation in “Shaping Participatory Democracy” Professional Fellows Program for Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the United States of America, April 15-May 29, 2020, and October 7-November 19, 2020 USA (Deadline: 1 November 2019)

This program is a two-way exchange involving 30 professionals from five selected European countries and 15 mentors from the United States who will effect positive change in their communities. U.S. mentors will share their professional expertise with fellows of this program in the United States and travel for a two-week reciprocal visit to assist their

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CfA: V4 Fall School on Media in Slovakia 9-13 November (Deadline: 2 October 2019)

The European Dialogue, Mladiinfo Poland, Sound-Picture Cultural Association and Cesta rozvoje, z.s., are looking for participants (18-30 years old) from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, to join training V4 Fall School on Media. Participants will: get practical skills to be able to report for traditional, digital, and social media in a balanced and fair way;

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