News and updates from BCSDN and the region
The European Fund for the Balkans announces the new call for applications for its flagship Fellowship programme for Government Officials. It is a one-year practice-oriented educational programme which is supporting the Western Balkans’ administrations by educating and motivating the public officials to practice and advocate the European principles of public administration. It is targeting the
Read more →Young policy experts and/or civic activists from Central Europe and the Eastern Partnership countries with proven track record of policy analysis and/or civil society engagement are invited to apply for the German Marshall Fund of the United States new fellowship program launched last year. A year-long non-resident fellowship, including two workshops on policy research and
Read more →The Civil Society Scholar Awards 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. Civil Society Scholars are selected on the basis of their outstanding contributions to research or other engagement with local communities, to furthering debates
Read more →Partners Albania continues the implementation of the project “EMBRACE – Entrepreneurship Models Building Relations and Creative Economy” with the lunch of the second call for expression of interest by civil society organizations, for the capacity development program with regards to initiation/ strengthening of the business models or entrepreneurship initiatives by CSOs, contributing to the social economy of
Read more →The School of Transnational Governance (STG) at the European University Institute (EUI) is offering fellowships to early- and mid- career policy professionals for the academic year 2019-2020. The Policy Leaders 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
Read more →The Atlas Corps Fellowship is a 12-18 month Fellowship in the United States for the world’s top social change leaders. Fellows serve full-time at Host Organizations to develop leadership skills and learn effective practices through the Atlas Corps Global Leadership Lab professional development series and networking opportunities with other Fellows. Participants in this prestigious fellowship
Read more →From 16-29 June 2019, the Robert Bosch Stiftung will organize the Berlin Seminar: Truth, Justice & Remembrance 2019. The event will bring together 25 international actors, who are professionally engaged in the field of truth finding and documentation, (transitional) justice and the creation of shared history and remembrance. Journalists and representatives will gain insights into
Read more →The Bond Annual Conference and Awards is the biggest international development event in Europe, attracting over a thousand diverse people from across the international development and humanitarian sectors. NGOs, civil society leaders, researchers, funders, government and private sector come together to share ideas and interrogate emerging trends. As civil society faces an increasingly complicated political
Read more →BCSDN, in cooperation with CIVICUS and Civic Initiatives, and with support from the Balkan Trust for Democracy, is launching a call for ICSW/local events in the Western Balkans to bring diverse civil society and community perspectives into the global conversations at the International Civil Society Week 2019. CSOs from the region are invited to apply
Read more →This regional conference, organized by the Institute for Democracy and Mediation, Belgrade Open School, Analitika Center for Social Research and the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, aims to explore threats and opportunities for the role of religion in Western Balkans societies and to contribute to enhancing societal and policy mechanisms to better respond to
Read more →The conference “Call to Europe in the Western Balkans” will bring together politicians, experts, representatives of civil society and the media from the Western Balkans to discuss the current and future political processes in the European Union, which include the forthcoming elections for the European Parliament in 2019, the numerous calls for reforms within the
Read more →The Secretariat of the EEA and Norway Grants is seeking a Fund Operator to develop and implement the national EEA Grants programme for civil society in Croatia 2014-2021. The objective of the Civil Society Programme Area is: ‘Civil society and active citizenship strengthened and vulnerable groups empowered’. The areas of support are: Democracy, active citizenship,
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