News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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,
Read more →The OECD and OGP are launching a call for open government innovations. An open government innovation is any good practice that promotes the principles of transparency, integrity, accountability and stakeholder participation in support of democracy and inclusive growth. Open government innovators from around the world are encouraged to submit innovative practices to propel research on
Read more →The 2019 EFC Annual General Assembly and Conference will take place from 22-24 May in Paris, under the title “Liberté, égalité, philanthropie”. Who isn’t familiar with this French national motto which finds its roots in the Revolution of 1789 but is still considered the rallying call for freedom, equality and solidarity around the world today?
Read more →The Open Society Foundations is seeking applications for its Open Society Fellowship Programme with an aim to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. Fellowship Applicants are invited to address the proposition that New and radical forms of ownership, governance, entrepreneurship, and financialization are needed to fight pervasive economic inequality.
Read more →On 28 November 2018, Belgrade will be the host to the conference “The European Union and the Western Balkans: Making Enlargement a More Credible Process? This conference will take place in the framework of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The conference is a part of the “Western Balkans Reflection Forum” initiative,
Read more →The Working Group 2 of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” invites interested authors to submit a proposal to its second workshop titled “Social Enterprise in Social and Health Services”. The workshop will focus on the potential of social enterprises to contribute to important sectors of (public) welfare provision and
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