News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Target group: Students and young professionals 18 years and above Countries: International Short description: As part of Huawei’s broader initiative Seeds for the Future, the Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age represent the company’s continued commitment to digital inclusion. The program aims to close the gender gap and create a world where women
Read more →Target group: Young policy experts with a maximum age of 35 Countries: Central Europe, Western Balkans, and Eastern Partnership countries Short description: Given the mounting threats, the CEE countries and their Western partners urgently need fresh thinking and innovation in policymaking to address the democracy, security, and prosperity challenges in the region. For this reason,
Read more →Target group: Social entrepreneurs Countries: International/ countries defined as low-income and/or lower-middle-income by the World Bank Short description: The Swiss Re Foundation Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award recognizes entrepreneurial initiatives that take innovative approaches to build resilient societies in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Link to the original call (FundForNGOs)
Read more →Target group: Scholars, Researchers, Academics Countries: International/Western Balkans/EU/US Short description: The Symposium is being organized as part of USAID’s Media Literacy Project YouThink. It is a five-year USAID-funded program that works with youth to help them navigate and shape an information ecosystem that informs and engages rather than divides and polarizes. The project is implemented
Read more →Target group: Regional and local writers, translators, playwrights, poets, illustrators, graphic novel artists, and comic book writers Countries: North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Albania, Kosovo Short description: The goal is to allow the READ artists-in-residence to develop a project over a fixed period, and to reflect and consolidate their artistic practice in the specific context. Creative
Read more →Target group: Commercial-CSO partnerships Countries: International Short description: P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 is currently inviting nominations for the 2022 State-of-the-Art Awards to recognize the world’s most innovative and successful multistakeholder partnerships in Sustainable Development Goal areas. Link to the original call (FundsForNGOs)
Read more →BCSDN has successfully conducted a two-day research partners workshop in Belgrade, on 13-14 December. During the first day, our member representatives were exploring the topic of development effectiveness and building their capacities for strengthening and promoting cooperation for effective development. The regional training on effective development cooperation is part of the activities under BCSDN’s three-year
Read more →CIVICUS Monitor has launched the latest Global Data Report – People Power Under Attack. This annual report takes a closer look at trends and top violations to the civil rights in each of the 197 countries and territories monitored. Out of 54 countries monitored within Europe and Central Asia, civic space is rated as open
Read more →The 2021 EU-Western Balkans Summit organized by Friends of Europe took place on the 7 December. The Summit aimed to engage with themes such as sustainable recovery, trade and investment, youth issues, and the role of civil society to foster pathways to regional cooperation, resilience, and inclusion. BCSDN’s Executive Director took part in the session
Read more →The European Commission released its annual report on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU. This is the first report following last year’s strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU, which announced annual reports with thematic focuses. The 2021 report focuses on the challenges
Read more →The latest results of the survey published by the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) paint a negative picture of the European Union’s standing in the public perception of Western Balkans. While most of the citizens of the region still support the EU accession, they are increasingly sceptical that this will happen and the
Read more →Partners Albania, BCSDN member organization, has started the implementation of an initiative that aims to empower CSOs to proactively engage in an enabling legal environment in the context of preventing money laundering and combating terrorist financing. The intervention focuses on mapping and analyzing the legal and regulatory framework in the country on the prevention of
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