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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

The EU’s Political Integration Capacity in Eastern Europe: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

MAXCAPs working paper no. 23 assesses the external political integration capacity of the EU across neighbours, candidates, and new members in different regions of Eastern Europe. External integration capacity refers to the ability of the EU to prepare non-members for accession and association, respectively; political integration capacity refers to strengthening democracy and governance effectiveness in.

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

The Croatian Third Sector in 2015: Barriers and Way Forward

The TSI Croatia team formulated a number of significant recommendations to address challenges, elaborated in this latest TSI policy brief. As noted in the policy brief, it is necessary to adjust tax frame to needs of development of the third sector. Also, there is clear need for obtaining relevant skills in the sector such as

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfA: Atlas Corps Fellowship for CSO Leaders (Deadline: 15.07.2016)

Atlas Corps is inviting CSOs leaders from around the world for its overseas fellowship program. Their mission is to address critical social issues by developing leaders, strengthening organizations, and promoting innovation through an overseas fellowship of skilled non-profit professionals. The U.S. Atlas Corps engages leaders committed to the non-profit sector in 12-18 month, professional fellowships

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfA: ECIT Summer University on European Citizenship – 29-31 August, Brussels (Deadline: 30.07.2016)

Maison des Associations Internationales is hosting the ECIT first Summer University on European citizenship. From 29 to 31 August students, academics, policy makers and civil society representatives from all over Europe will meet in Brussels to exchange views on the gaps and future challenges of European citizenship. During this three-day event, participants from different backgrounds

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfA: 2016 Global Perspectives: The Future of Civic Space – 26-28 October, Berlin (Deadline: N/A)

Global Perspectives brings together key national and leading international CSOs with high level representatives from politics, the corporate sector and academia to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. How can civil society actors worldwide protect and expand civic space, in order to make meaningful contributions to the implementation of the SDGs and climate

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfA: OSCE Project on Enhancing Regional Connectivity among Serbian and Albanian Youth Actors (Deadline: 20.06.2016)

The OSCE Mission to Serbia in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania is inviting representatives from youth organizations from Serbia and Albania to participate in the OSCE Mission to Serbia project for building bridges. The project aims to support youth actors from Serbia and Albania to improve connectivity, co-operation and dialogue. The project consists

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfP: IPA2CSO Supporting Development of Policy Analyses – Macedonia (Deadline: 30.06.2016)

The first call for proposals under the IPA2CSO Mechanism in Macedonia is to provide support for CSOs in the process of developing sectoral policy analyses, which describe the current situation in one of the sectors identified in the CfP and give suggestions and recommendations for its improvement, as well as implementing related advocacy activities. The

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfP: IPA Media Professionalism Programme 2015 – Montenegro (Deadline: 29.08.2016)

The specific objective of this call is to support quality media production in the areas related to Montenegro’s European Integration and to enable media to report fairly, freely and in a professional and ethical manner. At the same time the citizens are meant to be further educated about their rights in the context of the

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

CfP: Development of Effective Community Services in the Area of Education and Social Welfare at the Local Level – Serbia (Deadline: 15.07.2016)

The specific objectives of this CfP are to: 1) establish, improve or sustain community-based social services, 2) establish and strengthen social business initiatives, and 3) support local-level inter-sectoral measures for decreasing early school leaving, preventing dropout and increasing educational attainment. The overall indicative amount made available under this call is EUR 5.500.000. Any grant requested

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

Key Macedonian CSOs Call on the Government to Stop Selection Process, Revise the Gov-CS Council

Despite the initial reaction by civil society on 20th May over the sudden adoption of the Decision on the Establishment of the Council for Cooperation between the Government and Civil Society, on 23rd May the General Secretariat of the Government published a Call for selection of 13 members of the Council coming from associations and

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

Albania: Elected Members from CSOs for the National Council of Civil Society Announced

On 13th June, the Agency for Supporting Civil Society (ASCS) announced the list of CSO representatives to become members of the National Council of Civil Society (NCCS), based on the online voting process for the candidates of civil society representatives to the Council. ASCS has published the final results of the voting process, as well as the final

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Uncategorized 14 June 2016

Slovenia: Small CSOs no Longer Obliged to Use Fiscal Cash Registers

On 3rd June, the Slovenian Ministry of Finance enacted amendments to the Rules on the Implementation of the Law on Value Added Tax, which stipulate that smaller CSOs are no longer required to issue invoices when selling their products or services, thereby they will no longer be obliged to use fiscal cash registers. The change

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