Certificate Awarding to participants of educational program Empowerment of Young Roma Leadership in Serbia
Educational program Empowerment of Young Roma Leadership in Serbia is completed by the Certificate Awarding
Ceremony which was held in the premises of BelgradeOpenSchool on 13th
July 2010.
Training workshop “FP7 - Opportunities to Participate in European Research” focused on fostering of successful participation of local researchers in EC 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development held in framework of project “Western Balkan Countries Inco-Net Support in the field of ICT”. Workshop brought together twenty researchers and has been focused on administrative and financial issues. During the second day several bilateral session were organized. WINS-ICT is aimed at enhancing the scientific and research cooperation between the Western Balkan region and the EU, specifically in the theme of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). >>>
Mingl Career profiles: first Serbian online system for career guidance of young poeple
Belgrade Open School launched web portal Mingl Career Profiles in order to help young people in Serbia to manage their career choices more easily and according to psychological standards of the career guidance and counseling process. Portal offers online tests, recommends the concrete occupations and provides their description. The list and data of relevant faculties and higher education institution is also available, together with the page for creation of the personal career plan - profile. During only one month the portal has reached around 1500 users.
BOS started to train teachers from the schools of secondary education in career guidance and couseling
Career Guidance and Counseling Center of Belgrade Open School started with the trainings of secondary education schools in career guidance, at the same day when Government of the Serbia adopted national Strategy of Career Guidance and Counseling. Trainings will include 15 schools of tourism and catering and 60 educational workers in total (principals, teachers and psychologists).Project goal is to contribute to Serbian educational and economic development through senzibilization of secondary education schools employees in Serbia for Career Guidance and Counselling. Project is supported by USAID.
Serbian Government adopted Strategy for Career Guidance and Counseling in Serbia.
On the meeting held on 4th March 2010. Serbian Government adopted Strategy for Career Guidance and Counseling in Serbia, as proposed by Ministry of Youth and Sport. Initial text proposition for the Strategy was created in 2007, during the project of BOS Career Guidance and Counseling Center supported by CIDA. BOS gathered the leading experts in the field of career guidance coming from diverse institutions: National Employment Service, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Labor, Chamber of Commerce and Union of Employers. The success comes after almost three years of negotiations and constant promotion and affirmation of the importance of the introduction of the career guidance and counseling system into Serbian mechanism education and economy.
Project „Strengthening Religious and Human Rights for Democratic Serbia“
Centre for Religious Studies of Belgrade Open School from December 11th 2008. to February 11th 2010. is leading the project “Strengthening Religious and Human Rights for Democratic Serbia“. One of the project activities is redesign and update of the content of web site “Religions of Serbia” (www.religijesrbije.bos.rs) and web portal “Faith Knowledge Peace” (www.veraznanjemir.bos.rs).
Within the scope of this project, The National Conference “Religious Communities and Civil Society for Empowerment of Human Rights and Democracy in Serbia” will be conducted in Vrnjacka banja. Conferences will last for 4 days, and will gather app. 40 participants: representatives of civil society organisations, primarily peace building and youth ones, high representatives of traditional churches and religious communities, official representatives of ethnic minorities (National Councils), local authorities, journalists, teachers and professors, including confessional teachers, political activists, etc, all being able to share best practice cases.
The conference will be organised in the form of panel discussions. The participants will be clustered in three working groups:
Working Group I – Churches and Religious Communities and Public Authorities – Interweaving, Confrontation or Partnership Working Group II – The role of Churches and Religious Communities in Public and Political Life Working Group III – Religion and Ethnic Identity – Universal and Particular in the Real World
Joint conclusions – Conference Declaration will be professionally edited and delivered to respective authorities (local and state ones), all relevant media, published on the Action web site Religions of Serbia (www.religijesrbije.bos.rs) and the web portal Faith-Knowledge-Peace (http://veraznanjemir.bos.rs), as well as sent to offices and braches of relevant international organisations in Serbia (Delegation of the European Commission to Serbia, Council of Europe, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe), as well as associations of churches and religious communities on European and global level (World Council of Churches, Conference of European Churches).
Beside the organization of the Conference, the project also includes next activities:
• Design, Development and Dissemination of the Policy Briefs and Policy Memorandums based on the Conference Declaration
• Online course “School of Tolerance: Ethnic and Religious Communities in the Promotion of Human Rights”, where 25 selected young activists of civil society organisations will be introduced to online education (Internet based educational process), as a crucial tool for improvement of communication on inter-religious, inter-ethnic and human rights issues, and relationship towards respect of respect of human rights, development of tolerant non-discriminated democratic society in Serbia
• Update and maintenance of the web site Religions of Serbia (www.religijesrbije.bos.rs) and the regional web portal Faith-Knowledge-Peace (http://veraznanjemir.bos.rs)
The purpose of this Action is to further promote religious rights as one of fundamental human rights, and, consequently, involve variety of faith-based institutions and organisations in the wide scope of civil society initiatives in Serbia. This Action aims to make work of churches and religious communities more publicly vivid, especially in the number of fields that directly provide respect and fulfillment of human rights, such as education, health, social security and welfare, national or ethnic origin, unrestricted equality, participation in the cultural life, etc. Finally, the purpose of this Action is also to promote more common activities initiated by churches and religious communities on one side, and any subject from public or social life of Serbia (authorities, media, NGOs, etc) that will jointly contribute to democratic reform and conflict prevention in Serbia and support conflict resolution.
Teamwork
A scope of tailor-made training workshops on team building and development (team troles, coordination and communication, conflict management, negotiation decision-making process, etc) all essential for a successfully performing team . >>>
PPW - Policy paper writing The goal of the project "Writing effective policy papers to influence decision-making: Training of Trainers course" is to give contribution to further development of open and democratic society in Serbia, by training government officials to write high-quality policy papers, key tool in promoting a more inclusive and transparent policy making process. >>>
