Opening Ceremony of the educational program “Empowerment of Roma Young Leadership in Serbia”
Opening Ceremony of the educational program “Empowerment of Roma Young Leadership in Serbia” was held on 30th November 2009 at Aeroklub, Belgrade. Speakers at the Ceremony were: Vesna Djukic, General Director of Belgrade Open School Bernard Rorke, Roma Initiatives of the Open Society Institute Zeljko Jovanovic, Roma Initiatives of the Open Society Institute Ljuan Koka, Head of the Roma National Strategy Secretariat, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights.
Representatives of governmental and nongovernmental institutions, as well as international institutions which are dealing with Roma issues, prominent individuals and members of the academic community attended the Opening Ceremony.
Training workshop “How to successfully participate in FP7 ICT projects” 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 issues. 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). >>>
Selected participants of the project "Career Academy" participated in the two days workshop held on 5. and 6. November 2009. in Belgrade Open School facilities.
25 secondary education students, members of local Youth Offices, learned from the eminent experts in the field (Ms Vesna Cekic, Mr Vladeta Milin, Mr Nenand Maletin, Ms Dragana Petkovic and Ms Jelena Manic) how to become peer career counselors in their communities. After this workshop they will participate in online educational program and participate in creation of Handbook for Youth Unemployment in Serbia.
Regional School “Religions of the Balkans – Encounters and Intertwining” Held in Sarajevo
The Centre for Religious Studies (CIRel) of the Belgrade Open School (BOS) and International Multi-religious Inter-cultural Centre (IMIC) “Together” from Sarajevo have organized the Regional School “Religions of the Balkans – Encounters and Intertwining” from 11th to 17th October 2009 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The School gathered 35 participants and over 20 lecturers and panelists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The School has been realized within the project STAREL – “Awaiting the European Union: Stabilization of Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Religious Relation in the Western Balkans”, financed by the European Union.
Participants had an unique opportunity to receive relevant knowledge on the importance and character of the relations between civil society, public authorities and religious communities in the Balkans, standards of protection of religious and minority rights, as well as the ways civil society may take part in the inter-ethnic, inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue in the Western Balkans region.
The implementation of the capacity building programme "The EU Helath POlicy"
Both capacity building programme "The EU Health Policy" within the project "Strengthening capacities of Serbian Administration for EU Integration" were implemented...
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. >>>
