From 2006 the Belgrade Open School is a member of Anti-Corruption Student Network in South East Europe, an international project, which is comprised, in addition to BOS’ Center for Development of Education, out of student organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, and Moldova. The project deals with the phenomenon of corruption in higher education, by exchanging of methodologies, tools for monitoring and combating corruption, as well as organizing workshops and trainings for students.
Members of the Network are informing and raising awareness on corruption in higher education and advocating for institutional mechanisms to prevent corruption by organizing round tables, conferences and trainings to empower students in the fields of active participation in the reform process, decision-making in institutions of higher education, protection and practice of student rights, advocacy and lobbying.
Anti-corruption Student Network in South East Europe members:
- Belgrade Open School -Serbia
- Youth Educational Forum - Macedonia
- Monitor Statistica - Croatia
- Youth Society for Peace and Development of the Balkans – Bulgaria
- National Center for Transparency and Human Rights – Moldova
Within this project, CDE has conducted trainings on fight against corruption and reform of higher education, enabled students for active role in the process of reform, trained students on the subjects of protection of their rights, teamwork, public speaking, research in the field of corruption, transparency, organized round tables, conferences and similar.
Publications "First Aid Kit for Higher Education - A Know How Guide for Student Research” (2011), and “Nothing New in South East Europe” are the most important outputs of this project.