In Serbia, the air is officially excessively polluted in 15 cities and agglomerations. This is the assessment of air quality for 2020, which we received from the Environmental Protection Agency in September 2021. For the assessment of the air in the previous year, 2021, we will wait for September this year. What kind of air we have been breathing so far this year, we will officially find out, you guessed it, only in the fall of 2023.
A three-day final event was held in Vranje within the Academy of Journalism from May 26 to 28. Fifteen young journalists under the age of 35 had the opportunity to gain new knowledge and skills in areas such as security culture for journalists and the challenges of local investigative journalism.
In addition to strategy and tactics, it is important to know what tools are available to civil society representatives so that the advocacy process involves all relevant actors equally.
How can you apply the knowledge acquired at the faculty in other areas? How much do you know about artificial intelligence? What should a public performance look like? Why is the fight for better environment important? How does a country's economy work? How is the media space shaped? These are just some of the questions that the program Future Studies provides answers to.
As the number of new small and large companies grow in Serbia and the world, so does the number of competitors in the labor market who force employers to invest in the development of their company's human resources and encourage employees to think more and more about continuous career development.
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During the final meeting of the programme partners within the program „Media and Youth for Democratic Development“ it was discussed about current state of media, the impact of media and CSOs in citizen's lives, as well as how to support proactive individuals striving for social change. Moreover, programme partners presented the results of their projects within this programme.
The fourth year of the Civil Society Support Program for Public Advocacy has begun. The program is being implemented within the project „Active Citizens - Better Society: Advocating for Cooperation and Democratic Development" in which 20 civil society organizations will be supported. The focus of this year's Support Program is cooperation of civil society with the business community, and most of the activities will be aimed at strengthening the cooperation of these actors, their
Belgrade Open School (BOS) announces 20 civil society organizations that will receive project and program support within the fourth year of the Civil Society Support Program for Public Advocacy and Cooperation with the Business Sector within the project „Active Citizens - Better Society: Advocating for Cooperation and Democratic Development”.
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Through the implementation of the „Green Incubator“ project, Belgrade Open School provides mentoring and financial support to local organizations throughout Serbia to work on improving public policies in the field of environmental protection.
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On March, 24 a lecture for BOS Alumni network titled Gender Equality and Crises: contradictio in adjecto? was held by Zorana Antonijevic. The audience had an opportunity to learn about the gender dimension of crises and the effects of crises on gender equaity.
Communication of civil society organizations and the media with the public is important for greater visibility, promotion and recognition of their work. To successfully convey the message, it is necessary to use channels and communication tools that are adapted to the public we are addressing.
Belgrade Open School, together with the local partner organization - Association of Young Researchers Bor, in the previous period worked on the Contribution to the Development Plan of the City of Bor. This document is a proposal for parts of the Development Plan of the City of Bor in the field of environmental protection.
The issue’s topic is on The Years of Dialogues - From the Boycott of 2020 elections to the Elections of 2022, we analyzed the current course of inter-party dialogue in Serbia pointed on improving election conditions, giving an overview on the thus far achieved results, as well as their future implementation in the upcoming elections.
Belgrade Open School with pleasure announce list of selected project proposals for support in the Civil Society Support Program for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of local communities – Green PowerUp.
The development of social entrepreneurship could be a solution to current challenges: just before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were about 1.7 million fewer young people not employed in education or training (NEETs) across the EU.
How do we choose our future universities? What do we take into account when considering different study options? Is studying abroad a real option for students from Serbia? These are some of the questions we tried to answer.
Air pollution in the Western Balkans causes 30,000 premature deaths a year, the European Environment Agency estimates. Inhaling polluted air leads to increased mortality, shortened life expectancy and an increase in the number of chronic diseases, while the health costs paid by the citizens of the Western Balkans are rising. Reducing air pollution is a public health measure that would directly increase citizens’ quality of life and health, and indirectly reduce mortality rates.
Belgrade Open School (BOS) presented the Guide to Digital Youth Security - Privacy and Prevention of Digital Violence for young people, high school students, education workers, and all those who work with young people and want to improve their knowledge of privacy and security using digital platforms.
Belgrade Open School has launched a series of podcasts „Dialogue of Change“, which will start a new discussion on the (non) existence of dialogue between civil society organizations and public authorities in Serbia. The environment is currently at the very top of the interest of a significant part of the citizens of Serbia. How did this topic manage to involve so many people in the dialogue of change?
Air pollution is among the causes of increased infertility and growing sterility rates in women and men across the Western Balkans. It particularly affects women living in polluted areas, since poor air quality may cause a reduced number of healthy egg cells and thus decrease fertility rates, also lowering in vitro fertilization success rates. Long-term exposure to polluted air in the Western Balkans can decrease female fertility by more than 10 percent; periods of high pollution levels reduce c
The fourth meeting of the Working Group for regulation of Internships was held on Thursday, the 30th of December 2021 at the premises of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs. About 30 representatives of state administration bodies, international organisations, trade unions, employers' associations and civil society organisations attended the meeting.
How to write a good project idea proposal? What projects does the Strong Green program support? Are partnerships possible on the project? How to monitor and improve local public policies? How to determine the project budget? When is the project expected to start?
We answered the ten most frequently asked questions regarding the currently open competition within the Strong Green support program.
After a two-year standstill, European integration has moved from a dead end. At the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels on December 14, Serbia opened Cluster 4, which refers to the Green Agenda and Sustainable Connectivity.
Civil society has a key role in enabling social change in a society, whereas the media outlets have to professionally report on different subjects. But how – with which tools, instruments and knowledge, youth CSOs and media outlets can adequately achieve that in the current context of Serbia?
The Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, with the support of the Belgrade Open School, organized presentations and professional discussions on the Draft Law on Internships in Novi Sad, Nis and Belgrade.
On December 16, the Belgrade Open School, with the support of partners within the Platform "SDGs for All", organized a Regional Conference "Cooperation to Sustainable Development at the Local Level - Bor, Zajecar and Knjazevac". The aim of the conference was to promote regional cooperation in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and regional development at the local level.
The Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, with the support of the Belgrade Open School, invites interested citizens (including youth!), as well as the professional public to get acquainted with the text of the Draft Law on Internships and to send their comments, suggestions and proposals.
Coal combustion is the biggest individual air pollution source in the Western Balkans, with thermal power plants leading the way. Companies that run them and the states in the region do not adhere to the laws on harmful gas emissions. The same applies for other large combustion plants – industrial plants with the largest energy consumption which, besides electricity production, are mainly responsible for pollution. A continued use of coal-fired thermal power plants will make it impossible
After last year’s successful Youth Dialogue with the Minister of Youth and Sports, on Monday, November 22, 2021, the Youth Dialogue with the Minister of Youth and Sports was held for the second time in a row. One of the participants was our Jovana Bozickovic, Advocacy and Communications Manager.
In order to raise awareness of the importance of this global problem, every year in November World Climate Change Day is celebrated. This year's celebration of this day is especially important, because the European Union's service for monitoring climate change, Copernicus, recently announced that the average temperatures last summer in Europe were the highest ever measured. Also, the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) was held in Glasgow, at which the countries of
A total of 400 tree trees were planted in several cities in the region as part of this year’s "Trees of Friendship" action, which was jointly implemented by European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) and its local partners.
The Central European University (CEU) has announced a competition for enrollment in undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies with a scholarship for the school year 2022/2023. year. The application deadline is February 1, 2022.
The third meeting of the Work Group for the regulation of internships was carried out on the 19th of October, 2021 in the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. Around 30 government, international organizations, trade unions, employer associations, and civil society organization representatives were present at the meeting.
The second meeting of the Working group for the Internships was held on the 8th of October 2021 in the Ministry for Labor, Employment, Veterans, and Social Affairs. The main topic of the meetings was focused on the issues of the quality of internships in the open labor market.
The Assembly of the Belgrade Open School has elected new members of the Executive Board, who will determine the most important strategic decisions in the next two years and make sure that each project activity fulfills the mission and vision of BOS. All members of the Executive Board are part of the BOS Alumni community, the largest alumni community in Serbia - with more than 1,300 successful individuals who occupy some of the most important positions in the business, public, and civil sectors.
One of the key roles of both civil society organizations for youth and their media counterparts nowadays is to inform young generations of the importance of democratic principles. What we recognized is that it is important for that to be done in the ways susceptible to them, given the fact that young people do not utilize mainstream information channels. Without a positive attitude of the media towards youth, as well as youth towards democracy, there is no starting point of democratic progress n
On September 13, 2021, the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency published the Annual Report on the State of Air Quality in the Republic of Serbia in 2020, which contains an overview of the results of air quality monitoring at the national and local level. An integral part of this Report is the assessment of air quality by zones and agglomerations, according to which in all agglomerations in the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade, Nis, Bor, Uzice, Kosjeric, Smederevo and Pancevo) during 2020, excess
