Belgrade Open School (BOS) and National Youth Council of Serbia (NYCS) organized an online discussion with youth and awarded the most creative young people who participated in the competition regarding the Month of quality internships called “Don’t be a Ficus! Let’s talk about internships!”.

What are the challenges of the integration process in Serbia and Bulgaria?  How do they differ from the integration in Austria and Turkey? What are the challenges in the labor market that migrants face and what are the perspectives for immigrant employment?

Faced with many challenges while entering the labour market, young people, to acquire necessary work skills, often turn to internships – short programs of acquiring work experience by learning and training.

Belgrade Open School (BOS) organized the sixth Fair of school teams for career guidance and counseling, on Thursday, October 29, 2020, this time in online format via ZOOM platform

A meeting with the Prime Minister Ana Brnabic with the representatives of youth CSOs, among which were representatives from BOS was held yesterday, 8th of October in the Palace „Serbia“. The subject of the meeting was the new government measure for youth employment „My first salary“.

How to recognize our skills and abilities? How to present it to a potential employer? How to answer questions during a job interview? These were some of the topics of our job-seeking and employment trainings within project ALMIT - Acceleration Of Labor Market Integration Of Immigrants Through Mapping Of Skills And Trainings.

During August 22-23, the Belgrade Open School team organized training in order to strengthen the competencies of teachers for the implementation of career guidance and counseling services for high school students in order to empower their career management skills.

On Tuesday, 30th June 2020. Belgrade Open School hosted a webinar on the topic "How to adapt activities and services to young people with disabilities – working tools" within the project HORECACCESS - accessibility of services in the HoReCa sector.

On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, BOŠ team attended the 4th meeting of partners within the project HORECACCESS - accessibility of services in the HORECA sector.

The fourth meeting of the National Advisory Board within the project ALMIT - Acceleration Of Labour Market Integration Of Immigrants Through Mapping Of Skills And Trainings was held on June 11 in Šid. The meeting was attended by members of the project team, as well as representatives of the Commissariat for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia the Center for Social Work Sid, the Municipality of Sid, the Sid Health Center, the Red Cross, Sava Šumanović High School and enterprise &quo

Although the whole world seems to have stopped, life didn’t stop, and the business must continue. The industry that is suffering the biggest losses in the current situation is tourism, in all its segments - hotels, catering services, agencies, airlines, etc. Below, we give you a few recommendations on how to continue running your business in the conditions that seem impossible for something like that.

Do you want to improve your hospitality business and services? Do you want to attract more guests and further develop your business?

While quarantine lasts, we have the right thing for you!

Are companies supporting the career development of their employees and how? How are HR staff being prepared to perform career guidance and counseling activities? What needs to be done to ensure that career development is truly lifelong and more employees have the opportunity to receive quality career guidance services? These are some of the questions that Belgrade Open School seeks to answer through research that has been launched as a part of the international CONNECT initiative!

Young people from Western Balkans countries face numerous challenges in finding good career opportunities for their mobility. The WEB4YES Regional Initiative seeks to defy these statistics and help create better conditions for all young people by empowering civil society organizations to participate in decision-making processes and advocacy activities regarding youth employment policies.

Immigrants in Serbia face many challenges when it comes to employment. One of the most important aspects is adequate informing about required documents for employment, and another issue is how to prepare for a job interview.

Empowering migrants to enter the EU labor market is a difficult and challenging process characterized by diverse and often uncertain socio-economic, socio-political and cultural differences and barriers. Throughout their process of adapting to a different culture, career guidance and counseling skills can serve as a useful tool for more effective coping, adaptation and understanding of social opportunities and integration into the job market.

When was the last time you learned something new about another country without visiting it? Do you know how similar your culture is to another culture? How similar are Congo, Serbia, and Burundi? These are some of the questions we have tried to answer together.