From September 2014 to August 2016, the Belgrade Open School was a partner in the Policy Bridging Initiative project, implemented by the International Center for Policy Advocacy (ICPA) within the Regional Research Promotion Program (RRPP) for the Western Balkans, financed and implemented by the University of Freiburg, Switzerland.

Policy Bridging Initiative is an initiative that seeks to train and empower grantees, research organizations, and institutions involved in the RRPP program to advocate more clearly for the policy capacities of their projects. Namely, the RRPP headquarters in Switzerland wanted to improve the advocacy affinities of organizations and institutions whose projects have been supported in the period 2014-2016. In order to do this, they hired coaching experts from the ICPA to additionally train the RRPP Fund grantees through training, consultation and written comments on policy papers, as well as to reduce the academic approach within their projects and focus on advocating specific recommendations for the activities of policymakers.

As a result of many years of cooperation and engagement in the same field, BOS was hired by ICPA as a co-partner in the implementation of this project. Through the Policy Bridging Initiative, ICPA and BOS have strengthened the capacities of 63 institutions/organizations from Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia to implement 21 regional projects. The project has been implemented from September 2014 to August 2016.