The development of the Action Plan on Implementation of the Open Government Partnership Initiative in the Republic of Serbia in 2020-2022 has started, and it is expected that this plan will be adopted until the end of the year.

Therefore, the SHARE Foundation, in cooperation with the Belgrade Open School, Partners for Democratic Change Serbia (Partners Serbia), Citizen’s Association Atina, Association Da se zna and A11 - Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, has developed a concise and clear manual on data protection during a pandemic.

The project team made sure that the planned activities on the project were implemented at the scheduled time. From April 27 to June 24, 2020, online training will be organized consisting of a series of webinars as part of the CSOs' support package, which received support this year to implement their advocacy initiatives - to project and program partners.

Approved projects will be implemented between April 1 and October 31, 2020.

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.

“Advocacy is a strategic process, not an ad hoc activity” is a sentence that could often be heard in training where lecturers and project partners discussed the importance of long-term planning for this process, as well as the importance of connecting the civil sector, citizens, decision-makers and media.

Approved projects will be implemented between March 1 and October 31, 2020.

Belgrade Open School has published a publication The necessity of change – analysis of civil society organizations’ capacities for advocacy in Serbia.

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.

On Friday, 17 January, an Info Session on the Call for Proposals under the Program for Support to Civil Society for Public Advocacy, launched by the Belgrade Open School (BOS) in partnership with the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN Serbia), was held in front of more than 40 representatives and a representative of civil society organizations.

Belgrade Open School invites interested CSOs to an Info session on Friday, January 17th in Belgrade, at which attendees will be able to inform about the Call for Proposals under the Civil Society Support Program for Public Advocacy.

Belgrade Open School (BOS) in partnership with the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN Serbia) announces Call for Proposals under the Civil Society Support Program for Public Advocacy.

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.