Why do we collaborate? For many years, the Belgrade Open School team has been continuously working on strengthening the capacities of the civil sector, and its professionalization, and establishing it as an equal actor standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the public and private sectors.

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.

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!

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