Project 50 Ideas for Europe - New Leaders, New Opportunities promotes cooperation of youth organizations, student organizations, informal groups and young leaders regarding European youth policies in order to connect and promote young people in Danube Region as creators of positive changes in communities across Europe.

The project directly involves at least 250 young leaders, at least 100 youth organizations, student associations and informal groups from 10 European countries and at least 20 decision makers from 10 European countries and EU institutions directly involved in youth activities. The BOS and partner organizations will design, promote and advocate 50 youth ideas in 10 countries in the Danube Region.

In the long-term, the project contributes to the improvement of the implementation of European standards and values.

Through initiative “KVIS na BIS”, BOS continues to advocate for ensuring further development and sustainability of the career guidance and counselling system for young people. In 2019, BOS team will provide the support for the improvement of the legal and institutional framework for implementation of career guidance and counselling policy, organize training on career guidance and counselling for teachers, psychologists and pedagogists from secondary schools and support the implementation of workshops for students in schools who had participated in the training. Furthermore, through this project BOS will organize public events for raising awareness on the significance of quality services of career guidance and counselling and provide services of online career counselling for young people.

The project is being implemented in the period from the 1^st of March 2018 to 30^th of November 2019 with the support of the Solidar Suisse – Office in Serbia.

The aim of the project "Improving the framework for traineeship and internship programs" is further improvement of the framework for traineeship and internship programs as a mechanism for increasing youth employability.

During the project, Belgrade Open School will conduct advocacy activities to establish a clear and functioning legal framework for organizing traineeships on the open market. Furthermore, promotion of good quality internships will be carried out, including marking of the Interns Day.

The project is realized in the period December 20, 2018 – November 10, 2019, with the support of the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit.

Belgrade Open School with the support of “Europe for Citizens” Programme of the European Union implements the project “YOU4EU – Citizen Participation 2.0”. The aim of the project is to encourage citizens in Europe to take part in decision and policy - making processes.

Citizen participation in decision and policy - making processes is one of the main pillars of democracy and democratic culture in societies where citizens have power to be agents of change and have right to take part in debates about problems that occur in societies and take decisions on policies of public interest.

Thus, this project is designed to motivate citizens to participate in dialogues with stakeholders at both EU and national level.

The project is following up the positive momentum of revived debate over the future of the EU initialized in 2017 and important events, such as Brexit, 2019 European Parliament elections and published Strategy for credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans countries.

The Project activities will help citizens to grasp ideas and think about possible scenarios of the EU future presented in the European Commission’s White paper on the future of Europe. Facilitation of direct contacts between citizens and decision makers that will take place during this Project will also encourage citizens to express their own concerns over particular problems and define the issues which should enrich, shape and strengthen the EU agenda in the upcoming period. Together with this the project activities will provide the opportunity to citizens to challenge and discuss presented EU agendas and articulate criticism over the concrete EU activities and results.

The You4EU project activities will be implemented in 9 Member States and 2 Candidate Countries, directly underpinning citizens’ actions and decision making on European challenges of mutual concern, which is citizen-oriented, inclusive, forward-looking and constructive. Having this in mind the important aspect of this project is to enable peer exchange between Member States and Candidate Countries in many areas.

The project will use and support the enhancement of new media and new channels of communication in order to raise interest and include young people in abovementioned processes.

The project's priorities are to encourage citizens to engage in active dialogue on the future of Europe and to review mechanisms to counter the rising Euro-skepticism in, and outside the European Union.

General aim of the project is to shift the position of European citizens from passive actors to agents of change.

Specific aims of the project are to:

• Shift position of European citizens from passive actors to agents of change, empowered and encouraged for democratic and civic participation at the Union level;
• Develop understanding of citizens’ role and possible impact in the EU policy making process;
• Enrich civic debate and e-participation of citizens on key developmental policies of the EU;
• Enable exchange of experience between EU Member and Candidate Countries.

The project consists of interrelated set of activities which enable: a) direct contacts between citizens and decision makers for discussing contemporary challenges and perspectives of EU policies from citizens’ point of view; b) Europe-wide research on the citizens opinion over the future EU agenda; c) transnational multi-stakeholder debates on how to use concrete EU achievements and benefits in order to reinforce the EU's social and political cohesion, and d) development of innovative instruments for direct participation in decision making for citizens by citizens.

Expected results:

• European citizens empowered and motivated to lead debates;
• Developed recommendations for improvement of particular aspects of EU policies;
• Broadened potential impact of individual initiatives;
• Increased pull of knowledge, know-how and good practice for combating Euroscepticism.

Project activities are going to be implemented in four phases:

1. INCEPTION PHASE: Partners will start preparatory activities at the project with program development, setting a research methodology, action and communication plan, clarification of responsibilities, finance and administration rules, expected deliverables and deadlines, thematic focus of the contest and multi-stakeholder debates.
2. RESEARCH PHASE: Project partners are going to collect citizens’ questions through social networks and various online platforms, which is going to result in creating survey and policy analysis consisted of 50 key questions. This policy analysis is going to be presented to stakeholders of interest at the EU level.
3. ENGAGE PHASE: With intention to condense a gap in communication between policy makers and citizens, which leads to lack of trust and civic engagement, partnering organizations will organize online contest for proposing of  innovative e-tool which has the aim to improve inclusion of citizens in decision making process and debating future development of the EU. Contest Citizens Participation 2.0 c will be organized on a pan European level covering both EU and non EU Member States as a wide polygon for creating innovative mechanisms for direct communication and participation in policy making.
4. DEBATE PHASE: Project will invite citizens to act together and debate within framework of multi-stakeholder debates. Events will be organized in 4 participating countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Topic of each of the debate will be based on inputs from direct contacts between citizens and decision makers, policy analysis and transnational recommendations for improvement of citizens` participation.

Four partners are included in project implementation: Belgrade Open School from Serbia, Institute Alternative from Montenegro, GONG from Croatia, PiNA from Slovenia and Access Info Europe from Spain. Project will directly include between 700 and 800 participants. Indirectly, around 370.000 citizens will be included and informed about the results of the project.

The Project is going to be implemented during the period of 18 months, from 1^st of September 2018 until 29^th of February 2020.

In order to ensure continuous coordination and development of lifelong career guidance policies, Belgrade Open School (BOS) continued to advocate for the improvement of quality and effectiveness of career guidance and counselling services. In 2018, the team of Belgrade Open School provided the support for the development of the "Bylaw on conditions, work, activities and composition of teams for career guidance and counselling in secondary schools that have educational profiles in dual education". Moreover, BOS carried out training courses for representatives of teams for career guidance and counselling in secondary schools and supported the implementation of workshops for students in schools who had participated in the training. Within this project, BOS contributed to the promotion of quality services of career guidance and counselling and provided services of online career counselling for young people.

The project was implemented in the period from the 7th of March to 30th November 2018 with the support of the Solidar Suisse – Office in Serbia.

Although the Strategy Europe 2020 aims to decrease the rate of early educational leaving in the EU to below 10% by 2020, still more than 10% of youngsters (aged 16-24), are leaving the education and training process, according to EUROSTAT data. Early educational dropout is an urgent and serious problem, both for individuals and society as a whole.

In order to address the above mentioned problems, throuout this project we will especially emphasize on mentoring process with youngsters, i.e. creation of tools and instruments for improvement of quality of mentoring processes. Besides creation of tools and instrumenst, we will develop an android based mobile mentoring application to facilitate distance mentoring for youth with disabilities.

The WEB4YES project is a regional initiative aimed at empowering civil society organizations to participate in decision making and advocacy for changes in youth employment policies in 6 Western Balkan countries. Within the project, it is planned to establish national and regional forums on the topic of employment, employability, and entrepreneurship of youth; training on policy advocacy methods; financial support program for civil society organizations; as well as designing and launching an Internet platform for easier job search for young people in the region.

The project coordinator is Belgrade Open School, and partners on the project are Association for Democratic Prosperity – ZID (Montenegro), NGO Lens (Kosovo), Beyond Barriers Association (Albania), Institute for Youth Development - KULT (Bosnia and Herzegovina), National Youth Council of Macedonia and the International Center Olof Palme (Sweden).

The WEB4YES project is supported by the European Commission, and all project activities will be implemented in the period from 23.12.2017. until 23.12.2020.

Through this project the model for virtual internships in VET was developed and tested. This model is in line with the needs of VET teachers, trainers and mentors and VET students, especially students from disadvantaged groups. Through project the organization of virtual internships in VET was promoted as well as strategic cooperation between educational institutions and business sector focused on virtually supported internships.

The main objective of the project is to establish inclusive youth community by consolidating their leisure time as a positivist youth peer pedagogy towards well-being, reduction of educational dropout and stable mental health.

Project coordinator is University Of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski” (Bulgaria) and partners are National Association Of Professionals Working With People With Disabilities (Bulgaria), Voluntary unit Plovdiv 112 (Bulgaria), Vienna Association of Education Volunteers (Austria), PhoenixKM BVBA (Belgium) and Belgrade Open School (Serbia).

Project activities are carried out in the period from 1st of September 2017 to 31st of August 2019, and the project is supported through the program Erasmus+.

In order to ensure continuous coordination and development of lifelong career guidance policies, BOŠ will continue to advocate for the improvement of quality in the field of career guidance and counseling.

In 2017, the BOŠ team will continue to support the development and implementation of career guidance services and counseling, development and implementation of advanced training for secondary school teachers on career guidance and youth counseling, organizing pilot workshops in schools that have passed Training about career guidance and counseling. Also BOS team will contribute to the promotion of the importance of quality career guidance and counseling services, encourage networking of unemployed youth with representatives of the economy and continue to provide online career counseling for young people.

Belgrade Open School through the project „PRAKSAM“ continues to support the improvement of employability and employment of youth in Serbia by creating opportunities for them to gain work experience and connect to the world of work. 

BOŠ will first announce an open call to business companies that wants to participate in the project as internship providers and potential employees. After the selection process, BOS team will conduct a needs analysis within the companies in order to define a specific internship positions. After that phase, BOS team will recruit and select 15 young interns who will gain the opportunity to be engaged for 3 months in the business companies that are operating successfully in Serbia.

Interns will be assigned mentors from the company in which they will have internship. The project will also include trainings for mentors from selected companies, as well as training for career management for selected interns, which will aim to present the advantages of quality internships program and to empower them for further career development.

The project will be realized by the Belgrade Open School, in the period from June 2017. until 31th January 2018. The project is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

Main aim of the 3D for VET Schools Project is to create a comprehensive 3D modelling curriculum and training module for VET schools and vocational education trainers (VET school teachers, vocational college lecturers, adult education centre teachers and qualified instructors from industrial organisations).

The Project Western Balkan youth WORK(s) for youth Employability (WEBWORK) is a regional initiative for a common approach to youth employability. Project will be conducted by the Belgrade Open School in cooperation with five other organizations from the Wester Balkans region .The main aim of the project is to contribute to the adaptation of youth in the WB region to the rapidly evolving changes in the labor market.