OSI CHEVENING CAMBRIDGE OVERSEAS TRUSTS JOINTLY-FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

The Open Society Foundation-London, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Cambridge Overseas Trust invite applications for the above scholarships at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 2010-11.  Applicants will normally be both nationals of and resident in Republic of Serbia.   The scholarships are for one-year taught postgraduate Programs leading to the award of the MPhil and LLM Law   MPhil     Criminology, Development Studies Education English and Applied Linguistics Historical Studies History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine International Relations Philosophy Political Thought & Intellectual History, Social Anthropology LLM       Law   >>>

02. 12. 2009, SOC

OSI/FCO CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIPS 2010-2011 University of Oxford & University of York

The Belgrade Open School welcomes applications from citizens of Republic of Serbia for the OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarships 2010-2011, which are jointly funded by the Open Society Foundation and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The scholarships are intended to provide opportunities for postgraduate study in selected fields in the United Kingdom for scholars and young professionals who demonstrate both academic excellence and the potential to become leaders, decision makers and opinion formers in their home countries. Applicants must have excellent academic qualifications, a clear and precise proposal describing what they wish to study, and a fluent command of the English language. The scholarships cover all university and college fees, travel to and from the UK, and basic living expenses for a single person.   Within the Scholarship Scheme the following options are available: >>>

24. 11. 2009, SOC

OSI UCL Chevening Scholarships Five Scholarships for 2010-11

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Open Society Foundation - London and University College London - School of Slavonic and East European Studies are offering five scholarships for graduate study. University College London (UCL) is renowned worldwide for its high quality research and teaching. Its School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) was given the highest rating ‘5’ in the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001 confirming its international excellence. The five scholarships offered are open to nationals and residents of either Macedonia, Moldova, Russia (Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, Samara, Far East only) or Serbia, who are accepted for one of the following one-year Master’s degree programmes at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies: ·     MA Central and South-East European Studies ·     MA History ·     MA Identity, Culture and Power ·     MA Institutions, Development and Globalisation ·     MA Politics, Security and Integration ·     MRes Politics and Economics of Eastern Europe   Each award covers tuition fees, travel, and a maintenance allowance. >>>

23. 11. 2009, SOC

Undergraduate Exchange Program 2010-2011

The program seeks to assist educational and civic development in Southeastern and Eastern Europe and Mongolia by exposing participants to a liberal-arts curriculum, different models of classroom instruction, community service work, and civil society–related programming. UEP combines the U.S. liberal arts academic experience with exposure to American social issues and civic development through involvement in community service–related work. The program aims to create lasting ties among participants and their American colleagues, thereby contributing to cultural understanding and tolerance. Participants attend a university or college in the United States for one year. While in the United States, grantees agree to complete 25 hours per semester of community service work in an area of interest to them. At the end of the year, they are expected to return home to complete their degrees. Once back in their home country, grantees complete a community-based service project in their own community. Criteria: >>>

12. 10. 2009, SOC

Central European University is pleased to announce its Call for Applications for the academic year 2010/2011

Central European University (CEU) is a graduate, English-language, research-intensive university located in Budapest, Hungary. While concentrating on the social sciences and humanities, CEU also offers graduate programs in Business, Economics, Law, Environmental Sciences and Mathematics. With students coming from 100 countries, CEU is proud of its international community with no predominant national majority. The university offers small, seminar-style courses with a student/ faculty ratio 7:1, and individual consultations with professors.   CEU Degrees CEU offers a variety of Master’s (MA, MS) and Doctoral (PhD, SJD) degree programs in English: http://www.ceu.hu/academics/degrees; http://www.ceu.hu/academics/departments   For programs for faculty and professionals, see: http://www.ceu.hu/academics/specialprograms.   >>>

12. 10. 2009, SOC

Career Academy - Call for youth!

Belgrade Open School and Informative Portal Mingl invite young activists of local and regional Youth Offices in Serbia to apply for participation in our new project. Career Academy is open for young people from the age of 16 to 20.This educational project will combine online and interactvinve training methodology in order to train 25 young people how to explore and manage their own career, but also to be able to later on transfer gained knowledge and skills to their peers. More information and application procedure details are available at portal Mingl. >>>

02. 09. 2009, CGCC

Educational program "Roma Leadership Program"

Belgrade Open School in cooperation with The Roma Initiatives of the Open Society Institute is pleased to announce the call for application for educational seminar “Roma Leadership Program”. Submission deadline is 2nd October 2009. Applications are welcome from Roma university graduates and undergraduates from Serbia. More about the program… >>>

20. 08. 2009, CCB

New deadline for Central European University

You can still apply to the below listed CEU departments if you submit your own English test scores (TOEFL; IELTS; Cambridge) in addition to the general CEU and departmental-specific admissions requirements. The new deadlines for departments are: Philosophy - April 1st 2009. Political science, History, Medieval studies - April 15 2009. MATILDA European Master in Women’s and Gender History . June 15 2009 Financial Aid and Tuition CEU has a comprehensive series of financial aid packages, ranging from the Full and Partial Fellowship awards to tuition waivers. We offer these packages, including assistance with medical insurance and accommodation, to the majority of our students. For more information, see: http://www.ceu.hu/admissions/financialaid. You can apply online at: Online application form All additional information can be found on http://www.ceu.hu/academics/degrees, as well on Departmental websites  http://www.ceu.hu/academics/departments. If you need further assistance please call +381 11 30 61 371 or write on ena@bos.rs. >>>

18. 03. 2009, SOC

Project „Strengthening Religious and Human Rights for Democratic Serbia“

Centre for Religious Studies of Belgrade Open School from December 11th 2008. to February 11th 2010. is leading the project “Strengthening Religious and Human Rights for Democratic Serbia“. One of the project activities is redesign and update of the content of web site “Religions of Serbia” (www.religijesrbije.bos.rs) and web portal “Faith Knowledge Peace” (www.veraznanjemir.bos.rs). Within the scope of this project, The National Conference “Religious Communities and Civil Society for Empowerment of Human Rights and Democracy in Serbia” will be conducted in Vrnjacka banja. Conferences will last for 4 days, and will gather app. 40 participants: representatives of civil society organisations, primarily peace building and youth ones, high representatives of traditional churches and religious communities, official representatives of ethnic minorities (National Councils), local authorities, journalists, teachers and professors, including confessional teachers, political activists, etc, all being able to share best practice cases. The conference will be organised in the form of panel discussions. The participants will be clustered in three working groups: Working Group I – Churches and Religious Communities and Public Authorities – Interweaving, Confrontation or Partnership Working Group II – The role of Churches and Religious Communities in Public and Political Life Working Group III – Religion and Ethnic Identity – Universal and Particular in the Real World Joint conclusions – Conference Declaration will be professionally edited and delivered to respective authorities (local and state ones), all relevant media, published on the Action web site Religions of Serbia (www.religijesrbije.bos.rs) and the web portal Faith-Knowledge-Peace (http://veraznanjemir.bos.rs), as well as sent to offices and braches of relevant international organisations in Serbia (Delegation of the European Commission to Serbia, Council of Europe, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe), as well as associations of churches and religious communities on European and global level (World Council of Churches, Conference of European Churches). Beside the organization of the Conference, the project also includes next activities: • Design, Development and Dissemination of the Policy Briefs and Policy Memorandums based on the Conference Declaration • Online course “School of Tolerance: Ethnic and Religious Communities in the Promotion of Human Rights”, where 25 selected young activists of civil society organisations will be introduced to online education (Internet based educational process), as a crucial tool for improvement of communication on inter-religious, inter-ethnic and human rights issues, and relationship towards respect of respect of human rights, development of tolerant non-discriminated democratic society in Serbia • Update and maintenance of the web site Religions of Serbia (www.religijesrbije.bos.rs) and the regional web portal Faith-Knowledge-Peace (http://veraznanjemir.bos.rs) The purpose of this Action is to further promote religious rights as one of fundamental human rights, and, consequently, involve variety of faith-based institutions and organisations in the wide scope of civil society initiatives in Serbia. This Action aims to make work of churches and religious communities more publicly vivid, especially in the number of fields that directly provide respect and fulfillment of human rights, such as education, health, social security and welfare, national or ethnic origin, unrestricted equality, participation in the cultural life, etc. Finally, the purpose of this Action is also to promote more common activities initiated by churches and religious communities on one side, and any subject from public or social life of Serbia (authorities, media, NGOs, etc) that will jointly contribute to democratic reform and conflict prevention in Serbia and support conflict resolution. >>>

03. 03. 2009, CIRel

Global Supplementary Grant Program (GSGP 2009 – 2010)

The Open Society Institute's Network Scholarship Programs (NSP) is pleased to announce the Global Supplementary Grant Program (GSGP) for the 2009 – 2010 academic year. GSGP offers supplementary grants to students from select countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. The purpose of the program is to enable qualified students to pursue doctoral studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at accredited universities in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle/Near East, and North America. Eligibility The Global Supplementary Grant Program is available to citizens of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Students pursuing doctorates in the medical, physical, chemical, technical or natural sciences as well as fine or performing arts are not eligible for this grant. Ineligible fields of study include: - Business Administration/Management Training - Computer Science - Finance/Banking/Marketing - Engineering - Hard & Natural Sciences (Physics, Biology, Chemistry, etc.) - Mathematics - Medical Sciences GSGP grants are for students pursuing doctorate degrees only. Students admitted to master’s programs with the intent to continue, but who are not clearly admitted into a Ph.D. program, are ineligible. Please note that this is a supplementary program not intended for full funding. Applicants must be able to demonstrate additional support from other sources. >>>

24. 02. 2009, SOC

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2009

This is the third year that the Crown Prince Alexander II Foundation for Education continues cooperation with L’ Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland on promoting its educational programmes and offering access in its research projects to top students from Serbia. The Summer Research Programme will give to the participating student hands-on research experience on projects in its four institute’s research labs and special seminars and activities during the programme. The programme will run from 6 July - 28 August 2009 although earlier arrivals and later departures can be envisaged. >>>

04. 02. 2009, SOC

Call for Application 2009/10 'Cultural managers from Central and Eastern Europe'

The Robert Bosch Stiftung invites selected German speaking fellows from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe to Germany for a thirteen-month course qualifying them in international cultural management. The aim of the program is to familiarize a German audience with the cultural variety of these countries, to strengthen network structures for workable cooperative ventures between Germany and its eastern neighbors, and to qualify the next generation of managers for international cultural exchange. The program is carried out by MitOst e.V. In the year of the European Capital of Culture Pécs 2010 three Hungarian cultural managers will be invited in cooperation with the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture to participate in the program in Germany as ambassadors from the Capital of Culture. Further information and the online-application until March 15th 2009 on: www.moe-kulturmanager.de. >>>

19. 01. 2009, SOC

Net @ction!

Belgrade Open School and Informative web service Mingl, announce call for participation in e-learning programe "Net @ction". Call is open for secondary education students from Serbia. Through unique course that combines learning in virtual surrounding with the non formal education students will find out more about youth activism. They will be trained in founding of NGO's, project writing and management of local actions, volunteering and other methods for problem solving through own initiatives. Call is open until January 29. year 2009. More information about the programe and application is available in Serbian language here. >>>

09. 01. 2009, CePIT

Call for participants: Don't miss the calls!

CePIT of Belgrade Open School, Web portal Mingl, and 12 Youth offices of Republic of Serbia, invite interested secondary education students of final year to apply for participation in the project "Don't miss the calls - empowering of secondary education students by ICT usage for entering labor market ". Call is open for secondary education students of final year of vocational education coming from Belgrade, Novi Bečej, Subotica, Kula, Pančevo, Kragujevac, Kuršumlija, Loznica, Bor, Varvarin, Niš i Arilje. Selected students will have the opportunity to learn how to: • Do active job search, • Prepare their CV and do well on job interviews, • Become peer educators, • Attend interactive workshops and virtual school. Application formular is downloadable fro the web portal Mingl, as well in some of 12 Youth Offices. Deadline for applying is 31. October 2008. Project "Don't miss the calls" is financially supported by Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Serbia. >>>

18. 10. 2008, CePIT

Regional School "1968: 40 Years After"

Regional School "1968: 40 Years After" Belgrade Open School, Heinrich Boll Foundation and Balkan Trust for Democracy are organizing Regional School “1968: 40 Years After” which will gather 25 talented students from countries of Formal Yougoslavia, domestic and foreign lecturers and 1968 participants for purposes of marking four decades of events which shaked Europe. School will be held in Rabac, Croatia, from 28th September till 4th October 2008. The goal of this Regional School is to contribute to the political and academic development in the former Yugoslavia and to enhance regional cooperation of selected outstanding students in the region through dialogue on the political legacy of 1968 and its contemporary outcomes. Eligible candidates have to be senior (final years) university students, preferably of social sciences, humanities or related topics, who are socially active, have active knowledge of English, and are interested in social and political development in their respective countries and the Western Balkan region. Application time will last from September 1st till September 15th 2008, and candidates have to submit full application package which includes: - filled in the application form, which includes the Letter of Motivation; - transcripts from the university with average grade; - one letter of recommendation; - CV. Application should be sent on mail e-mail: ena@bos.rs, or fax it on number + 381 11 3613112 Contact persons: Jelena Babic and Nikola Zivkovic. All expenses, which include travel, accommodation, and course expenses, will be covered by Heinrich Boll Foundation and Ballkan Trust for Democracy. Here you can download Programme of the School, so as the Application form. >>>

29. 08. 2008, CCB

Round Tabel "Professional Education for Young and Adults for the Purposes of Increasing of Unemployment"

Centre for Development of Education of BOS will organize round table "Professional Education for Young and Adults for the Purposes of Increasing of Unemployment" during Civil Society Organizations Fair. Round Table will be organized in Small conference room in Hall 14 of Belgrade Fair on 8th of May, starting at 15h till 17h. Round Table "Professional Education for Young and Adults for the Purposes of Increasing of Unemployment" is part of project Public Advocating “Reform of Education in Serbia: Establishing National Council for Professional Education”, which Belgrade Open School implements with support of Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) through programme “Civil Society Associations Initiative for Public Advocating” (CSAI) funded by American Agency for international Development (USAID). >>>

24. 04. 2008, CDE

Educational programme for Civil Society Organisations, State and Local Administration

Centre for Capacity Building of the Belgrade Open School in cooperation with Italian Institute for researching and training (CERFE) organise Educational programme Legal Framework and Activities for Developing of Civil Society. >>>

31. 03. 2008, CCB

Prof. Ephraim Meir's Special Lecture

We have a great pleasure to inform the students of the Belgrade Open School Department of Advanced Undergraduate Studies that Prof. Ephraim Meir will be our guest lecturer. Mr Meir will delivere a lecture on: "Reflection on Holocaust in 21st Century", on Friday, October 12th at 16.00h. >>>

08. 10. 2007, DAUS

Mr Ephraim Meir's Special Lecture

We have a great pleasure to inform the students of the Belgrade Open School Department of Advanced Undergraduate Studies that Prof. Ephraim Meir will be our guest lecturer. Mr Meir will delivere a lecture on: "Reflection on Holocaust in 21st Century", on Friday, October 12th at 16.00h. >>>

10. 11. 2006, DAUS