Vranje - With the support of the European Progress program, the project “It’s Time for Women”, which deals with the development of female entrepreneurship, was launched in Serbia.   

The first informational meeting about the allocation of grants for starting women's business was held in Vranje.

Medvedja/Sijarinska Spa - Zoran Stankovic, the President of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, said that the government would provide assistance in resolving infrastructure and economic problems in the territory of Sijarinska Spa.

Bujanovac/Vranje – The “Indigo” group for children and young people, which is the UNHCR’s partner on the project “Support to Social and Educational Inclusion of Displaced Roma Children”, issued a call for applications for volunteering in Bujanovac. 

Nis – A major competition of the Golden C coffee “Serbia, May your Hands Turn Gilded”, which will last until the end of the year, is aimed at honoring the creativity and effort of all women throughout Serbia when it comes to handicrafts.

Nis – As part of the “Global Citizen” program, the AISEC branch office in Nis will present to  the final year university students, as well as to those that recently graduated from the university, the opportunities to volunteer abroad.

You are hereby invited to cover the visit of Zoran Stankovic, the President of the Coordination Body, to the municipality of Medvedja. The visit will take place at 12 o’clock noon on Thursday, March 19, 2015.

On March 12, a visit to the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities in the Hague was organized for representatives of the governmental institutions dealing with education and its improvement. The visit was organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, while the institutions identified as responsible for the educational process, whose representatives attended the meeting, included the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, the Office of the Coordinating Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and the Institute for Evaluation of the Quality of Education. The Coordination Body’s Office was represented by Danijela Nenadic, the Director, and by Milica Rodic, the Advisor to the Director.  

The High Commissioner commended the work of the governmental institutions that deal with various aspects of education, especially with the education of national minorities, and pointed out that it was extremely important that students from minority communities had the opportunity to receive education in their native language and to learn the official language of their country. 

The Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities supported the development of the Study on the Possibilities of Improving the Knowledge and Learning of Serbian as a Second Language in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, the results of which were presented in August 2014.  This year, the Office will provide further support to the efforts of the Coordination Body and the Ministry of Education, with the aim of working on the qualitative improvement of the Serbian language classes for students from the Albanian community. 

It should be noted that the OSCE Mission has recognized the importance of addressing the recommendations arising from the Study and, in this regard, it financially supports the work on standards for the subject of Serbian as a second language in primary schools, which is one of the medium-term recommendations in the strategically important document. 

In addition to the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, work on implementing the recommendations of the Study is supported by the British Embassy and the European Progress program. 

Source: Coordination Body

Presevo - A group of graduates of a secondary school in Presevo devised a project by which the operation of the cinema in Presevo will be re-launched. The cinema in Presevo has been non-operational for several years. They stated for the presheva.com website that they wished  not only to “revive” the cinema in Presevo by the project, but also the cultural life in the municipality. 

Bujanovac – The festival of forum theater plays, aimed at fostering tolerance and dialogue in schools, was presented as part of the project “One Step Forward - One Step Closer”.  The project is implemented by the “Nexus” association of citizens from Vranje and the “Youth Forum for Roma Education the Education” NGO from Bujanovac.

Belgrade – The “European Roma Police Officers” association held a press conference regarding the implementation of the association's project called the “Inclusion of Roma Men and Women in the Security Sector - Towards Better Passing of the Entrance Exam for the Basic Police Training Course.“