For the first time in the Western Balkans, the SMART Balkans project is launching the CSO Financial Management Academy. The Academy is an innovative, immediately applicable, accredited and free of charge educational program designed to strengthen fina ...
As part of the regional project supported by SMART Balkans the conference “Risks of High Technology Use in Migrant Smuggling Cases” was successfully held in Sarajevo on July 26 and 27, 2025. The conference was jointly organized by the Association Vaša ...
Norway’s Constitution Day, celebrated annually on May 17, is one of the most important and solemn holidays in the Norwegian calendar. On that day in 1814, in the small town of Eidsvoll, the Norwegian Constitution was adopted – one of the oldest constit ...
On May 7, 2025, IANS hosted the 4th Regional Forum on “Shared Challenges and Achievements in Youth Engagement and Resilience Against Crime and Violent Extremism” in Tirana. The event brought together representatives from civil society and public instituti ...
Our latest newsletter, #34, contains all the information you may have missed in the past period. You can read it HERE.
What are the biggest challenges in the NGO sector after the termination of U.S. funding, and how much funding has been cut? How can strategic partnerships with other international organizations and donors be achieved? What are examples and methods of self ...
Our latest newsletter, #33, contains all the information you may have missed in the past period. You can read it HERE.
At the end of February and during the first half of March 2025, contracts were signed for the implementation of 36 projects in six WB countries selected under the second public call for National Interventions within the SMART Balkan project. They were sel ...
Has your civil society organization faced a situation that require crisis communication? Can you identify the key indicators of a communication crisis? Are you familiar with effective strategies for communicating with the public during a crisis? Do you kn ...
Following the successful regional forum in Tirana, two additional regional events were held—one in Kosovo and one in Bosnia and Herzegovina—further deepening cross-border collaboration with an aim to strengthen regional cooperation and built new partnersh ...
