OPPORTUNITIES: Movie Moves Youth Training

The Educational Center Krusevac, a non profit organization promoting civil society trough life long non formal education, is organizing the training course “Movie Moves Youth”.

The training course will be held in Serbia from the 5th to the 13th of October 2014, gathering 30 participants from 10 countries. The overall aim of the training is to develop competences of youth workers/leaders in using video as a tool for working with peace building issues.

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EVENTS: European Youth Summit

CfA: European Youth Summit: 100 for the Next 100 in the Danube Region, Sarajevo, 4-8 June 2014

Europe is, just as 100 years ago, at a crossroad. This June, Sarajevo, just as one century ago, will be the center of the World. Only this time, the reason will be much more pleasant. European Youth Summit, with a symbolic title "100 for the Next 100 in the Danube Region" will be held in Sarajevo from 04-08 June 2014. This event will bring 100 young leaders from the countries of the Danube region and South-East Europe.

Participants of the Summit will have a unique opportunity to discuss the challenges Europe and the region are facing nowadays, not just among themselves, but also with the key decision makers with different backgrounds - politics, civil society and extinguished academic members of the community. Another aspect of the Summit are the workshops, which will provide participants with an opportunity to acquire more practical knowledge and skills from wide range of areas. Organizers of the event are regional members of the Forum Alpbach Network from Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Partners of the project are European Forum Alpbach, Danube Competence Center and University of Sarajevo.

We are pleased to invite all the interested young people, students, graduates, entrepreneurs, young professionals and civil society representatives to send their applications until 20 April 2014.

The application form and all other information regarding the project and organizers are available at www.alpbach.org/en/sarajevo2014

OPPORTUNITIES: German companies offer internships for journalists (BALKANS)

Young journalists with good knowledge of English or German from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia can apply.

The Internship Program of German Business is offering graduates and students a three- to six-month-long internship at leading German companies.

The interns will receive an allowance financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Participating German companies cover the cost of accommodation and health insurance.

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NEWS: Balkans gets tough on Internet crimes against children

September 11, 2012

Countries throughout the region are considering ways to protect children from pedophiles and other unseen dangers on the Internet.

Regional data shows that 20 percent of children who use the Internet become the target of an online predator or pedophile. Of those targeted, 77 percent are 14 years old or older and 22 percent are 10 to 13 years old. Of those children who encounter sexual content online, 93 percent fail to inform their parents, said social media consultant and software producer Darko Disoski.

Several countries are taking differing approaches to the problem. Serbia created a task force two years ago to deal with online pedophiles, and has arrested 40 people to date.

In Bulgaria, meanwhile, authorities are giving parents more control over what their children see online by offering software that tracks webpages and keystrokes and sends a daily report to parents. The effort is designed to make it easier for parents to keep children away from sites where they could be approached by unwanted adults.

Macedonia's ministry of information technology and administration announced plans for a helpline to educate parents and children on ways to minimise exposure and to report illicit online material. NGOs were also asked to join the effort.

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EVENTS / OPPORTUNITIES: KidsForKids

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

If you are working in film, animation, video, media ... with children and young people (6-16 years old) and you have some film made by youngsters please fill out our entry form athttp://mediaeducationcentre.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ba75c5691b6b02c38e6d4b5f5&id=88ad15682e&e=a757b4e9c7 participate in the biggest global film festival for films made by kids for kids.

If you know somebody from your network could be interested in KFKF please be so kins and forward this message to them.
Our Global KFKF web site iswww.kidsforkidsfestival.org

Best regards,
Miomir Rajcevic, Online KFKF Manager
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EVENTS: Belgrade hosting 6th International Youth Media Summit

From August 1 to 12, Belgrade is hosting the Sixth International Youth Media Summit. 83 delegates from 20 countries have arrived to present their activities in the field of media communication and to exchange mutual experience. More from Olivera Milovanovic.

The International Youth Media Summit was founded in Los Angeles in 2006, as a reaction to the attack on World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001, the director of the Media Education Centre, Miomir Rajčević, told a press conference. Summit participants decided to commence joint work on an optimal exploration of media with a view to popularizing the opinion of young people on world major problems. 86 delegates from 26 countries took part in the summit in LA. On that occasion, they concluded there were seven major issues present in almost all the countries worldwide.

Those are: Discrimination/Racism, Poverty, Violence, Health, Environment, Women’s Rights and Youth Empowerment. All these issues will be discussed in Belgrade as well, with special emphasis on strengthening the role of delegates from Western Balkan countries. The summit also aims to attain a sufficient level of media literacy among the young in order that they become interactive partners and not only passive consumers of media products. Rajčević says that the Media Education Centre is the main office of the summit and its task is not only to coordinate all the activities of the summit, but also to use experience acquired from previous gatherings for the reconciliation process in former Yugoslav states.

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EVENTS / WORKSHOPS: Media Literacy-New tool for Education

Media Literacy-New tool for Education

Theme: History of the Culture from Stone Age to Medieval
Venue: Serbia
Time: 3rd to 10th of May 2011 (8 days)
Participants: High School Students (14 to 19 years old) and
Teachers interested to implement media literacy and media education in curriculum

International Intercultural Multimedia Education Technology (IIMET)
Media Educators of the Media Education Centre (Belgrade, Serbia) and High Mowing School, Boston, USA with 25 students from Serbia and USA will have International Filmmaking project: Travel, Source for Cultural Research. With equipment for filming, animation, radio and multimedia presentation we are going to discovery 7000 years of History!
International Teams will work on different presentations:
· Short film
· Documentary
· TV report
· Radio report
· Animation
· Multimedia presentation

All materials we will produce during our traveling Film Camp will be special tool for future education!

More: www.mediaeducationcentre.eu

Media Education Centre

OPPORTUNITIES / EVENTS / SEMINARS: Young Media Makers Preach and Practice Peaceful Journalism (GEORGIA, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, BELARUS, BIH, GERMANY, ITALY, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, POLAND, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SPAIN)

Kobuleti, Georgia, 19-26 June 2010

European Youth Press – network of young media makers in cooperation with Academy for Peace and Development invites you to participate in the seminar “Young Media Makers Preach and Practice Peaceful Journalism”. The implementation of the seminar is possible due to kind support of the European Youth Foundation, Council of Europe.

The aim of the seminar is to explore what peace journalism is and how it can be used by young journalists to foster peace building and conflict transformation.

The seminar will consider the ways in which peace and conflict transformation is to be represented in the media and will discuss the the role of young media makers in engaging in promoting peace building, conflict prevention and transformation. The participants will not only get a better comprehension of the peaceful journalism concept, but also will have the opportunity to put into practice their freshly gained skills. In addition to that, the seminar will tackle the issues such as Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue as major factors in supporting stability and intercultural understanding in Europe. The workshops will be led by CoE trainers’s pool and experienced journalists in field of peace and conflict reporting.

Good to know:

Who can participate: 22 young people (age 18-27) interested in peace journalism, journalists, bloggers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Spain.

Where: Kobuleti (20 km north of Batumi), Georgia.

When: 19 – 26 June 2010

Costs: Accommodation and food will be fully covered by organisers. Travel costs – participants will be reimbursed up to 200 euro upon presentation of relevant proofs.

Participation fee: 100 euro

If you are interested send your CV + letter of motivation (max 200 words) to Andrei Ioniță ( a.ionita@youthpress.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) until Sunday 9 May 2010. Mention in the email subject: “Application Peace Journalism”

Applicants will be informed about the selection decision on 11 May and will be asked to confirm their participation in the seminar by 17 May.

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OPPORTUNITIES / FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowship open for young Eastern European writers

Posted on: 24/03/2010 Fellowships and Awards, International Experience, Study Abroad Deadline: 01/06/2010 Country: Moldova, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Albania, Belarus

Young writers from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine are invited to apply for a fellowship for writers. Applicants should be no older than 35. Deadline: June 1.

The CEI (Central European Initiative) Fellowship is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from Central European countries that are not yet a part of the European Union.

It is awarded by the CEI in cooperation with the Slovene Writers’ Association.

The fellowship is endowed with a cash award of EU€5,000 (about US $6,750) for a three-month stay in any of the Central European Initiative Member States, selected by the candidate.

To get more information, visit http://www.vilenica.si/files/1267629747CEI_fellowship-2010.pdf

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Електронско насиље - Cyber-bullying resource in Serbian

Електронско насиље укључује било какав облик слања порука путем интернета или мобилних телефона. Има за циљ повређивање, узнемиравање или било какво друго наношење штете детету, младом или одраслом човеку који не може да се заштити од таквих поступака. Појављује се у облику текстуалних или видео порука, фотографија или позива. Програм “Школа без насиља” бори се и против ове врсте насиља. У наставку можете прочитати савете за препознавање и спречавање електронског насиља у вашем окружењу.

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EVENTS: 4th Youth Media Summit (SERBIA / GLOBAL)

From August 20 to 27 the 4th Summit of Youth Media is being held in Belgrade, aiming at greater engagement of the youth in resolving the social problems and presenting their view on the resolving of seven global problems that every country is facing, such as terrorism, poverty, violence, health, women’s rights, youth capacities and environmental protection. On that occasion, our reporter Jelica Tapuskovic talked to director of this summit Miomir Rajcevic.

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