Where: Boževce When: 22/06 – 01/07/2025 This training course is open to 18 youth workers, volunteer coordinators and activists interested in organising volunteering projects in natural buildings. Participants of this training course should come mainly from Europe, with the possibility to include countries from neighbouring regions. The training will take place in Bozevce village in…
Caring for water and rivers in the era of climate change – ESC volunteering team Bozevce (Kosovo), 12th of May-28th of May 2025 In an ever-warmer world, water is a crucial issue. Kosovo is already a water-stressed country, and is particularly affected by water-related problems: drought and flooding are becoming more frequent due to climate…
Reviving Hemp Heritage in Kosovo and Serbia, is a small project implemented by GAIA Kosovo and the Volunteers’ Center of Vojvodina with the support of the European Heritage Hub. The project is about documenting the traditional knowledge of growing hemp in Kosovo and Vojvodina (Northern Serbia) and promoting its potential in mitigating climate change, especially…
The European Solidarity Corps (ESC) is a program that enables organizations or public entities to host volunteers from European countries and send local volunteers abroad. The program allows young people to volunteer in social initiatives while benefiting the community, the volunteers themselves, and the organizations involved. A prerequisite to joining the program is obtaining the…
The new Program Guide for Erasmus+ is published! In March, the organisations from Kosovo can apply for Capacity Building projects in the field of youth. Capacity building in the field of Youth (CBY) aims to support international cooperation, policy dialogue and non-formal learning in the field of youth, as a driver of sustainable socio-economic, particularly in…
We are inviting you to the info-sessions about Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps programmes, which provide possibilities for international cooperation in the field of youth work. 19th of December, 10h – 15h, Barabar Center, Prishtina The programme guides for these EU programmes for youth have been published recently, together with the calls for projects.…
The “cleaning” (from trash) of Kosovo rivers was decided and financed by the Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure. Information about these actions is limited to a Facebook post of the minister and the web-site of the Ministry, and communication with the different stakeholders (NGO, villagers, municipalities) was also non-existent. Information about it is…
ERASMUS+ INFORMATION SESSION ON YOUTH 14th of October, Europe House Prishtina, 10.00 – 12.00 Kosovo Erasmus+ Office will organize a session to promote the Erasmus+ opportunities in the field of youth and to explore the impact of the Erasmus+ Program through youth capacity-building projects. The event will provide an overview of the opportunities within Erasmus+,…
STOP THE DESTRUCTION! Otter, dipper, crayfish, dragonflies… The Perlepnica River is teeming with life… Or rather, it was teeming. This morning we discovered a spectacle of desolation: over 1.5 km long, the river is dead: the willows and other trees bordering it have been torn out, the riverbed has been dug up with excavators, and…
On 20 August 2024, the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency (KEPA) shared a post on its Facebook page and rejoiced that “The implementation of the Kosovo riverbed cleaning project has started“. The photos accompanying the post give a better idea of what we are talking about: in order to get rid of the waste littering the…