Final Conference ‘VET Support for Serbian Detention Facilities’

A conference was held in Belgrade on the 30th of October, to celebrate the successful completion of the EU-funded project ‘Vocational Educational Training Support for Serbian Detention Facilities’ implemented by the ECG-led Consortium during 2 years. The project resulted in the successful VET training of more tha...

The three largest prisons in Serbia have established the system of Vocational Education and Training

Vocational training for more than 500 prisoners has been completed within the EU-funded project ‘VET Support for Serbian Detention Facilities’ implemented by the ECG led Consortium. In the past nine months, More than 500 inmates from three prisons in Serbia attended the vocational trainings and 95 % of participan...

Study Tour to Poland

A Study Tour to Poland “Designing policies in response to labour market challenges and within the EU policy framework” was organized recently within the EU-funded project ‘Support to Evidence-based Employment Policy Creation’ implemented in Serbia by the ECG-led Consortium. The project aims at helping Serbian...

ECG awarded with two new projects in Bosnia & Herzegovina

The two new projects ‘Strengthening Public Debt Management Capacity’ and ‘Training in Administrative Procedures’ solidify ECG’s presence in Bosnia & Herzegovina and represent the strong expansion throughout the region of the Western Balkans. Alongside the addition of these two new projects to its port...

The ‘INOVO’ project in Bosnia & Herzegovina continues with its workshop series ‘Building competencies in design of innovation policy and project proposals’

The EU-funded technical assistance project ‘INOVO’ is organizing a two-day training workshop in Sarajevo on September 4 and 5, 2013, with the objective to further assist and strengthen the capacities of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the entity ministries as well as ministries at the canto...

Serbian government has officially passed regulations on the national programs for the early detection of breast, cervical and colorectal cancer

Although ECG finalized all activities within the project “Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the National Screening Programme for cancer” earlier in July, there has been a new indirect addition to this project’s outputs. Last week, the government of the Republic of Serbia officially passed regulatio...

Trainees receive official attest certificate within the project ‘VET Support for Serbian Detention Facilities’

All trainees who have completed welding training (argon, CO2 and arc welding) have been awarded with an official attest certificate on completed training. By attesting the welders, their prospects for finding employment or starting a business are greatly increased. The members of the project team have estimated that th...

Study Tour to Slovenian Innovation Centers

An intensive three-day Study Tour was organized during the month of May within the EU-funded project “Institutional Capacity Development of 3 Innovation Centres and the Research Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina” for representatives from the Innovation Centres from Mostar (Technology Park INTERA), Zenica (Entrepre...

Serbia against Cancer

The first National conference ‘Serbia against Cancer’ was held on June 4th 2013 in Sava Center, Belgrade. It served primarily as a platform for the presentation of final results of the project “Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the National Screening Programme for cancer” funded by the European Un...

Strengthening of the Blood Safety System in Macedonia

An opening conference marked the launch of the EU-funded project “Strengthening of the Blood Safety System” under the IPA Component I (TAIB 2009). The event took place on May 29th 2013 at the EU InfoCentre of the Delegation of the European Union in Skopje, Macedonia. Project stakeholders were welcomed by Ambassador...