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Let’s Build New Bridges Together!
Publishing date: 29 March 2023
The Ministry of Education and Science and the OSCE Mission to Skopje launched two calls for proposals under the Mission’s Building New Bridges’ project, which is designed to enhance relationship among youth from diverse backgrounds and languages during the school day and through joint
Youth activists from Western Balkans come together under OSCE Presence in Albania’s ‘Youth Trail’ to reinforce inter-generational dialogue through cultural heritage
Publishing date: 31 August 2022
Content type: News
From 24 to 28 August 2022, twenty young activists from the Western Balkans gathered in Tirana and traveled to Gjirokastra to discuss, learn and explore approaches on social interaction and promote democracy, peace and security through inter-generational dialogue. Since 2017, the OSCE Youth Trail
OSCE online training aims to strengthen capacities of youth leaders in North Macedonia to prevent violent extremism
Publishing date: 2 June 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Countering terrorism, Youth
Seventeen young men and women from across North Macedonia participated in an online capacity-building training course for youth leaders on preventing violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT). The OSCE Mission to Skopje organized the course, held from 19 May to 2 June 2020, with technical support provided by the Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department. The course builds on a module delivered in February...
OSCE-supported Building Bridges Fund presents 2018 grants on promoting interethnic understanding in schools
Publishing date: 6 February 2018
The OSCE-supported Building Bridges Fund has announced its annual grants to municipalities, schools, students, teachers and parents. The grants are used to organize activities that bring together students from all communities, who attend schools with different languages of instruction.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sebastian Kurz attends roundtable discussion on youth role in countering violent extremism in Skopje
Publishing date: 13 February 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Countering terrorism, Youth
SKOPJE, 13 February 2017- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Ambassador Nina Suomalainen and the Mission’s informal Youth Advisory Group exchanged views on youth perspectives in countering radicalization and violent extremism in a roundtable discussion hosted yesterday in Skopje...
OSCE-supported “Building Bridges” event in Skopje gathers students of different communities to interact together
Publishing date: 3 October 2016
SKOPJE, 2 October 2016 – More than 600 students from 27 schools around the country came together for a day of songs, dance performances, theatre plays and sport games,, as part of the Building Bridges Fund event, organized today by the OSCE Mission to Skopje...
Fundraising skills and effectiveness in focus of OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported seminar for Local Youth Councils
Publishing date: 27 October 2015
The Local Youth Councils of Kichevo, Bitola and Centar municipalities participated in the second OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported capacity building seminar that took place from 25- 27 October 2015 in Ohrid...