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23.12.2025 All News
Review Timeline Extended as CGP’s First Open Call Attracts Nearly 850 Applications
The European Fund for the Balkans (EFB), through its Common Ground Program (CGP), received nearly 850 applications for the first open call of the CGP’s Core Programmatic Support Grants, with submissions from civil society actors across the region, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.
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22.12.2025 All News
Apply for : Western Balkans Fellowship Programme at the Austrian Parliament
We are looking for the 6 best applicants from the WB6 National Parliaments, who want to shape the regional and European collaboration by using their knowledge and enthusiasm in applying the best practices in the process of administrative reform.
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27.11.2025 All News
Western Balkans Fellowship Event
This week, we celebrated five years of the Western Balkans Fellowship Programme at the Austrian Parliament, at a jubilee event in Vienna.
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27.11.2025 All News
6 Years of Trees of Friendship: Joint regional tree planting for raising awareness on air pollution
The Western Balkans are once again joining forces to address one of the region’s most urgent environmental challenges, the dangerously high levels of air pollution.
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20.11.2025 All News
EFB Opens Core Support Grants to Assist Civic Groups
The European Fund for the Balkans has announced the opening of the call for applications for the Core Programmatic Support Grants under its Common
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BiEPAG Reacts on the 2025 Communication on EU Enlargement Policy
The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) members have shared their analyses and reactions to the European Commission’s Enlargement
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Short documentary on the making of the Joint History Textbooks
The Joint History Project 2.0 short documentary about the making of the Joint History Textbooks was produced in the past period, and is now
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Launching the 4th edition of the regional beeEffect programme
As a flagship initiative of the European Fund for the Balkans, the beeEffect continues to build its profile as a vital platform for transformation,
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Call for Applications: Regional Investigative Journalism in the Western Balkans
Call for Applications: Regional Investigative Journalism in the Western Balkans
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EFB at the third edition of the Terrestrial Forum, Vranje, August 24-29
The third edition of the Terrestrial Forum - a biannual political and educational program, organized by the collective Ministry of
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26.08.2025 All News
EFB Job Vacancy: Program Officer - Common Ground Program
We seek a Program Officer who will run the day-to-day administrative and programmatic, financial, and grants back-office operations of CGP together with the Program Manager.
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01.08.2025 All News
Veton Zekolli appointed as new Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans
After a few rounds of interviews and professional evaluations, the Fund’s founding partners ERSTE Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation and King
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Open call for applications for the 4th edition of the beeEffect Programme
The call for the 4th edition of the beeEffect programme - a flagship activity of our beeEFB Alumni Network, is now open.
Our beeEffect
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Wrap up of the 3-day Engaged Democracy Convention in Skopje, May 21-23, 2025
After Belgrade and Pristina, our bi-annual Engaged Democracy Convention Vol. 3 moved forward to another capital in the region by hosting 100+
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Upcoming event: The Engaged Democracy Convention Vol. 3: Engage, Inspire, Empower! will be held in Skopje from May 21 to May 23
The European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) and the Institute for Democratic Engagement Southeast Europe (IDESE) are announcing the third edition of the
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beeEFB Alumni Network Annual Event in Kumbor, Montenegro, May 9 - 11, 2025
The beeEFB Alumni Network Annual Event was held in Kumbor, Montenegro – and it was packed with energy, insights, and novelties.
50 alumni of
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International conference: Borders in Southeast Europe – Geography or Imagination?, May 16-18, Podgorica
The international conference "Borders in Southeast Europe: Geography or Imagination?", to be held in Podgorica on 16-18 May 2025, marks an important
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The Joint History Project for all countries of Southeast Europe enters a new phase
The Joint History Project for all countries of Southeast Europe enters a new phase. Based on the seminal work of hundreds of historians and teachers
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18.12.2024 All News
Apply for the Western Balkans Fellowship Programme at the Austrian Parliament 2025
We are looking for the 6 best applicants from the WB6 National Parliaments, who want to shape the regional and European collaboration by using their knowledge and enthusiasm in applying the best practices in the process of administrative reform.
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The winners of the first Western Balkans SLAPP contest in the spotlight
For the first time ever, the region has united to expose the worst offenders. We’ve gathered the most outrageous SLAPP cases from across the Western Balkans to call out those who misuse the law to stifle free speech and public accountability.
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