WB-MIGNET, coordinated by CDESS, is organizing Third annual conference. Conference “A SEARCH FOR THAT SPECIAL PLACE UNDER THE SUN IN MODERN EUROPE: MIGRATION IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY” will be held in Zagreb on May 25-26, 2018. Call for papers for this conference is open. The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, a member of WB-MIGNET, in cooperation…
Our researcher participated in region conference “Boosting the social dimension – the contribution of economic governance to decent work and life in the Western Balkans and Turkey” in Belgrade on January 31, 2018.The conference was organized by European Commission and supported joint governance efforts by the EU and enlargement countries on reforms for improving the…
Our Director, Nermin Oruc, as Coordinator of WB-MIGNET, participated at a high level panel-discussion organized by IOM and OSCE on 18 December 2017 in Vienna, on the occasion of the International Migrants Day. The title of the panel discussion was “Perception is not reality – Towards a new narrative of migration”. The event gathered experts…
Representatives from CDESS participated on December 6, 2017 at a regional workshop in Tirana devoted to the provision and financing of holistic services in the countries of the Western Balkans. The researchers of our Center presented the experiences and practices in the field of social protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina and actively participated in the…
A group of Western Balkan think-tank organisations and researchers working on the welfare state issues, including experts from CDESS, have initiated development of a Regional platform with the aim to engage the foremost researchers, political, business and other leaders of society to shape a regional social welfare state agenda, thus contributing to improving the social…
Within the project of expert support to benchlearning among Western Balkan-6 Public Employment Services, several national workshops were organized: in Albania (30.10.2017.), Montenegro (31.10.2017.), Kosovo (01.11.2017.), Bosnia and Herzegovina (02.11.2017.), Serbia (02.11.2017.). Remaining two workshops will be organized soon: in Serbia (15.11.2017.) and Macedonia (22.11.2017.). In addition to workshops, retreat meetings were organized in order…
Our researcher Nermin Oruc attended workshop titled “Access to anonymized administrative data for the purposes of research and policy analysis” held on 21.-22. September 2017. in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop brought together researchers and policy analysts to assess the state of play of access to administrative data in the Visegrad countries and to discuss what…
Our researcher analyst and member of BiHMOD team, Amela Kurta, received a scholarship for the autumn school “Using EUROMOD in cross country microsimulation” organized by ISER, University of Essex, from 25 to 27 October 2017. The InGRID project is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant…
[:en]Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), on behalf of Western Balkan Migration Network, is organising Conference on “Migration, Diaspora and Development in Albania and in the Western Balkans”. The conference will be organised on 27-28 October 2017 in Tirana, Albania. Read more about call for papers for the conference on this link.[:ba]Centar za ekonomske…
[:en]Organizational Board of the 2nd Regional Conference of Western Balkans Evaluators Network invites members of the Network and other interested evaluators active at both theoretical and practical level in evaluation of policies, programs and projects to send their scientific and practical papers by 15 July 2017. More information and application for can be found here.[:ba]PROGRAMSKI…
