III FESTIVAL OF NON-FORMAL EDUCATION - OCTOBER 8-10th, 2010

Dear friends and colleagues!
We invite you to participate in the main event of the year dedicated to the role of non-formal education in the improvement of quality of life! 
 
Festivals and Weeks are popular as a form of promotion of non-formal education and adult education in many countries. Belarus  joined the festival movement in 2006. Since
then, the Festival has become a traditional platform for discussion of current issues and prospects for the development of non-formal education in Belarus and European countries. The international character of the Festival is pronounced more than usual this year. Special events of the Festival of non-formal education are included in the program of the traditional Week of Germany in Belarus. 

The European Commission is launching a broad public consultation on the future direction of EU trade policy.

The consultation is open to all stakeholders within the EU and in third countries.

The second Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (CSF) will take place on 18-19 November 2010 in Berlin. The overall aim of the Forum is “to promote contacts among Civil Society Organisations and facilitate their dialogue with public authorities” in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.

The meeting will inter alia give an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved since November 2009 when the initial meeting of the Forum took place and to discuss how the Forum should evolve in the future.

The Forum will be open for all Civil Society Organisations irrespective of their participation in the previous Civil Society Forum’s meeting. Accordingly to the decision made by the participants to the first Forum, the procedure for the selection of participants is being prepared by the CSF Steering Committee, elected by them in November 2009.

A call for expressions of interest to participate in the second Civil Society Forum has now been launched  28/05/2010

Call for expressions of interest
Application form 

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/eastern/civil_society/index_en.htm

BACKGROUND

The Central European Initiative (www.ceinet.org) has traditionally paid particular attention to  the area of information and media and encouraged the role of independent media in its Member States.
In view of the difficult conditions under which journalists are frequently exercising their profession the CEI, in cooperation with the Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), promotes the CEI Award for Outstanding Merits in Journalism, which since its first edition in 2008 was meant to honour a journalist who, through his/her work, highly contributed to investigative reporting.

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the conference “Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum: Agenda for Belarus”, which is to take place on November 2, 2009 in Minsk. The conference is organized in connection with the coming Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (16-17 November, 2009) and the invitation of the European Commission to a number of Belarusian civil society organizations to be part of it.

Conference invitation letter                    Conference program

Within the framework of the initiative of the Eastern Partnership, it is planned to liberalize the visa regime between the partner countries and the countries of the European Union. However, during this transition to new forms of interaction, it is necessary to take into account the specificity of the country, the current condition of its visa regime, and to carry out an estimation of a degree of its readiness for transformations. We cordially invite you to take part in the conference “Visa policy in the context of the EU and Belarus relations: the current situation and prospects”, which will take place on 22 June 2009 in the conference hall of Crowne Plaza Minsk at the address: 13, Kirov St.

The Heinrich Boell Foundation invites tenders under the name of „Green Summer-School for Belarus”. The Heinrich Boell Foundation is part of the Green political movement that has developed worldwide as a response to the traditional politics of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. Our main tenets are ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self-determination and justice. We are a green think tank and an international policy network.

The Heinrich Boell Foundation invites twelve young active citizens from Belarus to stay in Berlin from 12 to 26 August 2009.

At a conference «Participation of Belarusian Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Initiative» that took place on April 22 in Minsk, representatives of civil society organisations of Belarus held a joint discussion on the meaning, mechanisms and perspectives for Belarus’ participation in the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative. The final Resolution of the conference reflects not only the common principles uniting the participants but also their the common position regarding the Civil Society Forum. 

Seminar on Civil Society Development in Belarus will take place in Amsterdam on March 27, 2009.

Organizers of the seminar:
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- SEED Foundation
In cooperation with the European Union Delegation in Kiev.

Seminar will be aimed at providing wider and deeper information about Civil Society Development in Belarus and possibilities for cooperatiuon with Belarusian non-state organizations and local authorities.

For those who wants to take part in the seminar, please, contact SEED Foundation