WARNING STRIKE STAGED IN JABLANICA DISTRICT0

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• 2. October 2014.

Leskovac – Due to the announcement about a reduction of wages by 10 percent, a one-hour warning strike will be held today in all the schools in the Jablanica district.  

According to Aleksandar Nicic, the President of the Trade Union of Education of Serbia (TUES) for the Jablanica District, a warning strike will be organized by not having the first class in the first and second shifts in all the educational institutions. 

POLICE OFFICER FROM BUJANOVAC DETAINED0

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• 1. October 2014.

Vranje – A police officer from Bujanovac police station, Dragisa Petkovic, was detained for questioning at Kragujevac Police Department, because he wrote on Facebook about the beating of the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s brother.

Namely, as told by the police, upon hearing the news of the beating of Andrija Vucic and his bodyguards, Dragisa Petkovic wrote on the personal profile of the social network “They should have killed them and not beaten them”.

PROGRESS ANNOUNCES A COMPETITION FOR PROJECTS THAT BOOST THE ECONOMY0

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• 1. October 2014.

As part of the European PROGRESS program, the first call for supporting the projects that will be implemented in cooperation with the local self-governments and civil society organizations was issued. These projects are aimed at the economic empowerment of the vulnerable groups in the southeastern and southwestern Serbia.

FOREST THIEVES CAUSE HAVOC IN SOUTH SERBIA0

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• 30. September 2014.

The practice of illegal deforestation in the area around Vranje continued this year, too, while the number of recorded forest thieves increased, said the “Green Network” association.

Beech forests owned by the state suffer the most, while several criminal charges for the unauthorized felling of trees were filed. 

JAPANESE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS0

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• 30. September 2014.

Nis – The “Japan Tobacco International” (JTI) Company and the Embassy of Japan announced a competition for the award of Sakura scholarships for the fourth year in a row.  

The competition is aimed at students and researchers who aren’t permanently employed and who have good research ideas in different areas, which include the Japanese language, literature and culture, social and technical sciences, and economics.

“PROGRAM BUDGETING” IS BEING PREPARED0

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• 29. September 2014.

The workshop on program budgeting, which was held in Vranje, brought together representatives of the cities and municipalities in South Serbia, who discussed the introduction of this kind of budget-making at the local level in 2015.  

Program budgeting means establishment of a new way of planning and allocating the budgetary funds. Practically, it will now be possible to measure how much the offered solutions to a problem will cost, which hasn’t been the case so far.

AWARD GIVEN TO”CONNECTION”0

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• 29. September 2014.

Vranje – The Regional Connection Center from Vladicin Han was selected by the Office for European Integration for one of the 13 best examples of the cross-border practice in the Republic of Serbia over the past two years.

According to Tatjana Panic Zivkovic, the Project Manager, the criteria by which the projects were evaluated included the impact of the project, the sustainability of the project results and of the partnerships made, transparence, relevance to the territory, cross-border impact, significant impact on the target group, the inter-sectorial cooperation and cooperation with the public and civil society sectors.

NEW LOOK OF BUJANOVAC0

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• 29. September 2014.

Vranje – The reconstruction and putting in order of the central square in Bujanovac is to be completed in a month’s time. 

As planned, the central pedestrian zone should get a new look and become an improved business zone.  It is aimed at reviving the square, opening new shops, restaurants and cafes, as well as at attracting tourists.

THIRD UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT PERIOD0

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• 26. September 2014.

Following the second enrollment period, the vacancies at the most faculties of Nis University weren’t filled, so that a third enrollment period was organized at some of them.  

The submission of applications for the third enrollment cycle at the Faculty of Law in Nis, where there are 119 self-financing vacancies and an additional 26 vacancies at the Faculty of Law’s Department in Medvedja, begins on Friday, September 26. 

LAWS ON REFORM OF THE LOCAL SELF-GOVERMENTS SOON0

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• 26. September 2014.

Belgrade – Kori Udoviocki, the Minister of Public Administration, announced that changes to the law will soon be made, which enable the participation of local self-governments in the European integration, as well as their professionalization.  

“The Law on Amendments to the Law on Local Self-government is almost ready and it will enable the local self-governments to follow-up the European Integration and to participate in it”, said Ms. Udovicki at a conference on the introduction of the EU offices and officers in the local authorities, where she pointed out that such a change in the government wouldn’t lead to the employment of more people.

WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM BUDGETING0

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• 26. September 2014.

Vranje – Yesterday, a regional workshop on program budgeting was held in Vranje, which brought together representatives of the cities and municipalities of the Pcinj, Jablanica and Toplica districts. On behalf of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM), which was the organizer of the workshop, the attendees were greeted by Dunja Naic, the Secretary of the Finance Committee. She spoke about the role of the SCTM in the preparation of the program budget and the support of local self-governmental units through the “Exchange 4” program, which is funded by the European Union.

NORWEGIAN SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SERBIAN STUDENTS0

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• 26. September 2014.

Nis – The University of Science and Technology of the Norwegian city of Trondheim announced a competition for scholarships to study in the 2015 spring semester.  

Eligible to apply for scholarships are students from Serbia who are studying at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Economics, Medicine and the Faculty of Occupational Safety.