On March 5, 2010, the Office of the Coordination Body announced two new open competitions for funding projects in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.
The announced open competitions are for programs and projects of the associations of citizens for the purpose of providing assistance to the population of the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja in 2010. The associations of citizens that are registered in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, as well as those that submit their project proposals in accordance with the clearly- set Guidelines for Project Proposal Submitters, shall have the right to participate in the open competitions. Under this open competition, 5,000,000.00 dinars shall be allocated, while the maximum amount of the financial resources per project is 500,000.00 dinars.
BELGRADE – The Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and the Ministry of Education, in cooperation with the Center for Non-Violent Resistance and Center of Educational Policies, are going to hold a discussion on the preliminary results and conclusions of the Feasibility Study for the Opening of Institutions of Higher Learning in Presevo and Bujanovac at the Palace of Serbia on March 3, 2010.
READ MORE11 greenhouses are going to be put up in Medvedja into the construction of which the UNHCR is going to invest around 1.5 million dinars.
READ MORENovi Sad – A multiethnic play „You and I are We“, a project in which Albanian, Serbian and Roma secondary-school students from Bujanovac and Presevo take part , is going to have guest performances in Zrenjanin, Kikinda, Sombor, Sid and Sremska Mitrovica in the period from February 25 until March 2, 2010. The play resulted from an educational and artistic project of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, which made it possible for participants in the project to develop tolerance and better understanding of other cultures through playing games and associating with one another.
READ MOREMinister Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body, Ragmi Mustafa, Saip Kamberi and Slobodan Draskovic, Presidents of the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, and Jonuz Musliju, President of the Bujanovac Municipal Assembly, met at the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development with Dejan Jovanovic, Vice President of the Coordination Body and State Secretary and Nebojsa Ciric, Sate Secretary, and Vladislav Cvetkovic, Director of the Privatization Agency.
READ MOREOn February 23, 2010, the Center for Democracy and Development of South Serbia and the “JUGpress” regional information agency organized a meeting “Kosovo is on the other side – How to Go on after the Conflict”. The major topic discussed in the meeting was the importance of participation of minority communities in the institutions and the exercising of their rights in the region.
READ MORENOVI SAD – Followinga great success of a multiethnic play “You and I are We” in Bujanovac and Belgrade in December 2009, which is a teenage show on growing up in South Serbia, the Albanian, Serbian and Roma secondary-school students from Presevo and Bujanovac are going to perform the play in their own three languages, as well as in English, in Kikinda (February 25), Zrenjanin (February 26), Sremska Mitrovica (February 27), Sid (February 28) and Sombor (March 2). The play is going to open the 39th. Vukov sabor in Loznica on May 19.
READ MOREBUJANOVAC – On Tuesday, February 23, the Agreement on Cooperation between Basketball Clubs „BSК Јunior“and „Еlita“was signed. The agreement was signed by Miroslav Ristic from basketball club “BSK Junior” and by Selami Selimi from basketball club “Elita”. The agreement was also signed by Minister Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, and by Saip Kamberi, President of the Municipality of Bujanovac, as guarantors of the agreement.
READ MOREBUJANOVAC – The Agreement on Multiethnic and Sports Cooperation between basketball clubs “BSK Junior” and “Elita” is going to be signed at the “Mladost” Sports Center in Bujanovac at 2.30 pm on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.Minister Milan Markovic, President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, and Saip Kamberi, President of the Municipality of Bujanovac, are going to sign the agreement as guaratntors of the said basketball clubs.
READ MOREAs part of the project „Let’s Familiarize Ourselves with our Rights”, which is implemented by the „Center for Multicultural Education” NGO from Presevo, a roundtable on the importance of establishing the Albanian National Council was held on the premises of the Human Rights Youth Initiative organization.
READ MOREAlbanian and Serbian secondary school students want to have an Albanian-Serbian dictionary made, which would facilitate their daily communication. This is one of the conclusions reached at a workshop on the cultural needs of the young in Presevo, which was organized by the Center for Democracy and Development of South Serbia. Young Albanians and Serbs agree that it is a good idea to organize crash courses in Serbian and Albanian and they believe that a large number of the young in Presevo would be interested in them.
READ MOREBUJANOVAC – Yesterday (February 18), representatives of the Center for Non-Violent Resistance (CNR) and Center for Education Policy (CEP) presented in Bujanovac preliminary results of institutions of higher learning in Presevo and Bujanovac.
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