Kosovo School
Kosovo School is Heartefact’s unique program for young adults from Kosovo and Serbia (18-30 y.o.) who wish to broaden their knowledge on the topic of Kosovo-Serbia relations and who wish for their opinions and perspectives to be challenged. With this program, we aim at strengthening and spreading the progress achieved by earlier reconciliation processes and encouraging youth from both societies to become actively involved in shaping the region’s future, based on mutual understanding and dialogue.
More about the project
The program has three parts: Online educational program: 7 days thematically designed to inform, educate and to face selected participants with a complex topic of Kosovo-Serbia relations with regional experts. Agenda is divided by 4 main topics: Historical perspectives and remembering past; Transitional justice and reconciliation; Political and social state of affairs and Role of media in creating new narratives between Kosovo and Serbia. Study visits: 4 days in Prishtina & 4 days in Belgrade during which participants will have the opportunity to get to know the cities, its history and culture as well as current state of affairs through different meet-ups with various actors, from civic sector to official institutions. Collaboration projects: done in groups of two or three people based on common interests. Collab projects should be feasible, concrete, one-time and aiming to address some of the issues in the context of Kosovo-Serbia relations or contribute to them. In order to help them in their process of developing project ideas and implementing them, each group will have their own mentor. Project was funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.
Open call
Program will select 5 participants from Serbia and 5 from Kosovo, and each participant will be asked to sign a participatory agreement stating responsibilities and availability to the program. Working language is English. To apply for this program, please fill in the form no later than September 5th 2022. After closing applications, the selected participants will be invited for an interview with the project team. For more information you can write to: [email protected]
Collaborative Projects
Youth Conference
Group: Pylljon Nura, Stefan Bošković, Aleksandra Pašić, Fiona Behrami, Mirlinda Derguti
Concept note: Having a difficult recent past marked by violent conflicts, sanctions, fall of the communist regimes and slow process of democratization, the countries of the region of Western Balkans have been focused on rebuilding politics and economy within the counties’ borders. However, since Kosovo and Serbia have entered the dialogue phase towards peace and reconciliation, there is a need for cooperation between them, seeking for the bigger picture that allows its citizens to benefit from agreements that affect their daily lives. The idea is to shift the focus on now and future solutions on behalf of Kosovo – Serbia dialogue, this time only involving youth perspective. We want to organize a series of youth online dialogues on perspectives of Pristina-Belgrade dialogue and further normalization process. The ambitious aim is to try to channel criticism of the current state of affairs and to invite the voice of youth to be heard. As a result of these discussions, we would create a summary report expressing the needs of youth from both countries.
Municipality Cooperation Between Peja & Šabac
Group: Uroš Rakič & Liriona Morina
Concept note: In 2019, municipalities of Šabac and Peja had a project to help families in need by teaching them how to cultivate strawberries, showing great potential in further cooperation between communities. Our idea is to research the results of this project and to search for more examples of good practice, presenting them in a short documentary.
Comparative Analysis Of Patients' Rights In Kosovo & In Serbia
Aleksandra Ignjatović
Concept note: As people have long since learned to value good health, they have sought to find the means to protect and/or repair it. Hence, the works of many thinkers, philosophers, doctors, writers and artists contain ideas about a healthy lifestyle, disease control, the cult of beauty and physical strength of the human body. The health of the individual is no longer important only for themselves, but for the whole society, for that reason, today health is understood as a common, general or public good. Some authors are of the opinion that modern medicine has reached such a level of progress that it can never be considered healthy, and that the one who feels healthy today only shows that it has not yet been examined in sufficient detail. Having in mind the current developments regarding the Coronavirus, each of us is a potential patient, we are of the opinion that it is necessary to determine whether and to what extent the citizens of Serbia and Kosovo are primarily aware of their rights as patients.