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 encourage youth from both societies to become actively involved in shaping the region’s future, based on mutual understanding and dialogue.
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.
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 October 7th 2021. 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]
Project was funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.