Projects CDER implemented on its own and in partnership:
MEDIActive Youth: Africa on Board
MEDIActive Youth is an international youth initiative of improving youth media literacy launched by CDER in 2015. Within two previous Erasmus+ MEDIActive Youth projects capacities of 22 youth NGOs from Europe and Latin America have been raised, a Transnational Youth Magazine (TYM) has been launched, website www.mediactiveyouth.net and multilingual online courses have been created.
The overall objective of this two-years project (2022-2024) is to continue with building capacities of youth NGOs globally and developing open education resources in the field of media literacy. Particular attention is given here to the African continent, and this project will enable it to also join the transcontinental initiative of improving media literacy launched through the previous projects.
Project partners: 7 youth NGOs from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Estonia, North Macedonia and Serbia. CDER is a project leader.
Project grant: EUR 178.134,00
DONOR: European Union
MEDIActive Youth – Transnational initiative
CDER successfully continues its activities within the ERASMUS+ international EU programme. CDER applied for the Capacity Building for Youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia with an international project called MEDIAactive Youth – Transnational initiative.
Since Serbia is now a programme country within ERASMUS+ Programme, it was possible for the first time for Serbian organisations to apply as equal with all the other organisations from the EU for cooperation programmes with Latin America and Asia countries. Through tough competition CDER won the project grant and will implement it in the next 14 months.
Our organisation will be pleased to cooperate with ten reputable organisations fom Latin American and European countries as project leader.
The project goals are:
- Building the capacities of youth organisations and youth workers in the field of media literacy and activism and strengthening their active participation in society, as well as promoting transcontinental cooperation of youth organisations from Northern Europe, Balkans and Latin America.
- Strengthening of media promotion of youth policy and democratic values in partner countries and in relation between Europe and Latin America.
- Building an information media hub connecting Europe and Latin America in the field of youth policy.
CDER is the project coordinator and the partners are from reputed NGOs from Mexico, Argentina, Columbia, Honduras, Paraguay, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, North Macedonia and Serbia.
The project duration was 14 months, from December 2019 to May 2021, and the grant was 65.321 EUR.
Donor: European Union
Increasing the Effectiveness of Employment Policies
towards Disadvantaged Groups
The Project was implemented under LOT 5, within the large scale action “Increasing the Effectiveness of Employment Policies towards Disadvantaged Groups”. Action was funded by the EU and implemented by the National Employment Service in Serbia. The Action fund was 2,516,400.00 EUR, out of which 235,000.00 EUR for LOT 5.
Objective:
To increase the effectiveness of employment policies by increasing access to training for unemployed persons from disadvantaged groups, with an aim to enhance their employability and their chances to get jobs.
Expected results on the whole Project level:
1. The coverage of training in response to labour market needs increased by at least 5400 registered unemployed persons, by the end of the execution period;
2: The coverage of training in response to labour market needs increased by 300 out of 5400 registered unemployed Roma persons by the end of the execution period.
Within the LOT 5 the project consortium has organized and impleented healthcare, social protection and personal services trainings for 507 persons in total.
The role of CDERa as part of the consortium was to design and implement a monitoring system of trainings. CDER’s responsibilities were:
– Creation of monitoring and evaluation methodology;
– Creation of manual for implementation of monitoring and evaluation methodology;
– Realization of monitoring process (including field visits);
Drafting 3 reports on monitoring the training realization in 32 municipalities in Serbia.
The Project lasted for 18 months, from 15 07 2016 to 15 01 2018.
YOUth on the Mov(i)e – Building a Better Region Through Film
The general objective of the Project was to build the capacity of youth NGOs and young people to promote intercultural dialogue and tolerance and to contribute to the process of reconciliation in the region of the Western Balkans by bringing its youth together and using the power of art/film.
Activities:
1. The flux of the Project is a 9-day training course with 24 young participants from 6 partner NGOs from 5 countries (Montenegro, Albania, B&H, Macedonia and Serbia). Throughout the training, they will master basic movie making techniques such as operating a video camera, elementary script writing, shooting, directing and video editing, and be educated on the possibilities of using film as a means of youth activism in promoting reconciliation and combating prejudices and stereotypes. They will also have extensive set of screenings, lectures, talks and discussions, aimed at providing them with a fuller picture of the Balkan region, its common historical and social traditions, its shared past, friendly and reconciliatory efforts, all of which is currently being overlooked by the predominant discourse of hostility fostered by the main-stream media and politicians, and absent from their textbooks and curricula.
2. After the training, teams from each partner NGO recorded in their country a short amateur film dealing with a theme of the Project.
3. Upon finishing Activity 2, each partner organized in their local community a public event consisting of the introductory presentation of the Project, films screening and a discussion.
Project duration: 7 months
The total project costs was EUR 31,817.00
Donor: RYCO
/Regional Youth Cooperation Office/
FRAMES OF UNDERSTANDING:
Building an Intercultural Society Through Film
International project implemented within the Erasmus Plus Programme – Capacity building in the field of youth. The project had the following goals:
1. Increase the capacity of youth organizations/workers to, using the power of art – namely film, promote and build an inclusive, intercultural society, based on the principles of tolerance and intercultural understanding without racism and xenophobia (R&X), especially related to the Middle East migrants and refugees (M&R);
2. Stimulate active participation of young people in promoting (young) M&R social inclusion;
3. Foster intraregional and transregional cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from 10 European countries.
The main project objectives were:
1. Realising a training course during which 33 youth workers from 11 youth NGOs will be educated to build and promote an inclusive, intercultural society without R&X, fight for social inclusion of M&R through art (film), and to use film in education and youth activism;
2. Creating two multilingual online courses: a) on history, arts and culture of the Middle East and b) on the use of film to fight against R&X and build an intercultural society;
3. Creating an informative-educative website dedicated to social inclusion of M&R and fight against R&X through film;
4. Producing two short films about M&R.
CDER was the project coordinator and partners were respectable youth NGOs from Western Balkans and Western, Northern and Southern Europe.
Donor:European Union /E+ Programme/
Building Sustainable Services, Jobs and Organizations
The Project was implemented through ”EU Exchange 4” programme. Overall objective: Building social cohesion of all people living in Zabari and Zagubica. Specific objectives: 1) Support elderly by introducing sustainable community-based social services (CBSS); 2) Creating new jobs through development of the social service market.
The Project was one of the most ambitious efforts in the field of social care service at the local level in Serbia, and its aim was to introduce sustainable, available and quality social services for old people. “Home care for old persons” social services were created in both municipalities, in accordance with the national standards of service provisions. The organizations providing social care were licensed in the process conducted by the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy.
The realization of the project started on February 3, 2014 and lasted until February 2015. The overall budget of the project was 175.042,40 Euros, out of which 155.787,74 Еuros was the contribution of the European Union, while 19.254,66 Еuros was secured by national participation. Main applicant was Zabari municipality. CDER was in charge of project management and for providing expert support to social care services development. More about the project on www.zabari-zagubica.rs
Donor:European Union / Exchange 4/
Digital Youthquake
The international project implemented by CDER as part of the Erasmus Plus Programme – Capacity building in the field of youth. with the following goals:
1. Increase the capacity of youth organizations/workers in the field of digital literacy and digital activism, foster their active participation in society as well as intraregional and transregional cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from Partner and Programme countries from Western Balkans (WB), Western Europe (WE) and North Europe (NE) regions.
2. Develop digital youth activism and reinforce digital promotion of youth policy and democratic values on transregional and European level.
Three main project activities were:
1: Training course in digital literacy and digital youth activism;
2: Creating educative content in the field of digital literacy and digital activism: a) an online course on digital literacy and digital youth activism; b) a database of existing open resources on digital literacy and digital activism;
3: Creating an informative-educative website.
Project partners were respected youth NGOs from 9 European countries: UK, Belgium, Estonia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The project ran from 1.08.2016. to 30.04.2017.
Donor:European Union /E+ Programme/
MEDIActive Youth
An international project within Erasmus + Programme – Capacity building in the field of youth. Project had the following aims:
1. Increasing the capacity of youth organisations/workers in the field of media literacy and media activism and fostering their active participation in society,
2. Fostering intraregional and transregional cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from 5 Partner and 5 Programme countries from Western Balkans, Western Europe and North Europe regions;
3. Strengthening media promotion of youth policy and democratic values in partner countries on transregional and European level.
The main project activities were:
1. Training course in media literacy and media activism (the goal of the TC was to provide media literacy/activism skills for 30 youth workers from 11 partner NGOs);
2. Creating an online course on media literacy and media activism and an online course on how to create blog on youth policy and democracy;
3. Creating a portal and transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and promotion of democratic values, www.mediactiveyouth.net.
Partners: 11 youth NGOs from United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, B&H, Latvia, Estonia and Serbia. Duration: 01/10/2015–30/06/2016.
Donor:European Union /E+ Programme/
MOV(I)E IT!
The project involved preparation and delivery of an innovative Training Course (TC) MOV(I)E IT! for 33 participants (young people and experienced youth workers) from 11 NGOs from 4 SEE (RS, AL, ME, MK), 5 EU (GR, IT, HU, AT. RO) and 2 EECA (UA, BY) countries. During the training participants were motivated, educated and encouraged through joint work to use film for youth activism, as a tool for drawing attention to, as well as for solving young people’s problems, and for promoting youth policy. Participants learnt how to make a short film, how to communicate a message through film, and also how to pass their film making knowledge to others. The main theme of the project was promoting young people’s commitment towards a more inclusive growth. Within this main theme, we were specifically focused on issues of youth unemployment, poverty and marginalization.
Donor: European Union
/‘’Youth in Action’’ Programme/
Youth Rules – Pomoravski district /2010 – 2014/
CDER has been for the past 5 years the Resource Centre for the Ministry of Youth and Sports in order to provide incentives on activism and volunteering of the young in the Pomoravski District.
The projects included:
- Overall project organisation (launching a call, promotion, evaluation of applications, monitoring…) of the tender for financing youth projects (about 10 per year) in Pomoravski district, for formal and informal youth groups;
- Implementing a three-day training for youth groups in writing project proposals;
- Providing support to formal and informal youth groups in the implementation of approved projects;
- Organising central public event for youth.
- Selection of the best youth project in the Pomoravski district.
Donor: Ministry of Youth and Sports
Digital Collection of Intangible Serbian Cultural Heritage
The aim of the project was to contribute to the process of digitalization of Serbian cultural heritage by digitalizing representative elements of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and to create the first web-site with digital collection of Serbian ICH.
The project had 3 groups of activities:
a) Formation of the digital collection of Serbian ICH. This activity comprised of field research and ICH documentation throughout Serbia;
b) ICH digital collection presentation. This activity required a web-site nematerijalnonasledje.com through which the entire collection (all digitalized content) has been presented, which created a single digital collection of Serbian ICH, first of its kind in Serbia;
c) Promotion of ICH digitalization in local communities and self-governments; the project significantly increased awareness about the importance of digitalizing cultural heritage.
Donor: Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications
Mediation to Resolving
Overall objective: Contributing to building democracy and democratic society through implementation of Laws in the field of mediation in disputes/conflicts according to International documents in order to create legal stability in social relations in Braničevo, Bor and Pomoravski Districts. Results: 1. Developed a network of teams educated in mediation skills to be implemented in peer groups, at schools and in the communities involved in the project, on a long-term and continuous basis; 2. Informed citizens from Požarevac, Bor and Jagodina recognize advantages of mediation as an alternative approach to active citizenship in resolving disputes/conflicts; 3. Youth fostering dialogue in peer groups at school and citizens and relevant system institutions aware of mediation contributing to democratic changes; 4. Enhanced awareness of citizens on alternative methods of resolving disputes/conflicts and mediation service available for youth in Požarevac, Bor and Jagodina. CDER is co-applicant in this project.
Donor: European Union (EIDHR)
Digital Atlas of Cultural Heritage
General objective of the project is to contribute to digitalisation of cultural heritage in Serbia by supporting digitalisation of cultural heritage in 7 local governments and creating a website for presentation of cultural heritage and sharing of information and knowledge in this area. Through this project 7 local governments (Bor, Jagodina, Medvedja, Sopot, Veliko Gradiste, Loznica and Pancevo) will get empowered and networked human resources, while all interested stakeholders throughout Serbia and the wider community will get a unique portal with a complied database of collections of Serbian cultural heritage. Results: 1. Successfully mobilised, educated and networked stakeholders in 7 local governments started and/or intensified digitalisation of cultural heritage in their communities; 2. The established portal Atlas of cultural heritage became a virtual treasure chest of digitalised collections of Serbian cultural heritage and the central hub for information and knowledge sharing.
Donor: Ministry of Foreign
and Internal Trade and Telecommunications
Sustainable Development of Home Care Service
in the Municipality of Ćićevac
Main objective: Strengthening the capacities of the elderly for independent life in the community through establishment of a sustainable home care service in compliance with the national standards for home care. By this project, CDER, in partnership with the Municipality of Ćićevac, establishes and develops home care service for the elderly. The service will cover minimum 28 users per month, during the whole project implementation period. Geronto housewives (4 persons) who will be providing the service from the start of project implementation are paid by the Municipality, which means that co-participation is ensured in the amount of 36% of project value. This will also lay ground for sustainability for the next year. Results: 1. Developed a sustainable home care service for the elderly; 2. Ensured institutionalisation of the service and its sustainability through development of the Rulebook on home care provision which stipulates criteria for admission of users; the system for monitoring and evaluation of service provision established by the local government.
Donor: Ministry of Labour
and Social Policy of the
Republic of Serbia
Rhythm of Identity
Donor: The Office for Cooperation
with the Diaspora and Serbs
in the Regions
Small Academy for Youth Career Guider
The project involved preparation and delivery of a training course for 22 participants from 8 NGOs from Serbia, Albania, FYR Macedonia, Germany, Italy, Greece and Romania. During the training, participants were motivated, educated and encouraged through joint work, to promote and provide career guidance and counselling (CGC) in their communities. Young participants became the so called peer career guiders and were sensitised for working youth with disabilities. Experienced career guiders improved the existing methods and developed new methods for working with youth. Special attention was paid to CGC for youth with disabilities.
Donor: European Union
/‘’Youth in Action’’ Programme/
A Step Toward Inclusion
Main activities on the project: 1. Improvement of the existing Home Care service (HC), through its organizational strengthening and increase of number of nurses and engagement of the new professional employee; 2. including children with disability and their families as beneficiaries of this service. Project results: newly-employed (refugees and internally displaced persons) and their families get income source; children with disabilities and their families through Home Care receive opportunity to improve their family living standard, while through usage of professional services of psycho-social strengthening, they can activate their own internal potentials for active life. Role of CDER is to manage the project (Project Manager and Assistant), conduct training for nurses, prepare rulebook on participation of service beneficiaries and prepare local employment action plan of the Žabari Municipality.
Donor: European Union (IPA)
Development of a day care service for children
with developmental disabilities
Project objective is to strengthen the integration of children with developmental disabilities. The project ensured institutionalisation of the service (pursuant to national standards) and empowerment in all day care (DC) services in Jagodina, with the special focus on the newly formed DC for children with developmental disabilities. Apart from sustainable development of this service, special attention was paid to the inclusion of children, development of their social, mental and physical functions and skills, in order to empower them for independent life in the community. The service ensured positive and constructive experience of stay outside the family. The project included the Manual on Provision of Day Care. Partner: Centre for Social Work of the City of Jagodina.
Donor: Ministry of Labour
and Social Policy of the
Republic of Serbia
Development of services for children with disabilities
Donor: Ministry of Labour
and Social Policy of the
Republic of Serbia
Organizing trainings for youth office coordinators
– strengthening capacities of youth offices and implementation
of Local Action Plans for Youth in 5 local government units
Two major activities of the project were: 1. Selection of 5 municipalities, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sport; 2. Organizing trainings for implementation of Local Action plans for young (LAP) in 5 selected municipalities for members of the working group for implementation of LAP for the young; 3. Organizing visits of mentors to municipalities included into the project.
Donor: Ministry of Youth and Sports
Development of professional orientation and career guidance
Donor: GTZ
Financial education for youth on the local level
Financial literacy workshops held in 25 municipalities and 5 foster clubs in Serbia.
Donor: USAID
New community identities are created by the young
Over the course of 6 months, activities have been implemented in the territory of 11 municipalities – Jagodina, Paraćin, Požarevac, Rekovac, Svilajnac, Despotovac, Ćuprija, Aleksinac, Aleksnadrovac, Velika Plana and Kragujevac. Youth have received incentives to become active in the territories of the mentioned municipalities, and volunteer work has also been encouraged. In addition, the project supported creation of the new generation of youth leaders and activists.
Donor: Ministry of Youth and Sports
New spin – synergy and activation of youth in Pomoravski district
Peer educators trained through theatre plays creation (educational plays).
Donor: Fund for an Open Society, Serbia
Development of Action Plans for Youth in the municipalities of
Aleksandrovac, Bor, Aleksinac, Gadžin Han and Žabari
Five municipalities i Serbia – Aleksandrovac, Bor, Aleksinac, Gadžin Han and Žabari – hired CDER as an expert organization for managing the development of Local Action Plans for youth.
Donor: Municipalities
Altar in the Mountain
The primary goal of the project is the preservation and promotion of intangible heritage through the creation of an ethno-documentary film about the celebration of St-Peter’s Day on the Radan Mountain.
Results:
– Digitalized data of cultural heritage – customsrelated to the celebration of St Peter’s Day on the Radan Mountain
– The production of ethno-documentary film Altar in the Mountain
– The film’s projection at the International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade
Produced by CDER
City (Dis)appearing
Building urban identity through 5 theatre workshops with youth.
Donor: Ministry of Culture, Media
and Information Society
Inter-cultural dialogue network through cultural institutions
Initiating inter-cultural dialog, through institutions promoting culture and media, in order to get to know, understand and accept “the other” and build stable, inclusive and sustainable community. The project was implemented in the City of Belgrade and 5 districts in Serbia, in 9 diferent municipality, with an emphasis on Roma people. 12 NGOs participated in the project, out of which half were Roma NGOs.
Donor: Fund for an Open Society, Serbia
Youth action network
Project led to creation of 6 youth NGOs, capacity building trainings for youth in 6 municipalities, development of 6 local strategic plans for youth…
Donor: Ministry of Youth and Sports
Promotion of volunteer work among youth
The project initiated an operational partnership network for development of youth volunteerism in Pomoravski and Braničevski districts.
Donor: Ministry of Youth and Sports
Exhibition about Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and Borislav Pekić
– Serbian writers of XIX and XX century
Organizing exhibitions about renowned Serbian writers – Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and Borislav Pekić – in Toronto (Canada).
Donor: Ministry of Diaspora
Exhibition “Danilo Kiš in Paris“
Organizing an exhibition about a renowned Serbian writer Danilo Kiš in Paris (France).
Donor: Ministry of Diaspora
Resource Centre for development of the national Strategy for Youth
Organizing and holding 7 round tables in municipalities for all key stakeholders dealing with youth issues; organizing 7 public events for youth in municipalities.
Donor: Ministry of Youth and Sports
Building partnership for poverty reduction in Pomoravski district
Consultancy support in development of studies and projects in social policy field.
Donor: The Deputy Prime Minister’s
PRS Implementation Focal Point
Building institutional capacities of key stakeholder for service provision
in social policy area in Pomoravski district
CDER provided consultancy-mentoring services.
Donor: The Deputy Prime Minister’s
PRS Implementation Focal Point
