Final days! Applications for this year’s Fellowship close on October 3, 2025. Join the program exploring new political imaginaries and eco-digital futures in the Western Balkans.

⏳ Don’t miss your chance! RECAS Fellowship 2025 → Work with youth across WB, €1,500/month stipend + Surgery Week on Cres + Hackathon & seminars. Deadline: 3 Oct. 👉 Apply: recas.info/news/fellows... #RECAS_SEE #Fellowship #AcademicSky @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social @cas-see-uniri.bsky.social

📢 Call for Applications: RECAS Fellowship 2025 Application deadline: 3 October 2025 Theme: Youth Agency & New Political Imaginaries in the Western Balkans ✅ 4–6 months (start Dec 2025) ✅ €1,500/month stipend ✅ Research + youth workshops + Surgery Week on Cres + Hackathon

New RECAS Policy Brief Can central banks in the Western Balkans catch up with the AI revolution? RECAS fellow Milo Ivančević says yes - if they act now. Here are 6 steps they must take: 🔹 Make AI part of the strategy 🔹 Build expert teams 🔹 Upgrade data systems

📢 New from RECAS: How can everyday action lead to a truly just green transition? In his latest publication, RECAS fellow Ognjen Kojanić shares what he learned in Belgrade’s Pančevo Marshes and offers clear steps to improve citizen participation in policymaking:

Celebrating achievements and looking ahead At the final event of the 2025 #RECAS_SEE Fellowship, alumni & fellows reflected on bridging research with policy in Southeast Europe. They spoke about care in fieldwork, civic engagement, and making academic work matter beyond the university.

A quick reminder to save the date! As the 2025 RECAS Fellowship wraps up, we’re coming together to reflect on key achievements and discuss the future of academia–policy collaboration. See you on Thursday, 3 July (15.00 CET). More info below!

RECAS Fellowship Final Event: Celebrating Achievements and Looking Ahead 🗓 Thursday, July 3 | 15:00 CET | Online Join us for the closing event of the 2025 RECAS Fellowship cycle, where current fellows, alumni, project partners, and Academic Policy Lab contributors 👇

Baljvine: the Bosnian village that didn’t go to war. In our Academic Policy Lab Seminar with Guests, Faris Kočan unpacks why this mattered — not just for historical memory, but for understanding how localised peace can emerge amid broader conflict and instability.

📢 Public event coming this July! Join RECAS fellows, civic voices and policy professionals as we explore how to connect academic research with real decisions in Southeast Europe. 🗓️ Details coming soon. #AcademicSky #RECAS_SEE @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social @cas-see-uniri.bsky.social

What’s pushing young people out of politics — and out of the region? RECAS alumni, Ana Đorđević, explores youth engagement in SEE and finds it shaped by frustration, distrust, and lack of access — not apathy. Full paper in our Research Repository: recas.info/books/politi... #AcademicSky

Our policy-relevant Research Repository is live! Research papers and public seminars — organised for policy relevance. Browse by EU negotiation chapter, SDG, author or topic. Start here → recas.info/repository/ #MakingResearchMatter #AcademicPolicyLab #RECAS_SEE #AcademicSky

The Academic Policy Lab is a regional platform for bringing research into policy conversations that matter — in governance, sustainability, EU integration, and more. Built by and for Southeast Europe.

Kako zaposlene mame balansiraju posao i porodicu? Poziv za žene iz Federacije BiH (18–35). Podelite iskustvo kroz anonimnu anketu (15 min). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ‪@ec.europa.eu ‬ @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social #anketa #federacija #BiH #makje #karijera