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At the XI International Gerontological Congress at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, the SeConS Development Initiative Group presented key research findings on access to long-term care services in the Western Balkans. This is about a research from a comparative perspective of six locations where said research was conducted: Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo*, and North Macedonia.

“At a time of rising inflation, high costs of living and the consequences of the pandemic, people living in poverty struggle to meet basic needs of life, the number of homeless people is increasing, while gender and social inequalities are also growing,” it was stated at the time of presentation of the European Anti-Poverty Network’s (EAPN) Annual Poverty Watch in the European Parliament.
The European Anti-Poverty Network – Serbia was represented by the SeConS Development Initiative Group.

SeConS Development Initiative Group presented the study “Rapid assessment of the prevalence of child begging as a form of child labor in Montenegro” at an event organized on this occasion in Podgorica by the International Labor Organization and the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of Montenegro.
Admir Adrović, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, and Nina Krgović, National Project Coordinator at International Labor Organization in Montenegro gave opening speeches.

As the only institution in Serbia that monitors the progress made towards the achievement of SDGs, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia published, with the support of the Governments of Germany and Switzerland, a Progress Report for 2021 on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Serbia by 2030. Video material containing brief presentation of the results was created based on this Report. The creation of this video material was made possible by the contribution of the Governments of Switzerland and Germany as part of the project “Public Finance Reform – 2030 Agenda”, implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

The achievements of the Erasmus+ “Public Policy Making and Analysis” – PPMA project on capacity building in higher education, were presented at the panel on “Lifelong learning in the field of public policy”, held on May 10, 2022 at the University of Niš.
Presentation included educational programs in the field of public policy, editions of books published as part of the project, as well as the multifunctional web platform “Policy club” intended for the publication of professional papers in the field of public policy.

SeConS Development Initiative Group participated in the workshop “Public Policy Making and Analysis: institutions, implementation and approaches”, held at the Faculty of Law, University of

The new Policy-Club website, developed by the SeConS Development Initiative Group within the PPMA project, was presented to the public at the International Conference “Science Meets

The Progress Report on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals for 2021, developed by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, was presented at

With the support of the governments of Switzerland and Germany, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia published the second Progress Report on the

Preservation of the planet, economic progress and social justice: we asked the citizens whether it is enough to make progress in only one of these