The Sarajevo-based, four-day long YouthLINC Innovation Lab gathered nearly 110 young people from six Balkan countries. Divided into ten smaller geographically and gender-balanced groups and supported by IT experts, the participants worked together and developed their project ideas for two days. The closing ceremony showed that in the end, they managed to turn their conceptions into reality!

Studiorum, Pravo Ljudski, DokuFest and MakeDox, in cooperation with the Balkan Trust for Democracy, organize the Regional Documentary Film School ACTive for the first time. Envisaged as a diverse and informal educational program, ACTive will take place in Prizren, Kosovo and will gather 16 young people with strong interest in creative documentary film.

Envisioned as a four-year project that addresses some of the major challenges to stability and peace in the Balkans, YouthLINC: Linking Innovators who Network for Change supports a core group of young people dedicated to building trust and positive social change across regional borders. In order to achieve the project’s main objectives, Internews and the project partners conducted one-day workshops in each of the six partner countries.

We are Visual! Education and Audio-Visualization of Human Rights (WAVE) is a partnership project aiming to promote human rights education by using documentary film and audiovisual arts. The kick-off meeting that took place in the Old Bazaar in Skopje was an excellent opportunity for the five project partners to discuss the project infrastructure and methodology, as well as to develop the project action plan.