Data inizio: 01/03/2025
Data fine: 28/02/2029
Ente finanziatore: European Union
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
ORCA is a training and research staff exchange programme designed to meet emerging needs in support of improved research performance and output. It brings together 18 partners, with a focus on Central Asia.
In the context of this project, OBCT/CCI hosts researchers and sends its own staff on secondment, favours exchange of experiences among network partners, and engages in research.
Data inizio: 01/03/2024
Data fine: 31/03/2028
Ente finanziatore: European Union
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense cross-border journalistic collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives. At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading news outlets from 10 European countries, which, together with a number of additional partner organisations and freelancers, form a sort of transnational newsroom. New journalistic content is collaboratively produced on a daily basis and distributed in many languages, with over a thousand publications each year.
Data inizio: 01/12/2025
Data fine: 01/10/2026
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The project examines the potential for economic cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia within the broader framework of the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. It places particular emphasis on the long-term economic costs of the stalled normalization process and assesses how the current deadlock hinders regional integration and future access to the EU Single Market.
The project is led by the Regional Center for Strategic and Policy Initiatives, based in Serbia, in collaboration with OBCT/CCI and European Policy Institute of Kosovo.
Data inizio: 01/09/2025
Data fine: 30/06/2027
Ente finanziatore: Caritro
Unità operativa: Competenze per la Società Globale
“Jump In” is a programme that involves pupils and teachers in the co-design of active citizenship initiatives both within and outside school. The project strengthens the network of ECC coordinators and promotes the creation of a network of school representatives in Rovereto, engaging with local institutions and the wider community through training, mentoring, project work and communication. The creation of a toolkit ensures continuity, making the initiative replicable and sustainable over time.
Data inizio: 01/12/2025
Data fine: 30/11/2028
Ente finanziatore: UE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
DAPHnE is a project co-funded by the European Union addressing the growing need for skills in Data Journalism and Data Communication. The project promotes an interdisciplinary approach combining Data Science, Statistical Literacy, Data Analysis, Data Visualisation and Storytelling to strengthen the capacity of journalists and communicators to analyse, interpret and communicate data responsibly and effectively. The overall objective of DAPHnE is to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, employability, and multidisciplinary learning in Data Journalism and Data-Driven Communication.
Official page on Erasmus Plus
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. Project number: 101243032
Data inizio: 01/12/2025
Data fine: 30/11/2026
Ente finanziatore: MAECI
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
This project focuses on the link between the rule of law, media freedom, and the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans. After focusing on Albania and Serbia (ATLIB 1) and on Montenegro and North Macedonia (ATLIB 2), the third edition will examine Bosnia and Herzegovina, an EU candidate since 2022, and Kosovo, considered a potential candidate for accession.
Data inizio: 01/11/2020
Data fine: 31/10/2027
Ente finanziatore: UE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) is a Europe-wide mechanism which tracks, monitors, and responds to violations of press and media freedom in EU Member States and Candidate Countries. This project provides legal and practical support, public advocacy, and information to protect journalists and media workers. Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) takes part in the MFRR as partner of a consortium led by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and including ARTICLE 19 Europe, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Free Press Unlimited (FPU) and the International Press Institute (IPI).
Data inizio: 01/10/2025
Data fine: 30/09/2026
Ente finanziatore: UE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
The EuSEE project - Advancing EU cohesion coverage across South-East Europe - aims to inform on the contribution of cohesion policy, Union's main funding instrument for reducing socioeconomic disparities between European regions, promoting growth and improving quality of life. Since 2021, we have been exploring and reporting on the various realities, challenges, and initiatives promoted by cohesion policy in the territories of South-Eastern Europe, and we continue to do so, from the Greek islands to the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
Data inizio: 09/10/2025
Data fine: 20/11/2025
Ente finanziatore: Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Data inizio: 01/04/2025
Data fine: 31/12/2026
Ente finanziatore: InCE
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Recognizing the vital role that a free, independent, and diverse media landscape plays in sustaining democratic societies, MAAM is dedicated to empowering media professionals and fostering an open and pluralistic media environment in Moldova. The project aims to establish a collaborative platform connecting Italy, Moldova, and Romania, while promoting Moldova’s alignment with European standards on freedom of information and media pluralism, and strengthening its public watchdogs. In doing so, MAAM contributes to the country’s path toward European integration.
Specifically, MAAM enhances transnational exchanges among civil society organizations through targeted capacity-building and advocacy activities directed at legal experts, activists, and independent media professionals. At the same time, it fosters mutual learning and innovation by encouraging cross-border and cross-sector collaboration—creating meaningful exchanges and lasting impact for both beneficiary and contributing organizations.
MAAM is a collaborative initiative led by Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT), in partnership with the Independent Journalism Center (IJC) in Moldova and ActiveWatch in Romania.
Data inizio: 01/03/2024
Data fine: 31/08/2027
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea, European Urban Initiative
Unità operativa: CSG + OBCT
The Station for Transformation (S4T) project rethinks the role of Rovereto railway station and the surrounding area, transforming it into a public-civic hub for joint actions to promote the ecological transition of the Vallagarina area. S4T makes the response to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss accessible and attractive by experimenting with innovative solutions in strategic areas such as sustainable agri-food, social inclusion, green cities, and responsible tourism.
The project also has a transnational dimension, involving three European cities called Transfer Partner Cities - Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Granada (Spain) and Piraeus (Greece) - to encourage the exchange of practices and knowledge and develop replicable models inspired by the experience of Rovereto, where the disused areas of the station will be transformed into hubs of innovation, promotion of good practices and community involvement.
In addition to coordinating the transnational work, the CCI, through its OBCT Operational Unit, will produce a slow journalism series, including articles, news reports, interviews, and multimedia content, documenting challenges and solutions in different European contexts and showing how different realities can address common problems to tackle climate change.
More information on the project website: stationfortransformation.eu
Data inizio: 01/01/2017
Data fine: 31/12/2017
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
Twenty-five years after the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars, much still needs to be done to integrate the memories of this chapter of recent history in the reflection about the wider European space of memory. THE TESTIMONY - TRUTH OR POLITICS is a project aiming to publicly reflect on the Yugoslav dissolution, placing centre stage individual testimonies of those who experienced the conflict, taking sides or opposing resistance to it.
See the page: Testimony – Truth or Politics Data inizio: 01/01/2011
Data fine: 31/12/2013
Ente finanziatore: Unione europea
Unità operativa: OBC Transeuropa
In 2013, OBC concluded the three-year decentralised cooperation programme “SeeNet II - a transnational network for cooperation between Italy and South-East Europe”, co-funded by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 6 Italian regions and the Autonomous Province of Trento.
During the action, OBC regularly carried out in-depth analyses and spread information on the socio-political contexts in South-Eastern Europe and on the thematic areas covered by the programme, working with the main actors of the Italian decentralised cooperation and 47 local authorities in the Western Balkans.
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