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CONNECT International stands for strengthening of democratic values and empowering of system of check and balances in our societies. Digital tools today provide us with a great opportunity to improve efficiency of democracy and democratic institutions, strengthen decision making processes and foster and empower youth participation. Therefore, we are using our work to put out these digital tools into action of making democracy more efficient and resilient.
NEWS
Third SmartCity Festival Finished
On the 15th of October 2019 a Smart City Festival 2019 was held in Belgrade, gathering stakeholders from civil society, academia and local authorities from all over the world and opening discussion on how smart cities influence living of people in urban and...
UpDatAed Training for Peer Advisors held in Belgrade
Training for Peer Advisors within the project “UpDatAed - Towards digitally safe youth organizations” was held in Belgrade, Serbia, from 13th till 19th September 2019. The goal of it was to help youth organizations to implement standards, methods, and tools described...
UpDatAed Guide is Now Available Online
"UpDatAed - Guide for Youth Organizations on Digital Safety and Privacy" is designed to support youth organizations in improving their practices of collection and further use of personal data and to make their operation safer. Particular emphasis will be on practices...
Call for Peer Advisors Training – UpDatAed
In June 2019 we have implemented UpDatAed Seminar for standardization at which we talked about human rights of Internet users, online safety and privacy in youth work. Stakeholders discussed the challenges of youth work when it comes to protecting young people’s...
UpDatAed Seminar for Standardisation Held in Thessaloniki
From the 27th of May till the 1st of June, as part of the “UpDatAed - Towards digitally safe youth organizations” project, a seminar for standardisation has taken place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Within it stakeholders from all around Europe had an opportunity to...
Youthilize E-democracy Guide Available Online
The progress of local communities is not possible without the involvement of young people. But many young people are not interested or not capable of taking a part in the decision making process of their communities due to unadjusted and incomprehensible approach...
Call for Participants – UpDatAed
Almost all activities that involve young people nowdays have a virtual and online dimensions. That also applies to the youth work that civil society organizations are performing in order to promote the rights of the youth. Participants and activists of their...
Preparatory meeting within the UpDatAed project held in Brussels
The implementation of project „UpDatAed - Towards digitaly safe youth organizations" has started with a preparatory meeting that was held in Brussels, Belgium, from 15th till 18th of March 2019. The main goal of this project is to create sustainable systems for...
Connect International is starting UpDatAed project with support of EYF
We are happy to announce that Connect International received support from European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe for the project „UpDatAed - towards digitally safe youth organizations”. Within this project we will develop methods for...
CONNECT International at The Smart City Festival in Belgrade
This year CONNECT International had an honor of taking part in the organization of The Smart City Festival in Belgrade by coordinating programmes and activities related to the promotion of the human rights in the digital era. We also hosted a panel entitled...