Soros Foundations NewsFlash- November 28, 2003
NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENTS:
OSF-ALBANIA CLOSED TODAY AND MONDAY: OSF-Albania will be closed for holidays on Friday, November 28, and Monday, December 1.
FOUNDATION IN KOSOVO CLOSED TODAY: The Kosova Foundation for Open Society is closed on Friday, November 28, for a national holiday.
U.S. OFFICES CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY: OSI's offices in New York and Washington are closed on Thursday, November 27, and Friday, November 28, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
PROGRAM NEWS
CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN
Soros Open Network Romania (SON)
The Partnership for Equality Center, a SON member, has completed its project to establish the Center for Advancement of Women in the city of Fagaras. The center provides unemployed or disadvantaged women with information and assistance for professional reorientation. The entrepreneurial counseling and training offered by the center assists women seeking to learn how to initiate, develop, and manage a business. The project was financed by the EU through the PHARE program for Enterprise Restructuring and Employment Conversion Programme (RICOP). Contact: Cristina Vaileanu, Program Manager; e-mail: cvaileanu@gender.ro
TRANSLATION PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOETHE INSTITUTE
International Renaissance Foundation - Kyiv
IRF and the Goethe Institute have launched a joint program to support translations from German into Ukrainian. The program plans to annually assist in the publication of 35 Ukrainian books in the humanities and social sciences, and translations of literature. Financial support will be provided by the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Contact: Artem Kolesnyk; e-mail: kolesnyk@irf.kiev.ua
ON THE INTERNET
OPEN SOCIETY NEWS: STOPPING THE SPREAD OF CORRUPTION
The Summer-Fall 2003 issue of "Open Society News" is available online.
MEDIA COUNTRY REPORTERS WANTED
EUMAP, in cooperation with the Network Media Program, is inviting applications for 20 consultant posts as country reporters for reports on monitoring broadcasting regulation and the independence of the media. Application deadline: December 5, 2003.
REMINDER: DECEMBER 15 IS SESI APPLICATION DEADLINE
HESP's Southeast European Student Initiatives (SESI) program invites concept papers for cross-border student initiatives from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.
CEU APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 5, 2004
Monday, January 5, 2004 is the deadline for applying to Central European University for the 2004/2005 academic year.