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SPARK (www.spark-online.org ) is a not-for-profit,
non-political NGO with headquarters in Amsterdam and four field-offices in SEE.
Our mission is to develop education and entrepreneurship so that young and ambitious
people are empowered to lead their post-conflict society into prosperity. SPARK
supports processes of transition and reconstruction in post-conflict societies by
strengthening educational and economic institutions and fostering cooperation through
concrete, joined objectives. We aim to carry out our work in a sustainable way that
demands the pro-active participation of local communities.
SPARK has developed projects in various parts of South Eastern Europe. Since 1996,
SPARK has initiated and supported regional academic summer universities in Tuzla,
Pristina, Mitrovica and in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In total, around
6,000 students from SEE have collected over 300 years of European Study Credits
(ECTS). Other projects include, business start-up support for youth, business skills
training and employability activities and the introduction of ECTS at universities.
In 2009 SPARK will open an International Business College in Mitrovica. Over the
past 10 years, SPARK has built an extensive network made up of students, professors
and university management in the Western Balkans.
KBF in the Balkans
The King Baudouin Foundation is an independent and pluralistic foundation. We provide
financial support to around 2,000 organizations and individuals annually. The Foundation
also acts as a forum for debate and reflection and fosters philanthropy. With a
budget of 35 million euros, the Foundation wants to look in 2009 for sustainable
ways of contributing to justice, democracy and respect for diversity. We operate
out of Brussels, but are active at regional, Belgian, European and international
level. Our Board of Governors sets out broad lines of action, which are implemented
by some 50 colleagues. The Foundation was created in 1976, to mark the 25th anniversary
of King Baudouin’s reign.
Since 1999 the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) backs the region in its European integration
efforts. In a first phase, KBF supported the development of civil society organisations
through small grants to hundreds of community-based initiatives in the field of
ethnic relations, children at risk, community development and cultural heritage.
Since 2004, KBF focuses on policy change at local, national, European level in the
field of minority rights, human trafficking and student visa. Moreover, KBF tries
to connect civil society in the region with EU institutions in Brussels. KBF supports
the European Policy Centre in its Western Balkan activities and set up with other
European foundations the European Fund for the Balkans.
Since 2008, KBF started its student mobility programme to foster student exchange
between the Western Balkans and the EU. Next to this website, KBF supports international
relations offices of universities in the region to better encourage and help students
to study abroad. KBF is associated member of the EU scholarship programme “Basileus”.
To find out more about KBF, please visit www.kbs-frb.be
Thanks
SPARK and KBF would like to thank the Western Balkan Countries INCO-NE c/o Centre
for Social Innovation for their support with this project.