Project: Monitoring Serbia’s OSCE Chairmanship17Nov2014
OSCE, youth, and security: Study visit to Vienna
Within the project 'Serbian OSCE Chairmanship 2015 and the role of youth', conducted by the National Youth Council of Serbia and supported by the Ministry of Youth and Sport and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, a study visit to Vienna was organized, from 12th to 14th of November. Our researcher Marina Taić was among six chosen participants of the study visit.
During the study visit they attended the session of the Permanent Council of the OSCE, and visited the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna, where they talked to Sanja Milinković, Deputy Chief of the Mission. Additionally, they talked to Slovenian Ambassador to the OSCE, and met representatives of several Austrian youth organizations the Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs and the Austrian National Youth Council, and had opportunity to exchange experiences in youth participation with them.
In the joint Working Plan of Switzerland and Serbia youth and their security were recognized as main priorities of the OSCE during 2014 and 2015. The Action Plan for Youth is planned for adoption during Serbian Chairmanship in 2015.
Photo: Study visit participants at the Hofburg Congress Centre