Hello everyone,

I am again late with posting my blog. I’ve written it during my stay in Italy, but as I did not have internet connection in my hotels (despite they said there will be), I did not post it.
That is why you will see several blogs, written days ago and posted at once.
Hope I’ll note confuse you with this.
Love,

Davor Konjikusic, one of the ten journalists engaged in this year’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence participated in a panel discussion on Friday, July 13, at Novi Sad’s Exit Festival. The debate, which addressed issues such as student travel in EU and the Western Balkans and the availability of EU educational programmes for Balkan countries applying for EU membership, was organised by the Citizens’ Pact for Southeast Europe, EXIT and the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe.

Other speakers at the Friday night event, which was moderated by Goran Svilanovic of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, included:

Janez Potocnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research
Marijana Grandits, Stability Pact for Southeast Europe
Ana Pesikan, Minister of science in the Serbian government
Jelena Kleut, University of Novi Sad

The Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence is an initiative of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the ERSTE Foundation, in cooperation with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. To find out more about the programme and to read the fellows’ blogs, visit fellowship@birn.eu.com, or contact programme manager Anna McTaggart on anna@birn.eu.com.

I almost forgot to share my experience at the debate “Knowledge Circulation” organzied by the Stability Pact, Citizens’ Pact for SEE and EXIT.

We have been informed about the debate quite beforehand. I also read the announcement at the Stability Pact’s website http://www.stabilitypact.org/pages/press/detail.asp?y=2007&p=564 which says, among other things, Students from Serbia (including Kosovo) and Bosnia, participating at the European Rails for Peace Project (The Glocal Forum and Viaggi e Liberta organization) will attend the debate.

The first impression you will get from an announcement for a debate of this nature, where the panel looks like this:

Key Note Speaker: Mr. Janez Potocnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research
Mr. Hidajet Biscevic, General Secretary of the Regional Co-operation Council
Ms. Ana Pesikan, Minister of Science, Government of the Republic of Serbia
Mr. Davor Kinjikusic, journalist (Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence)
Ms. Jelena Kleut, University of Novi Sad
Moderator: Mr. Goran Svilanovic, Chairman of Working Table I of th