International Student Week in Belgrade, ISWiB 2007

"Update Local to Get Global"

Applications will start through the Internet, just after launching the website with its new design - www.iswib.org. Participants will be offered to join nine workshops: Society, Economics, Ecology, Culture & Arts, Media, Education, Psychology, Photo art and Video Art. Workshop leaders will be postgraduate students, experienced trainers, international experts and university professors


By MARKO ANDREJIĆ
from Belgrade, SERBIA


The second International Student Week in Belgrade, ISWiB 2007 will be held from June 28 till July 5, in the capital of Serbia. Heading motto of this year's meeting is "Update Local to Get Global", and about 130 students and young people from all around Europe, as well as Serbia, will gather to take part in interactive workshops and discussions and hear some interesting lectures on present-day topics.

Applications will start through the Internet, just after launching the website with its new design, probably next week - www.iswib.org. Participants will be offered to join nine workshops: Society, Economics, Ecology, Culture & Arts, Media, Education, Psychology, Photo art and Video Art. Workshop leaders will be postgraduate students, experienced trainers, international experts and university professors. Professor Dr Andrew Mycock from the University in Manchester (Great Britain) has already confirmed his participation.

- We are satisfied how the preparations are going and if we keep going this way, everything should be fine. Participants will be accomodated in youth hostel "Jelica Milovanović" in Krunska street, in the very centre of Belgrade. Experience from the last year, on first ISWiB is very useful and helps us a lot - says Peđa Ljubojević, president of ISWiB 2007. - We are waiting for the respond from the City Council but we already received e-mails from the students interested to participate.

International Student Week in Belgrade 2007 will be held for the second time, following the first that took place last year, from June 30 till July 5. The project is made by students and youth organization "World Youth Wave - Serbia" from Belgrade. ISWiB 2007 partners are also students and youth organizations from Serbia and abroad - Students Union of Serbia and Green Youth of Serbia, also Youth Informative Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Youth Press. We have established excellent cooperation with German cultural center - Goethe-Institut Belgrade, European Movement in Serbia and Students Cultural Center Belgrade. Official support comes from The People's Office of the President of Serbia and National Bank of Serbia.

Participants in Media workshop will be able to explore the possiblilities of international cooperation in journalism and media in global, from the correspondents service in different countries and multinational team of journalists in one editorial office, till organizing and doing some international projects together. They will talk about impact of media reporting abroad on creating attitudes, opinions and mind of one nation. Discussions will be about possibilities of being journalist and working this job in foreign languages (not native language). Modern information technologies will be one of the topics, primarily their impact on international communication and crossing national borders. They will visit Belgrade media houses - Politika and B92.

Economics workshop students will focus on several topics, above all, on the local vs. global concept as an inevitable part of our reality. They will try to analyze recent past and current present and the globalization concept, as well as its effects both on the world in general and an individual, wherever he/she lives. Also, through an analysis of different countries, they will try to understand how different countries paved their way to where they are today.

The topic of education workshop shall be Bologna process, its aims and its main characteristics, the way of implementation in different countries and long-lasting effects it could have on future generations. Participants will talk about all the relevant aspects of the Bologna process, including three-cycle study system, comparability and compatibility of degrees, mobility, lifelong learning, the new opportunities for formal, non-formal, and informal learning, promoting of learning foreign languages and the system of mobility as an important segment of the Bologna process.

Since March 2006, Belgrade's festival has been a member of SORCE Network, international network of students festivals from the whole Europe: Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Norway, Romania, Poland, Croatia...