{"id":8991,"date":"2021-10-13T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:30:37","slug":"point-9-0-apply-for-a-travel-and-accommodation-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/point-9-0-apply-for-a-travel-and-accommodation-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"POINT 9.0 &#8211; Apply for a Travel and Accommodation Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"lead\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After we skipped the annual conference in 2020 and had an online edition during 2021, the POINT conference is coming home in an offline form. The conference will be held on 11th and 12th November this year, in Dom mladih Sarajevo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/point-7-0-day-1-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference of this type in the Southeastern Europe (SEE) region and seeks to be a platform for civil society that encourages the use of new technologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since its first edition in 2011, the Point Conference has become a unique meeting place for civic activists and civil society representatives from SEE, but also from all over the world, as well as a platform for exchanging ideas and innovative solutions to promote a responsible and open society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the online edition of the conference called \u201cPoint Talks\u201d, in which we discussed a number of different topics, we decided to hold the conference offline in a slightly modified format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participation at the POINT Conference offers the possibility of learning about initiatives that are involved in political accountability projects, open data in democracy, technology tools for transparency and accountability, current events and the impact of technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">POINT is a great place for networking and potential cooperation, and it offers peer-to-peer learning during the workshops. After we skipped the annual conference in 2020 and had an online edition during 2021, the POINT conference is coming home in an offline form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can apply for travel and accommodation fellowships if you are coming from the following countries in the Balkans:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Albania<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kosovo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Macedonia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Montenegro<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serbia<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send your submission <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/WNiuTxHp2rFiVkw98\"><b>using the short form<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explaining why you want to participate in the conference. If you have an idea for a presentation please check our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/bcNoNxyoUWYDoMC88\"><b>open call for speakers<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Important information!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadline for submissions is October 18th, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event will take place in Sarajevo, 11th &#8211; 12th November, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need a visa to enter Bosnia and Herzegovina, we will help you in obtaining it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The working language of the conference is English.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">POINT Conference is organized by UG Za\u0161to ne (Citizens&#8217; Association &#8211; CA Why not), in partnership with ACTION SEE and SEE Check networks. It is supported by the National Endowment of Democracy (NED) and the Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have any questions, feel free to send us an e-mail at: point@zastone.ba<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we skipped the annual conference in 2020 and had an online edition during 2021, the POINT conference is coming home in an offline form. The conference will be held on 11th and 12th November this year, in Dom mladih Sarajevo.\u00a0 POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference of this type &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/point-9-0-apply-for-a-travel-and-accommodation-fellowship\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-activism","category-new-technologies","category-zasto-ne-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}