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Fri, 03/10/2025

Ana Svetel from Slovenia wins CEI Award for Young Writers 2025

On 9 September, Ana Svetel, a Slovenian writer and poet, received the CEI Award for Young Writers 2025 during the opening ceremony of the 40th Vilenica International Literary Festival at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana.

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Cooperation Fund
Mon, 12/05/2025

CEI Award for Young Writers: Call for Applications 2025 open!

The Central European Initiative (CEI) and the Slovene Writers’ Association (SWA), within the Vilenica International Literary Festival, have launched the Call for Applications 2025 of the CEI Award for Young Writers
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Cooperation Fund
Mon, 27/01/2025

CEI Award at Trieste Film Festival to Polish Director Damian Kocur with 'Under the Volcano'

The CEI-supported Trieste Film Festival, an event dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema, took place on January 16-24, 2025.

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Tue, 10/09/2024

Monika Herceg from Croatia wins CEI Award for Young Writers 2024

Monika Herceg, born in 1990 in Sisak, Croatia, is one of the most prominent voices of contemporary Croatian literature. Actively engaged as poet, screenwriter, editor and as a gender equality activist, Herceg’s works have received significant acknowledgements and prestigious awards in her country and abroad.
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Thu, 05/09/2024

Drini Berati from Albania wins CEI Award at International Design Contest “Trieste Contemporanea”

With his project THE WEAVER’S SEAT, Dini Berati from Albania is the winner of this year's CEI Award at the 15th edition of the International Design Contest “Trieste Contemporanea”.
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Cooperation Fund
Tue, 30/01/2024

Trieste Film Festival 2024: support to young film professionals

The CEI-supported Trieste Film Festival -the leading Italian festival dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema and beyond - took place in Trieste on 19 - 27 January 2024.
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Intercultural Cooperation
Cooperation fund
Fri, 17/11/2023

Jure Tepina from Slovenia and Azra Husarić Omerović from Bosnia and Herzegovina win CEI SEEMO Award 2023

In a ceremony held in Tirana, on 14 November, during the South East Europe Media Forum,  the CEI proudly presented the winners of the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism.

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Cooperation Fund
Mon, 11/09/2023

Tijana Rakočević from Montenegro wins CEI Award for Young Writers 2023

Tijana Rakočević, born in 1995 in Montenegro, is a poet, playwright, and writer of fiction as well as a doctoral student at the Faculty of Philology in Nikšić and a member of the editorial board of the literary and cultural newspaper Fokalizator.
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Mon, 30/01/2023

Otilia Babara from Moldova receives CEI Award at Trieste Film Festival 2023

As stated by the jury committee “Oranges, chocolates, jeans and plastic dolls arrived in Moldova thanks to all those women who, in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, left the country to come and work in Italy and abroad. In return, their children sent them video-letters.
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Mon, 21/11/2022

Role of media in times of global uncertainties debated at XVI South East Europe Media Forum in Sarajevo

More than 250 participants attended the XVI South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF) held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 16-17 November 2022 under the title “The role of media in times of global uncertainties”.

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Tue, 30/10/2018

CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2018: winners announced

The Central European Initiative (CEI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), in special partnership with the Media Program South East Europe of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), have announced the winners of the “CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2018”.
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Intercultural cooperation
Wed, 12/09/2018

Serbian Designer Milan Rankovic wins CEI Prize at International Design Contest “Trieste Contemporanea”

Promoted by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee, the International Design Contest is aimed at displaying the most original expressions of design from the CEI countries as well as from the Baltic countries, Germany and Turkey. 
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Intercultural cooperation
Fri, 18/05/2018

CEI PIANO FORUM 2018: a music road map

In the framework of the Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition, the CEI co-sponsored the organisation of the CEI Piano Forum 2018, an international conference held in Sacile, Italy, on 7 May, gathering young musicians and experts from all the CEI countries.
 
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Wed, 28/03/2018

CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism: call 2018 launched (Deadline: 31 May)

The CEI and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), in special partnership with the Media Program South East Europe of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), have opened the Call for Applications 2018 of the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism.

The Call is divided into two categories: “Professional journalists” (4.000 EUR) and “Young professional journalists” (1.000 EUR).
 
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