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This report presents the current legislation, procedures, coordination and communication issues and key barriers in relation to the education in the languages of the smaller communities, but also brings to light key recommendations for improvement. The Directorate for Enhancement and Promotion of Education in the Languages of the Communities at the Ministry of Political System and Inter-community Relations investigates the complexities surrounding education in the languages of smaller communities – Bosnian, Romani, Serbian, Turkish and Vlach. Data collection, detailed analysis, and comprehensive interviews, provides deep insights into the challenges faced by the smaller communities, particularly in their access to quality education. Five smaller reports are available (one in each language – Bosnian, Romani, Serbian, Turkish and Vlach and a composite document in Macedonian, Albanian and English.

Following the introduction of content on the 1992-1995 period in BiH into textbooks and teaching materials, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina conducted an analysis, the results of which are brought together in this report. The purpose of this report is two-fold: to present the results of the analysis on the representation of this sensitive period in teaching materials and the subject of history textbooks currently in use and to suggest ways to teach history that would promote mutual understanding, reconciliation, and sustainable peace in BiH.

The OSCE Presence in Albania is launching a new call for committed and motivated young people from all over Albania to join its Youth Advisory Group (YAG). 8 young individuals aged 18-25 years will be selected as new members of its Youth Advisory Group in the upcoming months. They will support the existing YAG members to prop up Presence's efforts to integrate a youth perspective into its planning and programmatic activities.

This document is a product of Youth Trail No.8 “What Can Youth Do On Environmental Governance” activity in light of the "Youth in Focus II: Promoting the role of Youth in Peace and Security in Albania" project implemented by OSCE Presence in Albania. Young activists from the Western Balkans (WB) gathered in Tirana in October 2022. They built their capacities, discussed with various stakeholders and worked on designing some key actions and measures on how to expand youth engagement in environmental governance in the region.

December 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country achieved this milestone thanks to the hard work of BiH's citizens who began rebuilding and healing communities divided and impacted by the war. Many of those rebuilding BiH were, and continue to be, young people born in the 1990s and after. That same December, to commemorate this important anniversary, we asked young people across Bosnia and Herzegovina what the last two and a half decades meant to them. Six months later, in June 2021, we issued another call to the country's youth to imagine – and to convey through their art – what the subsequent 25 years of a peaceful and prosperous future should look like.

The OSCE Presence in Albania, is launching a Call for Applications for #8YouthTrail: What Youth Can Do on Environmental Governance?, to be held 23-27 October 2022 in Tirana and Shkodra, Albania. This eight edition of the Youth Trail is being organized in the frame of the project: “Youth in Focus II – Promoting the Role of Youth in Peace and Security in Albania. Young people (18-30 years old) from the region, active in the environmental field can apply to be part of this Youth Trail and discuss and learn on environmental challenges, environmental governance as well as their active role in democratic processes related to environment.

This report examines school names, symbols and manifestations at the primary and secondary school level in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report is the latest status update produced by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Mission) on the topic of non-inclusive education in the country. Findings are based on the Mission’s regular monitoring of more than 2,000 central and branch schools located throughout BiH.

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