The Health Council of Serbia has accredited Group 484 educational programme entitled Improving Communication with the Roma Population. The training is intended for health professionals. Training participants receive 3 points, which helps them in the process of their licence renewal.
Group 484 realises this programme in cooperation with the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights.
Each country within the project has written a national report on "brain-drain", development of policies to mitigate its negative effects, as well as "brain-gain" policies.
The reports are written based on an analysis of the existing laws, documents and literature and interviews with key actors in the field of migration of highly qualified people. The report identifies the main challenges in this area and provides recommendations on how to develop "brain-drain" policies and programmes. These reports were the basis for discussion at national round tables and the creation of the field research.
The Operation Storm of the Croatian Army began on August 4, 1995. The consequence of this action was the column of refugees from Krajina heading for Serbia. Our organisation is named after the action, led by Jelena Santic with a group of associates, which provided assistance and support to the afflicted families. There were (accidentally) 484 families, and by remembering their number, Group 484 preserves the memory of the event and the people.
Refuge, displacement and relations between peoples and cultures have remained the topics that people in our organisation are permanently dedicated to. It has been going on for fifteen years, and we are trying to keep it that way.
On June 7, 2010, at the Palace of Serbia, Erste Bank, the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence and Group 484 organised a conference “Scientific Diaspora and Education Abroad: resource or lost investment?”.
The goal of the conference was to raise the question of resources that Serbia has in its educated people who work and who have been educated abroad, and who have been insufficiently and unsystematically dealt with in their mother country. The conference also presented the results of Group 484 research related to the phenomenon of "brain drain" from Serbia and national policies treating this issue.The report (available only in Serbian)was created within the project with the Balkan Fund for Democracy and the European Fund for the Balkans on the brain drain in the region of Southeast Europe.
International conference "Social Entrepreneurship - Opportunities and Prospects" was held at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, on April 26, 2010, within the project Forum of Social Enterprises, aimed at the development of the social entrepreneurship concept and the creation of networks of social enterprises in Serbia.
In the EU countries, the term "social entrepreneurship" refers to the part of the economic sphere of entrepreneurial initiatives that focuses on non-profit and social goals.
The intention of the conference was to present the concept and potential of social entrepreneurship and to promote the creation of a favourable social environment in order to develop appropriate normative framework for the development of social entrepreneurship. The conference was divided into three panels:
This report contains brief information about our year-long work, our programme units and organisational development directions, projects, activities, results. It contains the names of our partners, associates, donors, towns in Serbia in which we worked, as well as our associates and partners in the region and Europe. A few photographs, publication designs and quotations invoke the ambience and emotion that this kind of text usually lacks and we invite you to focus your attention on them as well. This year we have launched a series of research and other activities through which migration in Serbia and the region is perceived as a potential for development, as opposed to long-term perspective in which the migration was recognized almost exclusively in the area of social care for refugees and IDPs.
We are initiating this newsletter in order to contribute to the creation of suitable social environment, but also the legal framework for the development of social economy and social enterprises in Serbia, by providing information to the public. The first newsletter contains information about the International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship organised in Belgrade, as well as about the existing partnerships of NGOs in this field. It also contains our first text, a small introduction to the topic of social enterprises. In addition, we will present some examples of good practice related to a number of European social enterprises, and pioneering social-entrepreneurial initiatives in Serbia. Finally, the newsletter presents a small vocabulary of social economy. It is published with the support of the UNIDEA Foundation UniCredit Group from Milan. Download the newsletter(Available only in Serbian)
The project was implemented by NGO Centre for Research in Politics Argument from Prijepolje in cooperation with the Group 484, which has provided its expertise in the field of migration; and the Office for Youth of Novi Pazar, which has played a key role in establishing cooperation with young people motivated to explore the phenomenon of migration. The project was realized with the financial support of municipal development in South West Serbia (PRO program) and the governments of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The project goal was to provide scientific research through relevant information and data about the phenomenon of migration and its consequences on the socio-economic development of southwestern Serbia, and thus to develop the scientific basis for developing policies for the management of migration, both at local and national level, in order to exploit the potential of migration for the development of society. Download the publication Download remaining texts
The purpose of this research is to examine whether Serbia’s accession to the European Union represents migrational threat to EU member countries. Therefore, we have conducted a research on migration potential on representative sample in Serbia in order to gain insight into the scope, structure but also determinants of migration potential. The research also provides important information on characteristics of potential migrants, reasons for migration and destination countries. The data are important for the creation of migration policies of the country and the assessment of demographic, economic and social detriments, but also the assessment of their potential for return through connections of migrants with the country of origin and possible return to the homeland. The research is also important since it is one of rare ones related to migration potential of Serbia. It contains the following chapters: research methodology, sample, migration potential, potential migrants profile, motives and obstacles to migration, destination countries, conclusions and recommendations.
This issue is mainly dedicated to the importance of the enacted Law on Social Housing and the process of creation of the National Social Housing Strategy. We point to the importance of civil society organisations participation – present the idea on National Alliance for Social Housing Development and some observations from public discussions on social housing. These gatherings and events have clearly emphasised the importance of having well defined programmes focused on vulnerable social groups. And what vulnerability can bring is presented in the story about Golub Aleksić, IDP from Kosovo and Metohija. Many similar and different stories are not told here ... Finally, but in fact at the very beginning, we present a successful story about social housing – housing policy of the city of Vienna, which might be an inspiration for our own housing policy.
On June 7, 2010, at the Palace of Serbia, Erste Bank, the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence and Group 484 organised a conference “Scientific Diaspora and Education Abroad: resource or lost investment?”. 
International conference "Social Entrepreneurship - Opportunities and Prospects" was held at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, on April 26, 2010, within the project Forum of Social Enterprises, aimed at the development of the social entrepreneurship concept and the creation of networks of social enterprises in Serbia. 
