MARRI Regional Centre organized Sixth Joint Training – Visit to Bulgarian Border Police & Presentation of basic information on Advanced Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Names Records (PNR) of the Cooperation Network from Southeast Europe which took place on 22nd November 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Representatives from Border Police Directorates from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Kosovo*, Romania and Serbia participated at the training. Bulgarian Border Police presented the state of play within its structure focusing in

MARRI Regional Centre organized the Fifth Joint Training under BORDAIRPOL II project on 26th October 2017, in Budva, Montenegro. Titled “Advanced level training for the detection of falsified documents/travel documents security and setting up regional standards for biometric data processing”, the training was designed to assist police officers to build capacities in travel security and enhance the skills in detection of falsified documents, particularly those needed for fulfillment of the compulsory standards. Experts from Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), FRONTEX

MARRI Regional Centre organized Third Annual Meeting- Study Visit to Bucharest, which took place on 27 September 2017. Cooperation Network composed by Commanders of international airports and Heads of the Land Border Departments from Southeast Europe, participated at this event. The event was organized within the Project “Support of the sustainable development of cooperation among border police in Southeast Europe BORDAIRPOL II” which is funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration with the co-funding provided by MARRI. The objective

MARRI RC with the support of IOM is announcing open calls for 2 positions: Migration and Asylum Data Expert and Project Assistant who will be responsible for the execution of tasks related to collection and analysis of migration-related data within the IOM’s IPA II Project “Support to Protection-sensitive Migration Management in the Western Balkans and Turkey”. ToR for Migration and Asylum Data Analyst ToR for Project Assistant

MARRI RC is announcing open call for position of Project Manager of “Strengthening collaboration between the local and the national tiers in the management of migrations” – MIGRALONA project that will be implemented in partnership with Central European Initiative – Executive Secretariat (CEI) and Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS). Terms of Reference

MARRI Regional Forum annual session has been held in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia on June 27th 2017. The event marked the end of Serbian yearlong Presidency-in-Office over the regional initiative and the handover of management to the Republic of Albania. Day before, MARRI Regional Committee held its regular session in order to finalize documents and recommendations to be adopted by the Forum. The Chairman of the Forum, DPM and Interior Minister of Serbia Nebojsa Stefanovic gave an overview of the

The Serbian Presidency-in-Office with MARRI Regional Centre, organized traditional presentation of annual results and future plans – MARRI Friends Meeting, on 5th April 2017,  at the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia.  The event gathered representatives of Diplomatic Corps, MARRI Partners and Donors, representatives of national institutions and civil sector to discuss achievements and consider possibilities for joint efforts in the area of migration management in the Western Balkans. The Minister of Interior of

MARRI RC organized the Fourth Joint Training within the Project “Support of the sustainable development of cooperation among border police in Southeast Europe BORDAIRPOL II”, which took place on 30th March 2017, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This training has been designed to assist authorities in implementing measures required to accede to Schengen and strengthen its capacities in police cooperation. The objective was to transfer EU expertise, experience and best practices in the fields of air and land border policing

The 31st Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Board meeting took place on 15th March, 2017 in Sarajevo. The meeting was chaired by Secretary General Goran Svilanovic who elaborated the Report on implemented activities within the period September-December 2016 and presented plans for future activities. Under the Board Agenda topic Activities of other regional initiatives, MARRI RC Director Tamara Mugosa was invited to present reform results, implemented projects and future plans. Svilanovic stressed that RCC highly appreciates the change management of MARRI and

Following the priorities of the MARRI Presidency-in-Office and the Annual Program of activities, MARRI Regional Center with support of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) organized Regional workshop “Irregular migration and THB – International standards for protection of migrants at risk of trafficking in human beings with particular focus on women and children along the migration route” in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. The workshop was a part of “SAFERR Women and Girls (Shelter and Access to Empowerment and Risk Reduction” Project funded by UK