Recommendations

1. To undertake efforts to provide media coverage and space for youth-led activities at the key public broadcaster and other media in order to raise the attention of local and central institutions to the problems that Kosovo youth face on a daily basis (education-related issues, bullying in schools, prevention of peer-to-peer violence, employment opportunities and socio-economic empowerment, air pollution, etc.) and empower youth by giving them a stronger voice in their communities

5 Initiatives

Media and communication

2. Increase understanding of the need for a better environment. Recommendation: Educate people for protection and better treatment of environment. Environment should return on the priority of the political agenda. Environmental protection needs to be integrated into the education system and thus at the very early stage. Responsible actor/s -Ministry of Education Science and Technology, Municipalities, Civil Society, International organizations.

27 Initiatives

Economic empowerment and environment

3. Educate children on other communities and religious groups and on the multicultural and multi-confessional aspect of Kosovo through the formal education systems. Subsequently, organize regular workshops for pupils from, primary and secondary schools, on tolerance and non-discrimination.

2 Initiatives

Inter-religious trust-building

4. Roster of licensed, qualified interpreters should be created. Additional testing and verification of diplomas should be introduced.

1 Initiative

Good governance and access to services

5. A list of employment positions that are in deficit should be created and young people encouraged to pursue their education in that direction.

1 Initiative

Good governance and access to services

6. Public servants speaking two languages should be paid more. Scholarships for studying language of other communities should be introduced.

0 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

7. Include civil society in the oversight of the existing mechanisms in high education (i.e. assessing compliance with the existing regulations) 

2 Initiatives

Education

8. Ensure that teaching materials are affordable and produced and distributed in the quantities needed to meet the requirements of school staff

0 Initiatives

Education

9. Make sure that psychosocial support is readily available in all schools by contracting qualified practitioners  

1 Initiative

Education

10. Introduce curricular and textbook changes, enabling sufficient and more objective cultural and historical representation of all non-majority communities in both education systems in Kosovo 

1 Initiative

Education

11. The group failed to provide concrete proposals on the follow-up mechanism, but broadly suggested that a task force should be established to oversee the implementation of small-scale projects at the grassroots level in close partnership with municipalities, central authorities, and international community. 

0 Initiatives

Education

12. Increase efforts of informal education initiatives in challenging existing narratives through innovative and creative approaches, such as digital and state-of-the-art technologies in conveying positive narratives; 

73 Initiatives

Education

13. Train teachers from all communities on values of tolerance and non-discrimination and extend such knowledge to parents through regular consultations or group meetings. 

7 Initiatives

Education

14. Offer more opportunities for educational practitioners and students from both systems to come together and discuss education-related matters (science, technology etc.);

23 Initiatives

Education

15. Conduct needs assessments/evaluations more often to understand the gap between the needs of the labor market and current educational outputs and create feedback mechanisms with the private and public sectors

11 Initiatives

Education

16. Integrate elective courses for learning regional languages into elementary/secondary school curricula 

2 Initiatives

Education

17. Reinstate Faculty of Languages in North Mitrovica/Mitrovicë and Pristina a separate department for Albanian/Serbian language and culture​

0 Initiatives

Education

18. Encourage exchange of views between educational practitioners from both systems on the issues of discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying etc.

3 Initiatives

Education

19. Advocate that recommendations from Consultative Council for Communities be fully taken on board, particularly those that relate to increasing access of vulnerable communities to quality education and fighting institutional discrimination 

3 Initiatives

Education

20. Advocate for the enactment of administrative instructions that would expand the diploma verification process to vocational schools and high schools

2 Initiatives

Education

21. Reinforce incorporation and further development of human rights education in the curricula of primary and secondary education institutions with a strong focus on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity as impetus for attitudinal change.

8 Initiatives

Education

22. Ensure that education reform addresses discriminatory content aimed at other societal groups based on their ethnicity, religion, gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, etc. and devise an oversight mechanism 

6 Initiatives

Education

23. Prevent youth-based violence by educating young people on mediation and dialogue as alternative ways of dealing with conflict.

20 Initiatives

Education

24. To encourage the Ministry of Education and all relevant institutions in Kosovo to provide opportunities to Kosovo residents (in particular journalists in order to strengthen their capacity to report on the issues pertaining to the non-majority communities) to learn any of the official languages regardless of place of residence through formal and non-formal education.

0 Initiatives

Media and communication

25. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in cooperation with other local and international actors should invest in educating youth on how to identify, react to and prevent hate speech / intolerance online and offline, as well as to withstand fake news and propaganda through human rights education, counter and alternative narratives. The initiative should be broaden to any other age, whenever possible.

3 Initiatives

Media and communication

26. Increase focus on vocational education based on needs of the labor market. Responsible actor/s -Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Ministry of Labor, education community

25 Initiatives

Economic empowerment and environment

27. Public University should introduce Serbian Language Studies Department.

1 Initiative

Good governance and access to services