Cyber Ready Balkans: A Guide for Young People into Cybersecurity
Cyber Ready Balkans / www.cyber-ready.mk is a regional platform intended for young people who want to learn more about cybersecurity, educational opportunities, career pathways, and mentoring in this field. The platform offers simple and practical information on what cybersecurity is,…
Safe Internet Space for Children and Youth
This project aims to establish a sustainable and integrated national Safer Internet service in North Macedonia, providing protection, education, and support for children and young people through a coordinated, multi-stakeholder approach. In response to increasing digital risks and the lack…
MKSAFENET – For a Better and Safer Internet Space
https://mksafenet.mk/ https://mdt.gov.mk/ MKSafeNet represents a pioneering step in North Macedonia’s digital security, through which the country’s first National Safer Internet Centre is being established. This innovative project is transforming online safety, setting a new standard for protecting children and young…
SMARTLABOUR – Strengthening Alliance for Policy Development and Testing in the domain of Innovation, Digitalization, and the Labor Market in the Western Balkans
The project “SMARTLABOUR – Strengthening Alliance for Policy Development and Testing in the domain of Innovation, Digitalization, and the Labor Market in the Western Balkans”, aims to enable the effective adoption of technological improvements and encourages progress in the agricultural…
Adjustment of the GRETA ICT Guide and THB to the local context project – New Technologies and Their Impact on Human Trafficking
In view of recent cases of ICT-facilitated trafficking in children, which were detected and investigated in North Macedonia, the EU and Council of Europe joint action “Strengthening anti-trafficking action in North Macedonia” recognised the need to shed light on the…
COST Action Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security – GLITSS
Impetus co-hosted scholars and researchers from the COST Action Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security – GLITSS, and organized the kick-off conference
Cyber Integrity in Public Administration
160 participants from about 50 different institutions from executive, judicial and local government, with panelists from the Western Balkans and Great Britain
Digital Rights and Digital Security Project
IMPETUS organized the first SIG – School of Internet Governance in Skopje, teaching NGOs how to respond to digital security threats and organize digital security events for communities
Youth Activism Against Corruption
Aimed at empowering youth to combat local corruption, it covered topics like governance, transparency, and human rights, supported by Civica Mobilitas.
Team Building Training for State Election Commission
Impetus organized a team building training on communications for the State Election Commission, an activity supported by OSCE Mission to Skopje. Effective, transparent and professional functioning of the State Election Commission (SEC) is crucial for running any electoral cycle, and…
Financial Drivers of Surveillance in the Western Balkans Region
This research aims to present an overview of the legislative framework and the current challenges in the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) in the area of surveillance and interception of communications. It…
“Political Billboards” – Monitoring the Billboards used in political campaigns
Visit the project’s website: https://political-billboards.mk Billboards are considered to be media for outdoor advertising, placed on the most frequent roads/traffic routes attracting drivers/pedestrian’s’ attention, and as commercial advertising objects, they are also used in the election campaigning. For the parliamentary…
Social Audit project
Eco Net Youth Program Initiative from Impetus. Mapping the eco challenges in the Municipality of Karpos. A group of young people were trained for digital mapping, ecology, free access to information, corruption risks, and to be able to develop their…
Anti-corruption educational resources development for High school education
The manuals were produced within the framework of the project “Anti-corruption education for secondary school students” with financial assistance from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Skopje, implemented by the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje in…
Anti-corruption policies and risks in times of emergency: Analysis of Legislative Government Decrees Adopted During a State of Emergency
The analysis was conducted as an activity in the action “Anti-corruption policies and risks in times of emergency” within the project “CSOs and Media against Corruption – Coalition for Zero Tolerance”, supported by the European Union, implemented by Transparency Macedonia…
Monitoring the discourse of the presidential candidates during the Elections in 2019 as a peace-building factor
The subject of this research is the political discourse, ie. the vocabulary used during the presidential campaign in 2019 by presidential candidates in correlation with the factors for the development of positive peace. The issue of good neighborly relations, as…
Responsible Policing Research: the Risks of Corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Corruption is a particularly complex social, security, criminological, political and economic phenomenon that poses a threat to the functioning of democracy, the rule of law and the rule of law. Corruption directly leads to the violation and abuse of human…
Analyses of the Traffic-safety condition of roads in Macedonia
In Macedonia, every year in the period 2008-2017, there were an average of 4,141 traffic accidents in which there were deaths, serious and / or slightly injured persons (which do not cover traffic accidents with material damage). An average of…
Monitoring the media content from foreign influence over the NATO accession process in Macedonia (11 July – 31 September 2018)
The main goal of the project is to identify foreign influence into the media content and to correlate it throughout the political and national processes and situations. The main tool used is monitoring the information presented and published into the…