Due to a long-period of physical isolation, an increasing number of young people from Albanian and Serbian community in Kosovo have never met with the members of the counterpart community or visited each other’s towns, villages and cities.

The project goal is to break the mental and physical barriers between young K-Albanian and K-Serb activists and create a better terrain for possible concrete common action in the future.

The project contains different activities such as individual and thematic group visits, lectures and non-formal dialogues between young K- Albanians and K- Serbs.
 

The Initiative's first program was the Visiting Program, which started in 2003 as a program for the exchange of the young from Serbia and Kosovo, with the aim of tearing down the “wall” between the Kosovar and Serbian societies, and in order to enable the young to see the actual situation and social changes in Serbia and Kosovo through the direct experience of living in Prishtina/Belgrade.

More than a thousand young people, students, activists, journalists and professionals from various fields have gone through the Visiting Program, and for all of them it was the first time they saw Belgrade, Prishtina and later Sarajevo.

The young created their own agenda for their three-day stay, which included meetings with professionals in different fields, visits to institutions, political parties, universities, various organizations, museums, media houses...

Based on the success of the Visiting Program, the Regional Exchange Program should soon become a wider regional program, which will, aside from Kosovo and Serbia, also include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia. The regional program also changes through public advocacy for establishing funds within various state institutions, which would help the regional exchange of the young, and which would cover the various aim groups of young participants of these exchanges on various levels.
 

The Regional Internship Program is designed for graduated students or those at the final year of political/social science studies which gives them a possibility to attend a five months internship at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, and afterwards three months at the institutions or organizations dealing with war crimes.

The purpose of the Regional Internship Program (RIP) is to strengthen the rule of law in Kosovo through the implementation of the practice of the ICTY in domestic judicial bodies, to strengthen the capacities of the domestic judiciary for war crimes and improve the transfer of knowledge and experience of the ICTY in domestic courts through the volunteer work of young, educated lawyers.

The aim of the RIP is building the competence of young lawyers to work on cases of violations of international humanitarian law. They will work on transferring their knowledge and direct experience obtained through working in the ICTY into local institutions and organizations.