The project aims to improve the quality of the master craftsman exam and increase the visibility and attractiveness of vocational education through digital promotion, training and educational media content.
ICS conducted research on the dominant hate speech narratives in Macedonia and the most frequent perpetrators (and victims) of such speech in the country. Read the document in which we outline the most obvious such cases in the past few years.
We created a civic coalition that enables civil society, academia, the media and public institutions to work together for better governance.
The project aimed to promote services for protection from gender-based and domestic violence, strengthen trust in the system and improve awareness among women, especially vulnerable groups and the communities most at risk.
The project aimed to raise awareness of seismic risks and the secondary risks of soil erosion in the border region of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece.
The guide to eco-activism focuses on legal mechanisms for environmental protection, eco-activism as civic engagement, and how to create advocacy campaigns for public interest initiatives. It explains in more detail why it is important and how to protect the environment under Macedonian law, civic engagement as an important condition for improving the environment and preventing…
This policy paper serves as a tool in the advocacy and lobbying campaign “Clear it up” of the Institute of Communication Studies, which aims to influence the decision making process and calls the target audience to action in the area of natural resources management. The document includes data and insights into the current natural resources management problems that require immediate attention and offer alternative solutions and specific problem solving recommendations. The document is based on research and interviews with experts in the relevant area.
The School for Journalism and Public Relations, with the support of the Bureau for Development of Education, carried out the research “Media Literacy in Macedonia: Efforts for Implementation in the Elementary Education”, in order to determine how this concept is treated in the curricula and programs, what forms of acquiring media literacy are used (didactic materials, teaching means, spatial conditions, etc.) and what is the education of media literacy teachers.
Meri Karanfilovska graduated from the Department of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics in Skopje, where she received her master's degree in "Marketing in Non-Profit Organizations." In 2014, she defended her doctoral thesis "The Role and Importance of Social Marketing and Its Application in the Republic of Macedonia" at the Institute of Economics in Skopje….