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CEE Newsletter Serbia - March 2023

Within our Education Program, 16 Wikipedia editing workshops were held, both at the Elementary School "Milica Milošević" in Jagnjilo and at colleges and universities (Faculty of Organizational Sciences and College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
An accredited seminar was held in cooperation with the Institute for Modern Education in Belgrade. The seminar was attended by teachers from several different primary and secondary schools from Serbia.
Another internship program was launched in collaboration with the Career Development Center of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
The Edu Wiki conference is being organized. Scholarships were approved during March, after which the process of buying plane tickets and obtaining visas was communicated with the participants. Also, those interested had the opportunity to submit their topics until April 1, which will be selected and potentially be part of the conference program.

An edit-a-thon on literature was organized, which lasted from March 27 to April 2. 4 editors participated and wrote 20 new articles on Wikipedia in the Serbian language.
An edit-a-thon called Old Crafts was held within the Wiki Librarian project. 11 editors participated in the marathon and wrote 58 new and improved 4 articles.
The internship for the students of the Department of Librarianship and Informatics of the Faculty of Philology (University of Belgrade) was realized in March within the Wiki Librarian project. During this internship, 11 editors participated and wrote 11 new articles.

In March, an edit-a-thon was organized on the occasion of International Women's Day, which lasted from March 6 to 12. During this time, 17 editors wrote 61 new and improved 11 articles. This is just one of the activities in the WikiGap campaign.
During March, 9 project proposals received micro-grants. The call for projects was dedicated to small-scale projects that have the possibility of growing into long-term and sustainable ones. All interested individuals, representatives of organizations, cultural and educational institutions had the opportunity to submit ideas from January 25 to February 26, 2023. You can find out more about the accepted proposals on our website.
Wikimedia Serbia and Wikimedians of Republic of Srpska are jointly organizing CEE spring competition on Serbian Wikipedia. This project is focusing on writing new and improving existing articles about the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as various topics related to these countries in a certain way (culture, history, music, science, sports, economy, etc.). The competition started on March 21, and will last until May 31.