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4th Call for WBAA Projects 2021 – These are the selected projects being implemented

The projects of the 4th Call for WBAA Projects in 2021 were approved in February and are still running for a little while longer. We would like to present you

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The 2nd Call for WBAA Projects 2022 is open

Thank you very much for your interest in the WBAA Projects.   The possibility for WBAA members to implement their own projects is an essential and relevant task of WBAA to

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WBAA Teams meeting in Durrës, Albania

On the 3rd and 4th of September, 23 participants from all four WBAA Teams and all six chapters gathered in Durrës, Albania for a Teams meeting. Representatives from the Service

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Four online workshops were held within the project SkillUp

These online workshops were organised by the project coordinator Nebojsa Ratkovic in May 2022 as a part of mentorship program SkillUp. It provided participants with the information on Erasmus+ mobility

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Self-branding training – personal development, teamwork, leadership, and professional capacity building skills

The project Self-branding training – personal development, teamwork, leadership, and professional capacity building skills was successfully held from 08 – 10 April 2022 in Shtip, North Macedonia where former or

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Who we are?

The Western Balkans Alumni Association (WBAA) is a regional association of alumni from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo * and Serbia, who pursued international learning mobility in an Erasmus+ Programme Country. Officially launched in March 2018, WBAA was born from the EU’s Western Balkans Platform on Education and Training in 2014, where the Ministers of Education of the 6 Western Balkan countries agreed on the need to establish a regional network of alumni. Since its inception, WBAA has come a long way! Read more here


WBAA’s Objectives

  • Establishing a strong union of alumni from the Western Balkans
  • Promoting mobility opportunities in Europe and beyond
  • Sharing experience by supporting and mentoring students
  • Increasing employability through exchange of best practice, experience and contacts
  • Empowering and inspiring young people to achieve their goals
  • Contributing to the modernisation of higher education systems back home
  • Liaising with other alumni associations in the EU and beyond
Find more details about WBAA aims and goals here.

Our Mission

The aim of the WBAA is to establish a strong union of alumni coming from the Western Balkans countries in order to advocate for modernization and improve the quality of higher education in the region and empower young people of the Western Balkans on their academic and career development towards successful employment.

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Blog

Happy to introduce WBAA Blog, a place where alumni of Erasmus scholarships share their experiences, students discover more about mobilities and opportunities, high education professionals share their work and young professionals get advice on how to grow professionally. This blog is about storytelling that inspires, tips and tricks on how to succeed professionally and academically. Meet Western Balkan stories from the eyes of successful and empowering WBAA members.

Author: Isidora Janeva – North Macedonia Chapter Content: “Are the participants arriving?” “The gift bags are ready right?” “Please take some photos of the people while we’re waiting to start.”
July 23, 2020

Author: Nikolina Pandza – Bosnia & Herzegovina Chapter Content: I AM WBAA I am WBAA became for many of us a proud statement during the last almost three years. We
July 23, 2020

Author: Teuta Nunaj – Albania Chapter Content: I’m WBAA The history of the Balkans is early in culture, and it is composed by different cultures that are world heritage and
July 23, 2020

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The projects of the 4th Call for WBAA Projects in 2021 were approved in February and are still running for a little while longer. We would like to present you the 8 projects belonging to the fourth batch of the...

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