Nominations for this year’s Champion of Regional Cooperation Dr Erhard Busek Award are officially open! Nominate an inspiring individual or organisation whose lifetime work has created meaningful impact on regional cooperation, development, 🇪🇺 integration, inclusion or the promotion of #SouthEastEurope. 📅 Nomination deadline: 14 September 2026 🙌 Anyone can nominate, and nominations are anonymous All information and nomination form 👉🏻 rcc.int/pages/170/champion-o… Champion of Regional Cooperation Dr Erhard Busek Award is #poweredbyRCC and sponsored by @MFA_Austria.

Cooperation is key to tackling undeclared work. 🤝👷🏻‍♀️👷🏻‍♂️ Enforcement authorities, European experts and partners gathered at the RCC’s #ESAP3 Third Plenary Meeting of the #WesternBalkans Network for Tackling Undeclared Work and Mutual Assistance Projects. Focus? ⏭️ exchanging experience, strengthening regional cooperation, and exploring practical solutions to undeclared work in the construction sector. 🏗️ @rccESAP project is implemented by RCC & #fundedbyEU #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺

Take a peek into the Launch Event of the #ESAP3 2026 PES Benchlearning Cycle in the #WesternBalkansSix @rccESAP project is implemented by RCC & #fundedbyEU #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺

RCC Secretary General @amer_kap joined the opening of “Enhancing Skills for Public Employment Services” @wapesorg European Conference hosted by the Labour and Employment Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina today in #Sarajevo. “Public Employment Services are becoming strategic institutions as bridges between people and opportunities, employers and skills, education systems and labour-market needs, national reforms and European standards. Employment policy can no longer be treated only as social policy. It is now a competitiveness policy, demographic policy, productivity policy and part of the European integration agenda.” said RCC SG Conference gathered Public Employment Services leaders, policymakers, practitioners, researchers and partners to exchange solutions for strengthening skills, cooperation and human-centred employment services in a transforming labour market. #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺

RCC Secretary General @amer_kap today at the Advancing Employment and Social Policy Together conference hosted by @BMAS_Bund in #Berlin as part of the #BerlinProcess framework. Together with @DelinaIbrahimaj, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Besar Durmishi Minister of Economy and Labor, and Jelena Vasić, Senior Advisor for Creation of Active Employment Measures, RCC SG spoke at the “Promoting employment: Effective strategies for resilient and inclusive labour markets” panel on common labour market challenges, including skills gaps, demographic pressures, labour mobility, and public employment services modernisation. “Regional cooperation is not an additional layer of work, but a practical necessity. No one else will build resilient labour markets for the Western Balkans but the authorities of the region, working together and for the benefit of their citizens. RCC will continue to support that work by connecting regional cooperation with EU processes, and by helping ensure that commitments produce visible, measurable results” said RCC SG. At the conference ministers also presented and launched the Berlin Process Work Plan on Employment and Social Policy aiming to strengthen cooperation in areas such as labour mobility, skills development, modernisation of employment services and closer alignment with EU systems Read more 👉🏻 rcc.int/news/1016/regional-c… #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺

This May Day, we look at what the future of work means for our region 👉🏻 as digital and green transitions, AI, skills gaps, informality, youth inactivity, and migration continue to reshape labour markets. Technology is here to stay. But the purpose of progress is not just to produce more. It is to make lives better. Read the full op-ed by RCC’s #ESAP3 Team Leader Ratka Babić 👉🏻 rcc.int/docs/783/op-ed-by-ra… #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺

Young people ➕ policymakers at the same table 👉🏻 that’s what real youth participation looks like. Through RCC’s EU-funded #WesternBalkansYouthLab, we listen & focus on what really matters for youth across the region ⏭️ from youth unemployment, mental health, disinformation and media literacy and green transformation. This week at @adriafuture2026 we’re bringing the conversation forward: 👉🏻 Fifth Regional Fireside Talk on youth cooperation & EU integration 🔎 Mid-Term Review of the Youth Policy Lab on Disinformation & Media Literacy Because when young people are part of the conversation, policies work better and progress feels real! Stay tuned. #WBYL2 project is funded by the European Union. #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺 #WBYL

Nominations for this year’s edition of Western Balkans Six Women Entrepreneurs are officially open! We’re looking for successful women entrepreneurs from #WB6 in these categories: 🌱 Green Woman Entrepreneur 👩🏻‍🎨 Artistic Woman Entrepreneur 👩🏼‍💻 ICT Woman Entrepreneur 🧳 Tourism Woman Entrepreneur 🙋🏻‍♀️ Young Woman Entrepreneur 🤳 Social Star Woman Entrepreneur Know someone who deserves this recognition? Check out all info and nominate your favourite woman entrepreneur 👉🏻 rcc.int/pages/173/western-ba… #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺

RCC Secretary General @amer_kap hosted the @etfeuropa Director @pilvitorsti at RCC headquarters in #Sarajevo today where the two signed Memorandum of Understanding between the organisations setting out a collaboration framework. Together, RCC and ETF stay committed to help equip citizens of the #SouthEastEurope with the skills they need for tomorrow's labour market, improvement of human capital development, boost employment participation, and drive education and training reforms that leave no one behind. #poweredbyRCC 🇪🇺 #WesternBalkansSix