Contest - Time

Ministry of Culture

05.June 2026 S. Ć.

Anyone who wants to make films and exhibit should contact the Expo

The Ministry of Culture announced 27 competitions this year. The priority of the competition for film art is not film, only festivals and film events. But that's why anyone who wants to film should contact Expo. The same applies to fine artists and their exhibition ambitions

State and culture

17.May 2026. Sonja Ciric

The third round of this year's competitions in the Ministry of Culture

The Ministry of Culture announced 11 more tenders for cultural projects, a total of 25 since the beginning of the year. The results of all last years have not been published yet

Expo 2027

16.May 2026. IN THE

Expo 2027: Volunteer applications open, more than 20.000 people needed

Applications for the "Expo Playmakers" volunteer program for the international specialized exhibition Expo 2027 in Belgrade have begun. The organizers state that more than 20.000 volunteers from Serbia, the region and the world will be engaged

Ministry of Culture

22.march 2026 Sonja Ciric

Ministry of Culture: Read the note at the end of the page

This month, the Ministry of Culture announced three tenders for the co-financing of projects, with a note in fine print at the end of the page where it says that everything regarding the dynamics of tendering depends on the Ministry of Finance

Culture in Serbia

08.march 2026 Sonja Ciric

The Ministry of Culture has announced competitions for this year, even though not all of the previous ones have been completed

At the end of February, the Ministry of Culture announced 11 tenders for financing or co-financing projects in culture, with several ambiguities. For example, when will all last year's be completed

General Director of RTS Dragan Bujošević is facing serious charges

Radio and Television of Serbia

24.October 2025 IN THE

Competition for the general director of RTS: A chance for independence or a new subjugation

Radio-television of Serbia has announced a competition for general director. Under the administration of Dragan Bujošević, the opposition criticized RTS for being the mouthpiece of progressives, and Aleksandar Vučić was furious at any sign of disobedience. The battle for the independence of the Public Service is now entering a new phase

Personal attitude

19.June 2025 Antonel Rih

We are not all the same

The government has several options. The first is to cancel the competition and thus admit that it is unable to carry out a clear procedure for the election of REM Council members twice. The second is to go back a few steps and "clean the list" of the proposers and candidates who do not meet the conditions of the competition and thus try to continue the process. The third is that he chooses his own Council from the candidates who are now in the game, including those who are disputed. I have a feeling he'll choose the latter option. Thus, we will once again have REM and the media, which serve as a propaganda training ground for the power of Aleksandar Vučić and his henchmen

Members of the 72nd Special Operations Brigade

The Army of Serbia

24.May 2025. MS

Diving and climbing: How to get a salary of two thousand euros in the Army

The starting salary of a member of the 72nd Special Operations Brigade is about 240.000 dinars. What does it take to become a member of the army's elite special unit?

competition

29.April 2025. Sonja Ciric

The City of Belgrade suspended all competitions for cultural projects

Certain members of the Commission have resigned, this is the explanation why the City Assembly made a decision to cancel all this year's competitions for co-financing cultural projects

State and culture

28.April 2025. Sonja Ciric

Is there money in the budget for culture?

Neither the Ministry nor the City Secretariat for Culture have announced the results of the competition for co-financing projects, although the deadlines have long been exceeded, so the question arises as to whether there is any money for culture in the budget at all

A request

04.march 2025 Sonja Ciric

Film industry: We are looking for expert commissions at FCS competitions

About 1000 signatories of all professions of film workers sent five requests to the Film Center of Serbia, requesting that the members of the commission that decide on the candidates of the contest be elected according to the law

Interview

31.January 2025 Sonja Ciric

Srđan Dragojević: Money is thrown at some film expo

"There is no contest, like this FCS, where writers, theater authors, distributors, actors are invited to the commissions, instead of cinematography experts." It's like hiring football fans to be a football coach," says the famous director, one of the 55 in which the state will not participate in co-financing this year.

Konkurs

30.January 2025 S.Ć.

FCS: Out of 59, the state will co-finance four films

At the competition of the Film Center of Serbia, future films by directors Sinisa Cvetić, Miloš Avramović, Danilo Bećković and Milan Karadžić were accepted, while Zdravko Šotra, Srdan Golubović, Radoš Bajić, Ivan Ikić, Srđan Dragojević were among those rejected.

Urbanism

27.January 2025 Sonja Ciric

Who decided on the new Tesla museum

In the jury of the international architectural competition for the new building of the Tesla Museum, there was not a single foreign or domestic recognized architect, urban planner, not a single educational institution, nor a professional organization - believes Slobodan Maldini

A new word

09.November 2024 S.Ć.

Does the word "rosanica" herald optimism?

The best new Serbian word is rasanica, which means getting out of a state of uncertainty, like when it "bursts before our eyes". Last year marked depression

Beograd

30.October 2024 MJ

The competition for the zoo and fair on Ada has been announced

The amusement park around the lake on Ada will include swimming pools, playgrounds, restaurants, exhibitions, slides, a ferris wheel, and a zoo. The competition for this project has been announced, and the total prize fund of the local government amounts to 10,5 million dinars

Financing

01.September 2024 S.Ć.

How to proceed: The city of Belgrade questioned its culture

By deciding not to set a budget this year for competitions that help contemporary creativity, the City of Belgrade called into question the implementation of many cultural projects in the capital.

Creativity and the state

19.August 2024 Sonja Ciric

Because of Maja Gojković, the Bitef dance company did not receive any money

The committee of the Ministry of Culture unanimously assessed that both projects of the Bitef dance company should be co-financed, but the minister in charge at the time, Maja Gojković, did not agree with that. According to her choice, the biggest prizes, apart from the Aje Jung festival, were given to folklore events and projects from Novi Sad and Kosovo.

State and artists

31.July 2024 Sonja Ciric

After five months, the Ministry of Culture announced the result of the competition for art galleries

The Commission of the Ministry sent three identical sentences to all whose projects were accepted, and two to those who were not. Local colonies, meetings and similar events stand out among the recipients of state money

State and creativity

28.July 2024 S.Ć.

U10: A month-long program as a commentary on the Ministry's attitude towards culture

The Ministry of Culture did not want to help any of the three programs of the U10 Art Space, which has been an important point of the domestic contemporary art scene for almost a decade, which U10 commented on with its daily program in August of participants from Serbia and the world

Interview

20.July 2024 Sonja Ciric

Zdravko Šotra: Who is to blame for not having the strength to click the boss

Neither I, nor all those not eligible for the regime, have anything to expect from the regime eligible in the FCS and its commission - says Zdravko Šotra, the doyen of the local cinematography, whose film did not meet the criteria of the FCS for co-financing

Interview

19.July 2024 Sonja Ciric

Gordan Matić: Honor and face are above any political motivation

Among the selected projects, there are no ones whose authors are present at the biggest festivals (Venice, Berlin, Cannes ...), as well as those with good references at the box office - according to director Gordan Matić, whose films were both rejected at the recent FCS competition.

Interview

08.June 2024 Sonja Ciric

Staša Bajac: Calculating how your work will be interpreted is disastrous

The 13th Hartefakt competition for an engaged dramatic text has been published. Staša Bajac, whose text This will be different, is one of the previously awarded ones, points out that apart from the writer and the theater, engagement also requires the viewer "to depart for a moment from the attitude or mood in which he entered the theater hall and open himself to something new perspective, be it ideological or stylistic"

Culture and politics

13.April 2024. S.Ć.

Why are the results of the competition of the Ministry of Culture late?

ULUS called on the Ministry of Culture to announce the results because the deadline passed 60 days ago. They say that there is a fear of new malpractice with the competition decisions of the commissions

A case study

05.march 2024 Sonja Ciric

Where did the lawsuit against the Secretariat for Culture disappear?

For five years now, the Administrative Court has not resolved the lawsuit against the Belgrade Secretariat for Culture, filed due to the results of the competition for co-financing projects from 2019.

Culture and the state

04.march 2024 S.Ć,

The Ministry of Culture does not respect the law again

No one from the Ministry of Culture has spoken about the delay in the results of the competition, which was warned about today by NKSS, ULUS and Stanica. Only information about the activities of Minister Gojković was forwarded to the media

Culture and finance

14.February 2024. S.Č.

Belgrade is again late with the tenders for the co-financing of culture

The City's delay in announcing tenders for co-financing cultural projects is a long-standing practice, say the artists of the Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia. It is not clear why their colleagues from the institutions are silent