The two visits will address the particular challenges that local efforts to counter disinformation encounter in Kosovo and Montenegro and look at the policy solutions found in the EU and the EU Member States. The project will be accompanied on these visits by renowned experts and practitioners in this field, who will discuss with the stakeholders from across societal sectors in the two countries the best ways of strengthening resilience against the threat of disinformation, taking into account both the local specificities and the lessons learned abroad. In addition to supporting democratic development, whole-of-society cooperation and comprehensive national security, countering disinformation will also assist the EU aspiration of the two countries.
The Project Strengthening Societal Resilience and Countering Foreign Perpetrated Disinformation in the Western Balkans is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia through development cooperation funds.