•  Centre for Civic Education, Centre for Development of Non-Governmental Organisations and European Movement in Montenegro, with support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Serbia and Montenegro, published an announcement on 25 April 2006, regarding a study visit to EU, within the "Learn about EU personally" project.

•  Upon a careful consideration of all applications and conducting interviews where necessary, a committee made up of representatives of the organiser, in cooperation with the donor, selected an inter-sector delegation of ten members, who will have the chance to learn about the EU institutions in Brussels, and represent Montenegro in this visit. The selected participants are:
1. professor dr Vjera Begovic Radovic
2. professor dr Danijela Jacimovic
3. professor dr Maja Kostic Mandic
4. Aleksandar Damjanovic, MA
5. Olivera Vukadinovic
6. Vidak Latkovic
7. Ljiljana Pjerotic
8. Damir Sehovic
9. Vidosava Kascelan
10. Srdjan Sukovic.

The actual visit will take place in the first half of September 2006.
The delegation will be received by the European parliament members, and attend a series of meetings in different Directorates of the European Commission, Council of the EU, European Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, as well as in the permanent missions Finland, and a few leading non-governmental organisations in Brussels.

Just as a reminder, a total of 142 candidates applied for this programme, coming from various educational backgrounds - among them 5 PhDs, 7 people with Masters' degrees, 97 with Bachelor degrees, 2 with a completed high school education, 3 high school pupils and 28 students.
Most candidates for the study visit to EU came from the government institutions and from among the student population (19,72% each), followed by the NGO activists (14,79%), entrepreneurs (9,86%), and finally those working for international organisations and local governments (7,04% each). University and the media were represented in 4. 93 % of all applicants, while 4,23% came from among the political party representatives, who expressed their wish to learn about the EU in this way. Among the other applicants were also representatives of the judiciary and independent professions.
The selection committee was guided by the following criteria: substantial prior knowledge of European integrations, asserted motivation and ability to implement the acquired knowledge relatively quickly, and a functional knowledge of English language. The intention was also to bring to Brussels those had never been in the city before. Due to high number of applicants and their considerably high profile, the selection turned out to be very difficult. Therefore, the organisers will try to organise again soon the similar visit in order to give another chance to all those quality candidates who unfortunately did not make it into the final round of selection.

click here to read short biographies of the selected candidates