Bojana Lalatović
Program Coordinator
Bojana Lalatović is a Program Coordinator at the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), where she works on advancing regional cooperation, youth engagement, and reconciliation processes in the Western Balkans. Her work focuses on youth participation in peacebuilding, democratic development, EU integration and regional cooperation.
Bojana holds a Master’s degree in European Integration from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and is currently pursuing a PhD in International Public Law, with a research focus on CFSP and democracy promotion in the Western Balkans. As part of her academic research, she was a Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she worked on topics related to European integration and the alignment of Western Balkan countries with the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.
Her professional experience includes engagements within the EU Regional Communication Programme for the Western Balkans - We Balkans, the Council of Europe’s Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye, campaigns against hate speech, the Operational Communication Centre of the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro, The Balkan Forum, and other civil society initiatives focused on European integration and regional cooperation.
Bojana has published three academic articles in international journals and remains actively engaged in research on EU enlargement and democratic transformation in the Western Balkans.
Her work and activism have been recognized through several international awards and scholarships, including the EU DG NEAR Youth Activist Award and the Cohesion Builder Award of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative. She is also a recipient of the British Scholarship Trust award for research at the London School of Economics and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Rule of Law Program South-East Europe scholarship.
Bojana is an alumna of prestigious international programmes such as the European Forum Alpbach and the Bled Strategic Forum, and participated in the Erasmus+ mobility programme at Roma Tre University in Italy.
She speaks Montenegrin/Serbian, English, Russian, and Italian.
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