Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa

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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
Abbreviation	OBC Transeuropa, OBCT
Formation	2000 (2000)
Type	think tank, online media
Headquarters	Trento, Italy
Official language	Italian, English, Serbo-Croatian
Scientific Director	Luisa Chiodi
Website	www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng
Formerly called	Osservatorio sui Balcani Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBC Transeuropa or OBCT) is a think tank and online newspaper based in Trento, Italy, and specialised on South East Europe.

It reports on social, cultural and political developments across 6 EU member states, 7 candidate and potential candidate countries, and 5 countries of the Eastern Partnership (as well as de facto states) through a network of 50 correspondents from abroad, including journalists, researchers, and activists, publishing news, analysis and multimedia on a daily basis. Its archives hosts more than 10,000 items. It also produces and circulates research papers, scientific books and educational toolkits, and makes use of crowd-sourcing, social media and online debates as a bottom-up strategy. All its contents are available on Creative Commons licenses.^[1]

OBC is a cross-medial, multilingual and transnational news hub, targeting CSOs, journalists, students and researchers, policy-makers, business, migrants, and the general public. Its activities combine online journalism, research, training, knowledge dissemination and policy advice.^[1]

Its themes of interest include conflict transformation, politics of memory, active citizenship, the European public sphere, media freedom, EU enlargement, the European Neighbourhood Policy, international cooperation, local development, human rights, minority rights, migration and asylum, gender and welfare; all seen from a bottom-up, transnational perspective.^[1]