Researchers of the IIPE Centre for Neighbouring Countries and Mediterranean, Dr Slobodan Janković, Dr Nataša Stanojević and Dr Marina Kostić, participated in online workshop “Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities in the Balkans”, organised by The Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, within the framework of the Turkish presidency of the SEECP. Diplomats, scholars and academicians from Balkan countries discussed current issues under six priorities of Turkey’s SEECP Chairmanship – tourism, education and youth, passing with issues of regulating migration, emigration to economy and security. Researchers of the IIPE Centre for Neighbouring Countries and Mediterranean were the representatives of Serbia.