A delegation of Serbian government experts travelled to Austria on 29–30 June 2026 for a two-day study visit organised within the EU4Green project’s work on green budgeting capacity building (WP4-4). The visit brought together core members of Serbia’s Green Budgeting Working Group, representing the Ministries of Finance, Environmental Protection, Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Mining and Energy, and Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management.

On the first day in Vienna, the delegation met with representatives of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance to learn about the process of counterproductive measures tagging – a key next step in Serbia’s green budgeting roadmap – as well as an overview of Austria’s latest green budgeting report. The afternoon session focused on the governance and climate budget of the City of Vienna.
On the second day, the group travelled to Graz to visit the City Hall, where it received a warm welcome by the Mayor of Graz Elke Kahr. The participants learned from the City’s Green Budgeting pilot project, presented by local experts Thessa Doncheva and Johannes Müller.

Serbia published its national green budgeting methodology in December 2024. This study visit provided practical, peer-to-peer knowledge to support the next steps in implementation, contributing to strengthened institutional capacity for green budgeting across the Western Balkans.