WESTERN BALKANS/GERMANY – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office, in partnership with the German Federal Government, has selected an entry of a young designer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms Nermina Hrnić, as the winner of the Open Call for Young Designers: 2022 Western Balkans Berlin Summit Logo Competition. The logo competition was opened from 11 to 25
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WESTERN BALKANS – Applications for the RYCO Superschools Western Balkans School Exchange Scheme are now open! RYCO will support 100 secondary schools from the Western Balkan region to implement regional exchanges for more than 1200 students, and will offer capacity building opportunities for more than 100 teachers. The Superschools Exchange program aims at supporting the
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TIRANA – The Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (RISE) project, supported by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) organized a three-day regional Forum on social entrepreneurship, which took place in Tirana, on 6-8 September 2022. The Forum brought together the most relevant actors and stakeholders of the entrepreneurial
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TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) met with the delegation of MPs from North Macedonia on September 6th, 2022, at the Head Office of RYCO in Tirana, Albania represented by: Ms. Monika Zajkova – Chair of the Parliamentary Club for Youth Affairs and Policies of North Macedonia, Ms. Marija Petrushevska – Member of
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VRNJAČKA BANJA – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia organized for the fifth year in a row a capacity building training on project proposal design for civil society organizations from Serbia with less experience and low capacities in conducting regional projects. This year the training
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SKOPJE – Head of the RYCO Local Branch in North Macedonia Mr. Vladimir Gjorgjevski, together with RYCO Program Officer Ms. Sherife Ismaili Kasapi, met the Director of Youth Card Association (EYCA) Mr. Manel Sanchez, Advisor for Youth Policy in the Office of Prime Minister in North Macedonia Mr. Gjorgji Tasev, and President of non-governmental organization
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RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro supported a four-day Eco Camp organized by the NGO Euromost for the third year in a row. The camp took place in Gusinje (valley Grebaje) and in Plav (nearby Hridsko Lake) from 29th of July to 01st of August 2022, gathering more than 80 young people from Montenegro, Serbia
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office, in partnership with the German Federal Government, organizes an open call for the design of the 2022 Berlin Process Summit visual identity. The call is open to young people (from 18 to 30 years old) coming from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North
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BELGRADE – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia is launching an open call for participation in its annual capacity building training for project proposals design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation, activism and intercultural learning in the Western Balkans. The call is open for representatives of civil society organizations from Serbia. The training is
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ALBANIA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) through its Local Branch Office in Albania invites young people from Albania to participate in the “Human Rights and Minority Rights Academy 2022” that will take place in Voskopoja, from 30 August-3 September 2022. The Academy aims at providing and deepening young people’s knowledge of human rights
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