PODGORICA – The fourth RYCO Advisory Board meeting supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro took place on Thursday in Podgorica, Montenegro. The meeting discussed the RYCO’s development since the previous Advisory Board meeting but also deliberated the current state of play and RYCO’s future activities and plans. Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša gave an interview for the Albanian Daily News where he spoke about the key achievements of RYCO in 2019, challenges for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and announced future RYCO plans for youth cooperation in the region. You can read the interview in its entirety below. The
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Dear Applicants, We would like to express our gratitude towards all of you who have shown the interest and made efforts to take part in the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals. The Call was built upon the results and experiences of the first RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals which was launched in
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VALJEVO – The final workshop of the project „SEAVA youth“ supported by RYCO and United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, brought together twenty-five young people from Montenegro and Serbia. The workshop organized in partnership between NGO iACT from Montenegro and Valjevska Kulturna Mreža (VAKUM) from Serbia took place in Valjevo during the regional film festival “Valjevski filmski
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TIRANA – The Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of Albania published an open call for the position of the Youth Representative of Albania in the RYCO Governing Board. The Youth Representative will be given a mandate of three years with no possibility of extension. He/she will represent the interest of the youth of Albania
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BELGRADE – The ROUTE WB6 project that aims at promoting long-term and short-term cross-border volunteering as a tool that will contribute to a reduction of social and ethnic distance among young people in the region just conducted its first designing workshop in Belgrade. This three-day workshop was the first of a series of planned events for
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PODGORICA – RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro hosted a visit by Mr Sebastian Maass from Interkulturelles Netzwerk (Germany), Mr Maxime Boitieux from Peuple Et Culture (France) and Ms Lea Cikos from Volunteers’ Centre of Vojvodina (Serbia). Head of RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro Mr Edin Koljenović used this opportunity to present RYCO’s mission,
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PRISTINA – RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa took part in the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Seminar for Junior Diplomats organized in Pristina on 10-11 February when he discussed the future of the Berlin Process with a special focus on boosting regional cooperation among youth in the Western Balkans. The panel discussion moderated
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PRISTINA – RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa and Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Kosovo Ms Krenare Gashi-Krasniqi met on Tuesday with the recently appointed Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport of Kosovo Ms Vlora Dumoshi when they discussed the organization’s activities and the government’s support to its work. RYCO representatives
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ALBANIA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/SERBIA – The Youth Cultural Cooperation program is organized within the project ”Transforming the Region One Conversation at A Time – Inspiring Youth Cultural Cooperation” supported through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. The project is organized in cooperation of “Creative Mentorship” from Serbia,
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