SARAJEVO – RYCO and the Institute for Youth Development KULT signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Sarajevo today to formalize cooperation and work jointly on improving the position of young people in the Western Balkans, especially in the areas of youth mobility, reconciliation, and international youth cooperation. “The idea of regional cooperation, dialogue, and youth
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WESTERN BALKANS – For the third year in a row, RYCO is partnering on the Deutsche Welle’s Balkan Booster project. The project connects twenty-one young journalists from the Western Balkans and the surrounding EU Member States. By using their smartphones, they will create and produce around two-hundred multimedia stories on environmental topics in the Balkans.
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PODGORICA – RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a regional meeting on 13 – 15 October which gathered representatives of the six RYCO Local Branch Offices together with almost twenty representatives of the Western Balkan ministries of foreign affairs and ministries in charge of youth
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TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office welcomes the initiative announced in Novi Sad, Serbia today by the Prime Ministers of Albania and North Macedonia and President of Serbia. The trilateral meeting tackled the freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services in the Western Balkans. As reconciliation, mobility and exchange are at the
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan thank all the applicants for taking time and submitting their applications for the youth exchange “Western Balkans Meet Japan – A Bridge Into Future”. Due to a considerable amount of applications and limited number of places for
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TIRANA – The final event of the Memory Lab’s seven-day annual study trip and workshop took place in Tirana on Friday. Entitled “Unbunkering the past: How is Albania dealing with its (communist) history?” the event explored how Albania is dealing with its past, especially the communist period, and connected this with experiences from other European
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SKOPJE – Initiated by the Youth Representatives in the RYCO Governing Board, the RYCO Secretariat organized a meeting to launch a process of strengthening the role young people are having in decision-making processes within the RYCO structures. The meeting hosted by the RYCO Local Branch Office in North Macedonia was held between five Youth Representatives
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WESTERN BALKANS – In the framework of our third Open Call for Project Proposals supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, RYCO is offering mentoring sessions as an additional opportunity for applicants to get further support in the development of their project proposals. Not mandatory, these sessions are being organised after the info sessions to
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PODGORICA – A regional capacity building training for the RYCO beneficiaries to be supported within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals is taking place in Podgorica, Montenegro. The five-day event supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro is gathering representatives of the forty-five civil society organizations and secondary schools from the Western Balkans
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TIRANA – World Vision, in collaboration with RYCO, organizes a regional youth festival in Tirana from 3 to 5 September. The Youth Festival kicked off with a two panel discussions participated by young people, representatives of civil society, governmental institutions, local and international agencies who discussed inclusion of youth in decision-making processes and inclusion of
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