TIRANA – The OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Municipality of Tirana and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), are launching a Call for Applications for the second edition of #YouthTrail2018: Promoting OSCE Values among Youth, to be held from 20 to 24 June 2018 in Tirana, Albania. The Youth Trail is a learning,
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PODGORICA – RYCO Pilot Capacity Building Training for the first beneficiaries of the organization’s open call for project proposal ended on Friday in Podgorica, Montenegro. During the five days long training, we gathered the representatives of 34 civil society organizations and high schools from the region, the lead applicants of the shortlisted project within the
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TIRANA – On the occasion of the Europe Day, RYCO Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General, Mr Đuro Blanuša and Mr Fatos Mustafa, met on Wednesday with Director General for Enlargement at the European Commission Mr Christian Danielsson and Director for the Western Balkans at the DG NEAR Ms Genoveva Ruiz Calavera at the RYCO
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PRISTINA – RYCO Advisory Board members met for the first time in Pristina on Friday, 4 May. As the first meeting, it also served as a constitutive gathering of the Advisory Board members. RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša welcomed the Advisory Board members by emphasizing the importance of such structure in RYCO development and pointed
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VIENNA – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) opens today a Call for Candidacies for 18 fully-paid scholarships at the European Innovation Academy (EIA), one of the world’s leading summer entrepreneurship programmes for young professionals, students, recent graduates and young start-uppers. From 8 to 27 July in Turin, the selected finalists from the Western Balkans
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PRISTINA – RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa, together with RYCO Local Branch Officer in Kosovo Ms Krenare Gashi, participated in the policy forum “Kosovo’s next decade: Advancing the Reform Making, Regional Cooperation and EU Integration” on Wednesday, 25 April, in Pristina. The event debated the strengthening of institutions and speeding up reforms, the EU
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SKOPJE – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša, together with RYCO Local Branch Officer in Macedonia Mr Albert Hani, participated the Western Balkans 6 Digital Summit organized on 18 and 19 April in Skopje, Macedonia. On the Summit’s margins, RYCO representatives met with UK Envoy for the Western Balkan and the London Summit Coordinator of the Foreign and
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SARAJEVO – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Berina Bukva met on Monday with Project Manager at the Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD) in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Sunita Dautbegović – Bošnjaković when they discussed the possible cooperation between the organizations. Ms Bukva emphasized that RYCO is doing its best to create a new “space”
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PRISTINA – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Kosovo Ms Krenare Gashi met on Friday with Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Kosovo Mr Kujtim Gashi, Director of the Youth Department of the Ministry Mr Xhevat Bajrami and Youth Representative in the RYCO Governing Board Mr Arianit Jashari. They discussed the joint activities and the ongoing work
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BIJELO POLJE – The Forum MNE, in cooperation with RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro, organized a round table on 11 April in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, where the results and challenges of the RYCO work in the region were presented. At the round table, participated by representatives of non-governmental organizations, local youth offices, secondary schools and
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