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WESTERN BALKANS – September 15 is celebrated as the International Day of Democracy after being established in 2007 through a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly. This day aims to encourage governments and societies to strengthen efforts and policies that promote and consolidate democracy. It also highlights that stronger democracy needs the participation

Almost every second young person in Montenegro encounters difficulties when it’s about finding a job for which they were educated, according to the research of the Center for Civic Education from 2019. By the middle of January 2021, there were 11,279 persons aged 18 to 30 on the records of the unemployed of the Employment

What do young people in the Western Balkans think about the society they live in? With conflict in the not-so-distant past, peace and social cohesion are real issues present in their everyday lives. Our just published regional study Shared Futures: Youth Perceptions on Peace in the Western Balkans, shares views from more than 5,400 young people

A one-month campaign organized by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) on fostering youth cooperation in the Western Balkan region concluded on May 31. The campaign “YOUth Inspired by peace” which aimed at bringing together youth from the region to raise the awareness and increase peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts among youth was realized in cooperation

RYCO Project Leader Ms Vladica Jovanović speaks about the “YOUth Inspired by Peace” campaign which has been launched recently and the achievements of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation: Building Capacity and Momentum for RYCO” project. Let us start with a general question. What is the RYCO mission and values you represent?

TIRANA – Youth in the Western Balkans should be supported more to foster the intercultural dialogue and pave the way for better a better future for all, a two-day UN-RYCO conference held in Tirana concluded. The event was jointly organised by RYCO and UNFPA Albania on 11 and 12 May in a hybrid format and

Op-ed by Vladimir Gjorgjevski, Former Youth Representative of North Macedonia in the RYCO Governing Board  If someone would say to the young people who participated in the projects at the early beginnings of theFranco-German Youth Office in 1963 that they are participating in long-term peacebuilding, intercultural cooperation and joint future, they would consider it as

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/MONTENEGRO/SERBIA  – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Balkan Urban Movement (Udruzenje gradjana) BUM from Serbia, in partnership with Nevladino Udruzenje PRIMA (Association PRIMA) from Montenegro and Udruzenje PRONI Centar za Omladinski Razvoj (PRONI Center for Youth Development), implemented the project “Looking

ALBANIA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/NORTH MACEDONIA/SERBIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Friends of the Planet CSO from Serbia, in partnership with AULEDA from Albania, LIR Evolution from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Photo Club Kumanovo from North Macedonia and the Photo Club Kragujevac from Serbia,

ALBANIA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/MONTENEGRO/SERBIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Institute for Democracy, Media & Culture (IDMC) from Albania, in partnership with the Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities (BRAVO) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Network for the Education and the Development of the