WESTERN BALKANS – The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe is partnering with Sarajevo Film Festival in efforts to support the True Stories Market which will take place this year from 13 August to 20 August 2021. The True Stories Market, which is part of the Dealing with the Past program, is a unique event
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For hundreds of years the compound of the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren was used as a shelter for the army. An ambitious German project now aims to turn it into a place for innovation and business planning. On June 13 1999, German KFOR troops entered the city of Prizren. Their main task
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The Regional Cross-Border Volunteer Program ROUTE WB6 has been presented in Podgorica, Montenegro on Tuesday, 8 June 2021. The program represents a unique opportunity for the Western Balkan youth to volunteer across the region. Approximately 400 young people from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia will have the opportunity to volunteer
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WESTERN BALKANS – Let’s get Balkan Real podcast by Kiara Manja is bringing together young journalists from the Western Balkans to discuss their daily lives in the region from traditions and customs to festivities and cuisine. Those small Zoom talks of youth are just part of the content created during RYCO’s supported program for students
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The lecture halls and the desks of the faculties are empty, no students and professors in sight, for more than ten months. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way education is conducted – from physical attendance to online learning, and students and teachers have resorted to digital technology so as not to interrupt the learning
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WESTERN BALKANS – Young people from the Western Balkans are invited to apply for a workshop in storytelling and fact-checking on topics of transitional justice, truth-telling and memory. We are inviting young people from any discipline who are interested in these topics to submit a proposal to join us at this workshop. Storytelling is crucial
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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
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KOSOVO*/NORTH MACEDONIA/SERBIA – Are you a young person from North Macedonia, Kosovo or Serbia interested in learning how to deconstruct hateful and dividing narratives by using digital media tools? Are you passionate and willing to challenge and change the stories for those who are marginalized and oppressed? If you want to tackle topics such as
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is looking for new colleagues! We are launching a call for the RYCO Project Staff – Finance and Administration Officers in Kosovo* and Montenegro on a project co-financed by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented by the
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WESTERN BALKANS – The fifth episode of the You(th) Choose(s) podcast hosted by young journalists from the Western Balkans is taking us on a new musical journey about love. Love is probably the most beautiful feeling to be experienced, and when you have the right people by your side there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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