BELGRADE – Representatives of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia met with Director of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Serbia, Montenegro Mr Norbert Beckmann-Dierkes and Director of the foundation’s office in Albania Mr Tobias Ruttershoff on Thursday. The meeting discussed RYCO’s plans but also explored the ways in how the two organizations can work
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PRISTINA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blnauša took part in the CSO Dialogue Forum organized in Pristina on 4 and 5 February. Participating the panel discussion Youth as an emerging actor of the dialogue, he discussed youth emigration but also ways how young people are creating new opportunities for education and employment in Serbia
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TRAVNIK – The project #3forECO supported by RYCO within its third Open Call has kicked off in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Implemented by Catholic Schools Centre Petar Barbarić from Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Secondary School Nace Bugjoni from Kumanovo, North Macedonia and Economic Trade School from Kikinda, Serbia, the project is gathering students and teachers
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NOVI SAD – How many times you have heard that someone is fighting for “world peace”? How are you fighting for peace? Do you consider that we are living in a just society? How and to what extent young people influence the security in the region? Is education truly free? What are the differences between
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BELGRADE – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia has organized two capacity building trainings for representatives of forty secondary schools, potential RYCO beneficiaries, where they had a chance to strengthen their capacities in developing project design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation, and activism. The trainings took place on 24 – 27 September at
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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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BELGRADE – President of the French Republic H. E. Mr Emmanuel Macron and President of Serbia H. E. Mr Aleksandar Vučić met in Belgrade today with six young people from the Western Balkans six when they discussed common challenges of young people in the region. In a session participated by the presidents and the young
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Western Balkan-French-German Jazz Meetings called “Balkan Academy of Music (BAM)” in Montenegro came along under the motto “A better region starts with youth”. These first Montenegro Jazz Meetings are part of a joint project by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office in Montenegro (RYCO), Institut Français and Goethe-Institut. Experienced musicians from Germany,
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BELGRADE – Minister of Youth and Sports of Serbia Mr Vanja Udovičić together with State Secretary Mr Predrag Peruničić visited on Thursday activities on one of the eleven projects from Serbia that RYCO supported through its first Call for Proposals. The project “Building Bridges for Balkans” is being implemented by the Hemijsko-Prehrambena Tehnološka Škola from
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WESTERN BALKANS – Hacking Participation in the Balkans – Innovative ways of empowering youth in Albania and Serbia to impact policy making processes. The HPiB project is implemented by CCIS in partnership with CEP, and it is supported by RYCO within its first Open Call for Project Proposals. Young people (high schools, professional colleges, universities and youth organisations) are
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