Krushevo – This year’s 20th International Youth Conference- “European Values for the Future of the SEE Countries” took place from the 29th of September to the 3rd of October organized by Youth Alliance -Krushevo. The International Youth Conference was supported by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office-RYCO, Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Friedrich
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Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina – In the framework of the EU Western Balkan Students Integration project, the Electrical Engineering STudents’ European association organized its first three-day Regional Workshop in collaboration with EESTEC Tuzla and EESTEC Novi Sad in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 26-28 September 2022. Nearly 20 students from the region gathered to discuss more
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OHRID – A three-day capacity-building training for youth wings of political parties was organized in Ohrid by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) and local offices of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) which took place from 23rd to 25th of September, 2022. The participants of the training were 24 representatives from the youth
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WESTERN BALKANS/GERMANY – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office, in partnership with the German Federal Government, has selected an entry of a young designer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms Nermina Hrnić, as the winner of the Open Call for Young Designers: 2022 Western Balkans Berlin Summit Logo Competition. The logo competition was opened from 11 to 25
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WESTERN BALKANS – Applications for the RYCO Superschools Western Balkans School Exchange Scheme are now open! RYCO will support 100 secondary schools from the Western Balkan region to implement regional exchanges for more than 1200 students, and will offer capacity building opportunities for more than 100 teachers. The Superschools Exchange program aims at supporting the
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TIRANA – The Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (RISE) project, supported by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) organized a three-day regional Forum on social entrepreneurship, which took place in Tirana, on 6-8 September 2022. The Forum brought together the most relevant actors and stakeholders of the entrepreneurial
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TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) met with the delegation of MPs from North Macedonia on September 6th, 2022, at the Head Office of RYCO in Tirana, Albania represented by: Ms. Monika Zajkova – Chair of the Parliamentary Club for Youth Affairs and Policies of North Macedonia, Ms. Marija Petrushevska – Member of
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office, in partnership with the German Federal Government, organizes an open call for the design of the 2022 Berlin Process Summit visual identity. The call is open to young people (from 18 to 30 years old) coming from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North
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BELGRADE – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia is launching an open call for participation in its annual capacity building training for project proposals design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation, activism and intercultural learning in the Western Balkans. The call is open for representatives of civil society organizations from Serbia. The training is
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ALBANIA – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania together with World Vision Albania and the National Youth Congress (NYC) concluded successfully the Youth Festival 2022 under the theme “Y-Grow, Youth Getting Ready for Opportunities and Well-being” on Friday 1st of July 2022. The festival was organized in Korca and brought together around 100 young
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