ALBANIA/KOSOVO/MONTENEGRO – Supported by RYCO and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, the Environmentally Responsible Action group (ERA) from Kosovo, in partnership with the International Volunteer Service for Development (VIS) from Albania and the NGO “Green Step” from Montenegro, implemented the project “Connecting Rural Youth Across Borders
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is seeking a legal expertise/consultancy that will support the organization in analyzing and developing the Local Branch Offices registration and present the legal options that RYCO is missing in order to find the most suitable one and adopt it accordingly in each of the WB6 Contracting
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WESTERN BALKANS – Today commemorates the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the ending of the Holocaust. Each year on 27 January, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day serves as a tribute to the memory of the Holocaust victims. Moreover, it reaffirms and calls for commitment to countering antisemitism, racism and
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Milan attended his first youth exchange programme in the spring of 2018. Milan is not his real name but he is a real person who shared his story. He enjoyed his stay in Sarajevo, where he immersed himself in the topic of dealing with the past and made new friends. He did not get much
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About participants of RYCO funded youth exchanges The big budget friendly and modern hotel in Sarajevo hums like a beehive on this sunny afternoon in early spring 2018. About 30 teenagers run up and down stairs, open room doors and call out names. Some of them travelled in groups, thus knowing each other, but all
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WESTERN BALKANS/JAPAN – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) are implementing the youth exchange “Western Balkans meet Japan: A Bridge into the Future”, on 10-18 May 2021, and invite 11 undergraduate or graduate students aged from 20 to 25 years old, coming from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*,
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Serving as youth representatives on the RYCO Governing Board offers a chance to make your voice heard in relation to issues that matter to us all and to contribute directly to the decision-making processes that help shape responses to such issues. Such a chance is proof that effective youth participation only happens when young people
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KOSOVO/MONTENEGRO/SERBIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, co-financed by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, Gymnasium “Stojan Cerovic” in Montenegro, in partnership with Association “OMNIMI” in Serbia and NGO “Mbeshtetja” in Kosovo, implemented the “Rewind to the future” project, which took place from December 2019 to November 2020. The project gathered youth from
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WESTERN BALKANS – As the year draws to its end, it is time to look back and reflect on our work done for and with youth in the region, as well as on future plans and efforts. 2020 brought many challenges and impacted our work greatly. The developments of the COVID-19 pandemic trembled established certainties
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Dear Applicants, We would like to express our gratitude towards all of you who have shown the interest and made efforts to take part in the fourth RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals. The Call was built upon the results and experiences of the three RYCO open calls from 2017, 2018 and 2019 but also
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