GERMANY/WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO Secretary General Mr Albert Hani participated in the Foreign Ministers Meeting held within the Berlin Process, which took place online on Tuesday, 8 June. The meeting was hosted by the German Federal Foreign Minister Mr Heiko Maas and focused on supporting the development of closer ties between the Western Balkans 6
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Podgorica – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro Mr Edin Koljenović met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro Mr Đorđe Radulović on Monday, 7 June, at the premisses of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro. During the meeting, Mr Koljenović emphasised that RYCO was founded within the Berlin Process
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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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TIRANA – The winner of the “Open Call for Young Designers: 2021 Western Balkans Berlin Summit Logo Competition” is a young designer from Albania: Mr Dei Hasko. He received the prize at the German Embassy in Tirana on Friday, 28 May 2021. The prize was presented to the winner by RYCO Secretary General Mr Albert
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BELGRADE – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia Ms Ivana Antonijević attended a roundtable discussion with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ms Ann Linde and representatives of the civil society in the field of youth, which took place on Tuesday, 25 May 2021. The event was organized at
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Youth for Peace in cooperation with Balkans Let’s Get Up! Organization and Udhetim i Lire – Liberi di Viaggare, and with the support of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office – RYCO and the European Union invite you to participate in the project P.A.C.E – Peace and Conflict Education. Participants from Albania,
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