Agustin Aramadhi is a 24-year-old boy full of desires and passions for life. Although life has faced him with many grey days, he has chosen to make them shine and shine through them. He had not had the chance to walk, but he never stopped moving forward despite the difficult life in a wheelchair. This
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WESTERN BALKANS – The first episode of a new vibrant podcast titled You(th) Choose(s) is hosted by young journalists from the Western Balkans. It is a part of the RYCO supported program for students of journalism in the region. The podcast gathers young people from the region with Branislava Kolarov, Andrea Knežević and Dijana Dacin
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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 experience of the previous three RYCO Open Calls which were launched during 2017, 2018
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This news is available in the Macedonian language below. NORTH MACEDONIA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) in collaboration with the Peace Corps North Macedonia is launching a new series of capacity-building virtual workshops. The training is intended for employees, members or volunteers of non-governmental organizations and high schools from North Macedonia. The workshops series
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Whenever we think of places we want to visit, we usually go for foreign places and cities. The world is full of beautiful locations and some of them are right around the corner. You don’t have to go too far to experience a different culture, meet new people, try some amazing local food, gain the
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Although in the last decade the policy in Montenegro has made progress in regulating the rights of the LGBTIQ community, with the adoption of the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination (2011), the Strategy for Improving the Quality of Life of LGBTIQ Persons (2013) and the Law on Life Partnership (2020), society does not keep pace
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WESTERN BALKANS – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia publishes the “Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101”.This Manual is conceptualized to support the advancement of project writing skills for the successful design of projects and initiatives that can connect the Western Balkan youth. It supports
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WESTERN BALKANS – Within the framework of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation” project, the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UN PBF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in cooperation with the Mozaik Foundation, Beyond42 and Mašta, are organizing the
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Alban Kukaj always made sure that his drawings were filled with bright colors. The object that appeared most often in his drawings was the bus, as he wanted to go by bus to reunite with his father in Slovenia. But Alban never joined his father, nor did he draw again. He was killed on the
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WESTERN BALKANS – The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the lives of all of us and in the last year, it has made almost irreversible changes in our daily lives. Just when humanity had almost lost hope, several types of vaccines appeared that seemed like a light at the end of the tunnel. But at
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