KOLASIN – RYCO Local Branch Officers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, together with the RYCO Program and Communication Officers, gathered on 1 – 4 October in Kolasin, Montenegro for a working meeting. Meeting’s agenda focused on the working priorities of the organization in the upcoming period such as preparation for
read moreWESTERN BALKANS – Regional Youth Cooperation Office in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan would like to thank all the applicants for taking time and submitting the application for the youth exchange “Western Balkans Meet Japan – A Bridge Into Future”. Due to a considerable amount of applications and limited number of places for
read moreSARAJEVO – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Berina Bukva presented RYCO activities, capacities and its strategic components at the round table “What Political Parties Offer to Young People in BiH?” hosted by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on Tuesday in Sarajevo. The representatives of the political parties presented their programs for
read moreTIRANA – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka took part in the Hearing with Civil Society Organisations of Albania on Youth Policy and Youth Participation organized on Tuesday by the Western Balkans Follow-up Committee, part of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The EESC is undertaking a few days of intense
read moreSKOPJE – RYCO, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, is launching the open call for participation in the capacity building training for project design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation and activism in the Western Balkans. The call is opened for less experienced representatives of the civil society organizations and secondary schools
read moreSARAJEVO – The “ACTO” conference organized on Tuesday by the Youth Council of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered more than 40 young people from umbrella organizations of Southern Eastern Europe. The conference’s main focus was the youth participation in decision making processes which was discussed on a panel moderated by RYCO Local Branch Officer
read moreSKOPJE – The second edition of the “Bridging the gap between youth policy, youth participation and parliamentarians in the Western Balkans” conference is taking place on 20 and 21 September in Skopje. The event brought together participants from parliaments from the Western Balkans 6 as well as youth organizations’ activists. The central topic of the
read moreTIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša met on Tuesday with the Ambassador of Poland to Albania H. E. Mr Karol Bachura when they discussed the possible ways of cooperation between RYCO and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the framework of the next year’s Berlin Process summit. The meeting was held in
read moreTIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša signed on Tuesday the Platform for Peace, a declaration document developed as part of USAID’s PRO-Future project to promote acceptance of peace-building and reconciliation processes among ethnicities and religious communities in BiH and to garner support for the activities at both the BiH and local levels. We
read moreTIRANA – Following the OSCE scholarship program at the European Innovation Academy summer course in Turin (7-28 July 2018), and in preparation of the Connectivity Meeting planned in Tirana on 8-9 November, the second coordination meeting of the YDEAS project intended to discuss how to harness the potentialities of the regional community of innovators –
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