POGRADEC – RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania, in cooperation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, organized a four-day Capacity Building Training with representatives of high schools in Albania on 24-27 October 2018 in Pogradec. Twenty high school teachers from all over Albania attended the training. The participants were selected from vocational and general high
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SKOPJE – 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
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TIRANA – 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
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TIRANA – 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
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TIRANA – 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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LONDON – Following the recent Western Balkans Summit in London, the UK Parliament hosted the International Parliamentary Seminar on the Western Balkans under the auspices of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU). The event took place in the Palace of Westminster from 10 to 12 September. The event brought together the parliamentarians from
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BLED – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša participated in this year’s edition of the Bled Strategic Form in Slovenia. In a panel discussion that was held on 11 September, together with the panelists, he discussed the topic “Putting European Consensus on Development into Practice: Political Foundations as Bridge Builders for the Implementation of SDGs”.
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MIRAI Program 2018: Western Balkans Youth Exchange (Mutual-understanding, Intellectual Relations and Academic Exchange Initiative) WESTERN BALKANS – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office are implementing the youth exchange “Western Balkans meet Japan: A Bridge into the Future”, on 30 October to 7 November 2018, and invites 17 undergraduate
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TIRANA – RYCO and the Government of Albania, in the presence of representatives of their partners, signed the Host Country Agreement Tuesday, a document that will serve as a legal basis for RYCO’s work in Albania. On behalf of RYCO, the agreement was signed by RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša and on behalf of
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša met on Thursday with the Ambassador of Japan to Albania H. E. Mr Makoto Ito when they discussed the possible ways of cooperation between RYCO and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The meeting was held in the RYCO Head Office in Tirana. Mr Blanuša presented the organization and its goals. He
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