TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) organized the conference “A Better Region Starts with Volunteering” in Tirana on 7-8 December 2021. The event was opened by RYCO Secretary General Mr Albert Hani, followed by Mayor of Tirana Mr Erion Veliaj and Ms Jenny Stenberg Sørvold, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Royal
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia and the OSCE Mission to Serbia organized the second online meet-up “Disco, Disco, Volunteering” within the series of online events called “Among RYCO Friends”. The event took place on Friday, 18 June 2021, and gathered over 50 young people from the Western Balkans interested in volunteering
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia and the OSCE Mission to Serbia are organizing the second online meet up within the series of online events “Among RYCO Friends”. The event will take place on Friday, 18 June 2021, at 11 a.m. “Among Friends: Disco, Disco, Volunteering” will be dedicated to volunteering, its
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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 – The first workshop on the development of the Regional Volunteers Exchange scheme within the ROUTE WB6 project took place in Durres, Albania from 18 to 20 April 2021. Different units within RYCO were engaged in the workshops to offer their expertise in providing youth of the Western Balkans with the best regional
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WESTERN BALKANS – The ROUTE WB6 project proudly opens the registrations for the first regional volunteers exchange program. This is the first program of this kind in the Western Balkans, designed by the young people for young people. We encourage all young people 18-30 years old to register for volunteering opportunities across the region. The registration
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WESTERN BALKANS – The ROUTE WB6 Team is launching the Regional Volunteers Web Platform, an online tool to support young people, civil society organizations and local communities across the region. The platform will serve both as a resource center in its first stage but also as a matching tool to allow both young individuals and
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PODGORICA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro Mr Edin Koljenović participated in the panel discussion ”Re-thinking of solidarity and volunteerism” which was organized on the occasion of the International Volunteer Day by the Association for Democratic Prosperity – ZID. The event took place in Montenegro, on 16 December. The discussions were
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WESTERN BALKANS – Celebrated on 5 December every year, the International Volunteer Day raises awareness on the role volunteer’s play in responding to challenges the world is facing. Development of societies in which helping others is a core value is significantly important in crises such as the current one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore,
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WESTERN BALKANS – Within the ROUTE WB6 project, a consolidation workshop focusing on the finalization of the Regional Volunteering Exchange Program took place online from 28 to 30 October. The program is being designed to serve as a key mechanism for youth mobility, volunteering and peacebuilding in the Western Balkans. It will contribute to experiential
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