ALPBACH/BELGRADE – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia Ms Ivana Antonijević participated in the panel discussion “No More Reconciliation! It’s Time for Cooperation” organized within the European Forum Alpbach 2021. The online event took place on Tuesday, 31 August 2021, and was hosted by the Club Alpbach Belgrade and ambassadors from North
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for creation of a digital youth platform. RYCO is seeking for a specialized service provider which is experienced in developing web applications and/or web based platforms. The main objective of this assignment is to develop and build RYCO digital
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WESTERN BALKANS – The six Local Incubators based in the Western Balkans are looking for young people from 18 to 35 years old from the region in a group of a minimum of two persons who are motivated to learn about social entrepreneurship and be involved in a regional program. They should be ambitious and
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SARAJEVO – On 13-20 August 2021, the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the Forum Civil Peace Service – forumZFD and the USAID project PRO-Future have implemented a special project activity “In Youth Eyes: Western Balkans Youth Team”. The seven-day activity gathered 25
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The coronavirus pandemic caused tremendous changes in our everyday life, so it affected each one of us. It affected daily life, working area, culture, cinemas, etc. Besides all the obstacles and barriers, the jubilee 20 edition of Dokufest finally occurred. Prizren’s biggest annual cultural event, the short film and documentary festival, Dokufest usually gathers tourists
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KOSOVO/NORTH MACEDONIA – Within the third RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, OJQ Qendra e Gruas “ATO” (QG-ATO) from Kosovo, in partnership with SHMP “Bahri Haxha” from Kosovo and SHMEK “8 Shtatori” Tetovo from North Macedonia, implemented the project “Social Bridge”. The project enabled an open and safe
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BELGRADE – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia is launching an open call for participation in its annual capacity building training for project proposals design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation, activism and intercultural learning in the Western Balkans. The call is open for representatives of civil society organizations from Serbia. The training is
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for the tender “Monitoring and Evaluation Expert on Regional Volunteering Exchange Program ROUTE WB6”. RYCO is looking for a monitoring and evaluation expert to measure project performance and the effects that the ROUTE WB6 program has on youth from
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What do young people in the Western Balkans think about the society they live in? With conflict in the not-so-distant past, peace and social cohesion are real issues present in their everyday lives. Our just published regional study Shared Futures: Youth Perceptions on Peace in the Western Balkans, shares views from more than 5,400 young people
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WESTERN BALKANS – Each 12 August marks the celebration of the International Youth Day, designated by the United Nations (UN) in 1995 and first observed in 2000. This day recognizes the promise and power of young people to improve their communities. It also celebrates young people’s contributions as catalysts for peace and prosperity not only
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