WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for the tender “IT support service for Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), Head Office”. RYCO is looking for a national service provider (contractor) which will offer an IT Help Desk for RYCO Head Office (HO). IT contractor has to
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ALBANIA/SERBIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, co-financed by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, the Association of Citizens PLANT in Serbia in partnership with ACT for SOCIETY Centre in Albania implemented the project “Young2young”, which took place from December 2019 to November 2020. The project aimed to contribute to the process of
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We spoke with the Director of the Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies at the University of Vienna Rainer Gries who is leading a team of researchers conducting a study on young people in the Western Balkans and their participation or non-participation in regional youth exchange programmes. This interview focused on the history, politics and
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NORTH MACEDONIA/SERBIA – Supported through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Union for Youth Work in North Macedonia and BalkanIDEA Novi Sad in Serbia implemented the DEEP – Diversity Educational E-Resource Project. The project, which took place from September 2019 to November 2020 aimed to
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO and UNICEF, supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, are implementing the second part of a teachers training on “Intercultural Dialogue, Peacebuilding, Constructive Remembrance and Reconciliation: A Toolkit for Teachers in the Western Balkans”, gathering 22 teachers from the region. Due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the five-day training is
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SKOPJE – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in North Macedonia Mr Albert Hani and Youth Representative in the RYCO Governing Board Mr Vladimir Gjorgjevski met with Head of the Delegation of the European Union to North Macedonia Mr David Geer, and Counsellor at EU Delegation to North Macedonia Mr Steffen Hudolin, on December
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MONTENEGRO/SERBIA – Supported by RYCO and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, Vocational School for Trade, Tourism and Catering “Sergije Stanić” in Montenegro, together with Kulturno-umjetničko društvo “Željezničar” in Montenegro and JU Ekonomska srednja škola “Bosa Milićević” in Serbia, implemented the project “A Step Forward”, which took
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WESTERN BALKANS – Today marks the Human Rights Day, a day which is observed annually on 10 December to reaffirm the importance of human rights in our societies. This day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 which became an important milestone in the
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TIRANA – December 8 marked the National Youth Day in Albania. Thirty years ago thousands of Albanian students took the streets to overthrow one of the toughest communist regimes in Southeast Europe. Since then, this day serves as a symbol of youth activism – a clear sign that youth can move mountains and by acting
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša gave an interview for the Albanian Daily News which was published in this newspaper on Monday, 7 December 2020. We are republishing the interview. Albanian Daily News: Mr. Secretary General it is a pleasure to have this conversation with you which is a good opportunity to learn from
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