TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) met with the delegation of MPs from North Macedonia on September 6th, 2022, at the Head Office of RYCO in Tirana, Albania represented by: Ms. Monika Zajkova – Chair of the Parliamentary Club for Youth Affairs and Policies of North Macedonia, Ms. Marija Petrushevska – Member of
read more
WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office, in partnership with the German Federal Government, organizes an open call for the design of the 2022 Berlin Process Summit visual identity. The call is open to young people (from 18 to 30 years old) coming from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North
read more
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
read more
ALBANIA – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania together with World Vision Albania and the National Youth Congress (NYC) concluded successfully the Youth Festival 2022 under the theme “Y-Grow, Youth Getting Ready for Opportunities and Well-being” on Friday 1st of July 2022. The festival was organized in Korca and brought together around 100 young
read more
ALBANIA – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania, in the framework of the project ‘Youth Voices for Stronger Communities’, organized its first workshop in Berat, on 29 June 2022. This workshop brought together around thirty young people, NGOs working with and for youth, and the Director of Education, Culture and Youth at the Municipality
read more
TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) organized the first Kick-Off meeting for the EU Western Balkan Students Integration (EU-WB-SI) Project on Tuesday, 21 st June 2022. The meeting brought together the six newly created student networks composed of the leading organizations and their partners across WB6. The selected students’ teams that will support
read more
TIRANA – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) on May 5th, 2022, at the Head Office of RYCO in Tirana, Albania, as both parties strive to strengthen the spirit of regional cooperation as two regional institutions that will commit to supporting youth cooperation, non-formal
read more
WESTERN BALKANS – The Advisory Board, one of the three statutory bodies of RYCO, had its 5th meeting on 27 April 2022. The meeting happened online and was facilitated and moderated by the RYCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Denis PIPLAŠ. As the new 2-year mandate period for Advisory Board members began on 29 December 2021,
read more
TIRANA – In the period of 8-12 April, the city of Tirana was filled with the incomparable energy brought from the 24 young people, representatives of municipal councils, municipal offices, youth councils, and CSOs, coming from all over the Western Balkans. They participated in the fifth edition of the Youth Trail under the motto “Together
read more
OHRID – The RYCO Local Branch Office in North Macedonia and the OSCE Mission to Skopje organized four-day training for RYCO senior management, Youth Representatives in the RYCO Governing Board and Heads of the RYCO Local Branch Offices. The training took place on 5-8 April in Ohrid. During the training, the RYCO staff and Youth
read more