WESTERN BALKANS – Applications for the RYCO Superschools Western Balkans School Exchange Scheme are now open! RYCO will support 100 secondary schools from the Western Balkan region to implement regional exchanges for more than 1200 students, and will offer capacity building opportunities for more than 100 teachers. The Superschools Exchange program aims at supporting the
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TIRANA – The Regional Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs (RISE) project, supported by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) organized a three-day regional Forum on social entrepreneurship, which took place in Tirana, on 6-8 September 2022. The Forum brought together the most relevant actors and stakeholders of the entrepreneurial
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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