WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania and Epoka University are organizing the third event within the series of the reconciliation seminars “Can Old Gloves Fit Young Hands: Learning about the Western Balkans from a Different Perspective”. The third seminar, titled “Reconciliation through Youth Perceptions” will take place online, on 16 June 2021,
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Young European Ambassadors (YEA) network is launching a new call for applications for young people from the Western Balkans. All interested persons from the region aged between 18 and 29 years old and inspired to become leaders of change are invited to apply. The YEA network launched in August 2020 with
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WESTERN BALKANS – Let’s get Balkan Real podcast by Kiara Manja brings together young journalists from the Western Balkans to discuss their daily lives in the region, from traditions and customs to festivities and cuisine. Those small Zoom talks of youth are just part of the content created during RYCO’s supported program for students of
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KOSOVO* – RYCO Local Branch Office in Kosovo in partnership with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, invites young journalists and students of journalism to participate in a training and mentoring program on “Intercultural Dialogue and Transitional Journalism”. This program aims to strengthen and improve the skills and knowledge of young journalists in Kosovo in the
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TIRANA – RYCO Program Manager Mr Besnik Vasolli and RYCO Program Assistant Mr Sokol Zeneli met with representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Albania, on Thursday, 10 June. The meeting took place at the premises of IOM in Tirana and was attended by Chief of Mission/Western Balkan Sub-Regional Coordinator at IOM Albania
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BELGRADE – RYCO Secretary General Mr Albert Hani together with Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia Ms Ivana Antonijević and Youth Representative of Serbia in the RYCO Governing Board Mr Marko Kostić had a series of meetings with partners and stakeholders in Belgrade during this week. The meetings were organized during the
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Dialogue Southeast Europe is partnering with Sarajevo Film Festival in efforts to support the True Stories Market which will take place this year from 13 August to 20 August 2021. The True Stories Market, which is part of the Dealing with the Past program, is a unique event
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For hundreds of years the compound of the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren was used as a shelter for the army. An ambitious German project now aims to turn it into a place for innovation and business planning. On June 13 1999, German KFOR troops entered the city of Prizren. Their main task
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GERMANY/WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO Secretary General Mr Albert Hani participated in the Foreign Ministers Meeting held within the Berlin Process, which took place online on Tuesday, 8 June. The meeting was hosted by the German Federal Foreign Minister Mr Heiko Maas and focused on supporting the development of closer ties between the Western Balkans 6
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Podgorica – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro Mr Edin Koljenović met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro Mr Đorđe Radulović on Monday, 7 June, at the premisses of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro. During the meeting, Mr Koljenović emphasised that RYCO was founded within the Berlin Process
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