TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša gave an interview for the Albanian Daily News where he spoke about the key achievements of RYCO in 2019, challenges for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and announced future RYCO plans for youth cooperation in the region. You can read the interview in its entirety below. The
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Dear Applicants, We would like to express our gratitude towards all of you who have shown the interest and made efforts to take part in the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals. The Call was built upon the results and experiences of the first RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals which was launched in
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VALJEVO – The final workshop of the project „SEAVA youth“ supported by RYCO and United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, brought together twenty-five young people from Montenegro and Serbia. The workshop organized in partnership between NGO iACT from Montenegro and Valjevska Kulturna Mreža (VAKUM) from Serbia took place in Valjevo during the regional film festival “Valjevski filmski
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TIRANA – The Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of Albania published an open call for the position of the Youth Representative of Albania in the RYCO Governing Board. The Youth Representative will be given a mandate of three years with no possibility of extension. He/she will represent the interest of the youth of Albania
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BELGRADE – The ROUTE WB6 project that aims at promoting long-term and short-term cross-border volunteering as a tool that will contribute to a reduction of social and ethnic distance among young people in the region just conducted its first designing workshop in Belgrade. This three-day workshop was the first of a series of planned events for
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PRISTINA – RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa took part in the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Seminar for Junior Diplomats organized in Pristina on 10-11 February when he discussed the future of the Berlin Process with a special focus on boosting regional cooperation among youth in the Western Balkans. The panel discussion moderated
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PRISTINA – RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa and Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Kosovo Ms Krenare Gashi-Krasniqi met on Tuesday with the recently appointed Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport of Kosovo Ms Vlora Dumoshi when they discussed the organization’s activities and the government’s support to its work. RYCO representatives
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PRISTINA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blnauša took part in the CSO Dialogue Forum organized in Pristina on 4 and 5 February. Participating the panel discussion Youth as an emerging actor of the dialogue, he discussed youth emigration but also ways how young people are creating new opportunities for education and employment in Serbia
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WESTERN BALKANS – We strongly believe that young people should have a strong say whenever programs and policies are designed for them. That is why we want to hear from young people what types of projects and approaches to intercultural learning they would favor in the RYCO Calls for Project Proposals. RYCO is organizing a
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TIRANA – RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania participated in the EU Fair Fest “Me and Europe”, that took place in Tirana on the 24th of January. The one-day event organized by Albanian Student Abroad Network (ASAN) aimed to inform youth on the culture and values of the European Union while providing them the opportunity to
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