WESTERN BALKANS – Project promotes reconciliation, cooperation and better understanding in the region by bringing together 24 young people, 18-30 year-old, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Serbia. They will spend nine days together learning how to use film in educative and activist purpose, learn about and discuss joint Balkan traditions and shared
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LONDON – The fifth Berlin Process Summit was held on 9-10 July in London, the United Kingdom. The Summit gathered the heads and ministers of the governments of the Western Balkans, as well as the EU Member States interested in the region. Moreover, the Summit was participated by representatives of the region’s civil society, regional
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NIKŠIĆ – REACT 2018 is open for participants, residents of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro, 19 – 30 year-old (no need to be students), scholars, researchers and experts working in think-tanks and academic institutions, practitioners, young members of political parties, etc. The project is supported by RYCO within its first Open
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NOVI SAD – The Third Regional Youth Forum took place in Novi Sad, Serbia last weekend (29 June – 1 July). The event gathered around 200 young opinionated leaders, between 18 and 35 years old, with a proven record of making an impact in their communities and offered them a place for knowledge sharing and
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TIRANA – RYCO organizes the first meeting of the selected Members of Parliaments (MPs) of the Western Balkans within the program Strengthening Political Support for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office. The event is taking place in Tirana from 25 to 27 June 2018. During the opening panel discussion, after the introductory remarks of RYCO Deputy
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BERLIN – In a close cooperation with CrossBorder Factory and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, we organized the first preparation meeting within the program Supporting Regional Cooperation – Role of RYCO Governing Board. The event that took place on 17-18 June in Berlin, Germany gathered the Youth Representatives in the RYCO Governing Board. It aimed
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BRUSSELS – RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa took part in the “HERE WE COME – A Conference on Talent Management and Youth Perspectives in the Western Balkans” organised by the Antall József Knowledge Centre in cooperation with the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies on Tuesday in Brussels. Mr Mustafa, as a keynote speaker, together
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VIENNA – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) announced on Monday the 18 finalists of the OSCE Scholarship Programme for young people from the Western Balkans to attend the European Innovation Academy (EIA), one of the world’s leading summer entrepreneurship programmes in Turin, Italy. The scholarships were promoted through the network of the OSCE Field
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SARAJEVO – NIŠ – TIRANA – Nisville Jazz Festival, together with its partners (Syri Blue from Tirana and Motus Adulescenti from Sarajevo) within the project “SaNiTi (Sarajevo – Niš – Tirana) Jazz Project”, invite young musicians (those who already play jazz as well as those who intend to take more active part in this music
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO Local Branch Officers in the RYCO Contracting Parties’ capitals held the strategic dialogue meetings with relevant stakeholders working in the field of youth policy during the last week around the region. The meetings were the activities announced during the Strategic Conference (click here to read more) in Macedonia and it is
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