WESTERN BALKANS – The RISE project is launching its open call for applications for young entrepreneurs from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia to develop their social business ideas. Through a series of workshops, lectures, meetups, mobility programs and financial support, young people will have a chance to learn, grow, do
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WESTERN BALKANS – Today marks the International Youth Day. Firstly observed on 12 August 2000, this day serves as a reminder of the potential that young people have in making a positive contribution to society. The Western Balkans region is composed of diverse and dynamic young people that have consistently proven their willingness to make
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for external audit. RYCO is planning to finalize a contract with an auditing company for the provision of auditing services in the framework of the project entitled ORF promotion in EU integration with support of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO and its partners organized the third Co-design Workshop of the ROUTE WB6 project on 22 – 24 of July, aiming to support youth to fully engage in a collaborative design of a regional volunteering exchange program. More than twenty participants, including national project coordinators, former EVS volunteers, representatives of RYCO Local
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EUROPE – The closing ceremony of the Re-boot Europe conference was held online on 21 July. The conference, organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Southeast Europe Initiative of the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), gathered more than 100 young Europeans from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and
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WESTERN BALKANS – Organized within a joint RYCO-UN project supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund, RYCO and UNFPA are implementing the Western Balkans Y-Peer Training of Trainers, gathering 21 young people from hard to reach groups who will become ypeer trainers. Through a series of online and planned offline trainings, the participants will develop new
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WESTERN BALKANS – The last couple of days on social media, especially in Kosovo* and Serbia, are marked with tensions and negative discussions on nationalism and ethnicity issues among people in the Western Balkans region and beyond. These discussions involve a number of young people but also world-wide known public figures. As we witness divisive
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WESTERN BALKANS – The RISE project will support over 200 young entrepreneurs from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia to develop their social business ideas. Through a series of workshops, mobility programs and financial support, young people will have a chance to learn, grow, develop their businesses and at the same
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EUROPE – On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Southeast Europe Initiative of the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), the Re-Boot Europe conference is taking place online in the next six days. The event discussed the future of Europe and brings together 100 young European citizens, between 17 and 25 years old, coming from
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WESTERN BALKANS – Today we remember thousands of victims of the most horrifying event that has happened on the European soil since the Second World War. Twenty-five years ago, in July 1995, the war and its perpetrators, in a small town of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina took away 8.372 lives. RYCO recalls the fact that
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