WESTERN BALKANS – Today marks the International Day of Education. Proclaimed in 2018, it honors education and its centrality to human well-being and sustainable development. RYCO joins the celebration and adapts the 2020 theme ‘Learning for people, planet, prosperity and peace’ to the Western Balkans. RYCO strongly believes that education plays a pivotal role in
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WESTERN BALKANS – Taking into account the diversity of young people in the Western Balkans, we call upon young people to tell us what motivates them to apply and to participate in youth mobility programs, and what the existing obstacles to their participation are. To take part in the survey, please select the language you
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TIRANA – Supported by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, together with its partners UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF from Albania, RYCO is holding an annual planning workshop of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation: Building Capacities and Momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)” project. The workshop is taking place in Tirana
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO in cooperation with GROUPE SOS Pulse, SEEYN, the Franco-German Youth Office and Institut Français is opening two calls for local structures and consultants in the field of social entrepreneurship within the WB6 Lab Project. The purpose of the call for local structures is to select six of them (one in each
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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 third RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals. The Call was built upon the results and experiences of the first two RYCO open calls from 2017 and 2018 and dedicated
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OHRID – Through its second Open Call, RYCO and the United Nations Peace Building Fund supported thirty-two young people from North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, participants of a five-day Scout United youth scout exchange. The program organized in partnerships between First Scout Unit from Skopje and Scouts Units from Prijedor, Cetinje and Niš, took place
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NOVI SAD – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia and OPENS – European Youth Capital Novi Sad 2019 organized the Youth Rights Talks Regional. The event took place in Novi Sad on 14th December. The event gathered 80 young people from the region to share their ideas
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TIRANA – RYCO in cooperation with the Germany Embassy in Tirana organized a signing ceremony for twenty awarded projects through Third RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals in Tirana on Wednesday. The ceremony is a celebration of the agreement between the German Government and RYCO aiming to support the school-to-school youth cooperation and exchange in
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WESTERN BALKANS – We invite you to apply for becoming a member of a youth co-design team for a research and advocacy project on young people’s perceptions on peace and security in the Western Balkans. We are now calling for 24 enthusiastic volunteers (with 4 representatives from each Western Balkan 6 (12 women and 12
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO has implemented the second youth exchange “Western Balkans Meet Japan – A Bridge into the Future” in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. This year, fifteen young people from across the Western Balkans, accompanied by RYCO Program Manager Ms Bojana Bulatović, participated in the nine-day MIRAI youth exchange program that
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