In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, some young people decided to use all their creative potential to create social change and make people’s lives better during a crisis. One such positive story is about the student Elena Saveska from the city of Tetovo in North Macedonia. Revolted by negative phenomena in society such as
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WESTERN BALKANS – The third episode of the You(th) Choose(s) podcast hosted by young journalists from the Western Balkans is taking us on another musical journey filled with teenage dreams. In difficult times, one of the things that we rely on is music. It creates a little bubble around us and allows us to forget
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Insecurity, anxiety, constant race against time and deadlines, stress – these are the words with which 46.8 percent of the surveyed students described studying during the coronavirus pandemic. A survey sent to 100 students shed light on their view of the problems caused by the pandemic. An unexpected pandemic that disrupted the plans, lifestyle and
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WESTERN BALKANS – The first workshop on the development of the Regional Volunteers Exchange scheme within the ROUTE WB6 project took place in Durres, Albania from 18 to 20 April 2021. Different units within RYCO were engaged in the workshops to offer their expertise in providing youth of the Western Balkans with the best regional
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WESTERN BALKANS – The second episode of the You(th) Choose(s) podcast hosted by young journalists from the Western Balkans is here. All of us music lovers have that one song that we secretly like to listen to when no one is around, don’t we? This episode is bringing us guilty pleasure songs that Western Balkan
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WESTERN BALKANS – The first episode of a new vibrant podcast titled You(th) Choose(s) is hosted by young journalists from the Western Balkans. It is a part of the RYCO supported program for students of journalism in the region. The podcast gathers young people from the region with Branislava Kolarov, Andrea Knežević and Dijana Dacin
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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 fourth RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals. The Call was built upon the results and experience of the previous three RYCO Open Calls which were launched during 2017, 2018
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Although in the last decade the policy in Montenegro has made progress in regulating the rights of the LGBTIQ community, with the adoption of the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination (2011), the Strategy for Improving the Quality of Life of LGBTIQ Persons (2013) and the Law on Life Partnership (2020), society does not keep pace
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WESTERN BALKANS – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia publishes the “Beginner’s Manual for Project Proposal Writing 101”.This Manual is conceptualized to support the advancement of project writing skills for the successful design of projects and initiatives that can connect the Western Balkan youth. It supports
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WESTERN BALKANS – Within the framework of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation” project, the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UN PBF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in cooperation with the Mozaik Foundation, Beyond42 and Mašta, are organizing the
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