WESTERN BALKANS – The six Local Incubators are organizing a series of the informative sessions for all the young entrepreneurs from the Western Balkans interested in taking part in the RISE Journey. The informative sessions aim to give answers to all the questions regarding the program and ongoing call for applications. The schedule of the
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PODGORICA – RYCO is launching an open call for participation in the capacity building training for project design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation, activism and intercultural learning in the Western Balkans. The call is open for less experienced representatives of civil society organizations from Montenegro. The training is supported by the OSCE Mission
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO is looking for project proposals that will change the Western Balkans. The overall financial envelope for this call is 330.000€ which is available to civil society organisations from across the region. The overall objective of the fourth RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals is to support the civil society in the
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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 – 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 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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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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WESTERN BALKANS – Today marks four years since the six prime ministers of the Western Balkans signed the Agreement on the Establishment of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office. On the occasion of the RYCO’s fourth birthday, RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša and RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa wrote an open letter, reflecting on
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