“Some years ago we only dreamt about it. Now, it has actually come true.” This is what a representative of a youth organisation from the Western Balkans told me in Paris on 4 July 2016. That was the day when the six governments signed the common agreement creating RYCO. For years, different youth organisations in
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), in cooperation with the University of Vienna, the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ORF Promotion of EU-Integration on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), publishes the publication A Better Region Starts with
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WESTERN BALKANS – The International Day for Tolerance is observed annually on 16 November. It was first proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1996, as a reminder of the importance of human rights and freedoms in the diverse communities we live in. RYCO’s efforts to shape the present and build a better future
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WESTERN BALKANS – After they successfully completed the Training of Trainers, and to utilize their newly gained skills and knowledge, expand the ypeer network among their groups and promote best innovative ideas of peacebuilding, the Western Balkan youth are organizing local workshops in Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia. The workshops are organized with the support of
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WESTERN BALKANS – Developed and conducted by the two researchers, Teo Petricevic and Jelena Andjelic, and coordinated by the RISE consortium, the Regional Study and Guidelines on Social Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans provides the most recent, relevant, and concise information on the current state of social entrepreneurship and youth entrepreneurship in the Western Balkans.
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WESTERN BALKANS – The RISE project selected 137 young entrepreneurs gathered in 46 teams coming 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
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WESTERN BALKANS – Under the framework of the advocacy project “A Better Region starts with Youth” implemented by RYCO with the support of the Federal Republic of Germany, RYCO is launching a Western Balkans wide online survey asking youth about their opinion on digital tools. Supporting the goals of the advocacy projects, and the launch
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PRISTINA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Kosovo Ms Krenare Gashi-Krasniqi met with the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Ambassador Jan Braathu on Thursday, 22 October. Ms Gashi-Krasniqi and Ambassador Jan Braathu discussed the achieved results and impact of the successful capacity building training jointly organized by RYCO and the
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PRISTINA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Kosovo Ms Krenare Gashi-Krasniqi and LBO Program Assistant Mr Ramadan Sokoli met with the recently appointed German Ambassador to Kosovo Mr Jörn Rohde and the Deputy Head of Mission Mr Jan-Axel Voss. The meeting took place at the premises of the German Embassy in Pristina
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO in collaboration with the South East European Youth Network (SEEYN) organized an online training on digital tools for the grantees of the third RYCO Open Call, which took place from 24 to 25 September. The two-day training was designed to support grantees in the process of switching to online activities and
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