WESTERN BALKANS – Today commemorates the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the ending of the Holocaust. Each year on 27 January, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day serves as a tribute to the memory of the Holocaust victims. Moreover, it reaffirms and calls for commitment to countering antisemitism, racism and
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ALBANIA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/ NORTH MACEDONIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the High Municipality School Goce Delchev in North Macedonia, in partnership with Dhaskal Todri High School in Albania and Blessed Ivan Merz Catholic School Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina, implemented the project “Together
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WESTERN BALKANS – Within the project “Supporting the Western Balkans collective leadership on reconciliation: building capacity and momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)”, UNICEF Albania is seeking a consultant to provide instructional design expertise, in order to create an interactive online version of the training resource: “Intercultural Dialogue, Peacebuilding, Remembrance and Reconciliation: A
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ALBANIA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka participated in an online discussion on “EU-Western Balkans – Youth struggles and challenges towards EU Integration” held within the Europe Jam series, organized by Democracy International and the European Public Sphere. The event took place on 19 January and gathered members
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ALBANIA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/NORTH MACEDONIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Youth Center John Paul II (NCM) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, in partnership with the National Association for Life (SHKEJ) form Albania and Acta Non Verba (ANV) from North Macedonia, implemented the project “Scroll
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Milan attended his first youth exchange programme in the spring of 2018. Milan is not his real name but he is a real person who shared his story. He enjoyed his stay in Sarajevo, where he immersed himself in the topic of dealing with the past and made new friends. He did not get much
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša, RYCO Deputy Secretary General Mr Fatos Mustafa, Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka and RYCO Communication and Visibility Officer Mr Nikola Ristić met with the French Ambassador to Albania Ms Elisabeth Barsacq at the RYCO Head Office in Tirana on Tuesday,
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ALBANIA/KOSOVO/NORTH MACEDONIA/SERBIA – Supported by RYCO and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, Projekte Vullnetare Ndërkombëtare (PVN) in Albania, in partnership with Dance sport club Kreator Dens in North Macedonia, Innovative Centre for Social Improvement (ICSI) in Kosovo, and AzBuki in Serbia, implemented the project “Power of
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About participants of RYCO funded youth exchanges The big budget friendly and modern hotel in Sarajevo hums like a beehive on this sunny afternoon in early spring 2018. About 30 teenagers run up and down stairs, open room doors and call out names. Some of them travelled in groups, thus knowing each other, but all
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ALBANIA/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/SERBIA – Supported by RYCO and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, Creative Mentorship in Serbia, in partnership with Rruga me Pisha Foundation in Albania and OKC “Abrašević” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, implemented the project “Transforming the Region One Conversation at A Time – Inspiring
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