PODGORICA – Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) in cooperation and with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a four-day Capacity Building Training for the representatives of CSOs and high schools from Montenegro on 25 – 28 September in Podgorica. Twenty-seven participants from a number of cities and regions in Montenegro attended the
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SARAJEVO – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Berina Bukva presented RYCO activities, capacities and its strategic components at the round table “What Political Parties Offer to Young People in BiH?” hosted by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on Tuesday in Sarajevo. The representatives of the political parties presented their programs for
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TIRANA – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka took part in the Hearing with Civil Society Organisations of Albania on Youth Policy and Youth Participation organized on Tuesday by the Western Balkans Follow-up Committee, part of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The EESC is undertaking a few days of intense
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SKOPJE – RYCO, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, is launching the open call for participation in the capacity building training for project design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation and activism in the Western Balkans. The call is opened for less experienced representatives of the civil society organizations and secondary schools
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SARAJEVO – The “ACTO” conference organized on Tuesday by the Youth Council of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered more than 40 young people from umbrella organizations of Southern Eastern Europe. The conference’s main focus was the youth participation in decision making processes which was discussed on a panel moderated by RYCO Local Branch Officer
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SKOPJE – The second edition of the “Bridging the gap between youth policy, youth participation and parliamentarians in the Western Balkans” conference is taking place on 20 and 21 September in Skopje. The event brought together participants from parliaments from the Western Balkans 6 as well as youth organizations’ activists. The central topic of the
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WESTERN BALKANS – Youth for Peace, in cooperation with Somborski omladinski Boom and MAYAA – Montenegrin American Youth Alumni Association, invites youth to take part in the project YOUr Past, Present, Future. The project is supported by RYCO within its first Open Call for Project Proposals. The aim of the project is to educate youth on topics of discrimination, constructive conflict transformation, human
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša signed on Tuesday the Platform for Peace, a declaration document developed as part of USAID’s PRO-Future project to promote acceptance of peace-building and reconciliation processes among ethnicities and religious communities in BiH and to garner support for the activities at both the BiH and local levels. We
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KRUSEVO – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Macedonia organized a four-day capacity building training for project design in the areas of youth mobility, cooperation and activism in the Western Balkans. The training took place from 11 to 14 September in Krusevo, Macedonia and gathered 33 representatives of high schools and recently established civil society
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LONDON – Following the recent Western Balkans Summit in London, the UK Parliament hosted the International Parliamentary Seminar on the Western Balkans under the auspices of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU). The event took place in the Palace of Westminster from 10 to 12 September. The event brought together the parliamentarians from
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