SARAJEVO – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Berina Bukva and LBO Program Assistant Mr Ali Mahmutćehajić met with the recently appointed French Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Christine Toudic. The meeting took place at the premises of the French Embassy in Sarajevo on Monday, 25 January, and
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ALBANIA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka participated in a virtual round table titled “Start-ups and SMEs before and after COVID-19”, which took place online on 27 January. The round table was organized by the Barleti Hub in Albania with the aim of discussing the current status of
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ALBANIA/KOSOVO/MONTENEGRO – Supported by RYCO and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, the Environmentally Responsible Action group (ERA) from Kosovo, in partnership with the International Volunteer Service for Development (VIS) from Albania and the NGO “Green Step” from Montenegro, implemented the project “Connecting Rural Youth Across Borders
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is seeking a legal expertise/consultancy that will support the organization in analyzing and developing the Local Branch Offices registration and present the legal options that RYCO is missing in order to find the most suitable one and adopt it accordingly in each of the WB6 Contracting
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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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