WESTERN BALKANS – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia Ms Marija Bulat participated in the international conference “Western Balkans in Comparative Perspectives – European Social Survey” which was held online, on 4 and 5 December. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and policymakers from the Western Balkans region
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PRISTINA – Through the second Open Call co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, RYCO supported the project “A Youth Perspective to Remembering the Past in the Western Balkans” implemented by Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo* in partnership with Humanitarian Law Center Serbia and Association Transitional Justice, Accountability and Remembrance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project
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WESTERN BALKANS – Celebrated on 5 December every year, the International Volunteer Day raises awareness on the role volunteer’s play in responding to challenges the world is facing. Development of societies in which helping others is a core value is significantly important in crises such as the current one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore,
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for the tender “Health and travel insurance for Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)”. RYCO is looking for an insurance company that will offer health and travel insurance to RYCO staff in Albania following the details provided under the scope
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“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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PODGORICA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro Mr Edin Koljenović met with representatives of the recently established national Youth Network in Montenegro Mr Miloš Marković and Ms Andrijana Radović on Tuesday, when they discussed possibilities for future cooperation. Mr Koljenović expressed his congratulations on the establishment of the Youth Network as
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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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SARAJEVO – On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Mr Josep Borrell visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and met with members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stakeholders and youth
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BELGRADE – RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia had an honour to host a delegation of six Members of the Parliament from the National Assembly of Serbia at the premises of RYCO’s office in Belgrade on 20 November. Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia Ms Marija Bulat, LBO Program Assistant Ms Bojana
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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 Montenegro. The workshops are organized with the support of RYCO and UNFPA within
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