TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša participated in the opening ceremony of the Equal Rights Association’s regional conference Our Rights, Your Future, one of the biggest LGBTI+ events in the Balkans and Turkey. The conference which is taking place in Tirana from 7 – 9 November 2019 kicked off with the Trans Balkan
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WESTERN BALKANS – Twenty one young musicians from the WB6 has held four contemporary classical music concerts in Prizren, Tivat, Sarajevo and Belgrade. Young musicians gathered in the No Borders Orchestra (NBO) traveled through the region with the main goal to provide a tool and symbol to help overcome a violent history and to set an
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PODGORICA – RYCO is launching an 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 open for less experienced representatives of civil society organizations from Montenegro. The training is supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša participated in a panel discussion of the regional conference Tirana Connectivity Forum which is taking place in Tirana on 29 – 31 October 2019. The conference also gathers experts, researchers, academicians, CSOs and policymakers involved in the EU enlargement, regional cooperation, and connectivity dynamics in the Western Balkans.
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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša and on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Coordinator of the Western Balkans Summit in Poznań Mr Wiesław Tarka signed a donation agreement in Tirana on Tuesday. The donation amounting 180.000 Euros comes after the successful participation of RYCO in the
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TIRANA – On Tuesday, on the occasion of the National Activism Day of Albania, Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka had an open conversation with students of the Sami Frashëri High School in Tirana on the topic of activism on the local and regional level. Mr Loka shared his
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SARAJEVO – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša participated in a panel discussion of the regional conference Population Dynamics, Human Capital, and Sustainable Development in Southeast Europe which took place in Sarajevo on 21 – 22 October. The Conference also gathered high-level representatives, academics, and civil society, the United Nations and other international institutions in
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SHËNGJIN – RYCO and Transfer e.V organized an experts’ symposium entitled “Access and Barriers to Participation in Learning Mobility Projects – International Youth Work in Germany and the Western Balkan Six” in Shëngjin, Albania on 17-18 October. The participants discussed the “Access Study +” implemented in Germany in 2018/2019 focused on the barriers and obstacles
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SARAJEVO – RYCO and the Institute for Youth Development KULT signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Sarajevo today to formalize cooperation and work jointly on improving the position of young people in the Western Balkans, especially in the areas of youth mobility, reconciliation, and international youth cooperation. “The idea of regional cooperation, dialogue, and youth
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WESTERN BALKANS – For the third year in a row, RYCO is partnering on the Deutsche Welle’s Balkan Booster project. The project connects twenty-one young journalists from the Western Balkans and the surrounding EU Member States. By using their smartphones, they will create and produce around two-hundred multimedia stories on environmental topics in the Balkans.
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