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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WESTERN BALKANS – BLINK together with its partners is organizing a four-day training course, for strengthening capacities of key youth actors in Vrnjačka Banja. The activity aims to involve youngsters with fewer opportunities from Kosovo*, Montenegro and Serbia in a set of activities that can assist them for the possibilities and cooperation without fear of prejudice and discrimination.
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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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TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša met on Tuesday with the Ambassador of Poland to Albania H. E. Mr Karol Bachura when they discussed the possible ways of cooperation between RYCO and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the framework of the next year’s Berlin Process summit. The meeting was held in
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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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TIRANA – Following the OSCE scholarship program at the European Innovation Academy summer course in Turin (7-28 July 2018), and in preparation of the Connectivity Meeting planned in Tirana on 8-9 November, the second coordination meeting of the YDEAS project intended to discuss how to harness the potentialities of the regional community of innovators –
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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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WESTERN BALKANS – The youth exchange “Rainbow Bridge” will gather 30 youngsters from Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro in the period 6 – 14 October 2018 in Struga, Macedonia. Youngsters coming from minority and majority groups, different ethnic, religious, political and social background will have an opportunity to work together towards building better Western Balkans for
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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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