WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is looking for a consultancy to ensure that the organization’s Action Team and RYCO improve their capacities in order to guarantee transparent, efficient, effective and purposeful use of funds within the 4th Open Call for Project Proposals through the monitoring and mentoring process of the grantees
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Dear Applicants, We would like to express our gratitude towards all of you who have shown the interest and made efforts to take part in the fourth RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals. The Call was built upon the results and experiences of the three RYCO open calls from 2017, 2018 and 2019 but also
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO is looking for project proposals that will change the Western Balkans. The overall financial envelope for this call is 330.000€ which is available to civil society organisations from across the region. The overall objective of the fourth RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals is to support the civil society in the
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for production of informational videos. The tender is being launched within the project Enhancing Youth Cooperation and Youth Exchange in the WB6 supported by the European Union. RYCO is seeking the services of individual consultants, teams of consultants or
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) is inviting tenderers to submit their offers for Grant Making Expert. The tender is being launched within the project Enhancing Youth Cooperation and Youth Exchange in the WB6 supported by the European Union. The expert will focus on providing an overview of the grant-making practices and
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WESTERN BALKANS – As the global number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) has been increasing and the first cases are being confirmed across the Western Balkans, RYCO issues the following statement on the COVID-19 outbreak. Having in mind that RYCO’s key activities include supporting the youth mobility programs in the Western Balkans but also
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO organized a series of local consultations meetings in which young people had a direct say on how they want to see our programs being organized. The twelve meetings were organized on 11 to 21 February and brought together 308 young people from across the Western Balkans. To get direct contact with
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WESTERN BALKANS – We strongly believe that young people should have a strong say whenever programs and policies are designed for them. That is why we want to hear from young people what types of projects and approaches to intercultural learning they would favor in the RYCO Calls for Project Proposals. RYCO is organizing a
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WESTERN BALKANS – Taking into account the diversity of young people in the Western Balkans, we call upon young people to tell us what motivates them to apply and to participate in youth mobility programs, and what the existing obstacles to their participation are. To take part in the survey, please select the language you
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TIRANA/BRUSSELS – The European Union has awarded €500.000 for a new two-year Regional Youth Cooperation Office’s (RYCO) project, which will enhance youth mobility, youth cooperation and youth activism in the Western Balkans thereby supporting the process of reconciliation in the region. The project activities will contribute to increasing levels of youth participation, but also raising
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