SARAJEVO – Ambassador of Germany to Bosnia and Herzegovina H.E. Ms Margaret Uebber and Ambassador of France to BiH H.E. Mr Guillaume Rousson jointly visited the RYCO Local Branch Office in Sarajevo. The visit and meeting took place in Sarajevo at the premises of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina. „Continuous and
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WESTERN BALKANS – Today is a perfect opportunity to remind us all, our societies and governments, that a sustainable contribution to our communities starts with the warm hearts of our volunteers. Voluntarism is and stays as one of the important RYCO’s core principles because we believe that the better regions starts with youth that are
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PRISTINA – In the continuation of the ROUTE WB6 project, with the support of RYCO, Lens in collaboration with the Office for Good Governance of the Prime Minister’s Office in Kosovo organized the second follow-up meeting in Pristina last Thursday. The event aimed at drafting a concept document for volunteering, which is being developed as
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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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PRISTINA – As part of the ROUTE WB6 project implemented by RYCO and seven partners from the Western Balkans, Lens organized a stakeholders’ meeting which took place in Pristina on Friday aiming at discussing the development of volunteering infrastructure in Kosovo. The meeting gathered more than 30 participants from all around Kosovo, representatives of NGOs,
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PARIS/WESTERN BALKASN – The “Western Balkans Youth Lab (WB6 Lab)” is a regional incubator for entrepreneurship and innovation designed for young leaders and change-makers. The AFD (Agence Française de Développement) has just allocated €500,000 to the project. Over a three-year period (from October 2019 to September 2022), the project has two objectives: to create a
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SHËNGJIN – The Steering Committee of the UN Peacebuilding Fund supported project Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation: Building Capacities and Momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) took place in Shëngjin, Albania on Tuesday. The meeting discussed the overall project and major activities in 2019 but also other relevant peace-building interventions
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TIRANA – The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has awarded over 700.000€ for a new three-year Regional Youth Cooperation Office’s (RYCO) project which will strengthen capacities of the National Volunteer Services in the Western Balkans, develop and test Regional Volunteer Service, scale up and promote a regional volunteer program. The project will target young
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TIRANA – The UNICEF Country Office in Albania in close consultation with UNICEF Country Offices in other WB6 participants and RYCO will hire an international consultant who will work on mapping best practices in the region (and beyond) in intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and peace building as well as in developing age-appropriate methodologies to be used
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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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