Alban Kukaj always made sure that his drawings were filled with bright colors. The object that appeared most often in his drawings was the bus, as he wanted to go by bus to reunite with his father in Slovenia. But Alban never joined his father, nor did he draw again. He was killed on the
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WESTERN BALKANS – The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the lives of all of us and in the last year, it has made almost irreversible changes in our daily lives. Just when humanity had almost lost hope, several types of vaccines appeared that seemed like a light at the end of the tunnel. But at
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WESTERN BALKANS – The Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) Local Branch Office in Serbia and the OSCE Mission to Serbia are proud to announce the launch of a series of online events “Among RYCO Friends”. The first event will be dealing with the project writing process and will give participants the opportunity to find a
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ALBANIA/SERBIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Omladinski Košarkaški Klub “Play 017” from Serbia in partnership with the Pro-Basket Invaders Association from Albania, the High School “Sezai Suroi” and the High School “Sveti Sava” from Bujanovac, Serbia, implemented the project “Let’s Play Together”.
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TIRANA – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka took part in the thematic webinar YOU(th) talk #2: Youth perspectives on Europe: Empowerment and Participation, which took place online on Wednesday, 24 March. The webinar gathered a panel of diplomats, experts and civil society representatives to discuss on various issues
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/SERBIA – Within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, the Technical School Vladičin Han from Serbia in partnership with the High School of Transport and Communications from Bosnia and Herzegovina implemented the project “It is better together”. The project took place from February to
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WESTERN BALKANS – Youth are the pillar of the future of the region. This is the motto for several young people in the city of Veles in North Macedonia, who have decided to take part in politics and to raise their voice in the policy-making process. Izabela Apceva has been a political activist for a
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/SERBIA – Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina in cooperation with the Association Forgotten Children of the War invite young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia who are between 18 and 26 years old to take part in the ‘Digital Natives Combating Dangerous Narratives in Western Balkans’ project. The project aims to gather
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SKOPJE – Within the framework of a regular yearly reporting by the RYCO Local Branch Office in North Macedonia, an informative meeting took place between the representatives of the RYCO Local Branch Office in North Macedonia and stakeholders and friends of RYCO on Tuesday, 23 March. The online event aimed to present the experiences from
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Op-ed by Vladimir Gjorgjevski, Former Youth Representative of North Macedonia in the RYCO Governing Board If someone would say to the young people who participated in the projects at the early beginnings of theFranco-German Youth Office in 1963 that they are participating in long-term peacebuilding, intercultural cooperation and joint future, they would consider it as
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