BERLIN – Regional Youth Cooperation Office in partnership with Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE), Crossborder Factory and Franco German Youth Office (OFAJ/FGYO) organized a follow-up event of the “Friday, Saturday and Sunday for Future” which previously took part in an online form, from the 21-23rd of January 2022 initiated within the French Presidency of
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PLJEVLJA – The RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro in cooperation with the Council of Europe organized the activity Block the Hatred. Share inclusion! took place in Pljevlja, on the 23rd of November 2022. This event aimed at involving students from different communities, especially those vulnerable and marginalized, in the open discussion with the decision
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BELGRADE – RYCO LBO Serbia for the second year consecutively hosted the Regional Strategic Meet-up with Umbrella Youth Organizations and National Youth Councils from the Western Balkans, from 15 to 17 December 2022. in Belgrade. This was the third strategic meeting which RYCO have organized until now with the National Youth Council of Serbia (Krovna
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WESTERN BALKANS – RYCO is pleased to announce that 100 secondary schools from the Western Balkans are selected to participate in the RYCO Superschools Western Balkans School Exchange Scheme in its 2nd year of implementation. The selected schools from the region will implement regional exchanges including more than 1500 students, while RYCO will offer various
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RYCO – RYCO Local Branch Office in Skopje, attended the launching event of the “Youth Dialogue” series organized by the Europe House Skopje on the 14th of December. “We as representatives of institutions must offer more opportunities and invest more in creating enabling environment for youth participation based on the co-management principle, but the youth
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BUDVA – RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized the first Capacity Building Training for Young Journalists from Montenegro. The training is taking place in Budva, from 6-9 December 2022, bringing together 17 representatives of media from different parts of Montenegro. The key goal of the training
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TIRANA – On the occasion of the National Youth Day in Albania on 8 December 2022, RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania, co-organized together with its partners the concluding event of the Human and Minority Rights Academy 2022, entitled “We are here”. The event was jointly hosted by the Albanian Human Rights Group, and Youth
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North Macedonia – On 5th of December 2022, Mr. Blazen Maleski, youth representative of North Macedonia in the Governing Board of Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), was one of the panelists of a high official event organized by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, Skopje, and the German Embassy in North Macedonia, in the frame of intensified
read moreTIRANA – From Nov 29- Dec 2, 2022, 12 pupils from the Western Balkans region, six from the RYCO Superschools program, and 6 from the ZfA (Central Agency for German Schools Abroad) gathered in Tirana, Albania to participate in the Workshop “My city made different” organized by RYCO in cooperation with GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für
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BERLIN – Both the RYCO Secretariat and Governing Board attended a working visit to Berlin from November 23 to 26. The high-level meetings were mainly focused on Shaping and Strengthening Regional Cooperation among Young Citizens of the Western Balkans in Challenging Times. All contracting parties of Western Balkan were represented both by the government as
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