Milan attended his first youth exchange programme in the spring of 2018. Milan is not his real name but he is a real person who shared his story. He enjoyed his stay in Sarajevo, where he immersed himself in the topic of dealing with the past and made new friends. He did not get much
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About participants of RYCO funded youth exchanges The big budget friendly and modern hotel in Sarajevo hums like a beehive on this sunny afternoon in early spring 2018. About 30 teenagers run up and down stairs, open room doors and call out names. Some of them travelled in groups, thus knowing each other, but all
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WESTERN BALKANS – Head of the RYCO Local Branch Office in Serbia Ms Marija Bulat participated in the international conference “Western Balkans in Comparative Perspectives – European Social Survey” which was held online, on 4 and 5 December. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers and policymakers from the Western Balkans region
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WESTERN BALKANS – Within the project “Supporting the Western Balkans collective leadership on reconciliation: building capacity and momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)”, UNDP is implementing an activity that seeks to address the deficit in the evidence-base on youth’s perceptions about peace and conflict issues in the Western Balkans. The activity is centered
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PODGORICA – RYCO organized a working meeting within the first research project on the topics of dealing with the past in the framework of the first youth exchange projects supported by RYCO. The two-day meeting took place in Podgorica where the researchers presented and discussed their observations, and on this basis conclusions and recommendations to be formulated for RYCO for
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TIRANA – We are honored to present you the first RYCO Strategic Plan for the upcoming three years (2019-2021).We express our immense gratitude towards a number of stakeholders who participated in the strategic planning process – representatives of international and regional partner organizations, civil society organizations, governments of the Western Balkans, secondary schools from the
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PODGORICA – RYCO organized a preparatory meeting of the first research project on the topics of dealing with the past in the framework of the first youth exchange projects supported by RYCO. The meeting took place on 17-18 July in Podgorica, Montenegro. Six researchers and youth workers gathered to explore ways in which they identified
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BERLIN – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša, RYCO Program Officer Ms Bojana Bulatović and RYCO Local Branch Officer in Serbia Ms Marija Bulat met on Monday in Berlin with the experts in the fields of youth policy and research when they begun discussions on the role of research in the context of work of
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