TIRANA – RYCO Secretary General Mr Đuro Blanuša gave an interview for the Albanian Daily News where he spoke about the key achievements of RYCO in 2019, challenges for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and announced future RYCO plans for youth cooperation in the region. You can read the interview in its entirety below. The
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VALJEVO – The final workshop of the project „SEAVA youth“ supported by RYCO and United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, brought together twenty-five young people from Montenegro and Serbia. The workshop organized in partnership between NGO iACT from Montenegro and Valjevska Kulturna Mreža (VAKUM) from Serbia took place in Valjevo during the regional film festival “Valjevski filmski
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PODGORICA – RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro hosted a visit by Mr Sebastian Maass from Interkulturelles Netzwerk (Germany), Mr Maxime Boitieux from Peuple Et Culture (France) and Ms Lea Cikos from Volunteers’ Centre of Vojvodina (Serbia). Head of RYCO Local Branch Office in Montenegro Mr Edin Koljenović used this opportunity to present RYCO’s mission,
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TIRANA – RYCO Local Branch Office in Albania participated in the EU Fair Fest “Me and Europe”, that took place in Tirana on the 24th of January. The one-day event organized by Albanian Student Abroad Network (ASAN) aimed to inform youth on the culture and values of the European Union while providing them the opportunity to
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WESTERN BALKANS – Supported through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals co-financed by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), the Youth Center KVART (Prijedor, BiH) and the Humanitarian Law Center of Kosovo invite young people from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo* to apply for participation in a youth
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WESTERN BALKANS – Today marks the International Day of Education. Proclaimed in 2018, it honors education and its centrality to human well-being and sustainable development. RYCO joins the celebration and adapts the 2020 theme ‘Learning for people, planet, prosperity and peace’ to the Western Balkans. RYCO strongly believes that education plays a pivotal role in
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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 – Supported by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, together with its partners UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF from Albania, RYCO is holding an annual planning workshop of the “Supporting the Western Balkan’s Collective Leadership on Reconciliation: Building Capacities and Momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)” project. The workshop is taking place in Tirana
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SKOPJE – RYCO Local Branch Office in North Macedonia organized a financial consultancy workshop and signing ceremony for seven grantees and 13 partner youth organizations supported through the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposal funded by RYCO and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. The event took place in Skopje on 27 December 2019. During
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OHRID – Through its second Open Call, RYCO and the United Nations Peace Building Fund supported thirty-two young people from North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, participants of a five-day Scout United youth scout exchange. The program organized in partnerships between First Scout Unit from Skopje and Scouts Units from Prijedor, Cetinje and Niš, took place
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