SARAJEVO – The European Youth Olympic Festival started in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday. As the official partner of EYOF volunteers’, YOUNG PR Team from Western Balkans gathered and is currently in Sarajevo as volunteers of EYOF 2019. A special project within the EYOF 2019 – “In Youth Eyes” – is joint cooperation of
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WESTERN BALKANS – As the world marks the very first International Day of Education, we want to underline that it is clear that young people who are more exposed to civic education programs have different attitudes and behaviors than less educated young people, and than older generations. Empirical evidence shows that these attitudes and behaviors change
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SARAJEVO – The European Union recognizes the regional cooperation in the Western Balkans as one of the priorities in the region. In order to promote and improve cooperation possibilities and reconciliation between the young people in the region, the EU Info Center in Sarajevo, in cooperation with RYCO and Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia
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SARAJEVO – The eight meeting of the RYCO Governing Board took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday. The meeting discussed the quarterly report of the RYCO Secretariat, the second Open Call for Project Proposals as well as the further institutional development of the organization. Throughout its work, the Governing Board continues to exercise
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WESTERN BALKANS – Regional Youth Cooperation Office in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan would like to thank all the applicants for taking time and submitting the application for the youth exchange “Western Balkans Meet Japan – A Bridge Into Future”. Due to a considerable amount of applications and limited number of places for
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SARAJEVO – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ms Berina Bukva presented RYCO activities, capacities and its strategic components at the round table “What Political Parties Offer to Young People in BiH?” hosted by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy on Tuesday in Sarajevo. The representatives of the political parties presented their programs for
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TIRANA – RYCO Local Branch Officer in Albania Mr Kreshnik Loka took part in the Hearing with Civil Society Organisations of Albania on Youth Policy and Youth Participation organized on Tuesday by the Western Balkans Follow-up Committee, part of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The EESC is undertaking a few days of intense
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SKOPJE – The second edition of the “Bridging the gap between youth policy, youth participation and parliamentarians in the Western Balkans” conference is taking place on 20 and 21 September in Skopje. The event brought together participants from parliaments from the Western Balkans 6 as well as youth organizations’ activists. The central topic of the
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MIRAI Program 2018: Western Balkans Youth Exchange (Mutual-understanding, Intellectual Relations and Academic Exchange Initiative) WESTERN BALKANS – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office are implementing the youth exchange “Western Balkans meet Japan: A Bridge into the Future”, on 30 October to 7 November 2018, and invites 17 undergraduate
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WESTERN BALKANS – Youth for Social Changes (Albania) in partnership with Youth Alliance-Krusevo (Macedonia), Udruženje Centar za razvoj socijalnog poduzetništva (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Centar za edukaciju i unapređenje društva – CEUD (Serbia), NGO Prima (Montenegro) and Raise Your Hand For Help (Kosovo) are calling for applicants within their project Rural Youth: Let’s Awake the Opportunities. The project aims to develop the
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