Through the Enhancing Youth Cooperation and Youth Exchange in the WB6 project, the European Union supported RYCO to create a more enabling environment and new opportunities for young people to travel and explore the WB6, get to know their peers, and cooperate on shared projects in the field of community activism, culture, sports, environment, and many more.
The project builds upon the RYCO’s previous experience in grant-making and innovates it by making it more youth participatory. The project aimed to include young people in informing the priorities of RYCO work, increase their awareness about opportunities for youth participation across the region and work on strengthening the capacities of CSOs in the WB for the implementation of regional youth mobility projects.
Recognizing that youth mobility provides a multitude of benefits on the individual (change of values, attitudes and behaviour) and social level, this project strived to better inform young people about mobility opportunities and benefits of exchanges through the organization of events and campaigns, and the production of an Awareness Raising Strategy on youth mobility and its benefits. It supported youth organizations and young individuals to enhance their capacities in better voicing their needs, contributing, and benefitting from an enabling environment with reduced prejudice and discrimination.
