Description Max. Grant amount: USD 23.000
The Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation of the German Marshall Fund (BST) are continuing their joint funding initiative to support confidence building activities of non-state actors in the South Caucasus and its neighboring countries. The partners are convinced that civil society can make a valuable contribution to the process of confidence building, mutual understanding and reconciliation between populations in territories presently of recently involved in conflicts. This initiative is designed to encourage grantees to investigate new ways, methods and approaches for fostering mutual understanding.
Projects working in the following areas would be especially appreciated:
- cross-border initiatives for youth;
- approaches to civic education or active citizenship;
- approaches to reconciliation and peace that incorporate experiences from history and convey them to the younger generation;
- the role of media in overcoming stereotypes.
Eligibility
The projects should be initiated by civil society organizations which can effectively engage target audiences within the population of the region in their projects’ activities. Organizations requesting grants must be legally registered in one of the following countries:Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia and Turkey. The involvement of additional partners (especially those from the EU) is possible and welcome.
Budget
The average grant will be around: 23.000 USD (about 18.000 EUR). Multilateral projects may exceed that amount in exceptional cases.
Deadline: 1 October 2014.
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