Background
The European Commission is seeking NGOs for its Second Roma Integration Award to provide policy support and technical assistance to Roma integration in the Western Balkans and Turkey. Each winning project will win EUR 10,000 and each project placed 2nd will win EUR 5,000. Each winner and each participant placed 2nd will be able to send two representatives to a 3-day study trip to Brussels where the award ceremony will be held in early 2017.
Eligible Projects
- Must target the inclusion, integration and/or empowerment of Roma children or youth (below 18 years), or young adults (18-30 years).
- Must be carried out at local, regional or national level in one of these candidate countries or potential candidates: Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia or Turkey.
- Either (1st option) finished between 31 December 2014 and the day of submission of the application and lasted for at least 6 months or (2nd
option) it is ongoing for at least 6 months on the day of submission of the application.
Eligability
- Legal entity
- Non-governmental organisations (NGO)
- government organizations, organizations defending business interests, political parties and partisan organizations, religious and faith-based
organizations, trade unions and business associations are not considered NGOs.
Deadline: 31 October 2016