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CfA: Pulitzer Center Coronavirus News Collaboration Challenge (Deadline: On a Rolling Basis)

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that supports independent global journalism, is looking for proposals that develop innovative approaches to reporting on the novel coronavirus crisis using collaboration among journalists and newsrooms across state lines or national borders. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting welcomes proposals that: focus on systemic, under-reported issues

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CfA: Call for Research Proposals to Support the COVID – 19 Response in Humanitarian Settings (Deadline: 4 May 2020)

Elrha launches an urgent call for funding research proposals to support the COVID-19. The call aims to fund public health research that will produce robust findings that will contribute to the effectiveness of the current humanitarian response and increase the evidence base for future responses to similar infectious disease outbreaks. Proposals will be eligible for

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CfA: MAXQDA Research Grants (Deadline: 27 May 2020)

MAXQDA Research Grants is a VERBI Software initiative that seeks to support researchers, research projects, and networks for research collaboration. As a part of this initiative, the #ResearchforChange Grant was created to provide financial support and methodological training to student-researchers whose fieldwork aims to study, bring awareness to, and contribute to empowerment initiatives. The semester’s

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CfA: Young Bled Strategic Forum 2020, 30 August- 1 September, Bled, Slovenia (Deadline: 5 April 2020)

The Bled Strategic Forum international conference, with the Young Bled Strategic Forum as its integral part, strives to carry on its work with youth to ensure its multidimensional and long-lasting inclusion, intergenerational dialogue and a recognition of its needs and aspirations through development programmes and policies, as well as by involving young people in international

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CfA: Transparency International School on Integrity 6-12 July 2020, Vilnus, Lithuania (Deadline: 30 April 2020)

Transparency School is organized for senior students, graduates and young professionals under the age of 35 eagers to learn how to stand up against corruption and how to achieve greater transparency in their country. The seven-day school offers a powerful mixture of an intensive academic schedule, unconference-like atmosphere and continuous peer-to-peer interactions which all together

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CfA: InterActions Professional Exchange (Deadline: 30 April 2020)

InterActions enables professional exchange and cooperation between civic initiatives, independent media, research institutes and social business in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By participating in InterActions, activists, journalists, social entrepreneurs, public policy experts and researchers can choose for themselves a suitable host organization where they want to be placed. There are 2 tracks in the

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CfA: RomaActiveYouth – A Training Course on Roma Youth Participation for Social Inclusion, Gender Equality And Combating Antigypsyism 20-25 April 2020, Budapest (Deadline: 18 March 2020)

The training is designed to give participants the opportunity to experience and reflect upon activities and concepts central to human rights, human rights education and combating antigypsyism, based on experiential learning approaches. The activity will make an effort to go deeper into understanding the complexity of antigypsyism, as well as to focus on the quality

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CfA: International Summer School on Migration, 28 June-4 July, Georgia (Deadline: 31 March 2020)

The one-week summer school will provide multidisciplinary and innovative academic and research-oriented lectures, seminars and projects on issues related to migration situations and migration policies in the EU, its Eastern neighbourhood and worldwide. Teaching will be accompanied by research, practical exercises and interactive discussions. In total, up to 50 students from migration studies, journalism/ media

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CfA: Western Balkans Youth Conference: Regional Cooperation and Integration, 29 May, 2020 Sarajevo, BiH (Deadline: Full Paper Submission: 2 May 2020)

The program is designed for senior students in humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences as well as for those who are interested in developing their knowledge and expertise in the topics offered by the BSC Student Conference 2020. The conference tracks: History, Politics, Policy, Law and Governance; Business, Management and Finance; Environment, Energy, Science and

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