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CfP: Initiate Positive Changes in Your Environment (Deadline: 3 September)

Target group: Citizens of Serbia, especially members of vulnerable groups such as children and NEET youth, elderly people, people with disabilities, Roma, women, refugees, and precarious workers. Aim: Improving the quality and availability of social protection services to improve the position of vulnerable groups, improving labor rights and encouraging the employment of vulnerable groups, and

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CfP: Request for Applications to Support Women’s Leadership (North Macedonia) (Deadline: 11 September)

Target group: CSOs, CSO networks, professional organizations, or think tanks, legally registered in North Macedonia. Aim: To support women’s leadership and undertake local context-specific initiatives for reaching out to the most excluded groups of women to take an active part in decision-making by articulating their needs and priorities through the existing mechanisms for participatory processes.

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CfP: ReLOaD2 – Regional Public Call for CSOs for Submission of Project Proposals (Deadline 11 September)

Target group: All CSOs formally registered as non-profitable entities in accordance with the regulatory frameworks in six WB IPA beneficiaries i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, where the CSO (applicant) and partners are registered. Aim: To further support youth (young women and men) and their needs respecting identified regional similarities

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CfP: Second Call for the European Narrative Observatory to fight Disinformation post-COVID 19 (22 September)

Target group: EU member states Aim: To examine how narratives, including false and harmful ones, emerge and how to reconcile existing narratives with facts through a case-study approach. Amount: Up to 190,500 EUR. Duration: 18 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment). The proposed start date is 1 September 2024. Deadline:

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CfP: CEI Cooperation Fund Call 2023 (Deadline: 13 October)

Target group: Public and private institutions registered in a CEI Member State, NGOs/CSOs as well as international organizations Aim: Capacity building by transferring and sharing know-how, from EU CEI Member States to non-EU CEI Member States Amount: 420,000 EUR Duration: N/A Deadline: 13 October Link to more information (Central European Initiative)

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CfP: Civica Mobilitas Call for Partnership Grants (Deadline: 30 August)

Target group: CSOs registered according to the Law on Associations and Foundations, other non-governmental, non-profit, civil associations registered in accordance with the Law on Scientific and Research Activity. Must have one bearer and at least two partners. Aim: To enable applicants on joining forces and concentrating their achievements in several areas/themes in order to achieve change where

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CfP: Second Call for the European Narrative Observatory to fight Disinformation post-COVID 19 (Deadline: 22 September)

Target group: EU member states Aim: To examine how narratives, including false and harmful ones, emerge and how to reconcile existing narratives with facts through a case-study approach. Amount: Up to EUR 190,500 Duration: 18 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment). The proposed start date is 1 September 2024. Deadline:

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CfP: EU Support to Civil Society and Media Organisations in the Republic of North Macedonia, IPA Civil Society Facility 2022-2023 Programme (Deadline: 28 August)

Target group: CSOs/ CSOs’ networks established and working in North Macedonia Aim: The global objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen the participatory democracy and the EU accession and approximation process in North Macedonia by empowering civil society and media organisations to contribute actively in the sector reforms in view of the EU integration

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CfP: Rapid Response Window on Women’s Participation (Deadline: Ongoing)

Target group: Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligible countries, Women’s Rights or Feminist Organizations, Women-Led Organizations, Youth Focused Organizations, Young Women Led Organizations. Aim: Addressing the funding gap on women’s participation in formal peace processes and the implementation of peace agreements. Amount: Direct Support (up to 25,000 USD – this is not a grant, and no funding will

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CfP: Civica Mobilitas Call for Partnership Grants (Deadline: 30 August)

Target group: CSOs registered according to the Law on Associations and Foundations, other non-governmental, non-profit, and civil associations registered in accordance with the Law on Scientific and Research Activity. Must have one bearer and at least two partners. Aim: To enable applicants on joining forces and concentrating their achievements in several areas/themes in order to achieve

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CfP: ReLOaD2 – Regional Public Call for CSOs for Submission of Project Proposals (Deadline 11 September)

Target group: All CSOs formally registered as non-profitable entities in accordance with the regulatory frameworks in six WB IPA beneficiaries i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, where the CSO (applicant), and partners are registered). Aim: To further support youth (young women and men) and their needs respecting identified regional similarities

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