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CfP: Promoting Media Literacy and Accurate Information in Montenegro (Deadline: 8 June 2020)

The project’s primary goals are to build the capacity of media professionals and journalism students in verification, fact-checking, content production, and to enhance public service broadcasters’ understanding of media and information literacy (MIL) and to improve their ability to deliver MIL campaigns to the public. Proposed topics should encompass topics predicted with the project objectives,

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CfP: Supporting Grassroots Civil Society Actors in Transitional Justice Initiatives and Confidence-Building in The Western Balkans (Deadline: 17 June 2020)

The Call aims to support local grassroots organizations, community associations, traditional and new leadership institutions, and informal networks that work for the rights of the victims, fostering society–authorities relations putting the dignity and wellbeing of victims. The global objective of the Call is to: support local civil society initiatives in building sustainable capacities for effective

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CfP: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Grant Program (Deadline: 19 June 2020)

NED encourages applications from organizations working in diverse environments, including newly established democracies, semi-authoritarian countries, repressive societies, and countries undergoing democratic transitions. NED is interested in proposals from local, independent organizations for nonpartisan programs that are looking to: promote and defend human rights and the Rule of Law; support freedom of information and independent media;

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CfP: Support to CSOs in Fighting Discrimination During COVID-19 Crisis – “Promotion of Diversity and Equality in BiH, Kosovo, Montenegro, and North Macedonia” (Deadline: Multiple/ May 2020)

Under the framework of the EU/CoEjoint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, the CoE is launching a call for proposals to fund specific measures to favor inclusion and combat inequalities of vulnerable groups, and to raise awareness against hate speech, targeting them in the specific context of the spread of the

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CfP: DDP Regional Partnership Funding 2020 (Deadline: 22 May 2020)

The Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) through its Regional Partnership Funding supports initiatives promoting online freedom and digital protection for human rights defenders, which operate in a single country or region. A wide range of activities can be supported, including: supporting internet access in cases of shutdowns, censorship or infrastructural damage; training or accompaniment on digital

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CfP: Civica Mobilitas Institutional Grants – North Macedonia (Deadline: 1 June 2020)

Institutional grants are intended to support the institutional development and organizational strengthening of individual CSOs. Civica Mobilitas expects institutional grantees to take leadership positions in civil society in the country, to be proactive, to take and lead initiatives for cooperation and unification of other CSOs. The general objective of the call is a robust civil

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CfP: Visegrad/Visegrad+/Strategic Grants (Deadline: 1 June 2020)

Next to its regular support areas, striving to advance innovative ideas addressing shared challenges by high-quality regional cooperation projects, the Visegrad Fund welcomes new collaborations in response to Corona crisis. The call for proposals is looking for creative ideas and solutions in need of project development, exchange of experience, and know-how or a need for

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CfP: Peace Nexus Western Balkans 2020 (Deadline: 7 June 2020)

Peace Nexus launches a call for proposals striving to partner with organizations that contribute to social cohesion in the Western Balkans with organizations operating on the regional level. They are particularly interested in supporting actors that work to increase the quality and intensity of collaboration across ethnic and national lines, thus contributing to regional mobility,

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CfP: Building Communities’ Resilience to Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans (Deadline: 7 June 2020)

The objective of the call is to support grassroots organizations and local CSOs in the Western Balkans in their efforts to build and increase community resilience to violent extremism through the creation of local partnerships and joint community-based P/CVE actions with other relevant actors: authorities, FBOs, cultural institutions, youth associations, media, and academia. The overall

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CfP: Support to CSOs in Fighting Discrimination During COVID-19 Crisis -in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Deadline: 7 May 2020)

Within the framework of the EU/CoE joint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, and its action on “Promotion of diversity and equality in BiH”, the CoE is launching a call for proposals with the aim to fund specific measures to favor inclusion and combat inequalities of vulnerable groups, and/or raise awareness

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