News and updates from BCSDN and the region
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
Read more →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,
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →The Fund complements UNESCO’s Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists and the International Programme for the Development of Communication, as well as UNESCO Funds-In-Trust projects. Its particular niche is legal defense, and part of its activity will consider applications for funding from external organizations. The objective of the call for partnerships
Read more →The Fund launched by the European Cultural Foundation, set up in partnership with other foundations is looking to support imaginative cultural initiatives- that reinforce solidarity and the notion of Europe as a shared public space in response to the current crisis and its aftershocks. It is open to individuals, collectives and organizations from all sectors
Read more →The U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section (PAS) in Skopje is soliciting proposals for grants from non-for-profit, NGOs and independent media in North Macedonia that focus on one of the priority areas such as: rule of law and government accountability; citizen participation; cybersecurity and disinformation; youth development and women empowerment. The maximum Democracy Commission grant is
Read more →The global objective of the call for proposals is to strengthen capacities of CSOs in the sectors of consumer protection, environment and climate change, enhancing their role of competent, transparent, effective civil society actors that are accountable as well as enhancing interaction with state/public institutions to make a contribution to EU-related policy making in these
Read more →The main purpose of the call is to strengthen participatory democracy by empowering CSOs as active contributors to decision making and promoting an enabling environment for civil society. The specific objectives are: to strengthen capacities of CSOs as competent, transparent and effective actors of participatory democracy, contributing to advance the European path of Kosovo, and
Read more →The IWMF Emergency Fund is established to provide women journalists with a lifeline of support in times of crisis. Now more than ever, journalists around the world face real dangers as a result of their reporting. The Emergency Fund is sustained with the support of individual donors to address the growing need to provide direct
Read more →Due to the global pandemic caused by COVID 19, Trag Foundation created a program to support the solidarity among the united citizens by relying on their capacities, taking into account the safety and health in the community. It is expected the implemented actions to reduce the further spread of the virus, to help the most
Read more →Open Technology Fund (OTF) is seeking applications for its Internet Freedom Fund to support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and
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