Confidence Building Grants: Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Black Sea Trust 778 views

Confidence Building (Joint Initiative of the Robert Bosch Stiftung- RBSG and the Black Sea Trust- BST) is inviting applications for the year 2018-2019.

About the Program:

• The projects must be initiated by civil society organizations that can effectively engage target audiences within the population of the region in their projects’ activities.
• Organizations requesting grants must be legally registered in one of the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine.
• The involvement of additional partners (especially those from the EU) is possible and welcome.
• Projects should be exemplary, make use of novel and innovative means of building trust, and have a realistic and economical budget calculation.

Projects (study) areas:

• approaches to build and/or strengthen local, regional and national capacities to promote coexistence and reintegration
• cross-border initiatives for youth
• approaches to civic education or active citizenship
• approaches to reconciliation and peace that incorporate experiences from history and convey them to the younger generation
• arts and cultural work to advance peace and reconciliation
• the role of media in overcoming stereotypes
• A special emphasis is placed on multilateral initiatives and those that reach out to the neighboring countries.

Requirements:

• The applicants are expected to be creative and bold.
• Project ideas can focus on creating various platforms (environment, music, sports, etc.) that bring together people from territories involved in conflicts, on facilitating contacts between state actors in the South Caucasus and the surrounding regions in informal settings, on using different media tools (traditional and/ or new) to foster mutual understanding, etc.

Grant value:

• The average grant will be around 23,000 USD (about 18,000 EUR).
• Multilateral projects may exceed that amount in exceptional cases.

Applications:

• Applications have to be sent to: confidencebuilding@gmfus.org
• Interested organizations are invited to submit project proposals only from September 3, 2018 until October 19, 2018, at 18:00 in Bucharest, Romania (UTC+3:00).
• The maximum duration of the project should not exceed 6 months.
• Project proposals must be submitted in English only, using the application and budget forms from BST’s webpage.
• Grantees must submit the final reports in English only (using the forms downloaded from website)