Deadline: 11-Jan-24
The Council of Europe invites organisations implementing human rights education with young people to apply with projects to organise the Compass National and Regional Training Courses in 2024.
The Human Rights Education Youth Programme promotes the inclusion of human rights education in the mainstream of youth work and youth policy. The programme is built around Compass, the manual for human rights education with young people, as the main conceptual and practical resource for human rights education through non-formal learning. The approaches of Compass have been applied in other educational resources, like Compasito, the manual for human rights education for children and Mirrors, the manual on combating antigypsyism through human rights education. These educational resources are to assist practitioners in activities with young people.
The programme foresees support to youth and human rights organisations in initiating or extending human rights education activities with young people through national and regional training courses. These courses are important instruments in the Council of Europe’s actions towards promoting its core values. They are also unique opportunities to engage young people’s social commitments and develop their competences for promoting sustainable democratic societies based on rule of law and a culture of human rights.
The Council of Europe provides three types of support for these activities:
- Financial support, in the form of grants (details below).
- Institutional support, in the form of recommendation letters to potential partners and funders; official Council of Europe representation; provision of educational materials, visibility of the activities in institutional Internet sites and documents; communication with publishers of Compass and Compasito translations.
- Educational support, by recommending or contracting a trainer(s) with relevant experience and competence to support the educational team of the courses.
Funding Information
- The Council of Europe may provide grants for selected activities included in the 2024 programme; the support provided in the range/average of 6000 € per activity, based on the needs and budget submitted.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
- Be one of the following: non-governmental youth organisations and/or other non- governmental organisations; governmental organisations primarily those focused on human rights, youth and/or education; institutions involved in human rights education; national networks of human rights activists and/or human rights educators.
- Be legally registered in a state party to the European Cultural Convention.
- Be entitled to carry out the activities described in its project proposal.
- Have sufficient financial capacity (stable and sufficient sources of funding) to maintain its activity throughout the period for which the grant is awarded and to participate by way of its own resources (including human resources or in-kind contributions).
- Have sufficient operational and professional capacity, including staff, to carry out activities described in its project proposal.
- Have a bank account.
Ineligible
- Applicants shall be excluded from the grant award procedure where they:
- have been sentenced by final judgment on one or more of the following charges: participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering;
- are in a situation of bankruptcy, liquidation, termination of activity, insolvency or arrangement with creditors or any like situation arising from a procedure of the same kind, or are subject to a procedure of the same kind;
- have received a judgement with res judicata force, finding an offence that affects their professional integrity or constitutes a serious professional misconduct;
- do not comply with their obligations as regards payment of social security contributions, taxes and dues, according to the statutory provisions of the country where they are established.
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