Deadline: 15-Feb-2024
The EVZ Foundation is inviting applications for the local.history funding program to support locally and regionally active history initiatives from Central and Eastern Europe.
Funding is provided for projects aimed at addressing and remembering the period of National Socialism and World War II. The projects deal with places, persons and events of National Socialist history thematically.
The objective of local.history is to make history tangible in the here and now by supporting multi-perspective projects based on democratic values and historical sources.
Local history approaches convey historical contexts directly and connect general historical narratives with particular local events. The focus on local and regional references to history makes it possible to spotlight concrete places, biographies and relevant events, thus enabling a more direct understanding and yielding educational work.
Funding Information
- Grants between 30.000 and 80.000 euros.
Approaches
- Methodologically, projects should sensibly combine two educational approaches:
- Critically examining and/or referring to available historical sources and addressing entangled, at times even conflicting narratives;
- Exploring relationships between past and contemporary experiences of antisemitism, racism or discrimination. Ideally, they will critically engage with local histories, informed by today’s democratic norms, and thereby strengthen local initiatives committed to pluralistic and inclusive societies.
Eligible Projects
- They are supporting projects that:
- Deal with specific historical places, persons/families, events, companies, buildings from the National Socialist era in a local context;
- use available historical sources as essential in historical education and they expect this to be reflected in the projects;
- create educational opportunities with witnesses and their descendants that are integrated into a larger project context;
- link history and the present and initiate a critical examination; question the national narratives;
- create an impact locally and regionally through appropriate participatory activities and public relations.
- Projects should connect to historical topics, as well as to current debates (depending on specific countries and regions), for example: Antisemitism, racism, experiences of discrimination, hate speech or violence; populist or extremist policies, human rights, feminism, climate crises. They can address current politics of remembrance like Holocaust denial or other historical distortions; preservation of particular historical sites, naming and renaming of streets, initiatives for new monuments or the removal of existing ones, debates about inscriptions on memorial plates.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call for applications is addressed to non-profit organizations working on local history in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
- They support survivors of National Socialist persecution and strengthen the commitment of their descendants, act together with young people for living remembrance of the fates of the persecuted, initiate contemporary education for a critical examination of National Socialism as well as its aftermath.
- They campaign for equal dignity and equal rights for all people and against antisemitism, anti-gypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination, racism and all forms of discrimination, enable effective action by self-organizations and are a strategic partner and supporter of civil society.
Ineligible
- They do not fund projects that:
- Focus exclusively on research, digitization, film, publication, and eyewitness interviews;
- implement construction and renovation projects;
- are commercial.
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