Deadline: 12-May-22
The Council of Europe/European Union project INCLUDE-Building Capacity for Inclusion in Education has launched a call for grants for civil society organisations who are supporting learning centres in Kosovo.
The purpose of the Project is to improve access to quality education of students from disadvantaged groups in pre- primary, primary and secondary education – in line with the Beneficiary’s domestic policies and priorities and Council of Europe standards and practices.The Council of Europe is looking for grantees to organise summer and winter camps for interested girls and boys as well as to organise awareness-rising activities on the right to education and the importance of enrolment and attendance in pre-primary and primary schools.
Objectives
The grants will fund projects designed to:
- Organize summer camps for girls and boys.
- Organize winter camps for girls and boys.
- Organise awareness raising activities for families of children from disadvantaged backgrounds on the right to education, with a specific focus on enrolment and attendance in pre-primary and primary schools.
- The main objectives of the summer and winter camps is to engage the children in interactive recreational and psychosocial activities where children build their confidence and self-esteem, interact, have fun and strengthen their physical and emotional skills. More over, the camps should also provide the participants with supplementary teaching support for specific subjects, including math, social and natural sciences. The summer camps should be conducted between July and August 2022 and the winter camps should be conducted between December2022 and January 2023.
- The main objective of the awareness-raising activities is to enhance the enrolment of the children from disadvantaged background into pre-primary and primary schools. The awareness-raising and outreach activities should be held between July and August2022.
Funding Information
- The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 60,000 € (Sixty thousand Euros). The Council of Europe intends to support a total of 4 (four) Civil Society Organisations with a maximum amount of 15,000€(Fifteen thousand Euro) each, covering project activities in maximum three learning centres, with a maximum budget of 5,000 EUR(five thousand Euro)per learning centre.
Eligibility criteria
In order to be eligible for a grant applicant must:
- be legally constitute dasa civil society organisation;
- been titled to carry out in Kosovo activities described in its project proposal;
- have been active for at least 3 years in the field of non-formal education;
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.coe.int/en/web/pristina/-/call-for-proposals-deadline-12-may