Deadline: 28-Feb-21
Are you a youth-led small Civil Society Organization promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns to fight climate change? If yes, then apply for the 1st Call of Food Wave Project!
The Food Wave Project – co-funded by the EU under the Development Education and Awareness Raising Programme (DEAR) and promoted by the Municipality of Milan together with ActionAid Italia, ACRA, Mani Tese and 25 project partners in 17 countries, including European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA) – will support grass-root initiatives in the field of climate-friendly food consumption behaviors and involve smaller youth organizations interested in joining the action but lacking the necessary means to do so.
Thematic Areas
The proposed projects must address at least one of the following thematic areas:
- Sustainable diets to reduce the impact on the planet and protect human rights.
- Local alternative food systems, local producers and territorial markets.
- Fight against food waste.
- Sustainable food education and knowledge sharing dissemination.
- Fight against climate change and equal access to healthy, sustainable and fair food.
Funding Information
- More than 20 project ideas will receive a contribution of up to 3000 € each to support the fight against climate change and create a fair and sustainable global food system!
- The beneficiaries of the sub-grants will sign a partnership agreement with ALDA. The implementation phase will be included between the 1 st of May 2021 until the 15th of November 2021. The implementation of the granted activities will start after the signature of the partnership agreement and the correct reception of the needed documents. The reports of implementation must be submitted by the 30th of November 2021.
Location
- Activities must take place in one of the following EU Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the sub grant, the applicant must be a Youth and small Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) established and acting in one of the 16 EU Member States involved in the Food Wave Project. The applicants must be:
- Legal persons.
- Directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action, not acting as an intermediary.
- Youth and small civil society organisations whose board is partly composed by people between 18 and 35 years old and whose annual budget is lower than 150.000,00 EUR.
- Youth and small civil society organisations who have not received any (direct or indirect) financial contribution by the Food Wave project.
- Youth and small civil society organisations legally established in one of the 16 EU Member States involved in the Food Wave Project.
For more information, visit https://www.alda-europe.eu/library/news150/