Deadline: 19-Jun-22
Are you a Belgian youth association who is sensitive to raising awareness on the effects of climate change and understanding the links with migration? ALDA is looking for you! Lead the change and participate in the call for proposals with your project idea!
The Climate of Change project – co-funded by the EU under the Development Education and Awareness Raising Programme (DEAR) and promoted by the italian NGO WeWorld-GVC together with 16 project partners in 13 countries, including ALDA (European Association for Local Democracy) – will support grass-root initiatives in the field of raising awareness on youth role in fighting climate change and involve smaller youth organizations based in France interested in joining the action but lacking the necessary means to do so.
The project will support actions developed by youth organisations in Belgium committed in the field of environmental awareness raising, especially climate change induced migration, and targeting young people (15-35 years old).
Objectives
- The overall objective of this call for proposals is to involve youth associations and civil society organisations in raising awareness on the issue of climate change and climate-induced migration around the world.
- The specific objective of the Call for Proposals is to help achieve a pan-European impact of the project by involving small youth organisations interested in supporting the project but lacking the means to do so
The proposal should promote the action of young people in Belgium on climate change and migration; the implementation of a shared action to raise young people’s awareness of this issue. Beneficiaries of the grant will be required to include in their actions the following:
- Promotion of the Climate Change petition online and at events.
- Promotion of the #ClimateOfChange campaign through social media.
Thematic Focus
- Each proposed action needs to address the nexus between climate change and induced migration! Different types of activities can be eligible for the sub grant: communication activities, promotion and dissemination activities, awareness raising activities, training and learning-by-doing activities, art projects and initiatives, etc.
- One activity will be compulsory which is the promotion of the Climate of Change petition in all organised activities by the applicant until the end of October 2022 (the end of the petition period).
Funding Information
Any submitted proposal must be of max 5.000 EUR. Each applicant will benefit from a financing of 70% of the total of the action up to a maximum of 3.500 Eur. The remaining 30% of the action (a minimum of 1.500 Eur) will be provided by each applicant as co-funding. The financing and co-financing % always remain the same even if the overall cost of the proposed action is lower than 5.000 EUR. The general action carried out by the Applicant can be higher than 5.000 EUR, but in this case the remaining budget of the overall costs of the proposal will be covered with the Applicant’s own financial resources.
Eligible Activities
Different types of activities may be eligible (non-exhaustive list):
- Communication activities: development of video content, animations, infographics, visual tools, virtual reality software (etc.).
- Promotion and dissemination activities: Development of project values and campaign content by a blogger/vlogger, activities aimed at informing and promoting digital social activism (etc.).
- Awareness-raising activities: organisation of street actions such as flash mobs, guerrilla marketing initiatives, interactive exhibitions, arts activities at festivals and concerts, art installations, performances or workshops focusing on informal learning settings (etc.).
- Training and learning by doing activities: work camps, volunteer activities, training courses, workshops, public events, thematic tours, webinars and digital workshops (etc.).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the sub-grant, the applicant must be a Youth and a small civil society organisation (CSO) established and operating in Belgium. Applicants must be:
- Legal entities (a local civil society organisation or association),
- Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the partners and not be limited to an intermediary role;
- Have at least two years of legal existence.
- Youth and small civil society organisations that have not received any financial contribution (direct or indirect) from the Climate of Change project.
- Be established in Belgium.
For more information, visit https://www.alda-europe.eu/library/climate-change-subgranting-call-belgium/