Deadline: 10-Mar-24
The Public Diplomacy sections of the U.S. Embassy in Madrid and the U.S. Consulate General in Barcelona (referred to collectively as Mission Spain) announce an open competition to submit a Statement of Interest (SOI) for projects that strengthen ties between the United States and Spain and/or Andorra while promoting Mission Spain’s main strategic goals.
Objectives
- The PD Section of Mission Spain welcomes proposals for creative, engaging projects that align with the following program areas:
- Championing democracy, democratic values and rules-based international order, throughout the world, or with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean where the United States and Spain both have deep and enduring affiliations, focusing on an audience of university students or thought leaders in Spain;
- Promoting media literacy;
- Programs that directly increase information sharing and collaboration on disinformation among experts in the Spanish-speaking world and U.S. counterparts;
- Strengthening U.S.-Spain collaborations to combat climate change;
- Projects to improve ocean health, with a focus on the Atlantic Cooperation Initiative;
- Projects for U.S.-Spain collaboration on global innovation across digital, science and technological fields;
- Empowering female Innovators and Entrepreneurs in the Spanish startup sector;
- Increasing the number of Spanish students studying in the United States, particularly in the realm of vocational training;
- Recognizing the central importance of the NATO Alliance in ensuring transatlantic peace and security, with a focus on university students and/or thought leaders;
- All projects are required to have a clear connection to the United States, either through U.S. organizations, experts, and/or best practices in order to increase the awareness and understanding of U.S. perspectives, policies, and society.
- In addition, all projects should clearly promote diversity and inclusion. Geographic diversity (reaching audiences outside of major cities such as Madrid and Barcelona) will also be looked upon favorably when reviewing proposals.
Funding Information
- Award amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $5,000 to a maximum of $40,000.
- Length of performance period: Up to 12 months (including your evaluation or assessment period)
Types of Projects
- Project activities may take any number of forms, including academic competitions, cross-border exchanges, conferences, workshops, courses, curriculum development, exhibits, hackathons or app development, online projects, mock trials or moot court competitions, simulations and role-playing activities (e.g., Model Congress, Model United Nations), performances, or other activities. Academic or scientific research projects will not be funded under this call for proposals.
Target Audience
- PD Spain will not fund projects that are “cultural entertainment” by nature, reaching the general public as an audience base. PD Spain is looking for projects that target a specific audience, as a way to achieve the program objectives.
- The challenge or problem you are looking at, together with your goals and objectives, will help you determine the participants or primary audiences for your project and shape the activity outlined in your proposal. You might have secondary audiences or beneficiaries, too. For example, if you are training teachers in a new teaching methodology, the teachers are your primary audience and all their students who benefit from the updated methodology would be the secondary audience or final beneficiary. Please try to be specific with your primary audiences, avoiding the use of “general public” as a primary audience.
- Participants and primary and secondary audiences for the proposed project should be citizens or legal residents of Spain and/or Andorra. Even if some participants come from a regional neighbor or from the United States, PD Spain is primarily interested in the participants from Spain and/or Andorra and the project’s impact on them.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- Businesses and other for-profit organization may not apply for funding under this APS.
- The following entities, from Spain, Andorra, or the United States, are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations, including educational and cultural institutions, civil society organizations or non-governmental organizations, think tanks, professional associations, etc.
- Governmental institutions and Public International Organizations.
- Individual citizens, including alumni of U.S. Government (USG) exchange programs, who have a demonstrated capacity or proven track record to carry out the proposed activities.
- To be eligible for consideration, the applicant organization must be registered to operate in Spain or Andorra, or if this is not the case, they must partner with a local Spanish or Andorran organization registered to operate in Spain or Andorra.
- Ineligible Funding
- You may NOT apply for a grant from PD Spain if your project:
- involves partisan political activity;
- involves charitable activities and/or the distribution of humanitarian aid;
- is a fundraising campaign;
- is commercial in nature, i.e., you or a project partner are making money from this project, or the activity supports a current or future business or entrepreneurial venture of your organization;
- Involves the provision of health care or services, childcare, food subsidies, or other social services to populations.
- You may NOT apply for a grant from PD Spain if your project:
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Spain and Andorra.