FW: Small Grants Pilot Projects on Human Rights Education

[Katalin Fabian]

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> Subject: Small Grants Pilot Projects on Human Rights Education
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> Pilot Projects on Human Rights Education
> Application deadline: April 1, 2004/ September 15, 2004
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> Financial assistance in support of local pilot projects is
> important to the Youth Programme on Human Rights Education
> because it will allow for new initiatives to be set up and will
> motivate supporting local NGOs and groups to undertake action
> related to human rights education with young people. By funding
> pilot projects on human rights education through the European
> Youth Foundation, the Directorate of Youth and Sport seeks to
> actively contribute to the inclusion of human rights education in
> youth work practice and to encourage innovative practices and
> partnerships, both in formal and in non-formal education contexts.
>
> The pilot projects will allow for a more visible and direct
> impact of the programme at local level. They are a necessary
> complement to the rest of the youth programme on human rights
> education and to the other activities of the Directorate of Youth
> and Sport of the Council of Europe.
>
> Similarly, the inclusion of pilot projects in the European
> programme may serve to give them greater visibility and
> recognition, as well as facilitating the development of networks
> and of opportunities to share expertise and experiences. This
> will be done by means of the Directorate of Youth and Sport
> publications and web sites. This may be completed by an
> evaluation meeting and a publication with examples of good
> practice in 2005.
> This financial support to pilot projects should be seen as
> exceptional and limited to the duration of the programme. The
> European funding can not replace the necessary local and/or
> national co-funding (in money or in kind). In this context, the
> assessment of applications will consider also the feasibility of
> the projects.
>
> Priority for funding will be given to projects which would
> otherwise be difficult to start up. Funding will not be given to
> projects that have already taken place.
>
> In order to qualify for support, projects must:
> - Be directly related to young people and to human rights
> education or to a specific theme addressed by the programme
> - Be prepared, run and managed by a local association,
> institution or youth group acting directly with children, young
> people or a specific target group of the programme
> - Have a clear educational or awareness-raising function
> - Concern primarily participants under 30 years of age
> - Have a participatory approach, from the conception to the
> evaluation
> - Integrate intercultural learning in its educational approach
> - Have an innovative character (in terms of methodology, target
> groups addressed, etc.)
> - Be open to other partners of the youth programme on human
> rights education and foresee using the resources generated
> through the programme (e.g. the Manual on Human Rights Education)
> - Have a clear potential local impact while being open to
> European networks
> - Have a European dimension, either by involving more than one
> country, and/or by taking into consideration the European context
> - Follow the basic educational principles of the Council of
> Europe's youth sector.
>
> Selected projects can be funded up to a maximum of 7.600 Euro.
>
> More information
> Website: http://www.coe.int/hre
> http://eycb.coe.int
> Email: eycb.secretariat at coe.int
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>
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> Location: Council of Europe Countries
> Deadline: Various
> Website: Website: http://www.coe.int/hre
>