Open Invitation | Western Balkans Museum Grants for Disability Inclusion

Funded by SIDA and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (as part of its initiative to develop disability inclusion in museums in the Western Balkans) CHwB is offering grants to museums in the Western Balkans that include the topics below:

1. Involvement, engagement, participation for access and inclusion of disabled people 

2. Social justice 

3. Negotiating the Past/Storytelling

Participants from the Western Balkans are invited to the second annual regional museum conference “Meet, See, Do” taking place in Tirana, Albania from April 8-10, 2014. 

This event will have all the resources needed to exchange, develop and polish the proposed project ideas. It is also an opportunity to meet local and international experts, find possible partnerships, and put the best ideas forward for funding. 

There are a few grants available up to €4.000 as well as a special award up to €7000.

To qualify for funding, projects must:

1. Have maximum duration of 6 months (implementation period is 1st June – 8th December 2014) 

2. Involve partnerships with non‐museum organizations 

3. Involve groups of people (beneficiaries) 

4. Show clear evidence of community engagement (where appropriate) 

5. Be at least part‐funded from within the museum (at least 20% of total cost)  

6. Is subject to quality financial reporting. 

7. Be evaluated and a brief evaluation report submitted.

For more information check out the documents below:

• Call for project Proposals
• Guidance Notes
• Application Form
• Budget Form

E‐mail your proposals to museums@chwb.org no later than 21 April 2014.

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Open Invitation | Public Awareness and Advocacy Campaigns on Media Integrity in South East Europe

SEE Media Observatory has announced a 

Call for Proposals for Grants 

to Implement Public Awareness and Advocacy Campaigns

on Media Integrity in South East Europe

Application deadline: February 28, 2014

The Center for Independent Journalism Budapest (call administrator) is seeking proposals from civil society organizations (CSOs) to implement public awareness and advocacy campaigns and organize actions aiming to support free, independent, pluralistic and viable media in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia.

Civil society organizations - professional associations, advocacy groups, research institutes, human rights organizations and other CSOs - specializing in media are invited to propose actions with a duration from 3 to 6 months to be implemented in 2014. The total funds available for this call for proposals are 25.000 EUR; a maximum grant amount of 5.000 EUR per country will be awarded.

This call for proposals is part of the project “South East European Media Observatory – Building Capacities and Coalitions for Monitoring Media Integrity and Advancing Media Reforms” which aims at supporting integrity both in public service and commercial media in South East Europe.

For more information about the grant and application docs, visit SEE Media Observatory website.

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