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From: Geszti Judit <geszti@soros.hu>

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS- Open Society Institute East East Program

More information:

Website: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/east/about
E-mail: geszti@soros.hu (Geszti Judit, Program coordinator)

Open Society Institute, London - East East Programme: Partnership Beyond 
Borders

Application deadline: at least three months before a project is planned 
to begin

The East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders is one of the initiatives
implemented by the Open Society Foundation in London (a registered UK 
charity).
The program supports international exchanges that bring together civil 
society
actors to share ideas, information, knowledge, experiences, and 
expertise and to
support practical actions that result from that networking.

The East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders provides financial and 
human
resources that enable civil society actors to:

  - Build and/or strengthen resources and expertise
  - Share best practices/lessons learned in social transformation
  - Collaborate on innovative solutions to common challenges
  - Create and/or strengthen international advocacy coalitions.

The program gives priority to long-term initiatives with clear goals and
realistic potential for effecting positive change, for example, by:

1) Empowering marginalized and/or vulnerable sectors of society;
2) Promoting cultural, ethnic, and social diversity;
3) Managing the impact of social, economic, and political change;
4) Making information accessible and available to the public;
5) Encouraging public engagement and empowerment in civic dialogue.

The program responds to the needs of people in many diverse societies and
empowers them to work beyond borders to achieve shared goals and leverage
international experiences and perspectives to promote an innovative social
agenda.

The East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders is implemented by the 
Soros
foundations. Applications are received and reviewed by these foundations.

In 2005 the East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders launched a 
Subprogram
for European Integration. This subprogram will prioritize cooperation 
among new
EU member states, candidate and potential candidate countries, and the EU
eastern neighbours. Specifically, the subprogram seeks to leverage and 
maximize
EU accession experiences in Central Europe to future EU member countries 
and EU
eastern neighbours. The subprogram will seek to discover and inspire the new
vision and energy required to address civil society collaboration among 
new EU
member states, future member states, and the EU eastern neighbourhood. The
subprogram is open to Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary,
Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, 
Serbia
and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Application Information:

The East East Program does not accept applications centrally. For more
information, please contact the appropriate East East Program coordinator.
Applicants are requested to provide complete project information 
according to
the Project Application Form.

Deadlines and decision process

The East East Program coordinator in the Soros foundation in the country in
which a project is to take place evaluates project proposals. After this,
proposals are sent for further review to the East East Program network and
finally, submitted to the management in the Open Society 
Institute-London for
final decision. Proposals must be received by the program management at 
least
three months before a project is planned to begin.

Financial Support:

The East East Program should not be the only source of financial support 
for a
project. Sources of financial support and/or in-kind contributions must be
stated in the project application.

For seminars, roundtables and exchange visits, financial support may be
requested for accommodation; meals; in-country travel; translation;
printing/publication of project results; and, reasonable administrative 
expenses
to prepare the project. If other expenses are requested, the organizer must
provide complete budget detail and explanation. For other types of 
cooperative
projects, the organizer must provide complete budget details and 
explanation of
requested expenses.

NB. Reasonable administrative expenses may include communication (telephone,
fax, postage) and preparation of project materials. The program does not 
support
purchase or rental of equipment or office supplies to maintain 
equipment; fees
for services provided by the organizer; organizer's staff salaries; general
overhead costs.

Participation:

If this project is accepted for East East Program support, travel 
expenses of
participants will be requested through the East East Program in the 
foundations
of the Soros foundation network.

Decisions about supporting participants to projects are made by the 
foundations.
Fundamental to the East East Program is that network of national foundations
have opportunities to identify and select participants to projects 
supported in
the East East Program.

A project organizer may suggest participants to a project. A participant
suggested by an organizer may apply to the East East Program coordinator 
in the
foundation in his/her country. The organizer is responsible to inform 
suggested
participants to apply to the foundations for consideration of East East 
Program
support. East East Program support is not guaranteed for participants 
suggested
by an organizer; there is no guarantee that a foundation will support
participants suggested by an organizer. Organizers are asked to provide 
complete
and detailed information about suggested participants, including name 
and title,
professional responsibilities and reasons suggested to attend a project.

More information:

Website: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/east/about
E-mail: geszti@soros.hu (Geszti Judit, Program coordinator)



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