Deadline- 4 March 2013
Applications are invited for seed funding for Africa – Europe youth Cooperation offered by North-South Centre’s Youth Programme. The objective of this programme is to promote Africa Europe youth exchanges, networking and political participation of nonstate actors.
The grants are of a maximum 2000 € per project/organisation. The seed funding aims to strengthen the role of youth organisations as civil society actors and youth leaders’ ability to organise and take action as well as strengthen young
people’s political participation in Euro-African cooperation.
Eligibility & criteria-
- The application should be submitted by a youth organisation, network or nonstateactor at local, national, (sub)regional or international level that is active in promoting Africa Europe youth cooperation
- Applicant organisation must have a bank account open in the name of the organisation, since payments will be made through bank transfers only
- Priority is given to projects presented by organisations coming from Africa and/or from the African Diaspora Living in Europe, and organisations/networks that submit projects which will allocate the grant support for African youth participants in the project and/or participation of African Diaspora in the project
- The participants in the project benefiting from the grant should be under 35 years of age
- Innovative projects with an experimental approach are encouraged to apply
- Projects that respond to the thematic priorities Youth Unemployment and MDGs-Beyond 2015, identified as working priorities for 2013-2014 in the framework of the Africa-Europe Youth Platform, are highly encouraged in this call
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