Deadline: 31 March 2016
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Bodossaki Foundation have announced applications for its European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) to support civil society organisations in Greece with an aim to identification, protection and awareness-raising for unaccompanied and seperated children and youths in Greece.
Goals and Objectives
- Identification: Build safe structures and networks at the first points of arrival and strengthen mechanisms for identification in registration centres and main cities of transit.
- Protection: Provide alternatives to detention with the support of sustainable transit structures. Foster individualised support and protection with the scaling up and improvement of the guardianship system for children and youth transiting through and/or establishing their life in Greece.
- Awareness- Raising: Raise awareness of the issues concerning unaccompanied and separated children and youth to avoid misinterpretation and increase the attention given to children and youth.
Funding Information
- Project grants may amount up to €150,000 for the given timeframe.
- The sub-fund is established for a period of 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be charities or non-profit organisations registered in Greece and should be established at least one year prior to application.
- National civil society organisations or national chapters of international civil society organizations are eligible applicants. They should be committed to engage in work at European/transnational level.
- The organisation must be non-profit and not operate nor have been created with the ultimate aim to generate personal profit. Although they may have paid staff and may engage in revenue generating activities they do not distribute profits to their members nor to their board. Where revenue-generating activities are undertaken, these should not represent the purpose of the NGO but should be solely a means to support its mission and values.
- The organisation must have some degree of formal or institutional existence, unlike informal or adhoc groups, involving formal statutes or other governing documents defining their mission, objectives and scope.
- While an organisation may be involved in more than one project application as a partner, it can only make one application for project funding under this call for proposals as project coordinator. The organisation that leads the application will be considered as the project coordinator.
- There is no explicit cap regarding the percentage of an organisation’s total income that the project budget can represent. Nevertheless, the organisation’s capacity to absorb the grant successfully as well as general governance issues concerning organisational sustainability will be taken into account. There are however no specific organisational size criteria.
How to Apply
Applicants must download the application form via given website and submit required documents:
- Project Budget Proposal in Excel format
- Statute of the organisation
- Organization’s financial statements for the past three years
- Organisation’s total operating budget for 2016, including income and expenses
- Proof of tax compliance (from a public body, if available)
- Proof of social security compliance (from a public body, if available)
- Contact details for two referees
For more information, please visit EPIM Call for Proposals.
