Call for Local Actions 2025
We are happy to announce that the call for the applications for the second activity within our annual work plan “Keep Your Fist Up and Your Head Held High: Building resilience of green youth organisations in Eastern Europe” is now open.
The call for the applications for local actions is an opportunity for the youth organisations that participated in the previous stage of the project (but not only!) to submit the applications consisting of the Local Action Plans and accepted Draft Budget.
The 2nd part of the Work Plan aims to enable green youth activists to disseminate further the knowledge, skills, and resources related to resilience and by doing so strengthen the capacities of green youth organisations for upholding democracy and democratic values within different contexts in Eastern Europe. This will be achieved by:
Enabling 7 green youth organisations to disseminate resilience-building knowledge and skills to other activists and organizations within their local and national contexts.
Supporting 7 green youth organisations to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the first activity and integrate them within the structures of their organisations.
Supporting 7 green youth organisations to advocate for upholding of democracy and democratic values by organising local collective actions.
Strengthening further cooperation between different green youth organisations in Eastern Europe, especially those gathered around CDN
We will provide funding for local actions for 7 organisations through a 5-month period of preparation, implementation and reporting.
In this period, LA organisers will create activities which will contribute to dissemination of knowledge, skills and resources, integrate them into their organisations, and organise collective actions aims at upholding democratic values.
The Local Actions should:
Be directly in line with the Aim and Objectives detailed above
Be connected to the topic of the Work Plan: Resilience
Have clearly defined Aim and Objectives
Have a clear Outcome
Organise at least one dissemination activity for its membership and/or wider network
Consider institutionalising the knowledge and resilience building practices into the workings of their organisations
Organise at least one collective action aimed at upholding of the democratic values
Involve young people of different backgrounds in the activity
The Office and EC responsibles for the project will decide on the grants to be allocated. CDN offers maximum of 2760 EUR as a grant per organisation involved in the Local Action.
The decision on the grants will be brought according to the feasibility of the local action plan.
Organisation whose representatives participated in the Resilience Building Summer Camp in Chisinau will have an advantage in receiving the grant.
Local Action teams will be fully responsible for executing the project along with people they select as team members, activists, and participants, who are required to match all criteria of CDN activities. We strongly encourage representation and participation of all social groups, especially women and queer people. Local teams are encouraged to hire additional experts on skills or topics, and we are striving for NFE tools and methodologies, as well as the Safe Space Policy to be used during the preparation and implementation of the whole project. CDN will be eager to provide expertise as well as contextual or project-related assistance if required by the local teams.
In addition, responsibilities of the applicant in case the grant is awarded are:
Starting the preparations for the LAs end of August 2025 and participating in the Kick off Zoom meeting
Implementing the activity based on the accepted application and recommendations of CDN Office and EC
Finalising the implementation of the activity by end of November 2025
Finalise the financial and content reporting to CDN by mid December 2025
Saving, organising and sending all the bills, invoices and other proofs of payments connected to the project and reported in the financial report
Sending both digital (scanned version in Nextcloud folder) and original bills (paper to CDN’s office in Belgrade);
Using only Nextcloud folder and collaborative (doc, xls, ptt, etc.) files for the project for security reasons
Participating in the dissemination of the project
Ensuring the visibility of the project, CDN and EYF. Namely, using hashtags #cdnee and #coe_youth, as well as adding the logos of both organisations, as well as the Council of Europe logo on any digital content or materials that will be produced during the local actions
Making and sending to CDN pictures and videos from the action with all the logos visible
To apply for the grant, fill in the LOCAL ACTION APPLICATION form and accept the draft BUDGET for the activities.
Deadline for submitting the applications is 10th of August 2025 23:59 CET. Please, consider, that any application sent after this date will be disqualified.
The files must be sent to project.coordinator@cdnee.org with Local Action 25 Application in the subject of the e-mail.
In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact Nikola, CDN’s project coordinator at the above-mentioned e-mail.
Only full applications will be considered. You will get the result and feedback approximately in two weeks after the deadline.
Please add the above-mentioned e-mail in your contact list to avoid our mails ending up in spam.
This activity, as well as the Work Plan this activity is a part of, is carried out with funding from the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe.
