Sub-Grant Scheme Cycle for Multilingual Projects: Call for Applications
OPPORTUNITY BACKGROUND
Regional Network for Cultural Diversity Approach
READ Project foresees an unobtrusive approach to intercultural reconciliation and strengthening the cultural competencies especially among CSO’s in the target countries through capacity building and sub-granting support for design and implementation of actions that will strength intercultural ties. READ has foreseen a funnel approach implemented through first Open Call divided in to different sections:
- Open Call 1 – “Support of multilingual projects in five countries” and
- Open Call 1 – “Support of intercultural projects in five countries”
The Open Call 1”Support of multilingual projects in five countries” aims to support the regional diffusion of work from target countries. The purpose of this effort is expected to be for translation, in combination with presentation and promotion of regional literature. The support from this project will supplement and significantly scale-up the interregional translation of authors from Western Balkan and Turkey. Sub-grantees will receive financial support up to 2.000€ to cover costs related to translation, design and print, and promoting of regional literature
OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE
Objectives
The key objective of the multilingual projects is to support regional diffusion of works from the targeted countries. To this end, the bulk of the effort under the multilingual projects is expected to be for translation, in combination with presentation and promotion of regional literature. The key need that has been identified by this project is that the authors from target countries remain unrecognized in the region because their work is not translated. READ will provide support to CSOs to perform initiatives within their native countries, by awarding small grants that will contribute to achieve the following overall objectives:
- Promoting intercultural literacy and democratic values through reading culture and exposure to interregional literary works
- Fostering regional cooperation between civil society actors to promote reconciliation and normalization
- Supporting cultural and linguistic diversity in the Western Balkan, Turkey and beyond
- Strengthening the transnational circulation and diversity of Western Balkan and Turkish literary works in the long term
- Improving access to Western Balkan and Turkish literary works regionally and beyond and reach new audiences.
Priorities
- Encouraging translations from local authors among Western Balkan countries and Turkey into the different local languages from the targeted countries
- Encouraging translations of less represented genres such as works for young public (children, adolescents and young adults), comics/graphic novels, short stories or poetry
- Encouraging the appropriate use of digital technologies in both the distribution and promotion of the works
- Increasing the visibility of authors (In this regard, it will be required to include a biography of the author in each translated book)
Budget
The available sub-grant budget is EUR 80.000 in total for three rounds in three years. For the first round available budget is EUR 28.000. Maximum sub-grant amount per applicant is EUR 2.000.
COMPETITIVE SCOPE
Deadline for submission : 10.02.2021
Admissibility
Applications shall comply with the following requirements:
- The applicants are CSOs from the targeted countries and include activities within them
- The proposed initiatives demonstrate clear vision, catering to the particular needs of the citizens
- The application form is submitted electronically via the Goethe Application Portal (GAP)
- The Application is submitted before the call deadline (see time-table section 2.1)
- The requested financial support does not exceed the maximum sub-grant amount
- The application form is fully completed and contains the required attachments (see section 7)
GENERAL RULES
Eligibility criteria
Applications which comply with the following criteria will be subject of an in-depth evaluation.
Eligibility of applicants
The applicants need to be:
- non-profit making;
- civil society organizations;
- directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project with co-applicant(s);
- registered in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia or Turkey for at least 6 months before the date of publication of the call (23rd of December, 2020);
- working on one or more of the thematic areas of relevance of this Call for Proposals
How to submit an application
All applications must be submitted electronically via the Goethe Application Portal: https://kulturfoerderung.goethe.de/r.aspx?q=Ct9PbAFZ. The application will have 2 parts:
- Part A (to be filled in directly online) — contains administrative information about the applicant organizations (and partner’s organization, if there is any), short description of the project (English) and long description of the Project (local language or English)
- Part B – Annexes & supporting documents – (to be uploaded as PDF files or excel doc.)
The above is a summary of the original procurement notice.Additional information and documents are available for download from the original procurement notice page.
Timeline
- Grant announced on23 Dec 2020
- Deadline10 Feb 2021
- All applications must be submitted electronically via the Goethe Application Portal
Contacts
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