[romania_eu_list] Competition on Public Partnership Promotion

Tue, 30 May 2006 23:03:39 -0700


East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders

Soros Foundation-Moldova
International Renaissance Foundation-Kyiv
Open Society Foundation-Romania

ANNOUNCE
the Competition on Public Partnership Promotion
in the region: Ukraine-Moldova-Romania

The goal of the competition is to combine ideas and efforts of civic society representatives of Ukraine, Moldova and Romania for establishing and strengthening open democratic society components as well as creating principles of sustainable development in the region in the context of the European Neighborhood Policy.

Projects that envision international exchange of experience in solving important social problems as well as promotion of social innovations and public activity will be supported. Projects are planned together with partners from all three countries as long-term initiatives and are to be implemented both in three of the countries in the format of work or brainstorming meetings, seminars, study visits, workshops, etc. The East East Program will cover local expenses to support the implementation of hosting projects and travel expenses for invited participants in case when the projects are implemented in a partner country.

The leading organization agreed by involved partners submits the completed proposal to the national office of the East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders in its country.

Competition areas:

      1.      Strengthening partnership between NGOs and Local Authorities through trilateral activities (public/private partnership, citizens participation in decision-making, good practices in local problem-solving, transparency in local affairs, ensuring community development in rural areas, etc.);
      2.      Supporting the European integration efforts and monitoring of public processes in the region: action plans implementation, security issues, human rights monitoring, borders openness, etc.
      3.      Facilitating dialog between elites to support the process of democratization in the three countries, especially encouraging involvement of young experts;
      4.      Approaching prospects of Euro-Atlantic integration in the Black Sea Region;
      5.      Facilitating cooperation and dialog between public of the region and civil organizations of Transnistria.

Competition participants: NGOs, local authorities of border regions, mass media, policy centers, educational institutions and others.

Projects evaluation criteria:
*      the competition requirements compliance and correspondence to the Program principles;
*      correspondence to the OSI's mission;
*      the project activity plan;
*      motivation of the project partners and participants;
*      expected results; short-term and long-term outcomes;
*      additional sources of financing or in-kind contribution;
*      the applicant's experience in international projects implementation in mentioned area.

The Program will not support projects that envision:
*      world congresses or conferences;
*      highly tailored conferences or scientific events;
*      network meetings;
*      individual research projects;
*      art events;
*      particular translation and publishing activity;
*      institutional support and an infrastructure development;
*      commercial or profitable activity.
The competition budget is opened.

The project proposals submitted should receive approval from the East East Program Advisory Committees from all Participating Foundations (Soros Foundation-Moldova, International Renaissance Foundation-Kyiv and the Open Society Foundation-Romania) and only after that the project proposal is going to be submitted to the OSI NY who will take the final decision.

The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2006. Projects should be submitted no less than 8-10 weeks before their implementation start, therefore the projects should be planned to be implemented starting with September 2006.

Please pay attention at the following:
*      the original copy and electronic version of the proposal has to be submitted in English;
*      the Participating Foundations neither provides a review nor gives back submitted materials;
*      the final decision on a project is not to be reconsidered;
*      the Participating Foundations does not announce the reasons of a project rejection;
*      the Participating Foundations does not provide financing to political parties, religious communities or natural persons.

We encourage submitting the project proposals via e-mail or to the following addresses:

Soros Foundation-Moldova
East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders
Ana Coretchi, East East Program Director,
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tel. (37322) 274480, 270232; fax (37322) 270507
32 Bulgara Street, Chisinau MD 2001

International Renaissance Foundation-Kyiv
East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders
Tetyana Kukharenko, Program Manager
e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Tel.: (38 044) 461 9500; Fax: (38 044) 486 0166
13-a Bekhterevskyi Provulok, Kyiv, Ukraine, 04053

Open Society Foundation-Romania
East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders
Ovidiu Voicu, East East Program Coordinator
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Phone: (402 1) 212 11 01, 212 11 02; Fax: (40 21) 212 10 32 
Str. Caderea Bastiliei nr. 33, Bucharest 711391 Romania
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