European Studies Curriculum and Clubs for Public Schools
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: KyivSchool Heads Association and National In-Service TeacherTrainingCenter, Warsaw
2002-2005
Summary: To support the development of an integrated course on European studies for implementation in the public school system in Ukraine by looking at experiences in other countries and to equip the younger generation with knowledge and practical communication skills to defend one's rights.
Transparent Financing of Electoral Campaigns
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Secretariatof Freedom of Choice Coalition of Ukrainian NGOs, Kyiv (www.coalition.org.ua)
2003-2005
Summary: To support the long-term initiative, Three Steps towardsTransparent Financing of Electoral Campaigns in Ukraine, to improve nationalelectoral legislation and to support a favorable environment for transparencyin electoral funds as well as mechanisms of civic monitoring of electoral campaignfinancing to optimize monitoring approaches.
CommunityDevelopmentNetworkBuilding
Soros Foundation–Hungary, Open Society Foundation Romania, International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine), Open SocietyFund–Sofia (Bulgaria)
Organizers: Hungarian Association for Community Development,Regional Association for Community Development Romania, Romanian Association for Community Development and Regional Development Agency Donbass,Donetsk
2003-2005
Summary: To support an ongoing exchange of information and cooperation among community development organizations in Central Europe, to share experiences about the validity of community development in the region and to disseminategood practices and to enhance the professional skills of activists.
Together Against Poverty
Soros Foundation–Hungary
Organizer: Roma Leaders' ProfessionalAssociation, Bagamer in partnership with Mukacsivszke Miszke Kulturno-ProszvitnyickeTavarisztvo Pomib NYEVIPE, Zakarpatszkaja oblast, Ukraine and Ruhama Foundation,Oradea
2003-2005
Summary: To support leaders of Roma communities to resolve communityproblems without being dependent on humanitarian assistance and to promote long-termcollaboration in the protection of minority rights.
Displaced Cultural Assets: Property Rights and Political Problems: Poland and Ukraine
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: International CooperationProgram, Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw
2003-2006
Summary: To elaborate solutions to problems of displaced cultural assets, de-politicization and taking political advantage of these issues, to formulate a collaborative opinion based on diverse experiences in Central Europe and to analyze implications of cultural assets as a consequence of shifting borders,e.g., on Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Cooperation for Impact: Reform of the Public Health Sector
Fundfor an Open Society–Serbia
Organizers: Institute of Social Medicine, MedicalFaculty Belgrade; Department of public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Tirana; Instituteof Public Health Bucharest
2004-2005
Summary: To pilot a long-term initiative to analyze existing publichealth sector reform initiatives in Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Macedonia, to promote partnership/collaborative work and communication networks to benefit organizations now working in this field in relative isolation and to have a greater impact on governmental decision-making through collaborativeadvocacy.
One World Tour: Using Video and DVD as Human Rights and AwarenessBuilding Tools
OpenSociety Fund–Prague (CzechRepublic)
Organizer: People in Need, Human RightsDepartment, Prague (www.pinf.cz)
2004-2005
Summary: To support the expansion of the networks and initiativesof People in Need to southeast and eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus,to promote the implementation of innovative strategies in human rights awarenessbuilding and educational programming.
Active Participation of Women in Municipal Elections: Experiences of Turkey
OpenSociety Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizers: AzerbaijanNational Group of International Society for Human Rights, Baku and Associationfor Researching and Examining Women's Social Life, Ankara
2004-2005
Summary: To support efforts to increase social activism of women andwomen's representation in executive and legislative bodies by comparing experiencesin Turkey of women standing for municipal election.
Future Continuous: Regional Perspectives of Migration and European Integration
Soros Foundation–Hungary
Organizer: ErasmusCollege Association,Budapest
2004-2005
Summary: To support a pilot initiative to engage young social scientists in collaborative analysis of the implications of migration and inter-ethnic socialization, including anthropology of intercultural communication and transnational mobility, citizenship and civic loyalty in multiethnic political frameworks; historical consciousness; frameworks of regional economic and diplomatic cooperation; and, representation of cultural and political othernessin the media.
Modern Technologies and Methodologies in Police Training: CzechRepublic and Ukraine
Open Society Fund–Prague (Czech Republic) andInternational Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: The Youth – Reserve ХХI,Kyiv in partnership with the Institute of Law of Ministry of Internal Affairs,Kyiv and Police Training College, Prague
2004-2005
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to increase professionalcompetence in using new informational technologies in police professional training, specifically to analyze adaptation of educational modules in Ukraine and to elaborate methodological materials for use in police training institutesdrawing on experiences in the Czech Republic.
Consolidation of Civil Society's Efforts in the New Neighborhood Prospects of Enlarged Europe
Soros Foundation–Moldova
Organizer: House of Europe-Moldova in collaboration with IPP-Moldova, Contact Center for NGO Assistance Moldova and Business Consulting Institute-Moldova and in partnership with IPP-Bucharest, Center for Community Security Iasi, Euro-Regional Center for Democracy Timisoara and Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy Ukraine
2004-2005
Summary: To pilot a long-term initiative for representatives of public institutions, experts, policy-makers and NGOs to plan opportunities for fostering trilateral collaboration and encouraging positive social changes in Moldova and Ukraine through the prospect of the EU New Neighborhood Initiative and to learn from the Romanian experiences preparing for European Union membership.
Small and Medium Enterprises: Opportunities for Women's Professional Development
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Krzyzowa Foundation for MutualUnderstanding in Europe, Grodziszcze(www.krzyzowa.org.pl)in partnership with WestUkrainianCenter Women's Perspectives, Lviv2004-2005
Summary: To support a long-term initiative of study visits and internships in Lower Silesia for women from the Lviv Oblast, specifically to analyze programs to reduce unemployment and promote entrepreneurship development among women in economically-marginalized areas.
Sarajevo Notebook: Overcoming Fifteen Years of Political Propaganda
Open Society Fund–Bosnia & Herzegovina
Organizer: MediacenterSarajevo in partnership with the Center for Professional Development and Consultingin Art, Culture and Media Belgrade, Croatian Writers Society, Zagreb (www.hdpisaca.org), Independent Writers of Macedonia Skopje, Open Cultural Forum (OCF) Cetinje(www.okfcetinje.org) andKud Sodobnost International, Ljubljana
2004-2005
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to engage public participation in and attract public attention to perspectives of former Yugoslavia different from the political propaganda of the past fifteen years and to offer a communication platform to promote constructive engagement and cooperation among the countriesof the former Yugoslavia.
Policies Implemented in Disadvantaged Communities in Rural Areas: Experiences in Poland
Soros Foundation–Moldova and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizers: Casa Europeana Association, Pascani, CahulCounty and Polish Foundation for Rural Development
2004-2005
Summary: To support a series of exchanges to examine problems of disadvantaged rural communities in Poland and Moldova, specifically to analyze successful strategies and policies implemented in Poland to overcome obstacles of development in rural areas and to see to what extent lessons learned in Poland may be applied in Moldova.
From Quantity to Quality: Experiences in Educational Reform in Poland and Serbia and Montenegro
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Swietokrzyskie Center in Support ofLocal Democracy, Kielce (www.frdl.kint.ielce.pl)in partnership with Centrum Poloniusz – Pegaz, Belgrade
2004-2005
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among educators, local government authorities and NGOs in Poland and Serbia and Montenegro, specifically to analyze the processes, best practices and lessons learned in education reform in Poland and to support professional capacity of educators in Serbia and Montenegro through training of trainers methodologies successfully implemented in Poland.
Implementation of Restorative Justice in Eastern Europe
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: UkrainianCenter for Common Ground, Kyiv (www.commonground.org.ua) in partnership with the PolishCenter of Mediation, Warsaw (free.ngo.pl/pcm)
2004-2005
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to introduce methodologies of restorative justice and mediation in the legal system in Ukraine, specifically by providing an opportunity for legal experts to analyze experiences in methodologies of mediation in Eastern Europe.
EU Integration Processes from EAST to EAST: Civil Society and Ethnic Minorities in a Changing World
Open Society Foundation Romania and Soros Foundation–Latvia
Organizers: University Lucian Blaga, Department of Sociology, Sibiu (www.ulbsibiu.ro) and Latvian Sociological Association, Riga (www.lszda.lv) in partnership with Astra National Museum, Ethnological Research Center, Sibiu (www.muzeulastra.ro), Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Bucharest (www.iccv.ro), University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences, Riga (www.lu.lv/szf/) and Social Analysis Mediator, Riga
2004-2005
Summary: To support a long-term initiative designed to institutionalize a network of young social scientists aiming to facilitate policies addressed to civil society and ethnic integration, to analyze implications of EU integration processes on civil society development and ethnic minority rights and to prepare policy recommendations concerning social integration policies of ethnic minorities in the EU integration context based on international experience and engagement of the public in the third sector and public discussions.
Let's Learn from Each Other: New Methods of Rehabilitation for Children with Disabilities
Open Society Fund–Bratislava (Slovakia) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer:Children's Club for Handicapped Children and Young People, Kosice in partnership with Kinezis Klub for Disabled Children, Kyiv (www.kinezis.com.ua) and in cooperation with the Children's Faculty Hospital, Kosice and Faculty Hospital with Outpatients clinic in Kosice
2004-2005
Summary: To support a series of exchanges of professionals working with severely handicapped children in Slovakia and Ukraine to share information about new methodologies of treatment and rehabilitation and to promote partnership among non-governmental organizations and public/administrative institutions in supporting disabled children and their families.
International Legal Norms of Bilateral Relations: Georgia and Russia
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizer: International Law Students' Association,Georgia in partnership with Moscow State Institute of International Relations
2004-2005
Summary: To analyze contentious issues in Georgian-Russian relationsas a basis on which to resolve problems in keeping with international legal norms, including the necessity of a bilateral agreement to regulate interstate relations, legal status of Russian military bases and peace troops on Georgianterritory and international factors in conflicts between Georgia and Russia.
Managing Local Problems in Multicultural Communities: Moldova and Estonia
SorosFoundation–Moldova and Open Estonia Foundation
Organizers: NarvaUniversityCollegeand the Center for Protection of Human Rights in Transnistria, Bender
2004-2005
Summary: To support an outcome of the 2002 initiative Management of Integration in Multicultural Societies, specifically to facilitate an exchange of NGOs in Moldova and Transnistria to Estonia to analyze experience of NGOs in Estonia of building efficient partnerships to support changes at the community level in multicultural societies, to analyze outcomes of public reform in Estonia and deficiencies in the process of implementation and to examine communication channels at the local level among communitymembers regardless of ethnic, confessional or political affiliation.
Partnerships for Library Consortia in Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan and OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Lithuanian Research Library Consortium,Vilnius (www.lmba.lt)
2004-2005
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and analysis of the activities of the Lithuanian Library Consortium to strengthen the Azerbaijan Library Consortium and Georgian Library Consortium and promote efforts to engageall stakeholders in local communities to civic engagement.
Application of the European Convention on Human Rights: Ukraine and Poland
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: Legal InitiativeUkrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv and Center for Judicial Studies InternationalFoundation, Kyiv in partnership with Court of Appeal of Cracow, District courtof Cracow and the Human Rights Commission attached to the Supreme Council ofAdvocates of Poland, Warsaw
2004-2005
Summary: To support an analysis of the application of the recognizedprinciples and norms of international law as determined by the European Conventionon Human Rights in the justice systems of Ukraine and Poland, to promote the process of incorporation of the norms of international law and case law of the European Court of Human Rights in judicial practice in Ukraine by familiarizing Ukrainian judges with Polish experiences of overcoming prejudiced attitudes towards the application of the European Convention on Human Rights and to attract public attention to these issues and encourage examination of differentopinions and approaches.
Challenges of Multicultural Education
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizers: SACRI Society for the Researchof Religions and Ideologies, Cluj (www.sacri.ro)
2004-2005
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and best practices among academia and civil society specifically to develop a network of researchers and practitioners of multiculturalism, to investigate positive and negative aspects of adapting patterns of social development and to raise public awareness of and engagement in debates of pluralism and diversity in education.
Promoting Local Democracy in Ukraine: Experiences of European Union Integration in Poland
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Center for Education and Dialogue Theotokos, Gliwice (www.theotokos.org.pl) in partnership with WestUkrainianCenter for Human Rights and Civil Initiatives, Stryj
Summary: To support an initiativefor non-government organizations, local community and local government representativesin western and eastern Ukraine, specifically to promote civil consciousness,civil education, communication, leadership and human rights by analyzing experiencesin the management of NGOs and in voluntary services development in Poland andto analyze benefits and costs of European Union integration.
Beyond the Borders: Leaders of Voluntary Service Centers and Programs
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: NGO EuropeanDialogue, Lviv (www.dialog.lviv.ua)in partnership with the Polish National Agency of the YOUTH Program, Resource Center of the SALTO Network for Cooperation with Countries of Eastern Europeand Caucasus, Warsaw (www.youth.org.pl, www.salto-youth.net/eeca)
Summary: To support the promotion of volunteerism and effectiveness of international cooperation among non-governmental organizations in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia, specifically to provide an opportunity to exchange experiences, information and methods of volunteerism developmentand to elaborate new ideas for cross-border cooperation.
Youth NGOs in Provincial Towns: Poland and Ukraine
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and InternationalRenaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Association East European DemocraticCenter, Warsaw (www.eedc.org.pl) in partnership with Ukrainian Youth Association in Ukraine,Kyiv and Lion Society, Lviv
Summary: To support local community development inprovincial towns by promoting youth activism and engagement in local communitydevelopment, specifically to strengthen the capacity of local organizations inUkraine by partnering with similar organizations in Poland.
Witnessing the Past and Shaping the Future: Responsibility and Reconciliation
Foundation Open Society Institute - Representative Office Montenegro
Organizer:Obala Independent Production Group (IPG OBALA), Podgorica in partnership withLazareti Dubrovnik, Cenzura Split and Faktum Zagreb
Summary: To support an initiativedesigned to analyze nationalistic ideologies that breed violence against “others,” toexamine the policies of the Montenegrin government during the dissolution ofthe former Yugoslavia and its relations with Croatia and to analyze processesof political and social transition in countries of the former Yugoslavia.
European Charter of Languages: Learning Together in Different Languages
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Democratic Society EastFoundation, Warsaw (www.tdw.org.pl) inpartnership with the Rebirth of Crimea Foundation, Bakhchisaray
Summary: To supportan initiative to analyze experiences in Poland and in Europe in education fornational minorities and implementation of the principles of the European Charterof Languages, specifically to share best practices with NGOs and local governmentsin Crimea in efforts to ensure educational needs of minorities in Ukraine.
Management of Non-Governmental Youth Organizations: Lithuania and Belarus
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: National Development Institute, Vilnius (www.npi.lt)in partnership with Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs, Minsk
Summary: To supportan exchange of experiences in the management of youth non-governmental organizations,specifically to transfer skills, knowledge and best practices of youth leadersin Lithuania and to promote institutionalization of management skills in youthnon-governmental organizations in Belarus.
Lessons Learned for Civic Participation of Youth: Elections in Romania and Ukraine
Soros Foundation–Moldova, Open Society Foundation Romania,International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Invisible College-Moldova in collaboration with COALITION-2005 Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections in Moldova and in partnership with Pro-Democratia Association Romania, Center for Peace Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine and The Electors Committeefrom Ukraine/ Znayu! Civic Initiative of Ukraine
Summary: To support an analysisof youth participation and civic engagement, specifically in the recent electoralprocesses in Ukraine and Romania, to propose best practices and lessons learnedfor the upcoming elections in Moldova.
Open Access Scholarly Communication
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: InternationalRenaissance Foundation (Ukraine) in partnership with the Open Access ProjectInformation Program OSI, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kyiv and InternationalAssociation of Academies of Sciences (IAAS), Kyiv
Summary: To support an exchangeof experiences and methodologies of new communicational models to reach scholarsand researchers and to analyze information tools for disseminating resourcesfor low cost to health and social workers, students and educators, policymakers,journalists and civil society in poorer parts of the world.
Social Leadership in Building Responsible Civil Society: Experiences in Romania and Moldova
Soros Foundation–Moldova
Organizer: CREDO Resource Center of Human RightsNGOs, Chisinau (www.credo.md) in cooperation with CODECS Foundation for Leadership, Bucharest
Summary: Tosupport an initiative to increase citizen participation in regions of Moldovaby analyzing best practices and experiences in Romania, to influence public opinionin Moldova regarding civic and social leadership responsibilities of NGO leadersby offering positive examples of civic engagement and programs in Romania andto use the knowledge of activists in Romania in elaborating common strategiesfor a consolidated social leadership program for NGO leaders in Moldova.
Strategies for Local Community Development on BiosphereReserveTerritories
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Regional Agencyfor Sustainable Development, Lviv in partnership with UNESCO ProNatura, Associationof Actions on the Protected Areas Bucharest, Ecological Club UNESCO Pyaski andPublic Ecological Organization Pchola, Stara Lyubovnya
Summary: To support anexchange of information and knowledge to implement principles of sustainabledevelopment in biosphere reserves, specifically to promote ecological managementknowledge among local communities and to create methodologies and recommendationson which to bases local and international strategies for sustainable development.
Minority Rights and Majority Will: Living without Conflicts in Multicultural Europe
Open Estonia Foundation
Organizer: Society of Estonian Philosophy Teachers (SEPT), Tartu (www.taipla.ee/haridus) in cooperation with Center for Ethics, Tartu (www.ut.ee/eetikakeskus)
Summary: To support a long-term initiative designed to develop students' intellectual tools to analyze concepts of minority rights and to engage teachers and students in collaborative approaches to educational methodologies of addressing protection of minority rights.
Documentary for Change
Open Society Institute–Croatia
Organizer: FACTUM Documentary FilmProject, Center for Drama Art, Zagreb ( www.factumdocumentary.com)
Summary: To support an initiative to promote cooperation among authors in Southeast Europe producing socially and politically engaged documentary film and to promote public awareness and visibility of documentary films made in Southeast Europe dealing withpost conflict and transitional issues.
Eastgate Network: Eastern Relations of the EU
Open Estonia Foundation
Organizer: European Movement in Estonia in partnershipwith the Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Center Strategy St. Petersburg,Association for Participatory Democracy Adept Moldova and Carpathian Foundation,Ukraine
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to collect and coordinate information and analysis related to the EU's new Eastern borders, to monitor cross-border cooperation, to provide resource center services as a support network for organizations active in cross-border initiatives and to distribute information on best practicesand lessons learned in the new EU neighborhood.
Civic Engagement: Leszno – Minsk – Tarnopol
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Odzew Foundation, Lesznoin partnership with the YouthInformativeCenter, Minsk and YouthMunicipalCenter,Tarnopol
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to promote collaborative work to build self-aware civil societies and civil education, specifically to formulate models of social activity to resolve local and regional problems of trans-border exchange and to formalize standards of communication via the European Center of Assistance to Civil Public Activities and InternetInformative Point.
Social Support and Care for Children with Genetic Disorders
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Association of Parents andCaregivers of People with Downs Syndrome, Warsaw (www.bardziejkochani.pl)in partnership with Slovak Downs Syndrome Society Parents-to-Parentsand Association of Parents and Friends of Children with Downs Syndrome, Prague
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences in new methodologies of early interventionin social support for families of children with genetic disorders, specificallyto analyze and compare national standards of support and engagement of non-governmentalorganizations and public institutions.
Strengthening Local Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and NIS Countries
Soros Foundation–Hungary
Organizer: Cromo Foundation, Budapest
Summary: To support an analysis of best practices in community development models and initiatives for promoting civic engagement in decision-making processes, to improve communication skills and community development knowledge of NGOs and leaders of local authorities and to promote communication and cooperation among non-profit, for-profit and governmental sectors.
Strategies and Agreements between the Public Sector and the Non-Profit Sector
Open Estonia Foundation
Organizers: Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations(NENO), Tallinn and Orpheus Civil Society Network European Foundation Center(EFC), Warsaw
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in developing a framework for non-profit and public sector cooperation, specifically to analyze the experiences of the Estonian government non-profit sector joint committee on the implementation of the Estonian Civil Society Development Concept, and to promote non-profitengagement in public policy formulation and decision-making.
Integration of National Minorities: Best Practices in Objective Reporting
Soros Foundation–Latvia
Organizer: NGO Journalists Initiative,Latvia
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and best practices in reporting minority issues to prevent unbalanced and prejudiced reporting, to contribute to building a cohesive society with full respect for human rights and to promote an informal network among journalists focusing on minority and ethnicissues in Central Europe.
Local Activity Centers in Rural Districts: Poland and Ukraine
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and InternationalRenaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: YouthPublicCenter Etalon, Ivano-Frankivsk (www.etalon.iatp.org.ua), Black Sea Society of Green Tourism Chornomorsk and the SocietyVillage and EuropeCracow
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and transfer of skills and tools specifically addressed to inhabitants of Ivano-Frankivsk and Chornomorsk to promote economic and social development in rural areas and to analyze experiences in Poland of creating local activity centers inrural areas to promote civic engagement in community development.
Podlasie and Grodno: Local Self-Government
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Belarusian Forum of LocalGovernment in Poland, Hajnowka in partnership with the Leu Sapieha Foundation,Grodno
Summary: To support exchanges of experiences of representatives of town municipalities and county governments in neighboring provinces in Poland and Belarus, specifically to analyze trends in Belarusian legislation concerning local self-government and to promote transformation of local government in Belarus in accordance with the requirements of the European Charter of LocalGovernments.
From the Iron Curtain to Openness: Transformation of the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: The Spiritual Culture of the BorderlandFoundation, Lublin in partnership with District Unit of the Border Guard on theRiver Bug, Chelm (www.nosg.sg.gov.pl), Academy of the Ukrainian Youth Lviv (www.aum.iatp.org.ua) and St. Nicholas Orchestra of the Academic Culture Center of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (www.mikolaje.lublin.pl)
Summary: To support an initiative to mobilize local authorities to pay greater attention to improving standards of border services and developing border areas and to promote engagement of civil society actors with local authorities to create development opportunities and regular cross-border cooperation.
Self-Help for Elderly and Handicapped People
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Association of the ThirdAgeUniversity, Gorzow Wlkp (www.utw-gorzow.arx.pl) in partnership with Echo of the War, Kaliningrad and Jahresringe Landesverband, Berlin(www.jahresringe-ev.de
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and best practices in the functioning of rehabilitation facilities, specifically to contribute to the establishment of such facilities in Kaliningrad based on models of high quality service and care provision in Poland and Germany.
COOLture of Conflict: Overcoming Violence among Young People
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Slubice Musical Society Association inpartnership with Amber YMCA, Kaliningrad (www.ymca.ru)and Mediation Counseling Service, Frankfurt (www.mediationsstelle-ffo.de)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences in overcoming conflict, specifically overcomingviolence among young people, to introduce new and innovative methodologies ofcommunication and engaging disadvantaged young people and to promote an internationalnetwork of young mediators working with disadvantaged young people.
Opportunities for Better Cooperation / Border Crossings: Poland and Kaliningrad
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Barciany Educational Initiative Association,Barciany (www.biobarciany.org.pl) in partnership with Barciany Community Council, Ketrzyn District Council (www.starostwo-kentrzyn.prv.pl) and Administration of Prawdinsk Region, Kaliningrad Region
Summary: To support public debates in neighboring communities of Barciany and Prawdinsk about a new Polish-Russian border-crossing at Michalkowo-Zeleznodoroznyj, specifically to provide information to the public about opportunities and threats related to the new crossing and to analyze practical benefits of establishing this crossing by developing collaborative initiatives in tourism and ecologicalpreservation.
Educational Methodologies to Prevent Violence in Youth Activities
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Max Association - Romania
Summary: To support an exchange of experiencesand best practices in educational methodologies to empower youth workers whowork with vulnerable groups and to develop collaborative strategies and activitiesthat address racism, xenophobia, discrimination and gender-based forms of violenceaffecting young people.
Recreation Activities for People with Disabilities and Special Needs
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: Green CrossSociety, Lviv and Lviv Tourist Board
Summary: To support an international exchangeof experiences and best practices in providing opportunities and services forreaction activities for people with disabilities and special needs, to initiatechanges at the state level to ensure the rights of disabled people are met andto influence public awareness and attitudes about the necessity of ensuring socialengagement of people with disabilities.
Innovative Approaches to Supporting Women's Rights
OpenSociety Fund–Prague (CzechRepublic)
Organizer: Slovak-Czech Women'sFund, Prague (www.womensfund.cz)
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among activists, representatives of advocacygroups and grassroots organizations and female filmmakers focusing on women rightsto create a platform for women's rights documentary films screenings, specifically to analyze and critique how women's rights are portrayed in documentary film.
Disabled and Equal!
Open Society Foundation for Albania
Organizer: Protection, Integrationand Socialization of Disabled Artists (MIS-AAK), Tirana in partnership with theCenter for Children with Disabilities Steps of Hope Tuzla, Handicap InteralbTirana and the Albania Disability Forum
Summary: To support an exchange of experiencesand best practices in the implementation of laws and provision of services forpeople with disability, specifically to promote the implementation of anti-discriminationlaws in Albania by drawing on experiences in Central Europe of standardizationof legal frameworks according to EU standards.
Democratization of Education: Dialogue among Educators and Employers
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Ukrainian MarketingAssociation, Kyiv (www.uam.iatp.org.ua)in partnership with the PublicHigherSchool of Entrepreneurship and Management Lodz and the NationalMiningUniversity,Dniepropetrovsk
Summary: To support the initiation of dialogue among educatorsand employers in eastern Ukraine on designing and improving education opportunitiesaccording to local needs and requirements of the labor market, particularly tofocus on overcoming high levels of unemployment among young people in heavilyindustrialized regions, by analyzing productive initiatives in Poland.
Legal Reform Strategy for European Integration
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Foundationfor Fair Justice, Chernihiv in partnership with the Open Society Archive Budapest,Moldova Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Chisinau, Constitutional Tribunalof Poland Warsaw, Access to Information Program Sofia and Poland Helsinki Foundationfor Human Rights Warsaw
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and knowledgeto improve cooperation between human rights organization and governmental authorities in Ukraine drawing on experiences in Central Europe and to promote engagement of human rights organizations in the public decision-making and policy formulation concerning reforms necessary for Ukraine's integration into Europeanstructures and institutions.
International Asylum Law: Exchange of Experiences and Expertise
SorosFoundation–Hungary
Organizer: Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest
Summary: To support an exchangefor students of international and European asylum law, specifically to promoteanalysis and creative thinking on pressing asylum issues among the future generationof asylum experts and distinguished judges, refugee lawyers, academics and NGOactivists, to develop strategies on how to most effectively contribute to andinfluence policy dialogue in order to achieve social change regarding asylumseekers and to contribute to improving the circumstances of asylum seekers andrefugees to gain access to high quality legal assistance related to asylum procedures,housing, social welfare and education.
Current Status of Transnistrian Conflict Settlement: Moldova and Ukraine Cooperation
SorosFoundation–Moldova
Organizers: Institute for Public Policy-Moldova and PylypOrlyk Institute for Democracy from Ukraine in collaboration with East East:Partnership Beyond Borders Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova
Summary: Tosupport a brainstorming/round table of representatives of think tanks in Moldovaand Ukraine specifically focused on the Transnistrian conflict, to share opinionsin the new geopolitical context after parliamentary elections in Moldova andpresidential elections in Ukraine and to develop collaborative recommendationsto present to decision-makers concerning action plans on conflict settlementand security risks of continued conflict.
Introduction of Amicus Curiae Practice in Ukraine
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Public OrganizationProfessional Assistance, Komsomolsk in partnership with the Helsinki Fund onHuman Rights, Warsaw
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences on the practiceof Amicus Curiae in Poland as an attempt to promote the introduction of thesepractices in the legal system in Ukraine and to provide relevant stakeholdersin Ukraine with knowledge and skills to launch a wider advocacy and implementationcampaign in Ukraine.
Strengthening Democracy through Accountable Controls of PoliticalParty Financing
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizers: Institute for Public PolicyBucharest (www.ipp.ro), International Center for Policy Studies Kyiv, Institute of Public AffairsWarsaw and EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy Prague
Summary: To support a long-term initiative, specifically to regionalize national country research into a comparative analysis of legal frameworks related to political party financing, to promote transparency and to improve control practices performedby state institutions and independent non-governmental organizations.
Cooperation for Improving Political Sciences Studies: Experiences in Lithuania and Georgia
Open Society Fund–Lithuania and Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizer: Institute of Political Sciences and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University (www.vdu.lt) in partnership with Batumi State University, Batumi Institute of Science and Research andFaculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Language and Culture at Tbilisi State University
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences, knowledge and skills in designing political science studies related to European integration, specifically to analyze experiences in Lithuania of teaching methodologies concerning EU and NATO integration and to promote cooperation among students and the non-governmental sector in promoting public awareness of EU integration.
Youth for Development: Engaging Young People in Villages and SmallTowns
SorosFoundation–Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: UNV Youth Project Support to StrengthenYouth Volunteerism in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek in partnership with UNDP/UNV IntegratedYouth Program, Sarajevo
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences of methodologiesand mechanisms of work to promote youth volunteer initiatives for developmentof village communities and small towns, to promote constructive engagement withlocal authorities and mass media and to identify best practices in engaging youngpeople in civic and social activism.
Socio-Ecological Problems of Waste Management in Urban Environments: Poland and Kaliningrad
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Eco-Initiative Association,Kwidzyn (www.ekokwidzyn.pl) inpartnership with the ECODEFENSE! Environmental Club, Kaliningrad District (www.ecodefense.ru)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences and best practices in engaging non-governmentalorganizations and local authorities in joint activities to solve problems oflittering and waste management, to create local mechanisms for public awarenesscampaigns addressing civic rights and responsibilities and partnership with localauthorities in overcoming problems of waste management.
Media Self-Regulation: Experiences in Slovenia/Prospects in Armenia
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Armenia and Peace Institute,Ljubljana
Organizers: Yerevan Press Club and Peace Institute Ljubljana
Summary: To supporta long-term initiative designed to contribute to the establishment of efficientmedia self-regulatory mechanisms in Armenia by drawing on extensive internationalexperiences to inform contemporary conditions in Armenia and to contribute tothe development of working models of media self-regulation in societies whereno traditions of quality and responsible journalism existed.
Promoting Civil Society in Local Communities: Young Leaders' School
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Rodowo Foundation, Sorkwity(www.rodowo.pl) in partnership with Civic Initiatives Support Center, Kaliningrad (www.cpoi.narod.ru) and Solidarity between Nations, Bad Doberan, Rostock
Summary: To support the development and activities of young leaders in small towns and villages in the Kaliningrad District and the Warmia-Mazury region of Poland and to analyze models of youth initiatives piloted in Poland and Germany with the objective of institutionalizing cooperation among youth organizations in Kaliningrad, Poland and Germany.
The Future Role of NGOs in a Changed Europe: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Romania
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: ECOSENS / Romania in partnershipwith the Sustainable Development of Civil Society Club, Bulgaria andAssociation VESTA / Bosnia-Herzegovina
Summary: To support an exchange of experiencesdesigned to strengthen the capacity of NGOs in the Balkan region to adapt tochanges at European level, especially the enlargement of the European Union,to formulate guidelines for NGOs to increase their chances of sustainabilityand to set up a forum for broader regional communication among NGOs.
Ukraine and the Enlarged EU: The EU and Ukraine after the Presidential Elections
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: International Cooperation Program, Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw in partnership with the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine (CPCFPU), Kyiv
Summary: To support a series of exchanges and public discussions designed to promote awareness of Ukraine's integration into European structures, specifically to engage all stakeholders—decision makers, politicians, experts, journalists, scholars and NGOs—in a broad public debate of Ukraine's interactions and relations with European institutions.
The Elderly in the New EU
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Samburis Gabija Kaunas inpartnership with the Latvian Pensioners Federation Riga, Livani Pensioners Association Balta Maja and the Association of Pensioners of EstoniaTallinn
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences among NGOs of and for older people, specificallyconcerning protection of rights of older people and organizing access to informationfor older people, to increase public awareness of organizations and associationsof older people and to promote participation by older people in social policydebates and public policy formulation.
Civic Participation in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Romania: Make Up Your Mind/It's Your Future Too!
Open Society Foundation Romania and Open Society Fund–Bosnia & Herzegovina
Organizer: Pro Democracy Association Cluj branch (www.apd.ro) in partnership with Civitas Foundation for Civil Society Cluj (www.civitas.ro) and Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Banja Luka
Summary: To support a long-term exchange to promote citizen participation, especially youth, at the local government level in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Romania by analyzing experiences in convening deliberative democracy fora as a methodology of consulting citizens before public decisions are made and to share experiences/lessons learned in promoting citizens engagement and public participation.
Government Organizations and Local Non-Governmental Organizations: Cooperation for Common Good
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Help for Family of ChoczCommune Association, Chocz in partnership with the Government of Chocz Commune(www.chocz.pl), Rural Council Mlijw, Government of Olcnava Commune, Government of AllaziCommune and Government of Soleczniki Commune
Summary: To support an exchange ofexperiences in cooperation between central government organizations and localnon-governmental organizations, specifically to analyze experiences in Polandin cooperative relationships between non-profit organizations and local governmentsin resolving problematic issues in local communities.
Community Foundations: Development Perspectives and Opportunities
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Samogitian Community Foundation,Telsiai (www.zemaiciufondas.lt)in partnership with the Baltic America Partnership Program Latvia andthe Baltic America Partnership Program Estonia
Summary: To support an exchangeof experiences in community foundation development in the Baltic countries, specificallyto strengthen community foundations and promote local philanthropy on a regionallevel, to evaluate successes and failures of the community foundation movementin the Baltic countries and to raise public awareness of models of communityfoundations and advantages in promoting civic participation.
Youth NGOs in Baltic and South Caucasus Region: From Leaders' to Organizations' Capacity
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Institute of Democratic Politics, Vilnius (www.dpi.lt) in partnership with the National Youth Council of Armenia, National Assembly of Youth Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, National Council of Youth Organizations of Georgia, Estonian National Youth Council, National Youth Council of Latvia and Council of Lithuanian Youth Organizations
Summary: To support cooperation among youth NGOs in the south Caucasus and Baltic countries, specifically to contribute to processes of democratic development in the south Caucasus by sharing experiences in the Baltic countries of strengthening the organizational capacity of young people and to promote youth engagement in decision-making and policy formulation drawing on experiences in the Baltic countries.
Teaching for and through Democracy: A Road to Modern Democratic Society
Open Society Institute–Croatia
Organizer: Forum for Freedom in Education, Zagreb in partnership with European Forum for Freedom in Education(EFFE), Germany
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences to raise awareness of the importance of continued renewal of methodologies and content in educational processes to European standards, to open communication channels between EU member states and countries in transition specifically concerning education and to analyze achievements of EU member states specifically in terms ofmodernizing the educational system in candidate countries.
Minorities in the Enlarged EU
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Center for Stateless Culturesof VilniusUniversity (CSC), Vilnius (www.statlesscultures.lt)in partnership with the Vilnius Yiddish Institute (www.yiddishvilnius.com)
Summary:To support an exchange for researchers, experts, representatives of state andnon-governmental organizations and leaders of ethnic communities to analyze experiencesin pro-actively addressing minority rights and overcoming problems of the weakestand stateless minorities in the context of the enlarged EU and to develop recommendations,methodologies and guidelines for enhancing cooperation among communities of nationalminorities, decision-makers and civil society activists concerning ethnic minoritiesand multiculturalism, accessibility and preservation of cultural heritage.
Applying Restorative Practices in Criminal Policy
Stefan BatoryFoundation (Poland) and Soros Foundation–Moldova
Organizer: Polish Associationfor Legal Education, Warsaw (www.psep.pl) inpartnership with the Institute for Penal Reform (IRP), Chisinau (www.irp.md)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences specifically to contribute to the improvementof the quality and practical application of mediation and probation processesin Moldova by gathering new knowledge and practices from colleagues in Poland.
Together in Europe: Strategies for Regional Development
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Ternopil Institute of Social and InformationTechnologies in partnership with Department of Microeconomics of the UniversitySzczecin, Polish Association of Economics Szczecin, West Pomeranian BusinessSchool Szczecin, Higher School of Management Rzeszow, Ternopil Regional State Administration jointly with the Regional Center of Employment andCity Council Ukrainian Marketing Association, Kyiv
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences for representatives of local self-government, centers of employment and civil activists to promote a knowledge–based economy, specifically to use in Ukraine experiences of a new EU member and to provide an opportunity for relevant stakeholders in Ukraine to work with peers in Poland in formulating recommendations for regional development to relevant decision-makers in Ukraine.
Kosovo and the Euro-Atlantic Future of the Western Balkans
OpenSociety Fund–Sofia (Bulgaria)
Organizer: NATO Information Center Foundation,Sofia in partnership with the Albanian Atlantic Association Tirana, Center ofInternational Relations Banja Luka, The Atlantic Council of Croatia Zagreb, Euro-AtlanticClub of Macedonia Skopje, Atlantic Council of Serbia and Montenegro Belgrade,Euro-Atlantic Council Romania Bucharest and UNMIK – Kosovo, Pristina
Summary:To support an opportunity for communication and discussion among a wide cross-sectionof stakeholders – including experts, media and NGO representatives – in southeastern Europe, particularly to emphasize the role of civil society in Kosovo to participate in dialogue and decision-making about the future of Kosovo, in the context of ensuring long-term stabilityin this region.
Managing Cultural Transitions in Southeastern Europe
Open Society Institute–Croatia
Organizer: Department for Cultureand Communication, Institute for International Relations (IMO), Zagreb (www.imo.hr)in association with the UNESCO Chair Program at the University of Arts, Belgrade(www.arts.bg.ac.yu)and the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Rijeka(www.pefri.hr)
Summary:To support an exchange of knowledge and expertise concerning European approachesand understanding of multiculturalism and interculturalism with the longer-termobjective of adaptation to local and regional settings and to support the organizationof a network of experts in southeastern Europe to influence cultural bureaucraciesand ministries of culture to have an impact on inter-state cooperation in thefuture.
New Media – New in the Media
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Department of Journalismand Social Communication, Wroclaw University in partnership with the Councilof Media Ethics, Warsaw and the Eastern Europe College, Wroclaw
Summary: To supportan exchange of experiences among journalists to demonstrate the many roles thata journalist may fulfill in developing and strengthening civic societies andto examine the diversity of ways in which journalists in Poland, Ukraine andBelarus shape civil society in the context of international standards and ethnicalnorms of journalism in Europe.
National Youth Policies: Success or Failure in Southeastern Europe?
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Timis County Youth Foundation (FITT), Timisoara in partnership with the Association of Disabled Students of Novi Sad Serbia and Montenegro, Youth Council Prilep (www.youthcouncilprilep.netfirms.com), Future Association Sofia and Youth Council of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luca
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences designed to improve information disseminationabout the existence, role, content and management of national youth policiesin southeast Europe, to identify and promote key learning points, success andfailure factors, based on analysis and evaluation of the impact of NYPs fromthe perspective of grassroots NGOs and to promote and advocate for the developmentof NYPs.
Decentralization of Public Services and Encouragement of Private-Public Partnerships: Poland and Albania
Open Society Foundation for Albania and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Malopolska Institute of Local Government and Administration (www.mistia.org.pl) in partnership with the Albanian Association of Municipalities (www.aam-al.org)
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences to provide an opportunity for representatives of municipalities in Albania to analyze tools and techniques of innovative management of public services and local governance, specifically by discussing firsthand these issues with representatives of municipalities in Poland.
Serbia and Slovakia: New Areas for Civil Society Cooperation
Fund for an Open Society–Serbia and Open Society Fund–Bratislava (Slovakia)
Organizer: Timok Club, Serbia in partnership with Ekopolis Foundation, Slovakia and Educational Center, Serbia
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences, best practices and models of development, designed to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in Serbia through partnership with civil society organizations in Slovakia, to offer an opportunity to engage civil society in finding innovation solutions to obstacles to social development and to identify alternative approaches in overcoming stereotypes and social exclusion.
Partnership in Consumer Rights' Protection: Suppliers and Consumers of Natural Gas
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Tajikistan
Organizers:Public Association Consumers Union (CU), Khujand and Interrepublican Confederationof Consumer Societies KonfOP, Moscow
Summary: To support an exchange of experiencesbetween consumer rights NGOs in Tajikistan and Russia specifically focused onsuppliers and consumers of natural gas, to promote legal and economic validityin mutual relations between these sectors and to design a collaborative advocacystrategy for NGOs and citizens to engage in decision-making processes.
Women's NGOs in Community Development: Albania and Moldova
SorosFoundation–Moldova and Open Society Foundation for Albania
Organizers: Centerfor Women's Studies and Information, Chisinauand Women's Center, Tirana
Summary: To support an exchange of knowledgeand experiences among NGOs working to promote women's participation in community development and problem-solving, to analyze how women's NGOs may influence attitudes and perceptions of gender equality in society and encourage women to play an active role in social transformation and to initiate collaborative programs to ensure communication and sharing of experience among NGOs in southeast Europe which are contributing to confidence building in society through activeinvolvement of women.
Biala Podlaska Initiative for Improvement of Conditions of Crossing the Eastern EU Border
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Biala Podlaska Municipalityin partnership with Biala Podlaska County Office (www.starostwobialskie.lubelskie.pl), Executive Committee of Brest Region, Customs House in Biala Podlaska, Border Guards Poland (www.sg.gov.pl), Biala Podlaska Chamber of Commerce (www.med.tnet.pl/~bpig/), Cracow Strategic Studies Institute Foundation (www.iss.krakow.pl) and Biala Podlaska Culture Center and European Association of Biala PodlaskaCulture (www.muzycznaapteka.pl)
Summary:To support a long-term public awareness campaign to promote closer cooperationamong local authorities and partners in Biala Podlaska and Brest regions to improveconditions of crossing the eastern EU border, to identify problems negativelyinfluencing the process of crossing the eastern EU border and to mobilize publicopinion and engage civil society in overcoming negative effects of the bordercrossing.
Redefining the Role of Advocates in Belarus: Experiences in the Czech Republic
Open Society Fund–Prague (CzechRepublic)
Organizer: BelarusianCenter of People in Need (PIN), Prague in partnership with the HumanRightsCenter Viasna, Minsk
Summary: To support an exchange for lawyers in Belarus to meet counterparts in the Czech Republic, specifically to familiarize Belarusian lawyers and human rights activists with the roles of advocates in the Czech legal system, to analyze the role of independent advocates in a state of law, the system of legal education and self-administration of advocates, to discuss the mechanism of human rights observations within criminal proceedings and imprisonment and to contribute to improving the standard of legal support available to Belarusian NGOs and organizations that promote the transition of the country to a state of law.
Early Education for European Values
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Institution for Educationand Counseling, Suceava
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in promotingpartnerships between governmental and non-governmental organizations workingto influence educational policy of civic education for children and to analyzenew methodologies and capacity development for teachers of civic education.
Building a Platform in Developing Strategies to Prevent Violence against Children and Youth
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Mykolas Romeris University(former Lithuanian University of Law), Vilnius(www.mruni.lt)
Summary:To support an exchange of national, regional and international best practicesfor overcoming violence against children, to foster cross-border communicationamong individuals and groups working at the local level in applying most effectiveintervention strategies to prevent violence against children that lead to long-termpositive social change and to promote innovative social change by facilitatingexchanges of knowledge among researchers, practitioners and policy makers inlegal and mental health interventions and their appropriate use.
Organic Farming: Models of Bio-Farms in Romania
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Organic Farming Associationof Romania Bioterra, Cluj
Summary: To build on previous exchanges of experiencesin organic farming and agricultural transformation in Poland, Hungary and Romania,specifically to disseminate best practices in ecological agriculture to villagehouseholds in Moldova and Armenia to promote empowerment in determining modelsof agriculture going forward, to analyze models and techniques of implementationto protect the biodiversity of organic farms, agricultural areas and other naturalresources and to analyze advantages of organic agriculture and innovative technologiesto promote optimal productivity of agriculture.
Youth for Youth – Combat HIV/AIDS
Open Society Institute–Croatia
Organizer: Croatian Associationfor HIV (CAHIV), Zagreb (www.huhiv.hr) in partnership with JAZAS Yugoslav Youth Association Against AIDS and the Croatian Medical Students' International Committee
Summary: To support an initiative of youth leaders in southeast Europe to create a regional strategy to fight HIV/AIDS among young people, to propose collaborative initiatives in identifying international partners and to develop long-term measures for youth engagement and activism in education and outreach programming to engage all relevant stakeholders in this work.
Applying New Information Technologies in Education
OpenSociety Institute Assistance Foundation–Armenia
Organizer: YerevanStateUniversityin partnership with Central Eastern European Network (CEENet) Warsaw (www.ceenet.org),KharkovNationalUniversity of Electro Engineering Ukraine (www.kture.kharkov.ua),Kaunas Regional Distance Education Study Center (www.distance.ktu.lt)and Tiger Leap Foundation Estonia (www.tiigrihype.ee)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences and expertise in the development and adaptationof new methodologies of using information technologies in secondary and highereducation, specifically to brainstorm among specialists about engaging decision-makersto promote the use of innovative technologies in teaching and curriculum development.
Have a Nice Trip: Information Campaign for Migrant Workers
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: La Strada Foundation againstTrafficking in Women, Warsaw in partnership with the Young Women Christian Associationof Belarus, Minsk
Summary: To support an information campaign to provide migrantwomen from Belarus with reliable information regarding working and living conditionsin Poland and to raise awareness of issues of safe migration, including job migration,and legal protection of migrants, in efforts to combat trafficking.
Disability and Human Rights: Civil Society Engagement
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizers: Disabled Peoples International(DPI) Europe and National Organization of Disabled People in Romania
Summary:To support the engagement of disabled persons and relevant civil society organizationsand actors to a workshop to draft a position paper addressing the UN Conventionon Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilitiescurrently proposed as a draft to the UN General Assembly, specifically to strengthenthe voice and representation of people with disabilities in international exchangesand decision-making.
Introducing the Estonian Experience of European Integration to NGOs in Georgia
Open Society Georgia Foundation and Open Estonia Foundation
Organizer: Estonian School of Diplomacy, Tallinn
Summary: To support a study visit of NGO representatives in Georgia to Estonia to analyze reform experiences and preparations to join the EU in Estonia, specifically to learn experiences, best practices and lesson learned of civil society engagement and activities in the processes of EU membership in Estonia.
Forum of Reforms: International Experiences and Expertise
SorosFoundation–Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan
Summary: To support an exchange oflessons learned, best practices and mistakes made in structuring stabilizationand development programs after political transition, specifically to bring internationalexpertise and experiences to analyses and discussions in Kyrgyzstan to developshort-term stabilization and long-term economic and social development initiativesand to attract the attention of the public and the decision-makers to alternativedevelopment programs based on experiences in other societies.
International Experiences in the Development of Palliative Care
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizer: CancerPreventionCenter, Tbilisiin partnership with the Hungarian Hospice Foundation, Budapest (www.hospicehaz.hu)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences among healthcare professionals, socialservice providers and NGOs to promote improvements in healthcare service provisionspecifically drawing on expertise in Central Europe and to engage relevant stakeholdersin collaborative decision-making regarding transformation of health care systemsin the Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Role of Borders in an Integrating Europe: CzechRepublic, Slovakia and Poland
OpenSociety Fund–Bratislava (Slovakia)
Organizer: Faculty of Natural Sciencesof Comenius University Bratislava in partnership with the Faculty of NaturalSciences of Charles University Prague and Faculty of Geography and Regional Studiesof Warsaw University
Summary: To support an exchange of analyses in the CzechRepublic, Slovakia and Poland specifically addressed to new opportunities oftrans-border employment, tourism potential in border regions, increases in trans-borderpopulation mobility and new opportunities for economic and social cooperationamong local communities in border regions.
Regional Approaches to Overcoming Human Trafficking
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine), Soros Foundation–Moldova and Open SocietyFoundation Romania
Organizer: NGO Information-Methodical Center Debate, Lviv in partnership with the Association for the Promotion of Juvenile Justice Jean Valjean, Bucharest and the Center for the Prevention of Trafficking in Women,Chisinau (www.antitraffic.md)
Summary: To support the development of effective collaborative tactics to overcome trafficking in human beings and to improve the services provided by NGOs in Ukraine for victims of trafficking by exchanging experiences with NGOs in Romania and Moldova, establishing an international network of organizations addressing these issues and exploring coordination of efforts beyond national borders.
NGOs and Local Community Development: Experiences in Slovakia and Azerbaijan
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan and Open Society Foundation–Bratislava (Slovakia)
Organizer: Intellect Public Union, Baku in partnership with Obcan a Demokrasiya, Bratislava (www.obcanademokrasia.sk)
Summary: To support an initiative to contribute to the preparation of development strategies for NGOs and local communities by strengthening partnerships between NGOs and local communities in western regions of Azerbaijan, specifically to utilize experiences in Slovakia, specifically to analyze and adapt experiences in Slovakia addressed to the protection of public interests in local community development.
Public Involvement in Drafting Laws on Bio-Safety
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizer: Azerbaijan Ecological Standards Monitoring Fund, Baku (www.azecology.org) in partnership with Global and Local Informational Partnership Bishkek (www.glipplanet.narod.ru) and Zelenyi Svit, Dniepropetrovsk (www.zsfoe.org)
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in promoting public participation in discussions of plans to protect the environment and to provide NGOs in Azerbaijan an opportunity to learn the experiences of public organizations in other societies which are active in informing the public about sustainable development andbiodiversity.
Economic Development and Overcoming Unemployment
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer:Strzegowo Development Association, Strzegowo Mazowiecki Region (www.trsstrzegowo.prv.pl) in partnership with District Job Office Mlawa (www.powiatmlawski.pl), Government of Strzegowo Commune (www.strzegowo.pl), A.Mickiewicz Polish Cultural and Educational Center Simferopol and Center of Public Initiatives Svitoch, Bakhchisaray
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in social programs to mitigate consequences of economic dislocation and unemployment, specifically to analyze productive programs to promote cooperation among municipal officials, municipal job offices and local businessmen as implemented in Poland and to share relevant knowledge and information with local authorities in Simferopol.
Financial Management of Higher Education and Improvement of Existing Legislation in Albania
Open Society Foundation for Albania
Organizers: Open Society Foundation for Albania and the Albanian Rector's Conference
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among university administrators responsible for financial management of universities, specifically to compare experiences in Central Europe in institutional strategic planning and institutional relationships with society and in the local economy and to share concepts and practical implementation of higher education policy making according to integration trends in southeastern Europe and with the European Union.
Srebrenica: A Crime That Must Not Be Forgotten
Fund for anOpen Society–Serbia and Open Society Fund–Bosnia & Herzegovina
Organizer:Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), Belgrade (www.yi.org.yu)in partnership with Movement of Mothers from Srebrenica and Zepa, Sarajevo
Summary:To support a long-term initiative designed to create conditions for dealing withthe past by promoting and fostering truth-telling about the crimes of the past,to promote engagement in processes of transitional justice and to begin to breakdown barriers of stereotype and prejudice in social relations, especially amongyoung people.
Democratization of Governance: International Experiences
SorosFoundation–Kyrgyzstan
Organizers: Center for Public Policy Bishkek (www.cpp.to.kg), Analytical Consortium Perspektiva Bishkek, International Institute of Strategic Research under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Bishkek, Bishkek Chamber of Trade Development and Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic on Affairs of PublicService, Bishkek
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in the realizationof effective partnerships between the state and civil society, specifically toengage the public in Kyrgyzstan in discussions of the management of democracyand decision-making and to analyze various models of transparency in decision-making.
Economies in Transition in the South Caucasus
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizers: Foundation CASE-TranscaucasusTbilisi, CRRC Georgia, ChavchavadzeStateUniversity of Languages and Culture,CRRC Azerbaijan (www.crrc-az.org) andCRRC Armenia
Summary: To support an exchange among key stakeholders in economicreform and development in the south Caucasus, specifically to prioritize therole of non-governmental public policy research organizations in the dialogue on shared issues of economic development in this region, and to formulate resolutions to common obstacles to economic development through informedpublic policy and collaborative decision-making and analysis.
Improved Public Service through Strategic Budgeting and Improved Analytical Capacity
Subprogram for European Integration
Soros Foundation–Latvia
Organizers: LatvianSchool of Public Administration,Vidzeme University College and Riga Stockholm School of Economics
Summary: To supportknowledge networking and transfer of expertise among public administration professionals,NGOs and scholars on issues crucial to the debate about modern public financeand effective financial management and to promote modern governance standardsin countries of the New EU Neighborhood.
Creation of an Anti-Trafficking Network: Information Exchange and Knowledge Networking
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizer: People's HarmoniousDevelopment Society (PHDS), Tbilisi (www.phds.ge)in partnership with Hope & Help, Yerevan and Clean World, Baku
Summary: Tosupport an exchange of information between governmental bodies and NGOs workingon the problems of trafficking, to coordinate work and techniques of informationexchange for collaboration and to propose recommendations to governments to engagecivil society actors in prevention initiatives.
Global Partnership for Activism, Advocacy and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
OpenSociety Institute–Croatia
Organizer: Faculty of Political Science Students'Association Zoon politikoN
Summary: To support an exchange of university studentsin the Balkan region designed to offer them skills and knowledge to be qualifiedtrainers in civil society activism, particularly to look at opportunities fordialogue about the reasons and the aftermath of the civil war in Balkans andcontemporary political and social realities in southeast Europe.
West-East-Transit in Ukraine: Informal Education for Youth and Intercultural Dialogue
International Renaissance Foundation (Kyiv) and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: European Dialogue Society, Lviv (www.dialog.lviv.ua) in partnership with the Center of Youth Cooperation and Mobility, Gdynia (www.cwm.org.pl) and Pidlitok Charity Foundation, Lugansk (www.teenager.is.com.ua)
Summary: To support an exchange of best practices and innovative experiences in social activism through youth initiatives specifically in eastern Ukraine by analyzing relevant experiences in international cooperation and expertise among youthorganizations in western Ukraine and Poland.
Ukraine and the Enlarged EU: Ukraine on the Way to the EU
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: International Cooperation Program,Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw (www.batory.org.pl)and International Renaissance Foundation Kyiv (www.irf.kiev.ua)
Summary: To support exchanges designed to deliver Polish experiences in European integration processes and consequences for democratic development to representatives of regional authorities, universities and non-governmental organizations in Ukraine.
Youth School of Democracy: Lessons Learned and to Be Learned
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Educational DebateCenter,Druskininkai
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in developing skillsof students in civic participation, creativity, critical thinking, teamwork and argumentation, to promote effective collaboration between educators and student self-governments and to stimulate students' interest in pressing problems of school communities and educational systems by empowering studentsto be informed and engaged in school and local community development.
Effective Management Strategies for Youth NGOs in the Regions of Azerbaijan and Georgia
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizers: SHAMS Young Women's Center, Mingachevir and Initiative Youth Union, Tbilisi
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in designing management strategies for civil society development through active engagement of young people, specifically to analyze experiences in the development of youth leaders in Eastern Europe and applicability of training methodologies in Eastern Europe to the regions of Azerbaijan and Georgia and to encourage collaborative initiatives among regional youth organizations in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Building a Future for Rural Europe
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Cultural and EcologicalAssociation, Slubice (www.ziarno.org.pl) in partnership with Fundacja Rozwoju Gminy Zelow, Spiritual Guidance Center for Youth Foundation Klajpeda, People and Water Kosice (www.peopleandwater.sk), AEFL (Alliance for Ecology and Foreign Languages) Plovdiv, Institute for Sustainable Development Ljubljana (www.itr.si), Edelweiss Kosiv, Child and Environment Kyiv, Rural Development NGO Kodukant Viljandimaa Viljandi, BETA Sarajevo, The Independent Ecological Center Budapest (www.foek.hu) andCenter for Rural Assistance Timisoara (www.rural.-center.org)
Summary:To support an exchange of experts in community-based educational initiativesfor youth and adults in rural areas, to identify best practices and methodologiesthat can be incorporated into on-going activities and to build a network andbase of support for innovative approaches to youth and adult education for sustainabilityand civic action in rural communities.
New Methodologies of Care for Special Needs Children and Their Parents: CzechRepublic and Uzbekistan
Open Society Fund–Prague (Czech Republic)
Organizer: Association of Parents and Friends of Children with Disability, Prague
Summary: To promote professional development of specialists working with young children with multiple disabilities by providing opportunities for specialists in Uzbekistan to visit special care centers in the Czech Republic to compare methodologies and lessons learned.
Rural Internet-ization: An Informed and Educated Society
SorosFoundation–Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Information Future Public Foundation, Bishkek
Summary: To support anexchange of experiences and expertise among stakeholders in providing accessto information, including government, business, international community and donors,media, IT companies, NGOs and the public, specifically to highlight the obstaclesand solutions to ICT in developing countries.
Overcoming Consequences of Radioactive Waste in Central Asia: Transparency in Public Tenders
Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Ecological Club AGAT, Bishkek (www.agat.freenet.kg)
Summary: To support an initiative designed to attract public attention to ecological, specifically, radiation, and social problems in Central Asia, specifically to promote cooperation between NGOs and state authorities in resolving these problems and to formulate recommendations to international organizations on the necessity of transparency in public tenders addressed to sanitation and health concerns resulting from radio-active waste sites.
Women's Political Participation: Experiences in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Center of Social and Economic Development, Sedziszow Mlp. in partnership with Woman's Perspectives,Lviv and Women's IssuesInformationCenter, Vilnius
Summary: To support anexchange of experiences and transfer of knowledge among women leaders specificallyin shaping their own images, in organizing election campaigns, interaction withthe public and effective promotion of women's engagement in politics anddecision-making.
Transparency in Elections: Voter Education in Azerbaijan
OpenSociety Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizer: AzerbaijanNational Research Association, Baku in partnership with Bulgarian Electoral Colleges
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences in voter education methodologies implementedin Bulgaria, specifically preliminary elections and coalition building and todisseminate these experiences among citizens in Azerbaijan to promote civil societymobilization and civic education.
NGO Cooperation for European Integration: Latvia and Georgia
Subprogram for European Integration
Soros Foundation–Latvia and Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizer: Latvian Platform of Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGDO)
Summary: To support exchange visits in Georgia and Latvia of representatives of NGOs working in international cooperation and European integration, specifically to discuss long-term strategies for development cooperation and partnership for NGOs with all stakeholders in development cooperation and to institutionalize a communication platform for the transfer of knowledge and experiences fromnew EU members states to the new neighborhood.
Immigration as a Development Strategy of New Europe/Immigrants in the Labor Market in the New Europe
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Civic Club Foundation, Warsaw (www.klub-obywatelski.org.pl) in partnership with the Institute of Public Affairs Warsaw (www.isp.org.pl), Center for International Relations Warsaw (www.csm.org.pl), Institute for Public Affairs Bratislava (www.ivo.sk), Intermundia Havirov-Mesto (www.migrace.cz) and Europeum Institute for European Policy Prague (www.europeum.org)
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to engage civil society actors in the creation of a European-wide immigration and emigration policy, specifically to engage relevant specialists in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the debates about immigration policies in Poland.
Our World: Extending the Borders of Human Rights Protection for Gay Men and Lesbians
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Nash Mir (OurWorld) Gay and LesbianCenter, Kyiv in partnership with Ukrainian AssociationAmnesty International and European Region of International Lesbian and Gay Association
Summary:To support an exchange of human rights activists, specifically to present therecommendations of an analysis addressed to monitoring observance of human rightsof gay men and lesbians in Ukraine, to attract public attention to problems ofhuman rights protection of gay men and lesbians and to compare experiences amongactivists in post-Soviet and EU societies.
Perspectives of Treatment of Accused Juveniles in Detention and Sentenced Prisoners
Open Society Fund–Bratislava (Slovakia)
Organizer: General Directorateof the Corps of Prison and Court Guard, Bratislava
Summary: To support an exchangefor stakeholders involved in solving problems of treatment of juveniles in pre-trialdetention and in prison by analyzing new methodologies in the operation of penitentiaryfacilities and to promote efforts to make more effective the operation of penitentiaryfacilities for juveniles by implementing internationally recommended programsof treatment focused on reduction of penal recidivism.
Mentoring for Children from Disadvantaged Environments
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: NGO Children Support Center, Vilnius (www.pvc.lt)
Summary: To support an exchange of social services providers working with children in disadvantaged environments, specifically to facilitate and exchange of best practices and lessons learned, to evaluate productivity of mentoring programs in different societies and to make recommendations to strengthen collaboration among municipal and state authorities and the non-profit sector and volunteers in overcoming social barriers limiting opportunitiesfor children.
Community Social Welfare Services for Elderly People with Disability: Poland, Lithuania, Kaliningrad
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Helping Hand, Kowale Oleckiein partnership with Managers of the House of Social Help, Prienai
Summary: Tosupport an exchange of care providers, social service volunteers and elderlypeople with disability to share experiences in stimulating community engagementfor disabled people in accordance with public regulations of social and selfhelp and to promote public awareness to overcome stereotypes of and discriminationagainst people with disabilities.
Protection of Human Rights in Biotechnology Development
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Regional Bioethical Information Center,Vilnius in partnership with the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee Vilnius(), Department of Medical History and Ethics Vilnius, Lithuanian National UNESCOCommission Vilnius andAssociation of Bioethics Vilnius
Summary: To support anexchange among civil activists to create a regional strategy to encourage bioethicsinstitutions to provide information to the public about social, legal and ethicalimplications of the application of biotechnology achievements and to increaseawareness about possible violations of human rights in biotechnology applications.
EUREKA Program in Poland, Hungary and CzechRepublic: Experiences for Ukraine's Euro-Integration
Subprogram for European Integration
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Charitable Foundation Mission for Intellectual Initiatives, Kyiv in partnership with the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies Kyiv, EUREKA NPC Office – Ministry of Education, Research and Development Division Budapest and EUREKA NPC Office – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Department of International Cooperation in Research and Development Prague
Summary: To support an analysis of the realization of the EUREKA program for international scholarly and technical cooperation in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, specifically to brainstorm about adaptation of modern principles of the EUREKA program in Ukraine and to promote full membership for Ukraine in EUREKA programming as an essential element of Euro-integration processes in Ukraine.
Europe for Belarus
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: United Center of Initiatives for Belarus(JuBIC), Vilnius (www.jubic.org) in partnership with the Grodna Region Center forInformational Support of Social Initiatives Third Sector (www.sektar.cjb.net)
Summary:To support an exchange to launch the development of a EuroBelarus program tostimulate cooperation between the societies of Belarus and European countriesneighboring Belarus and to break the isolation between societies on both sidesof the border and to keep the attention of officials, NGOs, academic institutionsand citizens in countries neighboring Belarus to the situation and problems inBelarus.
Social Partnership: Models of Public-Private Partnership to Support People with Disability
Soros Foundation–Moldova, International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) and Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer:Association MOTIVATION-Moldova, Chisinau in partnership with Motivation RomaniaFoundation and Bila Tserkva Association of Disabled Children and their ParentsAurveda, Ukraine
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences to contribute to improvement and development of social services for people with disabilities through the promotion of sustainable partnership models among NGOs and local public authorities in Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, to influence public opinion regarding NGOs as important actors in social service provision and to encourageand involve community members and local businesses in solving social problems.
Impact of Power Stations and Oil Terminals on Ecosystems: Adriatic Seashore and New Alternatives
Open Society Foundation for Albania
Organizer: Civil SocietyDevelopmentCenter(CSDC), Vlore in partnership with Green Action, Zagreb (www.zelena-akcija.hr),Organic Agriculture Association-Albania, Tirana and AgriC, Podgorica
Summary:To support an exchange among civil society activists and decision-makers specificallyto engage decision-makers to consider the opinions and resources of civil societywhen making developmental strategies and to engage neighboring countries in adialogue about regional threats to environmental safety in the development ofpower plants and industrial sites.
Journalists and Elections: Experiences in Azerbaijan and Lithuania
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan and OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: JournalistResearchCenterBaku inpartnership with the LithuanianJournalismCenter, Vilnius
Summary: To support anexchange of experiences among journalists and civil society activists with experiencesand expertise in preparing objective and regular information about elections,specifically to inform journalists in Azerbaijan about the experiences of journalistsin Lithuania, and to promote collaborative relationships among NGOs and mediarepresentatives engaged in reporting on all phases of elections.
Community Foundations and the Public Sector
Open Estonia Foundation
Organizer: PeipsiCenter for Transboundary Cooperation(Peipsi CTC), Tartu (www.ctc.ee)
Summary: To supportan analysis of relations between community foundations, local municipalitiesand ministries to formulate best practices in the work of community foundations,specifically to stimulate community foundation cooperation with local municipalitiesand to engage the public in initiatives of common interest to community foundationsand municipalities.
Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities in Academic Settings
OpenSociety Fund–Bratislava (Slovakia)
Organizers: SupportCenter for VisuallyImpaired Students, ComeniusUniversity, Bratislava (www.uniba.sk)and FEDORA - Forum Européen de l'Orientation Académique (www.fedora.eu.org) in partnership with NovosibirskStateUniversity (www.nsu.ru)and Union of Blind People Moldova
Summary: To support an exchange to assess standards for accessible education provisions for students with disabilities and to develop guidelines for universities, to support the involvement of students with disabilities in international student exchange programs and to draw the attention of highereducation institutions to responsibility for accessible education.
International Cooperation Forum: From Cross-Border to Transnational Cooperation in New Europe
Open Estonia Foundation
Organizer: Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (Peipsi CTC), Tartu (www.ctc.ee) in partnership with Forum Balticum
Summary: To support an exchange of perspectives and experiences of how the political and macro-environment for international cooperation between EU accession countries/new member countries and NIS countries has changed within the last 5-10 years, to analyze requirements for international cooperation in the context of the enlarged Europe and the role of civil society organizations in transferring knowledge and experience and implementing development cooperation projects and to develop recommendations and identify best practices for NGOs working beyond national borders.
Balkan Business Women's Support
Kosova Foundation for Open Society
Organizer: Kosova Business Women's Network KBWN in partnership with the Professional and Business Women's Association (PBWA-FBN) Albania (www.shgpa.org.al), Bosnia & Herzegovina Women's Economic Network (BHWEN) (www.bhzem.ba) and NGO MBRC-Ti Net, Macedonia
Summary: To support an exchange among women managing small businesses to build capacity for successful business practices through sharing experiences and lessons learned with peers and to establish a basis for regional advocacy efforts on behalf of women's economicdevelopment and sustainability.
Preventing Violence in the Family: Experiences in Estonia and Kazakhstan
OpenEstonia Foundation and Soros Foundation–Kazakhstan
Organizer: NGO Women'sShelter, Tartu (www.naistetugi.ee) in partnership with the Union of Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan, Almaty and South District Prosecutors' Office Tartu, South District Police DepartmentTartu and Estonian Center of Social Programs, Tallinn
Summary: To support an exchange of specialists engaged in legal and social prevention of domestic violence, specifically to share experiences and innovative methodologies used in Estonia with colleagues in Kazakhstan, of cooperation between governmental and non-governmental organizations, investigating violent crimes in the context of the family and legal remedies for victims of domestic violence.
Think Globally / Act Locally: Promoting Social Activism in Rural Communities
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Volyn' PublicYouthOrganizationCenter Nasha Sprava, Lutsk in partnership with the Polish Association of Educators and Animators KLANZA, Lublin and Ukrainians' Association in Poland – Lublin Section
Summary: To support a long-term initiative designed to engage teachers, parents, pupils, local community leaders and officials of local self-government in rural areas, specifically to elaborate models and methodologies to promote civic engagement and social activism in local communities and to promote civic partnership with local government in overcoming obstacles to development in rural communities.
Monitoring of Implementation of the European Declaration of Mental Health and Action Plan|
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine), Soros Foundation–Moldova and Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: All-Ukrainian NGO Coalition for People with Intellectual Disability, Kyiv in partnership with the Public Organization Somato, Moldova and the Estuar Foundation, Bucharest
Summary: To support a long-term initiative designedto influence policies in mental health care in Ukraine, Moldova and Romaniathrough monitoring/observation of the European Declaration of Mental Health,and to promote European principles of de-institutionalization, de-stigmatizationand social integration of people with mental disability.
European Clubs: Engaging Young People in European Integration Processes
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland), International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine), Soros Foundation–Moldova
Organizer: Foundation Rodowo, Sorkwity (www.rodowo.pl) in partnership with the Christian-Democratic Youth of Ukraine, Kyiv (www.cdy.iatp.org.ua) and National High School Debate League, Chisinau
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences specifically to motivate and engage young people in Ukraine and Moldova in European integration processes and to analyze the methodologies of establishing European clubs in high schools productively implemented in Poland to see applicability for high schools in Ukraine and Moldova.
Efficient Adaptation of National Legislation to European Standards: Moldova, Romania and Ukraine
Soros Foundation–Moldova, International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)and Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizers: Association for Civic and Political Culture Moldova (ACCEP-Moldova), Agency for Legislative Initiatives Ukraine and The Project for Civic Education and Academic Development Foundation (FPECDA-Romania) in partnership with the European Movement of Moldova, Institute of European Studies (ISEM), House of Europe-Moldova, Center of European Studies and Centerof Information, Education and Social Analyses CAPTES
Summary: To support an exchangeamong civil society activists and governmental authorities to examine approachesto adjust national legislation in Moldova and Ukraine to European criteria onthe basis of experiences in Romania, to elaborate detailed recommendations forgovernmental bodies and to propose monitoring methodologies to be conducted bycivil society organizations in countries aspiring to EU integration.
Professional Policing in Democratic Societies
Open Society Fund–Prague (Czech Republic) andOpen Society Georgia Foundation
Organizers: PoliceTrainingCollege, Prague andPoliceAcademy of Ministry of Interior of Georgia, Tbilisi
Summary: To supportan exchange of experiences in professional policing, specifically to providean opportunity for trainers in Georgia to learn experiences, new methodologiesand technologies of police training implemented in the Czech Republic.
Religion and Authoritarianism
Open Society Institute–Croatia
Organizers: TOD-Association forResearch of Transition to Democracy, Zagreb and IMIC International Multi-Religiousand Intercultural Center, Sarajevo
Summary: To support an analysis of unresolvedtensions between democratic and pluralist values and authoritarian and nationalistvalues and the pro-authoritarian past of nationalist movements and parties inSoutheast Europe and to formulate recommendations to overcome consequent instabilityand weaknesses in new democratic institutions by stimulating a broad public discussionof these trends and to promote an informed discussion among religious and secularcommunities in shaping pluralist and open societies.
Best Practices for Implementing Rights of Imprisoned Women
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Law Institute, Vilnius in partnershipwith ErnstMoritzArndtUniversity, Greifswald(www.uni-greifswald.de)
Summary:To support an exchange designed to analyze results of surveys and curriculumdevelopment for people working in women's prisons and dealing with problematicissues of human rights and to exchange good practice for developing a strategyfor re-socialization of female inmates, to compare and evaluate the situationwith human rights in women's prisons in Europe and the perspectives of improvementand development of women's prisons' systems, to encourage cooperation in monitoringwomen's rights in prisons and to encourage dialogue among politicians, specialists, NGOs and society toinfluence public policy.
Development and Financing of Political Parties
Soros Foundation–Latvia
Organizer: Baltic Institute of Communication
Summary: To support an exchange among policy-makers to create new knowledge about party finance and related issues in the region, to exchange information and transfer knowledge about lessons learned in the development and financing of political parties, to assess the impact of different party finance regimes on the development of party systems in the region, to foster party finance reforms and support policy change, to promote accountability of political elites and to promote a network of party finance reform activists and scholars.
External Assessment for Quality Assurance and Accountability in Education
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Center for Educational Monitoring, Kyiv in partnership with the National Examination Center Kyrgyzstan, Center for Education Policy at Vilnius University, Cracow Examination Commission, CPZ-International Center for Knowledge Promotion, Slovenia and Federal Institute for Pedagogical Measurements, Russia
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among practitioners dealing with external assessment in education in post-socialist countries, specifically to compare experiences in implementing external assessment, impact of external examinations on education systems, secondary analysis of external examinations results, approaches and instruments of analysis, means of presenting external exam results and external assessment as a tool for monitoring education quality and accountability ineducation.
Transparency, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Measures in Education
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Center for Educational Monitoring, Kyiv in partnership with the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute
Summary: To support an exchange among educators to analyze information and best practices of transparency measures in managing education systems for state education governance bodies at different levels, educational institutions and NGOs, to introduce methodologies of anti-corruption measures developed by IIEP, to initiate policy dialogue on transparency and accountability in education and to discuss common problems among government representatives and NGOs when dealing with transparency and accountability issues in education and to develop policy recommendations.
Natural Environmental Disasters: Reasons, Prevention and Elimination of Consequences
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Yavorivshchyna Center for Regional Initiatives, Yavoriv in partnership with the Chair of Ecology National University of Forestry, Lviv and The Regional Institute for Sustainable Rural Development, Tarnobrzeg
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and brainstorming among relevant stakeholders in Ukraine to develop joint strategies to prevent environmental disasters and to eliminate or mitigate consequences of natural disasters by analyzing how non-governmental organizations, local government institutions, academic institutions and ministries responsible for public health and safety cooperate in other societies.
EU and Ukraine: Experiences in Administrative Reform in Latvia
Subprogram for European Integration
Soros Foundation–Latvia and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: Center for Political and Legal Reforms (CPLR) Ukraine, Latvian Non-governmental Development Organization Platform (LAPAS) and Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
Summary: To support two field visits for experts engaged in administrative reform in Ukraine, specifically to test assumptions of the concept paper for administrative reform in Ukraine by analyzing how the public administration is organized in Latvia and Denmark, how the reform of civil service was carried out, how classification and attestation of civil service is organized, how public service is provided and organized, how complaints procedures are organized, how administrative courts are organized, and how the territorial reform is organized and implemented.
International Experiences of European Integration: Perspectives of Neighborhood Policy for Armenia
Subprogram for European Integration
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Armenia
Organizer: Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation, Yerevan
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among civil society organizations engaged in European integration processes and debates, specifically to analyze the potential of civil society to engage effectively in these debates in Armenia, to promote civil society partnership and cooperation in decision-making concerning European integration and to utilize experiences in other societies to initiate in Armenia public monitoring of the democratic transformations in the context of the European Neighborhood Policy.
Innovative Developmental Games and Toys for Special Needs Children
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Armenia
Organizer: NationalCenter of Aesthetics, Yerevan in partnership with World Vision International, Yerevan
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among specialists working with special needs children, specifically to share experiences in designing innovative approaches and methodologies of engaging special needs children and to promote best practicesand lessons learned in individualized approaches to special needs children.
Challenges and Opportunities for Youth to Enhance Stability in the Black Sea Region
OpenSociety Institute Assistance Foundation–Armenia
Organizer: Armenian AtlanticAssociation (AAA), Yerevan
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to energizeyoung people to create a Black Sea Youth Network, specifically to promote a visionof solidarity among regional youth organizations, to set realistic goals forsolving regional security issues through youth work, to create a coherent andpro-active approach for strengthening security and promoting the role of youthin the peace-building processes and to coordinate youth organizations involvedin policy making and conflict management issues.
Community Foundations in Poland: Experiences for Kazakhstan
Soros Foundation–Kazakhstan and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizers: Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, Community Foundations and East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program and Elblag Foundation (www.fundacja.elblag.pl) in partnership with the Elblag Association to Support Non-Governmental Initiatives (www.eswip.elblag.pl)
Summary: To support an exchange visit to Poland of representative of community foundations in Kazakhstan, specifically to share experiences and expertise on the role and possibilities of local foundations in defining social problems and cooperation between local foundations and local governments, donors and international organizations with the objective of strengthening community foundations in Kazakhstan to engage in solving local problems and create and develop regional initiatives.
Current and Future Challenges in Curriculum Development: Case Studies and Networking for Change
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Center Education 2000+, Bucharest
Summary: To support an internationalexchange of practitioners, researchers and policy-makers to identify best practicesand lessons learned in education policy reform, to identify existing policy-makinginitiatives, procedures and involved institutions and to understand policy-makinginitiatives in curriculum development, decentralization and educational management,teacher training, equity and quality areas as developed in the region over thelast years.
Education Policy Transformation: Open, Transparent and Accountable Systems of Education
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: EducationPolicyCenter atVilniusUniversity, Faculty of Philosophy (www.svietimas.lt)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences and lessons learned in promoting and implementingpolicy changes in education systems through building relevant expertise, policyanalysis and coordinated efforts, to contribute to the overall quality of educationplanning and analysis, to improve the availability of education policy informationresources and to design joint monitoring initiatives and professional capacityof education policy change agents.
Community Schools: Effective Mechanisms of Community Development
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Ukrainian Stepby Step Foundation, Kyiv (www.ussf.kiev.ua)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences and best practices among stakeholders incommunity schools as an effective model of local community development, specificallyto promote community involvement in the processes of school governance, mobilizationof communities in deciding problems connected with community and school, partnershipwith the private sector and development of volunteerism.
From Evidence to Action / Responding to HIV/AIDS in Prisons: Prevention,Care, Treatment and Support
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Medical Informationand AnalyticalCenter Vector, Kyiv (www.medlaw.org.ua)in partnership with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Montreal (www.aidslaw.ca) and State Department of the Execution of Punishments of Ukraine,Kyiv
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and knowledge about effective HIV prevention measures in prisons, particularly, needle and syringe exchange programs, to increase knowledge about substitution treatment as both HIV prevention and drug treatment, to increase knowledge about issues related to provision of HIV treatments in prisons, to increase capacity of NGOs to advocate for increased prevention and care, treatment, and support and to increase the political commitment in Ukraine to implement effective preventionand care, treatment, and support in prisons.
Networking for Good Urban Governance: Albania and Czech Republic
Open Society Foundation for Albania and Open Society Fund–Prague (CzechRepublic)
Organizer: Co-PLAN, Institute for Habitat Development, Tirana (www.co-plan.org) in partnership with Agora Central Europe, Prague (www.agora-ce.cz)
Summary: To support an exchange visit for representatives of municipalities in Albania to meet with colleagues in the Czech Republic, specifically to promote best practices to engage constructively in the development, implementation and dissemination of good urban governance and to improve the human and organizational capacity of local governments in Albania in formulating and implementing strategic development planning, participatory management and planning practices, mobilizing resources for development and managing quality services.
Innovative Gender Equality Strategies: Fathers and Paternity Leave
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Center for Equality Advancement (CEA),Vilnius (www.gap.lt) in partnership with the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson Lithuania (www.lygybe.lt), Danish Research Center on Gender Equality (www.celi.dk), Center for Gender Equality Iceland (www.jafnretti.is) andEmployment and Training Corporation Malta (www.etc.gov.mt)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences in developing and sustaining innovativegender equality strategies in relation to paternity leave, to encourage men toundertake new gender roles, overcome gender stereotypes and develop strategiesof social policy to reconcile family and professional life and resolve socialproblems and to raise public discussions and awareness on men's roles in modern democratic society and increase men'sparticipation in sustainability of gender equality processes.
Police in Developing Prevention and Re-socialization Networks: Good Practice Exchange
Open Society Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Youth Club at the 6th VilniusPolice Commissariat, Vilnius (www.policeclub.lt)in partnership with the Police Law and Policing Department of Mykolas RomerisUniversity, Vilnius (www.mruni.lt)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences and knowledge transfer to in designingeffective models for strengthening cooperation between police, non-governmentalorganizations and community in developing and implementing crime prevention andre-socialization programs for marginalized youth groups.
Active Community Practice: Developing a Network of Community Centers in Ukraine
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Center for Local Activity SupportCAL Association, Warsaw (www.cal.ngo.pl) in partnership with the Center for Support of Creative Initiatives (CWIT), Kirovograd
Summary: To support knowledge networking and transfer specifically to analyze adaptation of the CAL model by introducing CAL standards to work of culture centers in Ukraine, to demonstrate practical experiences of working with CAL methodologies based on Cultural Centers in Poland and to promote upgrading of qualifications in work for community development of representatives of culture institutions in three regions of Ukraine.
Fostering the Public Sphere in Central Asia: Raising Public Awareness of the Operation of the Cotton Sector
Organizer: Center of ContemporaryCentral Asia and the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Summary: To support the participation of two journalists from Central Asia to attend this international symposium to analyze the cotton sector in Uzbekistan, specifically regulations of the cotton sector, distribution of production, interest groupings and stakeholders in the cotton industry and the human and social dimensions of labor in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan.
Ensuring Quality of Foodstuffs: Public Information and Awareness
SorosFoundation–Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: Biotechnology Institute of National Academyof Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek in partnership with the Global andLocal Informational Partnership NGO, Bishkek and Altyn-Tamyr Biokombinat, Bishkek
Summary:To support an exchange among scholars, experts in health care, agriculture andthe food processing industry and NGO representatives to formulate collaborativestrategies for ensuring ecologically sound food products, to analyze currentsanitary and epidemiological control mechanisms, protection from environmentalpolluting factors and to engage the non-governmental sector and the public ininformation distribution and awareness.
Knowledge Transfer and Capacity-Building for Grassroots Organizations
SorosFoundation–Hungary
Organizer: CELODIN Kht., Budapest
Summary: To support an exchange of experiencesamong grassroots organizations in Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland andRomania, specifically to promote sustainable transition processes by reinforcingand/or building mutually beneficial partnerships among trans-border micro-regionsand regions and to transfer advocacy skills and experiences to empower grassrootsorganizations to participate in local decision-making.
Polish and Russian Interpretations of Common History
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Borussia Cultural CommunityAssociation, Olsztyn (www.borussia.pl) in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Warsaw (www.feswar.org.pl) and Documentary and Research Center on Human Rights in Past and Present Memorial,Moscow (www.memo.ru)
Summary: To support anexchange among teachers of history in Poland and Russia, specifically to analyzemethodologies, interpretations and consequences of teaching common history, toprovide an opportunity for an open and frank discussion and analysis of processesoccurring on both sides of the Polish/Russian border and their impact on theformation of understanding and misunderstanding and to establish regular contactand cooperation among teachers of history.
Non-Governmental Activists and Leaders: Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: School for Leaders Association(SLA), Warsaw (www.szkola-liderow.pl)in partnership with the Foundation for Regional and Rural Development, Belarusand European Dialogue, Lviv
Summary: To support an exchange in an long-term initiative,specifically designed to transfer knowledge and experiences in Poland of motivatingand engaging leaders of the non-governmental sector, to activate local communities by engaging non-governmental and civil actors in local community development, to promote understanding and awareness among the public and local officials about the efficacy of engaging non-governmental actors in social initiativesand to sustain leaders of the non-governmental sector in Belarus.
Media in Parliamentary Elections
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizer:Azerbaijan Democratic Journalists League, Baku
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among journalists, journalist organizations and non-governmental organizations to analyze best practices of distribution of information and fair coverage of elections and to create an internet based platform of communication and exchange for the Coordination Council for Free and Fair Elections based on experiences of journalistassociations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Regional Development Agencies: Experiences and Best Practices in Poland, Ukraine and Georgia
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Rzeszow Regional Development Agency (www.rarr.rzeszow.pl) , (www.cwt.rarr.rzeszow.pl) in partnership with National Association of Regional Development Agencies, Kyiv (www.narda.org.ua); Samckhe-Javakhety Development Agency, Georgia; Adjara Development Agency, Batumi; Tbilisi Regional Development Agency (www.rda.ge); Malopolska Advising Society – Association of Consultants & Social Entrepreneurship, Cracow (www.mtd.republica.pl); Upper Silesian Regional Development Agency, Katowice (www.garr.pl); and, Lublin Development Foundation (www.lfr.lublin.pl)
Summary: To support an exchange of development specialists in Ukraine and Georgia to meet with counterparts in Poland who have already experienced development assistance reform, specifically to prepare for these reforms in Ukraine and Georgia by analyzing lessons learned, mistakes made and best practices from these reform processes in Poland.
European Integration: Perspectives in Estonia and Bulgaria
OpenEstonia Foundation and Open Society Fund–Sofia (Bulgaria)
Organizer: Johannes Mihkelson Center, Tartu in partnership with
Summary: To support an exchange of journalists and opinion-makers in Estonia and Bulgaria, specifically to analyze the impact of EU membership on the Estonian economy, Estonia's political goals as a member of EU and practical European cooperation as conducted by the Estonian administration and engagement of third sector in European integration processes in the context of Estonia's EU membership.
Public Forum of Community for Democratic Choice
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Institute forEuro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv (www.ieac.org.ua)
Summary:To support non-governmental participation in the International Public Forum ofthe Community for Democratic Choice which is designed to engage political andpublic leaders from the countries that joined the Community for Democratic Choiceto initiate a dialogue on ensuring democracy and stability in the region as aprecondition for the lasting stability and security for the whole of Europe.
Capacity Building in Environment and Health Policy
Open Society Fund–Sofia ( Bulgaria )
Organizer: Sustainable World Foundation (SWF), Sofia inpartnership with ЕЕN / EPHA Environment Network, Brussels( www.env-health.org)
Summary:To support an exchange of experiences among NGO representatives and communitygroups to promote knowledge transfer on key environment and health policies,legislation and mechanisms at the EU and WHO levels, in particular by illustratingthe European Environment and Health Strategy (SCALE) and the WHO Children'sEnvironment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE), to build capacity environmentaland health NGOs and community groups in Central Europe in advocacy communicationand to identify concrete ways in which NGOs and community groups may join forcesand work together in the framework of a European Network.
Civic Education for Young People
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) and StefanBatory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: European Way Association, Sverdlova www.euroway.berdyansk.netin partnership with the Happy Childhood Foundation, Lublin (www.fsd.lublin.pl)
Summary:To contribute to a long-term initiative designed to create a strong and activeyouth environment in the Zaporizhzhya Region of Ukraine by sharing experienceswith youth activists in Poland, to formulate a methodology of citizen educationfor youth which will be realized in a special Citizen Educational Center programto promote engagement and responsibility of youth leaders and to propose createsolutions to overcome unemployment among young people.
Enhancing Management for Urban Development in Small Cities of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine
Soros Foundation–Moldova, International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine),Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Institute for Urban Development, Republic of Moldova (IUD) in partnership with the Association of Romanian Municipalities (ARM) Bucharest, Association for Economic Development of Kolomiyshina Ukraineand the Center for Perspective Informational Technologies from Ukraine (CPIT)
Summary:To support a long-term initiative designed to provide an opportunity to exchangeexperience exchange and transfer knowledge among representatives of local publicadministrations in small cites in Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, specificallyto promote social activism by engaging local NGOs, the private sector and theresidents of small and medium cities to participate with local administrationsin urban development management.
Capacity-Building for NGOs in Serbia: Experiences in Hungary
Soros Foundation–Hungary and Fund for an Open Society–Serbia
Organizer: Foundation for Development of Democratic Rights (DemNet Hungary) (www.demnet.org.hu)
Summary: To support an exchange visit to Hungary for non-governmental organizations in central Serbia to complement a long-term initiative to promote capacity-building for NGOs in Serbia, specifically, to promote new cross-sectoral partnerships in Serbia based on experiences in Hungary, to institutionalize skills of NGOs in Serbia by offering opportunities to engage firsthand with similar organizations in Hungary and to encourage non-governmental involvement in official development assistance programs in Serbia using best practices and lessons learned by similar organizations in Hungary.
European Studies Educational Courses in Secondary Schools
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Kyiv School Heads Association inpartnership with House of Europe Bratislava, National In-Service Teachers TrainingCenter Warsaw, State Institute of Civic Education Baden-Wurttemberg, PaideiaFund Sofia and Educational Programs of the International Renaissance Foundation
Summary: To support the conclusion of an initiative begun in 2002 designed to promote the use of integrated approaches to European Studies educational course implementation in secondary schools and to attract attention and interest of pupils and teachers in Euro-integration issues and ideas of united Europe, specifically to encouragenew schools to join this initiative and to broaden the European Clubs network.
Building Bridges of Knowledge and Cooperation among Youth NGOs
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: Institute of Democratic Politics, Vilnius(www.dpi.lt)
Summary:To support an exchange of youth civil society leaders, specifically to reinforcecooperation among youth NGOs in the Baltic countries, Moldova and Ukraine bypromoting the exchange of information and good practices, methodologies of educatingyouth workers and youth leaders and creating opportunities for new forms of activitiesand to strengthen the sense of solidarity among young people by providing opportunitiesto participate in cooperative projects in the context of Lithuania's EUmembership.
Peace Education: Peaceful Tools after Peaceful Revolutions
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizer: InternationalCenter Educationfor Peace, Tbilisi
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among socialand civil activists, particularly to analyze content and forms of peace educationand methodology of civic education in the Empowering Education program and to promote openness among the younger generation to actively engage in civileducation and social activism.
Intercultural and Bilingual Education: Experiences in Latvia and Central Asia
Soros Foundation–Latvia
Organizer: EducationDevelopmentCenter (EDC),Riga (www. iac.edu.lv)
Summary: To supportan exchange of experiences among educators in Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistanand Kazakhstan to promote partnership and professional dialogue on issues ofintercultural and bilingual education based on lessons learned and best practicesin Latvia and Central Asia, to analyze difficulties encountered in interculturaland bilingual education as experienced within institutional, local, nationaland regional contexts and to explore models of cooperation between governmentaland non-governmental organizations in introducing reforms in education.
Empowering Education in Assisting Educational Reforms: Experiences of Czech Republic and Turkey
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizer: Empowering Education Organization, Baku
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among representatives of educational structures and NGOs, specifically to share best practices in interactive teaching methodologies piloted and implemented in the Czech Republic and Turkey and to formulate recommendations for educational reforms in Azerbaijan based on European standards and experiences.
Strengthening Participation of NGOs in Budget Processes in Kazakhstan: Experiences in Poland
Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan
Organizer: Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan and Public Association Tax Standards Formation, Almaty
2005-2006
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to enable the civil society sector in Kazakhstan to promote transparency in public spending by engaging with decision-making responsible for state budget processes, specifically to leverage experiences in Poland to inform civil society in Kazakhstan by supporting internships at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw and an exchange of decision-makers in Kazakhstan with counterparts in Poland.
Publishing Cultures and Markets in the Western Balkans: Copyright Protection and Combating Piracy
Open Society Foundation for Albania
Organizer: Institute for Communicationand Dialogue, Tirana in cooperation with Albanian Association of Publishers
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange to promote cooperation and information sharing to combat piracy and violation of copyright in the book market in the Western Balkans and to promote transparency in and harmonization of copyrightprotection in the Western Balkans.
Start Negotiating/Developing Intercultural Dialogue: University Students in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia
Fund for an Open Society–Serbia
Organizer: MilenijuM (www.milenijum.org) in partnership with Kosovar Research and Documentation Institute – KODI, Pristina and Academic Training Association (ATA), Belgrade, Pristina, Skopje
2005-2006
Summary: To support a long-term initiative designed to promote intercultural communication and active civic education through simulating intergovernmental problem-solving and decision-making processes for university students in the Serbia-Kosovo-Macedonia region, specifically to expose a core of students, and a small group of academics, to negotiation simulation as a mechanism for engaging in dialogue between the different peoples in southern Serbia, Kosovo and northern Macedonia, to consider creative problem solving and to gain understanding of the processes of intergovernmental communications.
Democratic Leadership: Young Leaders in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus
Open Society Institute–Macedonia
Organizer: Community Development Institute –Macedonia in partnership with the Center for Training, Analysis and Resources, Kragujevac; Democratic Leadership Club, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Century 21 Association, Tbilisi; Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies; Azerbaijan Democratic Leadership Program Alumni Association; Azerbaijan Human Rights Foundation; Femida Center of Civil and Socio-Legal Support, Yerevan; Center of Youth Legal and Social Support NGO, Armenia; and, Armenian Young Women Association
2005-2006
Summary: To support a series of exchanges among young leaders, specifically to promote dialogue among young people from different ethnic backgrounds and countries, to build capacity of young leaders in mediation and negotiation skills and to promote engagement and empowerment of young leaders in the implementation of national youth strategies and policies.
Save Public Assets: Civil Society Monitoring of Structural Fund Allocations
Soros Foundation–Latvia
Organizer: Center for Public Policy Providus,Riga
2005-2006
Summary: To support a pilot initiative to contribute to civil society's ability to develop a sustainable and effective monitoring mechanism, to enhance the capacity of civil society in the ten new EU member states to influence policy developments on regional, national and community levels and to raise public awareness in the new member states on the important role of monitoringand information activities.
Friendly Neighborhood Forum
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Borussia Cultural CommunityAssociation, Olsztyn (www.borussia.pl)in partnership with the Elbląg Non-Governmental Initiative Support Association (www.eswip.elblag.pl) and Youth for Freedom of Speech, Kaliningrad
2005-2006
Summary: To support the participation of representatives of NGOs in Kaliningrad in the long-term activities of the Friendly Neighborhood Forum Council, an initiative to promote cross-border cooperation, communication and knowledge exchange among NGOs and local governments.
Practical Management Skills for Self-Government Civil Servants
International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) and StefanBatory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Agency of Regional Development of LuganskOblast in partnership with Malopolska Institute of Local Government and Administration,Cracow (www.mistia.org.pl)
2005-2006
Summary: To support a series of exchange to promote higher professional standards of local self-government civil servants in Ukraine by learning practical management skills and experiences of civil servants in Poland, specifically to transfer know-how and knowledge to the eastern regions of Ukraine an as attempt to encourage a more thoughtful approach to Europeannorms of local self-government.
Best Practices of NGOs Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers
SorosFoundation–Hungary
Organizer: Cordelia Foundation for the Rehabilitationof Torture Victims, Budapest in partnership with the Center for Victims of PoliticalPersecution (CVPP), Cracow (www.psych.cm-uj.krakow.pl/CVPP)and International Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims Zagreb
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences among NGOs working with refugees and asylum seekers to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of this work, specifically to promote collaborative efforts among like-minded organizations to compose a policy paper and resource guide for refugee agencies working in the new EU member states and to develop innovative lobbying and awareness raising strategies and activities that will contribute to diversitysensitive legislation.
Improvement of Municipal Services to Marginalized Groups of Citizens in Georgia: Experiences in Poland
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and Open Society Georgia Foundation
Organizers: Partners Poland Foundation, Warsaw and Center for Change and Conflict Management Partners-Georgia, Tbilisi
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences designed to raise awareness of local officials in Georgia on the diversity of needs, expectations and possible solutions to serve better disabled citizens, senior citizens and refugees and immigrants, to provide an opportunity for skills and knowledge transfer of practical solutions implemented by local authorities in Poland to deliver better services to marginalized groups of society based on experiences in Poland.
Think Tank Cooperation: Alternatives Solutions to Conflict in Transnistria
Soros Foundation–Moldova, International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) and Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizers: Institutefor Public Policy (IPP) Chisinau, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Kyiv,Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine Kyiv, Pylyp OrlykInstitute for Democracy Kyiv and Center for Conflict Prevention and Early Warning,Bucharest
2005-2006
Summary: To support a long-term initiative among think thinks to develop a policy paper on settlement of the Transnistrian conflict, specifically to formulate alternative scenarios to engage civil society representatives in Moldova, Ukraine and Romania, and to facilitate public presentations of the policy paper will bring this analysis, discussion and debate to a broaderpublic.
Improving Efficiency of Non-Governmental Organizations: Lithuania-Belarus
OpenSociety Fund–Lithuania
Organizer: National Development Institute (NPI),Vilnius (www.npi.lt) in partnership with the Center of Informational Support ofPublic Initiatives Third Sector, Grodno
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange designed to promote the developmentof democracy and public spirit in Belarus by strengthening the efficiency of Belarusian non-governmental organizations activities, to consolidate the knowledge and capacities of the representatives of Belarusian NGOs, to prepare a draft methodology of efficient NGO management based on experiences in Lithuania and suggestions of Belarusian NGOs and to adapt the methodology of efficientNGO management to the needs of Belarusian NGOs.
Building Confidence in Hungarian-Romanian Relations through Multicultural Education
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: University of Bucharest Institutefor Political Research and Political Science Department in partnership with Babes-BolyaiUniversity Department of Political Science and Administration Cluj, Central European University Department of History Budapest, Erasmus College Budapest, Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center Cluj, Invisible College Cluj, Media Monitoring Agency Academia Caţavencu Bucharest, Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies Budapest, Politeia – Association of Hungarian Political Scientists in Romania Cluj, Romanian Institute for Recent History Bucharest, Teleki Laszlo Institute Budapest, University of Bucharest Center for the Study of Imaginary, University of Bucharest History Department andUniversity of Pécs Communication and Media Studies Department
2005-2006
Summary: To support a pilot initiative to promote cooperation amonginstitutions and NGOs in Hungary and Romania, specifically to seek to transformirregular communication into an efficient network of exchange among scholarsand civil society actors in the context of European integration.
Supporting Transition and Communication in Moldova: Experiences in the Czech Republic
Open Society Fund–Prague (CzechRepublic) and Soros Foundation–Moldova
Organizer: Human Rights and Democracy Center People in Need foundation (PIN), Prague in partnership with the Czech Association of Towns and Cities (CATC) and ADEPT Association for Participatory Democracy, Moldova
2005-2006
Summary: To support a series of exchanges designed to train and support a group of elected and future municipal officers who offer a democratic alternative to the current approaches in Moldova by using the Czech transition process as an example of transformation and to foster cross-border networks of communication among activists in Moldova and the Czech Republic.
Solving Social Problems of Economic Dislocation: Experiences in Industrial Donbass and Silesia
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Center for Education and Dialogue Theotokos, Gliwice (www.theotokos.org.pl) in partnership with Regional Development Agency Donbass, Donetsk (www.ard.dn.ua)
2005-2006
Summary: To support a series of exchanges among community leaders to share experiences in engaging non-governmental organizations in resolving problems in old industrial regions, to transfer know-how and skills to local communities in Ukraine and to empower local communities to engage local authorities in collaborative initiatives designed to overcome social dislocations in marginalized communities.
Overcoming Discrimination and Marginalization of Disabled Children and their Families
Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Association of Help for DisabledChildren Step by Step, Zamosc in partnership with the Children's RehabilitationCenterDzherelo, Lviv
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and knowledge transfer, specifically to present modern systems of providing equal opportunities for disabled people in society, models of integrated education, rehabilitation and care for disabled children and their families as implemented in Poland as well as examples of the development of civil society using the activities of the Association of Help for Disabled Children and its partners in Polandfor possible adaptation to conditions and implementation in Ukraine.
Experiences and Lessons Learned after One Year of EU Membership: Poland and Romania
Subprogram for European Integration
Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizer: Civitas Foundation for CivilSociety Cluj-Napoca (www.civitas.ro) in partnership with the Regional Development Agencies West and North West, Romaniaand the Center for Public Policies (CENPO)
2005-2006
Summary: To support a workshop in Romania and study visits in Polanddesigned to aid the policy learning efforts of the West and North West Development Regions in Romania by analyzing experiences in countries which acceded to the EU in 2004, specifically to aid Romanian regional authorities to improve administrative and policy capacity to implement decentralized activities related to the adoption of the acquis; to contribute to the strengthening of Romanian regional public authorities policy capacity from the experience of different regional authorities from acceding countries faced with similar policy challenges; and, to provide experts and professionals an opportunity to work together to find solutions to challenges of implementing the acquisat the regional level.
Fifteen Years of Migration Patterns and Policy Formulation
OpenSociety Fund–Prague (CzechRepublic)
Organizer: Multicultural Center Prague
2005-2006
Summary: To support an initiative to bring together experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Central and Eastern Europe to establish long-term cooperation and exchange and to support the role of civil society actors and activists in analyzing and reflecting on migration issues and new multicultural diversity in Central and Eastern Europe in particular inthe context of an enlarged EU.
Environmental Education Cooperation: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Open Estonia Foundation
Organizers: Baltic Environmental Group, Tallinn,Riga and Vilnius and the Estonian Ministry of the Environment
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange and cooperation among stakeholders in environmental education, specifically to promote implementation of collaborative environmental education strategies, to elaborate best practices in environmental education and to formulate collaborate activities to engage the public inenvironmental protection and awareness.
Building Open Local Government: From Principles to Practice of Good Governance
Soros Foundation–Moldova, International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine), Open Society Foundation Romania
Organizers: EuroregionalCenter for Democracy Timisoara (www.regionalnet.org), Resource Center of Moldovan Human Rights NGOs Chisinau (www.credo.md), Center of Perspective Information Technologies, Kyiv
2005-2006
Summary: To support a series of exchanges and workshops designed to build a framework for access to information, consultation and public participation in policy-making which will contribute to strengthening local government/citizen relations and fighting corruption, to promote, develop, facilitate and support partnership for regional non-governmental organizations and institutions to build collaborative projects and strategies in the region, to encourage policy dialogue among local government and civil society representatives in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine and to support the development of cooperation between local governments and civil society organizations.
Barrier Free Open Cities: Protection of the Rights of People with Disability
Soros Foundation–Kazakhstan and Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland)
Organizer: Friends of Integration Association (Integracja),Warsaw (www.integracja.org) in partnership with Public Association of Disabled People with Higher EducationNamys, Almaty (www.namys.os.kz)
2005-2006
Summary: To support exchanges of best practices and lessons learnedin advocacy to protect the rights of disabled people, specifically to draw on experiences of NGOs in Poland to inform media and advocacy work in Kazakhstan, to promote social awareness and responsibility in respecting the rights of disabled people and in community engagement and to initiate broader public discussions about legislation required to fight against discrimination ofdisabled people in Kazakhstan.
Promoting Women's Involvement in Social and Political Life
OpenSociety Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Organizers: Progressand Social Development Public Union, Baku and Caspian Partnership for the FuturePublic Union, Baku (www.cpf-az.org)
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences in implementing information campaigns by NGO activists seeking to promote active participation of women in social and political life, including participation in elections, and to promote empowerment of women to have political influence in decision-makingabout socio-economic and political issues.
International e-Learning with One Computer per Classroom: Estonia and Georgia
Open Society Georgia Foundation and Open Estonia Foundation
Organizers:e-GovernanceAcademy Foundation Estonia (eGA), Tallinn (www.ega.ee)and Deer Leap Foundation (DLF) Georgia, Tbilisi (www.dlf.ge)
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange of experiences and expertise in introducing modern information and communication technology in educational systems, specifically to bring experiences in Estonia to Georgia to assist local governments in Georgia in developing IT infrastructure in schools, to provide Georgian teachers with elementary computer skills and guidance in using opportunities provided by modern information technologies in teaching methodologies and, to support curriculum development with the assistance of an interactive learning environmentpromoting learning skills.
Empowering Internally Displaced People: Experiences in Ukraine and Azerbaijan
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizer: Civil SocietyDevelopmentCenter, Barda in partnership with the Crimea Teachers Council, Bakhchisaray
2005-2006
Summary: To support an exchange of knowledge and experiences in working with displaced people, specifically to draw on experiences of Crimean Tatars, to contribute to empowering displaced people to have a voice in resolving socio-economic problems and defense of their rights and to mobilize displaced people to strengthen their abilities for self-governance.
Local Government in Ukraine: Experiences in Estonia during Preparation for EU Membership
Subprogram for European Integration
Open Estonia Foundation and International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine)
Organizers: University of Tartu, EuroCollege and Institute for Local Development of Chernighiv Oblast
2005-2006
Summary: To support exchanges designed to increase the competency and capacity of regional and local government officials in Ukraine specifically concerning EU integration, through sharing knowledge, experiences and know-how accumulated in Estonia during preparations for EU membership and to promote public awareness in Ukraine about EU integration policies and regional development in the EU.
Partners
Peace Institute, Slovenia
www.mirovni-institut.si
Governance of Euro-American Relations
2004-2005
Organizer: Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Socialand Political Studies, Ljubljana
Summary: To support a long-term initiative designedto explore new categories and analytical tools of thinking and decision-makingin international relations, media coverage and public awareness, from perspectivesof countries in Southeast Europe within the political relations between Europeand US.
Mainstreaming/Empowering Minorities in the Media in Multicultural Societies
Organizer: Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana in partnership with the Center for Independent Journalism, Budapest (www.cij.hu)
2004-2005
Summary: To support a long-term initiative to exchange good practices of media production and to stimulate development of minority (multicultural/multilingual) media outlets and minority programs in the mainstream media, to encourage cooperation and networking among different minority media producers, experts and media activists in the wider Europe and to formulate recommendations for empowerment of the minority groups in relation to the media, for changes in the media regulation and media policies to provide better reflection of cultural diversity in the media landscape and content.
Nations, States and Xenophobia: In the Ruins of ex-Yugoslavia
Organizers: Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and PoliticalStudies, Ljubljana and Croatian Political Science Association, Zagreb (www.politologija.hr)
Summary:To support the integration of a research network among young scholars and activists,specifically to open up possibilities for young researchers and activists toengage at the EU-level on the challenges of post-Yugoslavia, to re-evaluate theusual ways of thinking of nation-states and to stimulate discussion about conceptsand paradigms of nations and states, such as xenophobia, racism, nationalism.
Achievements of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Organizers: Peace Institute/Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Open Society Fund-Bosnia and Herzegovina,Fund for an Open Society-Serbia and Open Society Institute-Macedonia
Summary:To support an exchange among experts, scholars and opinion makers from the Balkansas well as organizations in Europe and the US which are engaged in issues ofinternational justice and the ICTY, to analyze whether the objectives outlinedin the ICTY's mandate were fulfilled and whether criticisms of the tribunal werewell-founded or politically motivated and to prepare an information campaignand advocacy work concerning judicial systems and public opinion in the countriesof the Western Balkans.
Gender Mainstreaming Policies: Policy Frames and Implementation Problems
Organizers: Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies and Institut Für Die Wissenschaften Vom Menschen – I)WM, Vienna (www.univie.ac.at/iwm/)
Summary: To support a long-term initiative, specifically to present to a wider public and policy-makers analyses and a conceptual framework to improve gender equality policies and the overall quality of EU policy making, to present an innovative qualitative analysis that is used to construct and validate a conceptual framework of the various dimensions of framing gender inequality as a policy problem at EU and national levels and to promote using these analyses to empower debates of regional comparative analyses that inform overcoming gender inequalityas a policy problem.
Intimate Citizenship: The Right to Have Rights
Organizers: Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies Ljubljana, Institute of Sociology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest (www.socio.mta.hu), Amnesty International Slovenia Ljubljana (www.amnesty.si) andDIH Association for Integration of Homosexuality, Ljubljana (www.dih-drustvo.si)
Summary:To support an international exchange within a larger initiative addressed tothe protection of rights of homosexuals, specifically to review and compare existingquantitative and qualitative data on the everyday life of GLBT people, to comparenational legislation on the rights of gays and lesbians in the ten new EU memberstates and compliance with EU recommendations and resolutions, to formulate policyrecommendations for required legislation and to analyze good practices in thepromotion of intimate citizenship rights in Europe.
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Turkey
Middle East @ !f Istanbul Film Festival
Organizer: Kolektif Productions, Istanbul
Summary: To support the participationof six film directors from the Middle East in a special section within this festival,which will include screenings of films and documentaries by these directors aswell as public discussions with the participation of Middle Eastern film professionalsand their counterparts in Europe.
Cultural Pipeline through the Middle East
Organizer: GumuslukAcademy Cultural Foundation for the Arts and Center for Scientific Research, Bodrum
Summary: To supportthe launch of a creative forum for people from different cultural backgroundsto be able to articulate themselves more confidently, to provide an opportunityfor information exchange among people living in Turkey and the Middle East topromote public awareness of contemporary realities and to promote regular exchangesand networking for creative professionals and activists in Turkey and the MiddleEast.
Global Forum on Civil Society Law
Organizers: InternationalCenter for Not-for-ProfitLaw (ICNL) and Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TUSEV)
Summary: To offer supportto experts in Central Europe and Central Asia to participate in the Global Forumon Civil Society Law which will bring together leading experts in civil societylaw to exchange cutting-edge learning on civil society law reform issues, todevelop strategies for promoting effective law reform and to engage with a worldwidenetwork of experts in the field.
Europe's Islam and Islam's Europe: Exploring the Place of Islam in an Emerging European Identity
Organizers: BogaziciUniversity and Dialogue with Europe Association/Istanbul
Summary: To support an exchange among scholarsin Europe specifically to analyze current debates in the EU on the place androle of Islam in contemporary European identities and cross-cultural encountersin daily life, with the objective of developing joint research projects usingthe resources of European institutions.
Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul, Afghanistan
Gul-e Sorkh Music Festival 2005
Organizer: Foundation for Culture and Civil Society, Kabul
Summary: Tosupport regionalization of an annual festival in Afghanistan, specifically tocontribute to stability in the northern regions of Afghanistan through culturalactivities and the mobilization of civil society among neighboring countries.