The Participation Resource Pool is an online portal where trainers, youth workers, youth leaders and educators can have access to the best and most up-to-date online tools to foster young people’s critical thinking and media literacy. The overall purpose of which is to increase the quality of youth participation.

It focuses on 4 main topics:

• Youth Participation;
• Promotion and Outreach;
• Media, Information and Critical Thinking;
• Digital Transformation.

Open Call for Content Creators

S.A.L.T.O. is looking for Authors to create content and do peer-reviewing for the Participation Resource Pool. The call is specifically for 5 experts to work with in 2021.

The remuneration is €160 per curator per written article and one reviewed article.

The content creators will receive two different assignments:

1. Writing an informative article for a target audience, meeting the guidelines‘ requirements; each expert is expected to write about 1 topic – the amount of articles in each topic varies;
2. Peer-review (helping to edit and improve as many articles as they create).

Selection Criteria

The requirements to apply for this job position are:

• Have at least 5 years of experience and good expertise on at least two of the topics related to digital transformation (Multistakeholderism & Participation, Education, Emerging Technologies, Sustainability, Digital Rights);
• Experience with youth work and/or EU Youth Programmes (Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps);
• High level of written English;
• Excellent skills in analysing and synthesising content;
• Great skills in storytelling, being able to share expertise in the popular-science format;
• Independent working style, responsible and cooperative approach.

How To Apply

Please send the following documents to participation@salto-youth.net by 21 September 2021 14:00 CET with “Author on Digital Transformation” in the headline:

1. CV
2. Some examples of published content creation (articles, videos, etc) in English
3. Short application letter indicating the topic(s) you would like to contribute in and why. Please indicate which would be your first choice.

See the original offer.

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The European Social Catalyst Fund (ESCF) is a new initiative designed to have a significant impact on some of Europe’s most pressing social challenges. The objective of the ESCF is to bring together public and private resources to improve social services to enable people who need support to live as valued and participating members of their communities.

The ESCF will provide financial and capacity-building support to develop plans to scale proven social service innovations. It is anticipated that these plans will provide details of how public and private resources can be brought together in a range of collaborations that focus on the role that philanthropy and social finance can play in working with the public sector to help re-focus public spending in a more effective direction in the interest of European citizens. It is intended that during the project a further phase will be designed, based on learning obtained, which will include a focus on supporting the implementation of plans to scale proven social service innovations.

The ESCF has been established and co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Genio (Ireland), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium). It will award planning grants across a range of priority social challenge areas within, or across, European Union Member States. The purpose of the grants is to support the development of detailed implementation plans aimed at reducing, or overcoming, social challenges. Innovations will be identified through a pan-European call and all eligible applications will be evaluated against published criteria. Preference will be given to innovations that have the most robust evidence of success and that aim to reach the most significant scale. 

Each selected application will receive a planning grant of up to 100,000€ along with capacity-building support. 

A minimum of 600,000€ will be allocated to support at least 6 plans.

The new deadline for applications is 11th September 2020.

For more information check HERE.

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How to apply for the advocacy grant

One-to two-page letters of inquiry or concept notes can be sent to  latinamerica@opensocietyfoundations.org.
Your letter should include:
1 A paragraph about your organization and its mission
2 A description of the project(brief summary of the main objectives and proposed strategies)
3 The total amount of support being sought for the project, and the proposed duration of the project.
4 The letters of inquiry can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese
5 There’s no deadline. The applications are reviewed on ongoing basis
6 Most noteworthy the Latin America Program makes every effort to review letters of inquiry within six weeks
7 If you have not received a response from us after that time, please assume that your letter of inquiry is not being considered.
8 Furthermore, only those inquiries that staff members consider will receive a response.

What types of grants do the Open Society Foundations award?

Every year, Open Society awards grants for a wide range of activities, everything from small project grants to general operating support.
In some circumstances, the organizations flexibility in how they use the funding, while in others situation, they can offer grants for specific projects. Even more, another type of grants is the one dedicated to individuals, rather through scholarships and fellowships. Even more, Open Society is able to make recommendations to the Open Society Policy Center for 501(c)(4) grants in support of policy advocacy (lobbying).

Profile of the organisations

Formally established organisations can access funding directly. Seems like the informal organizations or networks can receive grants through intermediaries (fiscal sponsors, fiscal agents). Each program within the Open Society Foundations has its own strategy and process for selecting grantees. Organizations or individuals whose values, goals, and work align with their strategies may inquire with the relevant program.

Search more calls here or read more about the program here.

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