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Poland
41 grants
| Grant Number | PL/2009/03 |
| Organization | Institute for Law and Society |
| Project Name | DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND POLICY ANALYSIS PLATFORM FOR MODERN LAW, REGULATION AND REFORM |
| Amount Awarded | USD 28,590.00 |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2009 - April 30, 2010 |
| Project Description | The main objectives of the project are: - research and popularization of the principles of good governance, including fostering public and regulator's access to high quality information concerning law and regulatory framework, - fostering high quality and modernized legal and regulatory framework, - development of modern legal education and modernization of the legal profession, as well as the system of justice, - applying comparative and interdisciplinary approach in legal and regulatory analysis, - advocating legal environment that enables civil society actors to fulfill their role, - knowledge transfer in the field of modern law and regulations and institutional development to Poland and to other countries, in particular the new EU member states and the former Soviet Union. |
| Grant Number | PL/2009/02 |
| Organization | The coalition of NGOs – Social Initiative 89 |
| Project Name | Together 89 Initiative (WWW.together89.pl) |
| Amount Awarded | USD 12,350.00 |
| Grant Period | May 20, 2009 - December 31, 2009 |
| Project Description | The initiative RAZEM 89 is an open platform which encourages active participation in celebrating the anniversary of 1989. The aim of the initiative is to organize, put together, register, and describe events and projects that take place throughout 2009 in the entire country. The website www.razem89.pl is the main communication tool for the organizations and initiative's partners. The goal of the grant is to provide English speaking recipients of the site with a compilation and translation of an entire dossier - both historic and anniversary events. Via the website the grantee would like to present the events of the European's "Autumn of Nations" to the international audience. The intention is to organise events that go beyond national borders, especially in the countries, which regained their freedom 20 years ago. |
| Website | www.razem89.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2008/80 |
| Organization | Rule of Law Institute Foundation |
| Project Name | Leadership Lublin - Developing Agenda 2010 |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2009 - April 30, 2010 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is two-fold: first to develop the leadership skills and knowledge of a group of mid-level Lublin leaders drawn from the business, local government, non-governmental and academic communities (Leadership Lublin) and secondly, to have these leaders prepare a report addressing the most serious challenges facing the region and offering cross-disciplinary solutions to those problems. (Developing Agenda 2010). |
| Website | www.fipp.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2008/78 |
| Organization | Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups |
| Project Name | Civic Money – Participation in Budgeting on the Local Level |
| Amount Awarded | USD 99,500.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2009 - April 30, 2011 |
| Project Description | The project aims to promote and develop citizens’ participation in the process of creating a communal budget and to increase the level of training for institutions of authorities and citizens by implementing the Solecki Fund. Through the project the grantee will: - work out the model solutions for the process of creating a communal budget that includes citizens; - help authorities to prepare such conditions that foster civic participation in budgeting; - increase citizens’ competence to participate and have an influence on decision making processes; - enforce the Solecki Fund as a tool that supports achieving gains from participation – i.e. social integrity, citizen and economical education, and inhabitant’s sense of having the influence on the common situation. |
| Website | www.lgo.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2008/70 |
| Organization | Microfinance Centre |
| Project Name | Fostering community-wide partnership to raise financial literacy among low-income people |
| Amount Awarded | USD 47,190.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2009 - June 30, 2010 |
| Project Description | The purpose of the project is to raise awareness among local stakeholders across sectors about the value and importance of financial education and to expand the network of Financial Advisory Points (FAP’s) through Partnership Delivery Model. The grantee aims to provide high quality financial education to a large number of vulnerable households in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. |
| Website | www.mfc.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2008/58 |
| Organization | Foundation for European Studies |
| Project Name | Enhancing networking between the region, the capital and Brussels |
| Amount Awarded | USD 30,600.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2009 - April 30, 2010 |
| Project Description | The project aims to improve the exchange of information and the level of coordination between the different local, regional and national representatives of Poland - members of the EU’s Committee of the Regions, of the Sejm’s Committee for European Affairs, the regional MEPs, NGOs and the local and regional administration. The grantee hopes the project will help to counteract the lack of good networking between these different actors. |
| Website | www.feps.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2009/01 |
| Organization | Unit for Social Innovation and Research - Shipyard |
| Project Name | Preparation of the session "Who speaks for citizens?", Civil Society Forum |
| Amount Awarded | USD 11,140.00 |
| Grant Period | February 09, 2009 - September 30, 2009 |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/07 |
| Organization | Klon/Jawor Association |
| Project Name | www.ngo.pl |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2009 - December 31, 2009 |
| Project Description | Ngo.pl is a non-governmental information system composed of: - the NGO pl portal (www.ngo.pl), which is the largest free source of knowledge about the third sector in Poland and a working tool for the organizations of this sector - a database of NGOs and institutions - the Internet website free.ngo.pl (WWW and e-mail accounts, and a simple webpage wizard for free) - the NGO monthly gazeta.ngo.pl - publications from the ‘3w*’ series, aimed at counselling - the Russian language website rus.ngo.pl, with basic information on the third sector and a database of organizations that cooperate with the East. The grant will support the plan for 2008-2010 and will contribute to the evolutionary change in the concept of the ngo.pl. |
| Website | http://klon.org.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/06 |
| Organization | Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights |
| Project Name | Strategic Litigation in Poland on Human Rights - Establishing a permanent, Stable and self-financing program |
| Amount Awarded | USD 160,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2009 - December 31, 2010 |
| Project Description | The project aims to strengthen the rule of law and human rights protection in Poland through involvement of business entities, civil society groups and individuals in strategic litigation. The grantee also intends to obtain a complete financial independence of the Strategic Litigation Program in a way to establish a permanent, stable and safe-finance institution. The program supports all major human rights cases in Poland. It coordinates cases concerning such matters as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, personal liberty, right to court, access to legal aid, rights of prisoners, or workers rights. The program not only attains important and standard setting judgments, but also show-cases problems and stimulates public discussion. |
| Website | www.hfhrpol.waw.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/05 |
| Organization | Association 61 |
| Project Name | The right to know - civil web portal about parliamentarians |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | November 01, 2008 - October 30, 2009 |
| Project Description | The main goal of the project is to build the information website mamprawowiedziec.pl. – as a transparent system of publicly available information about people performing elective public functions in Poland (their activities and parliamentary decisions). The grantee would like to mobilize civic activity by means of the internet and thus persuade Poles to take an active part in their country’s democratic processes and mechanisms. By means of an independent information website, Association 61 wants to increase Polish voters’ knowledge about their representatives and the rights they posses in citizen-state relations. The grantee also hopes to encourage citizens to take an active part in public life by means of verifying politicians’ views, actions and electoral promises as well as initiating civic debate. |
| Website | http://art61.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/04 |
| Organization | Legal Clinics Foundation |
| Project Name | Development of the Centrum Pro Bono |
| Amount Awarded | USD 25,000.00 |
| Grant Period | October 20, 2008 - December 31, 2009 |
| Project Description | The grantee aspires to create a comprehensive legal umbrella over non-profit organizations. Centrum Pro Bono is intended to serve NGOs in matters concerning their operational issues, which fall within the scope of the law firms specialization i.e. taxes, civil and commercial issues, public procurement, administrative and labor law. The Institution links NGOs with law firms willing to provide pro bono legal aid and offers law firms participating in the program clear-cut cases, which best suite their field of specialization and interest. Centrum Pro Bono also undertakes various educational projects addressed to non-profit organizations and lobbies for favorable fiscal incentives for pro bono work and philanthropy. The grantee plans to maintain its role in two realms – to become a gateway for NGOs to the professional legal resources and to be the main pro bono cases provider to the law firms. |
| Website | www.fupp.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/03 |
| Organization | Association 61 |
| Project Name | Participation of the CEE Trust’s beneficiaries in the “Res Publica Civilis” Conference |
| Amount Awarded | USD 35,800.00 |
| Grant Period | September 15, 2008 - October 30, 2008 |
| Project Description | The grant enabled participation of the CEE Trust’s beneficiaries in the “Res Publica Civilis” Conference, which was a part of The Polish Forum for Non-Governmental Initiatives – one of the most important events in the Polish third sector. The project aimed to create an opportunity for NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe to get acquainted with Polish non-governmental sector and the problems and challenges associated with building of civil society in Poland. The grantee also hoped to enable the exchange of experiences, inspirations and contacts between organizations focused on similar thematic fields. |
| Website | http://art61.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/02 |
| Organization | Polish Donors Forum |
| Project Name | Institutional support |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | August 01, 2008 - January 31, 2010 |
| Project Description | The purpose of the grant is to help increase institutional capacity and outreach of the Polish Donors Forum. The CEE Trust grant will contribute to the development of the PDF programs, initiatives and services aimed to: - expand Forum's membership base - provide support and leadership in Polish donors' community - promote high standards of giving - and cultivate enabling environment for the development of institutionalized philanthropy in Poland and in Europe. |
| Website | www.forumdarczyncow.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2008/01 |
| Organization | Komenski Foundation |
| Project Name | Citizen Child Project |
| Amount Awarded | USD 90,000.00 |
| Grant Period | June 02, 2008 - May 30, 2010 |
| Project Description | The project was developed as a response to the need for civic education addressed to the youngest generation. The objective of the project is to encourage local communities to treat children as full right citizens whose voice matters for the provision of enhanced-quality early development and education services. The grantee hopes to ensure opportunities for children to voice their views in matters related to them, especially in education, and to teach adults to accommodate genuine needs of children in local education policy. The project will be implemented in five communities in cooperation with local authorities, NGOs, teachers, parents and children. |
| Website | http://www.frd.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/89 |
| Organization | Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University |
| Project Name | Social Action Euro 2012 |
| Amount Awarded | USD 900,000.00 |
| Grant Period | May 01, 2008 - December 01, 2012 |
| Project Description | The idea of the project is to use the forthcoming European Football Cup 2012 as a vehicle for civil society building and catalysing societal change. The goal of the project is to use the four year run-up to the Cup as an opportunity to stimulate debate and mobilise participation in public life with the practical aim to challenge the self-stereotypes of Poles and change the national self-image. To achieve that goal, the grantee will: - create the network of local/regional watchdogs, building on the existing grass root initiatives, to monitor the public issues concerning preparations for Euro 2012, - empower people to voice by providing them with the space and support to articulate their views and monitor local government through citizens’ cross-sector debates, and developing their skills and knowledge on how to access and demand information, - network various partners locally (academia, business, NGO, local government, circles of engaged citizens – e.g. fans of football) around the idea of “winning through Euro 2012” as the exceptional chance for each of these groups to make Euro 2012 its own success. The grantee hopes the project will become a magnet for other initiatives focused on Euro 2012, will contribute to building solid, non-institutional civil society networks, empower community groups and teach self-confidence, and will show ways to achieve grass-root change. |
| Website | http://www.is.uw.edu.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/96 |
| Organization | Warsaw University, Department of Psychology |
| Project Name | Strengthening local communities by improving democratic skills |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This project aims to strengthen citizens’ communication and conflict resolution skills to stimulate civic engagement in local communities. The program will improve social skills among citizens (both youth and adults), increase their awareness of county problems, help them debate on ongoing local issues, and will develop citizens’ problem solving skills, which could be applied to cope with local concerns. The grantee hopes to foster more positive attitude towards debates and democratic institutions, increase participants’ awareness of constructive conflict resolution strategies and prepare them to enter the community as active citizens. |
| Website | http://www.uw.edu.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/73 |
| Organization | Foundation for Specialized Transportation Service for the Disabled – TUS |
| Project Name | Strengthening democratic standards of local governments’ activity |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - February 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The overall goal of this project is to improve the quality of social policy programs concerning disable people. The grantee will monitor the process of preparation and implementation of Poviat Programs of Action Concerning Disabled Persons, which cover such fields as social integration, employment, and protection of the rights of disable. The project will provide in-depth analysis of the quality of PPACDP, will contribute to improvement of the processes of preparing, implementing and evaluating social policy programs, and will raise local authorities’ and officers’ awareness of the necessity to maintain particular standards in their work. This program will also foster transparency in decision making processes, promote public consultations and strengthen TUS Foundation’s capacity as a watchdog organization. The project will operate in Mazovia and Lublin Voivodship in Eastern Poland. |
| Website | http://www.tus.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/64 |
| Organization | Human Rights Studies Centre, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Warsaw University |
| Project Name | Klinika 42 |
| Amount Awarded | USD 30,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The project addresses the problem of quality and fairness of executive proceeding (performing the punishment) before penitentiary courts. The program aims to provide professional aid and objective opinion of independent organization to penitentiary courts and prison administration, to ensure a real representation of a prisoner before the competent authorities, and to increase awareness of the society in the field of human rights protection related to prisoners. Activities of the project include: establishment of regular cooperation with the representatives of the prison authorities and the penitentiary judges, prisons monitoring and preparing reports, intervention in case of rights violation (preparing Amicus curiae for penitentiary court, providing legal assistance and prisoner’s representation), students’ education. The grantee expects to form a team of students qualified in monitoring, strategic litigation, and effective representation of the individual before the public authorities, to provide effective legal and social assistance to individual prisoners, and to strengthen accountability and transparency in public institutions. |
| Website | http://www.ipsir.uw.edu.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/58 |
| Organization | Collegium Civitas |
| Project Name | Empowering social/civic skills of elderly women in the multicultural villages of the North-Eastern Poland |
| Amount Awarded | USD 80,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - February 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to empower its participants by strengthening their social/civic skills, especially among elderly women from multicultural villages. The program will stimulate public expression of local memory, support reconstruction of social bonds among generations and strengthen community cohesion. The project is created in response to the growing need of strengthening the sense of citizenship among the elderly, who face problems resulting from social and economic transformation. Activities within the project include: reconstruction and collection of local cultural memory resources; lessons for youth conducted by elderly village women presenting local crafts and other elements of local culture; story-telling community gatherings; wandering theatre spectacles evoking local artistic activity; promotion of worked-out, pro-civic social activities through organization of a multicultural festival. The grantee expects to prepare publication of good practices with social policy recommendations, to create innovative education programs, to establish local centers of story-telling, to train local she-leaders, teachers, NGOs’ and local institutions’ representatives, and to foster partnerships between NGOs and communal authorities. |
| Website | http://www.civitas.edu.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/56 |
| Organization | Nobody's Children Foundation |
| Project Name | Coalition for child-friendly interviewing |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - December 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The goal of this program is to provide effective protection for child victims participating in criminal procedures, through changing the practice of interviewing children in Poland and Bulgaria. The project promotes the idea of child-friendly interview rooms and offers support to children and their caretakers. Additionally, the grantee is planning to improve competence of professionals involved in interviewing children and help child victims of crime. The project will create interdisciplinary coalitions among institutions of justice system, NGOs and local agencies protecting rights of children participating in legal procedures. |
| Website | http://www.fdn.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/53 |
| Organization | Association for the Public Development |
| Project Name | Increasing the role of NGOs in the betterment of the life of local communities |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project focuses on increasing the influence of NGOs in the community and public life in the Podkarpacie (Carpathia) region and making the activity of the representation of the NGO sector more professional. There are over 2000 NGOs present in the region, yet their high potential is not fully used to solve essential problems of the society. The project addresses these issues by: - organizing a series of training courses (legal matters, PR, media relations and lobbying) for members of the Carpathian Council of NGOs, - organizing electoral conventions for the Carpathian Council of NGOs, - conducting informative activities regarding NGOs and the society (articles in the local press, radio and TV programs) - analysis of the needs of NGOs and offering advisory and consulting support for their representatives, - running series of training sessions and workshops concerning obtaining funds. Through these activities the grantee hopes to strengthen the capacity of local NGOs and contribute to the development of local communities in the Carpathian region. |
| Website | http://www.flrzeszow.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/45 |
| Organization | ZNAK Christian Culture Foundation |
| Project Name | Tolerance, acceptance, fascination – multiculturalism in fashion |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - February 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project aims to create respect for diversity and to stimulate social dialogue and solidarity by working with prospective young journalists, broadening their knowledge, and fostering their sensitivity and openness to multiculturalism. These aims will be achieve by creating an innovative curriculum in the scope of multicultural journalism, running series of workshops for journalism students, shooting a reportage, preparing an interactive educational package and a project-related website. This kind of in-depth training approach will enable young journalists to introduce a new media vocabulary related to cultural diversity by focusing on its inspiring and not destructive values. Additionally, secondary school pupils, attending journalism classes and participating in the project, will gain skills in understanding "multicultural journalism" through creating and running the project website. |
| Website | http://www.fundacja.znak.com.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/34 |
| Organization | Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University |
| Project Name | Let us speak for ourselves |
| Amount Awarded | USD 99,560.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - June 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The goal of the Project is to enhance local communities’ development in Poland, especially enable envisioning social policy and solving social problems. This will be done by providing and diffusing a set of practical tools to be used by local communities and citizen groups to self-diagnose their needs and potential in terms of agenda-setting and provoking change in a given locality. The goal will be achieved by completing a thorough process of ‘mapping’ the localities, conducted in 2 communes (Bialowieza, podlaskie voivodship, and Zoliborz, a district of Warsaw). The mapping process in these 2 communes will serve as a source of best practices and will enable to develop and test the local diagnosis ‘tool-kit’ so that it can work for other localities. The method we will use is a participatory one: people themselves will be involved in building the understanding of their local world. Mapping process will be followed by local debates. The mapping process is aiming at building common understanding, identifying sources of conflicts and looking for the common solution. |
| Website | http://www.is.uw.edu.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/27 |
| Organization | The Association Centre for Holocaust Research |
| Project Name | Publication of Selected Sources on the Holocaust in Poland together with materials for teachers and organization of workshops for teachers and educators |
| Amount Awarded | USD 95,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The project aims to support Holocaust education in Polish schools. The Holocaust being taught in the context of combating racism and anti-Semitism is closely related to teaching tolerance, overcoming stereotypes and prejudice. Thus, Holocaust education is an opportunity to discuss fundamental democratic values. Selection of sources on the Holocaust, compiled by experts with a view to being used in the teaching process, is of paramount importance, both for the teaching process itself, as well as for combating xenophobia and promotion of acceptance in a multi-cultural worldview. Activities within the project include: publication of a Selection of Sources for Holocaust education, preparation of methodological guidelines and lesson plans together with syllabus with source analysis for teachers, organization of workshops for teachers and educators. |
| Website | http://www.holocaustresearch.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/24 |
| Organization | Education Society for Malopolska (MTO) |
| Project Name | Public Achievement goes to the Visegrad Countries |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - January 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The goal of the project is to assist in the development of democratic practices at the grassroots level. Public Achievement (PA) is one of the most effective ways of enabling young people to be active citizens and to take responsibility for solving problems that are of importance to them. The project will provide youth with skills in analyzing and tackling problems, along with concrete opportunities to use these skills in a meaningful way. It will thus contribute to raising a new generation of citizens, who are active and engaged. The grantee will recruit new mentors (teachers, university students) from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary, who upon completion of the training will be working with PA groups in their countries. |
| Website | http://www.mto.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/124 |
| Organization | House for Polish-German Co-operation |
| Project Name | Breaking intersectoral ice – Improving cooperation between companies and NGOs |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - May 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | This project addresses the problem of low awareness of the CSR initiative in the Polish business sector, and lack of NGOs’ leaders skills and competences on how to address companies, communicate with them, and find proper partners for intersectoral partnerships. The main goal of the project is to increase the knowledge of the CSR initiative and its advantages among local firms, NGOs, public sector and local society, and to strengthen the third sector by means of intersectoral cooperation. The program will offer trainings for the NGOs’ representatives - future intersectoral cooperation specialists and animators, in the field of CSR and building cross-sector partnerships. It will also offer counseling of selected NGOs and companies interested in establishing cooperation and stimulate creation of partnerships. This project will be implemented in Silesia region of Poland. |
| Website | http://www.haus.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/120 |
| Organization | Association Kultura Miejska |
| Project Name | Partnership for Wrzeszcz |
| Amount Awarded | USD 40,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - June 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project addresses the growing problem of “rootless” citizens of Wrzeszcz. The main overall goal of this program is the process of democratization in Wrzeszcz. The project aims to consolidate local community for common integrative actions, stimulate participation of local activists in the decision-making process, strengthen the spirit of belonging to the local community and responsibility for its development. The grantee will map citizens’ needs and expectations, prepare innovative mechanisms to mobilize citizens to initiate bottom-up integrative actions, and will define strategy for the future. The project creates cross-sector partnerships involving representatives of NGOs, educational, scientific and cultural institutions. |
| Website | http://www.kulturamiejska.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/X 2007/04 |
| Organization | KARTA CENTER FOUNDATION |
| Project Name | The Archival Emergency Service as a Rescue Endangered Archival Holdings and Vanishing Activity of Civil |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2008 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The aim of the project is to rescue the archival collections threatened with destruction and oblivion and to increase the social awareness of the historical value of private archival holdings. Activities of the project include: professional cataloguing and digitization of archive materials, creating the Archival Emergency Service website, and providing a free access to the collected archival materials for history researchers and all interested groups. |
| Website | http://www.karta.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2007/05 |
| Organization | The Institute of Public Affairs |
| Project Name | Institutional Support - tie-off grant |
| Amount Awarded | USD 600,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2008 - December 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | The goal of the grant is to support institutionally the IPA during the period of the transition. |
| Website | http://www.isp.org.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/2007/04 |
| Organization | The Independent Institute of International and European Law (NIPMiE) |
| Project Name | The Strenghtening of the Fundamental Rights Protection Based on the Treaty reforming the EU Conclusions for Poland and other countries of the Vysehrad Group |
| Amount Awarded | USD 90,000.00 |
| Grant Period | November 01, 2007 - October 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The grant is designed to improve the standards of human rights protection in the Vysehrad Coutries. The idea sprang from the propositions contained in the Treaty reforming the EU, which confronted the European Union and its Member States with a number of fundamental problems of legal and political nature. Specific problems in this context appear in Poland – the proposals of the strengthening of the fundamental rights protection included in the EU Reform Treaty assumed to bring about the strengthening of the fundamental rights protection and the principle of the law-governed state, give rise to a populist campaigns. The objective in NIPMiE’s project is do research on the role of the Charter of Fundamental Rights for the strengthening of the status of the individual in the EU and for the strengthening of the European system of the human rights protection. |
| Website | http://www.nipmie.pl |
| Grant Number | PL/IX 2006/78 |
| Organization | Poznan School of Banking |
| Project Name | Interacting with the public authorities - education for active citizenship |
| Amount Awarded | USD 60,000.00 |
| Grant Period | October 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The major goal of this project is to create a platform for a peer-to-peer dialog between the society, the local authorities of the City of Poznan and the regional government of Wielkopolskie voivodship. Through public debates the project will create opportunities for citizens to participate in the most important decision-making processes at the local level. It is a pioneering project in Poland. |
| Website | http://www.wsb.poznan.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/2007/02 |
| Organization | Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), Poland |
| Project Name | Strategic litigation and legal aid in connection with publication of the report from verification of the military intelligence services and entry into force of the new lustration law |
| Amount Awarded | USD 100,000.00 |
| Grant Period | June 01, 2007 - May 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The project is aimed at giving a "legal answer" to human rights problems that arise in Poland as a result of the governmental policy of "dealing with" the communist past. This policy includes primarily publishing the report on the liquidation of the secret military intelligence services on 15 February 2007 and entry into force of the new lustration law on 15 March 2007. Those acts involve violations of fundamental rights, such as presumption of innocence, right to court and right to privacy or to good reputation. |
| Website | http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/IX 2006/97 |
| Organization | ZNAK Christian Culture Foundation |
| Project Name | Library - my favorite place |
| Amount Awarded | USD 55,150.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - September 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The goal of this project is to develop an innovative education system designed for the librarians covering the following issues: diversity, interpersonal communication, strategy management, creating positive public attitudes towards social dialogue. The curriculum designed for the libraries will be developed on the basis of experiences gained by the project team during its study visit to the US, where for several years a variety of educational programs have been invented. This curriculum will create an innovative way of content-related support meant for the libraries, and it will also contribute greatly to the enhancement of the prestige of both - libraries and librarians within local milieu as well as within other occupational groups. |
| Website | http://www.fundacja.znak.com.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/IX 2006/94 |
| Organization | Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska |
| Project Name | Free Textbooks |
| Amount Awarded | USD 60,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - March 01, 2009 |
| Project Description | The major goal of this project is to create cheap, good quality textbooks which will help in solving problems of overpriced educational materials which are not accessible for everyone. |
| Website | http://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/IX 2006/64 |
| Organization | Association 61 |
| Project Name | The right to know |
| Amount Awarded | USD 30,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - March 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The goal of this project is to build the information website http://www.mamprawowiedziec.pl/ - a transparent system of publicly available information about people performing elective public functions in Poland (their activities and parliamentary decisions). |
| Website | http://www.art61.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/IX 2006/ 49 |
| Organization | Rule of Law Institute Foundation |
| Project Name | Developing the capacity and interest of Polish lawyers to work in public interest law |
| Amount Awarded | USD 50,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - June 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The major objectives of this project are as follows: |
| Website | http://www.fipp.org.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/IX 2006/34 |
| Organization | Stefan Batory Foundation |
| Project Name | Civic Watch - citizens on guard of public interest |
| Amount Awarded | USD 600,000.00 |
| Grant Period | April 01, 2007 - March 01, 2010 |
| Project Description | This project's goal is to promote mechanisms of civic oversight of public institutions and institutions of public trust as well as activities aimed at raising these institutions' standards and transparency. |
| Website | http://www.batory.org.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/2006/02 |
| Organization | Centre for International Relations (CIR) |
| Project Name | Monitoring of Polish Foreign Policy |
| Amount Awarded | USD 150,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2007 - December 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The project is created by one of the leading think-tanks in Central and Eastern Europe in response to the onging situation in Poland influenced by the technocratic approach to the foreign policy. The program has two goals:
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| Website | http://www.csm.org.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL/2006/01 |
| Organization | Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights |
| Project Name | Strenghtening the rule of law and human rights protection in Poland through involvement of business entities, civil society groups and individuals in strategic litigation activities |
| Amount Awarded | USD 150,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2007 - December 01, 2008 |
| Project Description | The project seeks to secure a stable professional, financial and social structure for the Strategic Litigation Program. It is designed to promote knowledge, know-how and notoriety of litigation as a method for human rights standards enforcements. The project has a very important meaning in Poland due to the limited tradition of litigation and growing problems with respect for human rights. |
| Website | http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL-01A-03 |
| Organization | Stefan Batory Foundation |
| Project Name | Support of the SBF Institutional Development |
| Amount Awarded | USD 300,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.batory.org.pl/ |
| Grant Number | PL-01-02 |
| Organization | Stefan Batory Foundation |
| Project Name | Strengthening and institutionalizing non profit sector in Poland |
| Amount Awarded | USD 5,000,000.00 |
| Grant Period | January 01, 2004 - December 01, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.batory.org.pl/ |
