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Oct 30 2020
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Webinar Series: For the Young, the Queer, the Feminists

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About the Event:

The Green European Foundation, with the support of CDNEE, has brought together young green activists from across Europe to explore artivism and its use for gender activism, working together towards anti-discrimination and equal opportunities for men and women in the Eastern European context.

Selected participants are completing an extensive online training programme that tackles feminist and queer theory and its links to Green ideology and politics, as well as skill development and creation of impactful artistic outputs. This webinar series forms part of that training, and is also open to viewers from the general public.

The ultimate objective of the project is to support young green activists and politicians to gain new knowledge, increase their own visibility and be empowered to deliver their messages.

Programme:

November 4th (17:00) – Females in Politics

  • With Dr. Sylwia Spurek (lawyer and MEP, Greens/EFA) and Justine Pantelejeva (urban planner and Riga city councillor, Progresivie)

November 9th (18:00) – EU and EC Gender Policies

  • With Vesna Jusup (European Green Party)

November 11th (18:00) – CoE gender policies

  • With Mari Kurtanidze (Advisory Council on Youth, Council of Europe)

November 18th (18:00) – Public speaking for Female and Queer people

  •  With Zuzana Pavelkova (Mladi Zeleni, former FYEG co-spokesperson)

Practicalities

All webinars will be in English, and will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube.

 

Jul 29 2020
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Call for Participants: Art for the Young, the Queer, the Feminists of Eastern Europe (Online Course)

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About the Event:

This online course will be taking place on the online learning platform of the Green European Foundation from September to October 2020.

By providing the platform to discuss the shared experiences and counteracting strategies, we would like to contribute to the creation of inclusive and sensitive European political environment by understanding power dynamics in a patriarchal society and by empowering young women, LGBT+ youth, transgender, non-binary, agender, genderqueer and intersex people, broaden safe space and claim more private and political space through art.

Through this online course, we would like to:

  • Create an online safe space for young activists of various genders and sexualities to share their experience and struggle;
  • Identify Women’s and queer community’s contemporary needs, expectations and challenges and exchange good practices;
  • Build capacities of young people to challenge power relations and provide creative tools to stand up in their political struggle;
  • Empower young activists to stand up against prejudice, discrimination and violence across Europe;
  • Inspire young people for influencing gender-sensitive politics through art.

This course will be based on the principles of non-formal education and intercultural learning. We strive for an active, inclusive environment for direct communication and sharing of knowledge. The sessions will be balanced between theoretical inputs, work in groups, discussions, and other interactive methods of non-formal learning that the online platform provides.

The course will be divided into 3 modules, in which participants will cover topics of Feminism, LGBT+ rights, learn about activism and political art, as well as basics of project management, advocacy and project writing that will serve as a starting point for the implementation of Local Actions.

Who Should Apply?

We are looking for young (till 30) women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, non-binary and agender people from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo*, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine interested in looking for different usage for forms of art in confronting and questioning the existing power relations in the society that stress the importance of art, inclusivity and human rights, would like to contribute to the discussions with the local perspective and are willing to reproduce the gained knowledge on the local level.

Participants who have experience in artivism, activism, gender and politics or have high motivation to learn about the topic are highly encouraged to apply. People with less experience on the topic are welcome to apply and get to know more about these topics.

Course attendance is a precondition for applying for Local Actions subgrant funding. More about the Local Actions here.

*All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo 

Practicalities:

Language: The main language of the course will be English.

Costs: The course will be free for all participants.

Technical requirements: Basic internet connection and PC or/and phone.

DEADLINE for submitting online applications: 02.08.2020 at 23:59 CEST.

Please apply HERE.

You will be informed about the results of the selection within two weeks after the deadline. Please add project.coordinator@cdnee.org to your contacts, so that you do not receive our reply in the spam folder. 

This project is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of CDNEE and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.

Feb 17 2020
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Call for Participants: Art as Shelter (Tirana)

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About the event:

GEF together with CDN is announcing a call for Participants for the international seminar ‘Art as Shelter’. The seminar will take place between 7th – 11th April in Tirana, Albania.

We would like empower the participants with tools to broaden safe space and claim more private and political space through non-formal education and art. In particular, we would like to:

  • build understanding of patriarchy as a dominant power that operates in the society and feminism as a theory and strategy to challenge dominant power relations;
  • create an intercultural safe space for young women, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, agender and intersex people to share their private and political struggles and to explore tools to counteract them;
  • use art to empower young women, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, agender and intersex people to stand up against patriarchy and broaden the safe space by giving visibility to women* through art.

The programme will be based on the principles of non-formal education and intercultural learning. The project is the first phase of our annual work plan “Art for the Young, the Queer, the Feminists of Eastern Europe” .

 

Practicalities: 

Costs: The full cost of travel, visa, lodging (accommodation in multi-bed rooms, vegetarian and vegan food, and refreshments) will be covered. In exchange, we ask for a participation fee of 20 EUR for participants coming from non-EU countries and 50 EUR for participants coming from EU countries. Applicants for whom paying this fee is an obstacle for participation, should still apply and mention this in their application (not a selection criteria).

CDN will reimburse 90% of the travel costs for the participants from the non-EU countries and 80% of travel costs for the participants coming from the EU countries, within reasonable limits and within Europe, with the condition to combine the most economic and environmentally friendly way (lowest price + travel time + CO2 emissions).

DEADLINE for submitting online applications: 3rd of March 2020 at Midnight CET. 

 Apply here! 

 

This project is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe, with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation, and supported by the European Youth Foundation of Council of Europe.

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