Apply for European Citizenship Awards 2017: Promoting Active Citizenship! Deadline: 31 March 2017

Apply for European Citizenship Awards 2017: Promoting Active Citizenship!

Deadline: 31 March 2017

The European Civic Forum and Volonteurope are seeking applications for the European Citizenship Awards 2017 with an aim to promote active citizenship and recognition of the importance of social justice to the cohesion of communities across Europe.

The European Citizenship Awards 2017 seek to reward initiatives which contribute to combatting the root causes of extremism.

Award Categories

• Media Campaign of the Year will reward professional media and media-based collaborative initiatives, which give citizens effective tools to engage and bring about positive change in their communities. Successful media initiatives will have used different tools for engagement and enhanced citizens’ participation, fostered an informed citizenry and enabled the development of a common civic space.
• Social Enterprise of the Year will reward businesses or not-for-profit organisations founded on the basis of social goals, which are written into the enterprise’s vision and mission, the pursuit of which brings positive social change and cohesion to communities.
• Volunteer of the Year will reward individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to democratic life and to the development of a community or cause, be it through a volunteering role in an NGO or in another form of an organisation or community association (including informal groups).
• Active Citizens’ Initiative of the Year will reward grassroots campaigns organised by both informal and formal groups of citizens, with a real and proven impact on community cohesion, and a high potential for driving transformative change.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the nominations must be made for contributions made, operations, activities and/or volunteering which took place between 1 January 2016 and 30 days prior to the launch date of the open call for nominations (1st March 2017). The program will accept nominations from all current member states of the Council of Europe, which respect and promote the values expressed in the European Treaty and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – the before-mentioned European values.
• Eligible nominations are being sought from all current member states of the Council of Europe.
• All applications must be submitted via the online form in English. Any application submitted via another channel will be automatically excluded from the competition.
• Activities carried out for the purpose of promoting a political mandate are not eligible for nominations.
• Organisations and/or individuals can only make one nomination for the Awards. Moreover, each initiative, organisation, activity cannot be nominated in more than one category

How to Apply

Interested applicants must apply online via given website.

Eligible countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit European Citizenship Awards.