Do you want to make a difference in your community and in your country? Do you want your fellow citizens to be more active and your society to be more open and democratic?

Submit your idea to the contest of the best ideas for civic education and pump it up with the help of a team of cool international and national experts during Eduthon!

Attention! The best projects will receive financial support!

What is Eduthon?

Eduthon is an educational event format aimed at refining the concepts of project ideas expressed by the participants.

EENCE-Eduthon aims to identify and support the best ideas to promote citizenship education and democratic values in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland/Lithuania.

Eduthons in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine will take place in August-September, 2024.

This is a preliminary schedule by country:

What will Eduthon look like?

Participation in each Eduthon (2 working days) will be attended by ten teams selected on a competitive basis (2 people in each team), which will submit ideas for educational, informational, cultural and other projects in the field of citizenship education.

Teams selected to participate in Eduthon may include NGO and community activists, teachers, students, artists, and others who want to promote citizenship education and democracy in their communities and countries.

In Poland, displaced people from Ukraine and Belarus can become Eduthon participants.

During the Eduthon, international experts will help teams refine their project concepts, plan their promotion, and prepare educational and other events methodologically.

Different Eduthon events will discuss the essence of citizenship education and various strategies for promoting it in the region.

Based on the results of each Eduthon, three winners will be selected, who will receive financial support for implementing their projects in their communities (September-October 2024).

Selected teams will hold at least 18 events in their countries (training, film screenings, art events, quizzes, discussions, etc.).

What ideas and formats can I submit to Eduthon?

We do not limit you in the formats of your events! You can submit ideas for trainings, film screenings, art activities, quizzes, discussions, etc.

The main thing is that your idea should clearly demonstrate a contribution to the promotion of citizenship education and democracy in your community and in our country as a whole.

Your ideas can be aimed at:

– Increasing the number of people (including youth, women and socially vulnerable groups) who are actively involved in their country and their communities

– Improving people’s awareness of opportunities for participation in society

– Drawing society’s attention to issues important for its development

– Promoting democratic values (human rights, justice, equality, rule of law, etc.).

– Supporting and strengthening grass-roots civic initiatives

– Developing media literacy and countering propaganda and fakes

– Increasing access to citizenship education

– Cooperation between local democratic organisations and initiatives.

Priority in the selection process will be given to non-standard and innovative ideas that involve young people and other target groups, broad awareness of the progress and results of the planned activities, and the possibility of multiplication of the proposed activities.

How do I apply for Eduthon?

Fill in the application form by 7 August with a short description of your idea.

– Application form and project idea description form for Edhuton in Azerbaijan

– Application form and project idea description form for Eduthon in Armenia

– Application form and project idea description form for Eduthon in Georgia

– Application form and project idea description form for Eduthon in Moldova

– Application form (UA), Application form (Bel.), project idea description (UA), project idea description (Bel.) form for Eduthon in Poland (representatives of Ukrainian and Belarusian communities from Lithuania and Poland can apply).

– Application form and project idea description form for Eduthon in Ukraine

By 15 August you will receive information about the results of the selection process.

Please note that the team that submits the project must include at least two people.

If your project idea passes the selection process, your two-person team will be invited to Eduthon and will receive compensation for travel, meals and accommodation during the event.

Individual participation in the Eduton will be excluded and therefore you should immediately look for reliable like-minded people who will be with you from the moment of preparing the idea description to the realisation of the project in case of its victory during the Eduthon.

The EENCE-Eduthon-2024 is organised by the Eastern European Association for Citizenship Education with the support of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) at the expense of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Expanding Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries (Eastern Partnership Programme).