Youth-focused organization launches grant contest to bolster youth-centered institutions
Announcing the "Strengthening Youth Organizations" Grant Competition in Georgia
The State Youth Agency under Georgia's Ministry of Education, Science, and Youth has announced a grant competition titled 'Strengthening Youth Organizations'. This competition, held in honour of International Youth Day, aims to support youth organizations and enhance their capacities through non-formal education.
The grant competition is open to non-profit youth organizations focused on youth development. Projects must focus on enhancing capacities through non-formal education, with priorities including:
- Encouraging youth participation in social and democratic processes and promoting civic responsibility, including volunteerism.
- Supporting peacebuilding skills via conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue, including ethnic minority integration.
- Promoting economic empowerment by raising youth awareness of entrepreneurship and strengthening social and employment skills.
- Supporting youth with fewer opportunities and addressing their specific needs.
- Providing youth services in or near occupied territories.
- Increasing access to non-formal education and youth services.
- Developing competencies in lifelong learning, especially in digital and technological fields.
- Promoting youth health and well-being, healthy lifestyles, reducing harmful behaviours, preventing violence, early marriage, and teenage pregnancy.
- Raising awareness about media, digital literacy, and personal data protection.
The total competition budget is 400,000 GEL, with a maximum grant per project of 50,000 GEL. This competition is organized by the State Youth Agency of Georgia and celebrates International Youth Day with an aim of strengthening youth organizations through non-formal education.
This grant competition differs from other grants like the BOOST grant that targets organizations providing direct services to public school K–12 students and requires operation for at least two years, among other criteria.
By participating in this grant competition, youth organizations can contribute to the development of Georgia's future leaders, fostering a generation that is digitally literate, economically empowered, and socially responsible.
The grant competition, 'Strengthening Youth Organizations', supports non-profit youth organizations in Georgia as part of their efforts in education-and-self-development and personal-growth, primarily focusing on learning through non-formal education. The competition encourages projects that prioritize personal growth and learning in areas such as digital literacy, economic empowerment, peacebuilding skills, and promoting youth health and well-being.
