Agency for Youth Initiatives Announces Grant Contest for Youth-Focused Organizations
The State Youth Agency of Georgia, under the Ministry of Education, Science, and Youth, has announced a significant grant competition titled 'Strengthening Youth Organizations'. This competition is part of the International Youth Day celebrations and is designed to support non-profit youth organizations focused on youth development.
The total budget for the competition is 400,000 GEL, with each project eligible to receive a maximum grant of 50,000 GEL. The aim of the competition is to enhance the capacities of youth organizations through non-formal education.
The priority areas for funding in this competition include:
- 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 entrepreneurship awareness and strengthening social and employment skills among youth.
- 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 within lifelong learning, particularly in digital and technological fields.
- Promoting youth health and well-being, including healthy lifestyles, reducing harmful behaviors, preventing violence, early marriage, and teenage pregnancy.
- Raising awareness about media, digital literacy, and personal data protection.
This grant competition is a valuable opportunity for non-profit youth organizations that work in youth development to receive funding and support for their initiatives. By focusing on these key developmental areas, the competition aims to strengthen youth organizations and contribute to a more informed, responsible, and empowered youth population in Georgia.
[1] These points provide an overview of the grant competition, its priorities, and the areas it aims to support. Further details about the application process, deadlines, and funding amounts are not provided in the information given.
- To enhance their impact and contribute to the development of a responsible and empowered youth population in Georgia, non-profit organizations focusing on youth lifestyle, education and self-development, social media, and entertainment can submit proposals for the current grant competition.
- By providing funding and support for initiatives in lifelong learning, especially in digital and technological fields, conflict transformation, and intercultural dialogue, economic empowerment, health and well-being, and media literacy, the grant competition aims to foster the growth of a well-rounded and informed youth community in Georgia.
