Background

In our diverse European society we cannot escape history when seeking to understand the present in our search for a common future. EuroClio and the Evens Foundation have been working together for a few years now aiming to open up spaces to challenge dominant national narratives and to engage with the complexity, multiplicity and transnationality of European history and history teaching. We believe this is a necessary first step that allows and supports educators and their students to discover common positions or overcome divisions while acknowledging existing differences.

This is the first time that EuroClio has the unique opportunity to provide grants for member organisations. We believe that supporting transnational exchange and peer learning between history educators from the bottom-up, increases the probability that initiatives also answer educators’ real needs on the ground. We hope that EuroClio Regranting Scheme will contribute towards fostering more transnational cooperation between history educators.

The Aims

  • Build the capacity EuroClio’s member organizations in terms of being an effective civil society organization
  • Enable EuroClio to develop coherent and coordinated activities to promote the relevant policy objectives,
  • Expand the reach of EuroClio, including new partners, and/or
  • Lead to a measurable increase in the impact of the EuroClio’s activities in the respective policy areas
  • As 80% of the funding is coming from the EU operating grant for European Remembrance, the proposals ought to:
    • Foster a common culture of remembrance,
    • Commemorate, research, educate about defining moments of European history
    • Raise awareness among EU about their history, culture, cultural heritage, and values

Application

In 2023, EuroClio will provide can provide its member associations with two types of grants:

  • 1 grant of 52.000 euros dedicated towards the organisation of pan-European gathering of history teaching associations. This event offers an opportunity to discuss common challenges, share information and design joint strategies with the history teachers associations from around the world
  • 8 grants of 6.000 euros dedicated to regional cooperation which focuses on cross-border professional development, scaling up the already existing activities and making them more accessible for regional partners (i.e. a summer school, teacher training event)

Application deadline: June 28th, 2023

What are the requirements?

  • You need to be a EuroClio member association
  • You need to team up with other associations and form a consortium
  • To be eligible for the grant, the lead applicant should be an EU organisation, and the activities should take place in the EU. However, non-EU members can also participate in the scheme as partners.
  • The event needs to take place for at least 2 full days.
  • The budget needs to include the costs for participation (including travel, stay and accommodation) for at least 1 representative of each EuroClio Member Organisations from the EU.
  • If the project generates income, this income should be used to cover the costs for participation by EuroClio Member Organisations from outside the EU.
  • The grant is to be spent by the end of calendar year 2023