Let’s Build New Bridges Together!

The Ministry of Education and Science and the OSCE Mission to Skopje launched two calls for proposals under the Mission’s Building New Bridges’ project, which is designed to enhance relationship among youth from diverse backgrounds and languages during the school day and through joint extra-curricular activities. 

One call is for the Integrated Education Fund, which will provide support to public schools and municipalities to promote joint-curricular activities among children who learn in different languages.

The Call for proposals under the Integrated Education Fund is available at this link.

The second call is for the Youth Inter-cultural Arts Fund, which will provide funding for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to implement arts-based initiatives that promote inter-ethnic dialogue, combat discrimination and foster social cohesion.

The grant application for the Youth Inter-cultural Arts Fund is available here.

Both funding opportunities are part of the Mission’s efforts to fortify social cohesion through integrated education and youth empowerment under the auspices of Mission’s donors - the Kingdom of Norway, Poland and The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The project builds on the Mission’s previous work on inter-ethnic integration in education to advance democracy and social cohesion in the country, including the original Building Bridges Fund, which supported almost 200 schools and kindergartens to organize joint extra-curricular activities that directly benefiting more than 35,000 students.