Open call for proposals 2011
Slovak-Czech women's Fund announces its Open call for proposals focused on Czech and Slovak women's human rights organizations.
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Slovak-Czech women's Fund announces its Open call for proposals focused on Czech and Slovak women's human rights organizations. The maximum grant award for project activities is 4 000 Eur/100 000 CZK and for general support 6 000 Eur/ 150 000 CZK.
Slovak-Czech Women's Fund announces call for proposals to support groups for women and transgender people experiencing various forms of threats and multiple discriminations. Groups of women and transgender people who are the target group for drawing support from SCWF are supposed to be diverse, varied and multiform with not the same access to resources. Slovak-Czech Women's Fund awards grants for projects in the SR and CR for a selected group of women in amount of 2 000 Eur/50 000 Kč.
We are very pleased to inform you of the special newsletter of Slovak-Czech Women's Fund (SCWF), full of rainbow colours. After a Rainbow Pride, which was organized by our partner organization Queer Leaders Forum in June this year in Bratislava, the special issue of the newsletter is motivated by the opportunity to celebrate tolerance and pride, freedom, solidarity and diversity, as labelled for the first Prague Pride 2011.
At the largest Slovak festival Bazant Pohoda for the first time the Slovak-Czech Women's Fund found itself in order to present its activities in the area of gender equality and equal opportunities.
Andrea Vadkerti was elected as a new chair of the board of the Slovak-Czech women's Fund. In addition, we would like to welcome a new board member Hana Kulhánková.
Ludmila Cuchranova Memorial Stipend Program supports participation of talented female PhD students of natural and technical sciences at internetional scientific conferences. For three years it was awarded in Slovakia. This year, the stipends are offered also to students in the Czech Republic.
The decision by the United Nations General Assembly at the end of June/beginning of July, 2010 to create a new gender entity "UN Women" within the UN is a welcome development and one that took place four years after the announcement that the UN will reform itself.
This year both the Czech and Slovak Republics had parliamentary elections almost simultaneously, in May and June respectively. As a result, women gained important posts - Slovakia has its first female Prime Minister and the Czech Republic its first female head of Parliament.
