List of Projects - Active Citizens Fund

Teachers Training Webinars on Media Literacy and Rights of the Child

Project Promoter: Athens International Children’s Film Festival

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 2 months

This initiative involves the training of 200 Primary & Secondary school educators from all over Greece on issues regarding the advocacy of the rights of children. For this purpose, we have selected two short films about the violation of articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child....

Festival of Queer Approaches

Project Promoter: Black Box

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 6 months

The project is about gender discrimination, racist (physical / verbal) violence and the lack of visibility that exists in the daily lives of LGBTQI+ people. There is a great lack of information on these issues and the visibility of these people is limited, both in the general population of...

Greek Marriage Equality Awareness Campaign

Project Promoter: Homo Evolution

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 12 months

The “Panhellenic Campaign for Equality in Marriage” implemented by Homo Evolution, aims to inform and raise awareness of the demand for equality in marriage in Greece, by combating stereotypes, stigma and homophobia. Greek law does not allow same-sex couples to enter into political marriage. So, very simple procedures, such...

Shedia@CITY: From isolation to social integration

Project Promoter: Diogenis NGO

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 24 months

The project “Shedia@CITY: From isolation to social integration” is an innovative project for the social activation of our fellow citizens who come from socially vulnerable groups such as homeless, urban poors, unemployed and generally social groups who are socially isolated. These are the project’s main target group. For them...

I’m trans. I know my rights

Project Promoter: Greek Transgender Support Association

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 24 months

Human rights are a basic precondition for human existence and are the cornerstone on which humanity builds a peaceful and prosperous future. The practical application of human rights presupposes, on the one hand, informed citizens who are ready to practice them and, on the other hand, well-trained legal and...

Humanitas – Process Drama και Processwork: Staging human rights of LGBTQI youth

Project Promoter: Athens Conservatoire

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 24 months

LGBTQI young people are considered to be severely vulnerable in their school and social environment, while going through the most fragile time of adolescence. They face serious challenges which often affect their health as well as the cohesion in school and in the community. The objective of the project...

«Girls for a change» – The school of no bias

Project Promoter: Women On Top

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 12 months

The project “The school of no bias” addresses 3 main challenges that teen girls and young women face in Greece and which have been established both in academic research as well as from Women on Top experience. The different treatment of boys and girls by educators and the reinforcement...

Children’s rights into institutional social care – “The Invisible Children”

Project Promoter: Parents and Volunteers Network for Children’s Deinstitutionalization Social Care – “Right for Family Care”

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 19 months

The project will address the great inequality experienced by children living in institutions due to the violation of their rights, as provided for in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. Inequality is due to the living conditions of children, lack of supervision of institutions, non-implementation of...

Human Rights for Beginners 2

Project Promoter: New Wrinkle

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 12 months

Human Rights for Beginners 2 is the second part of Human Rights for Beginners, that was implemented during 2020, in cooperation with the Council of Europe. Its goal is to educate secondary education teachers in critical aspects of democratic culture and human rights that have been identified within the...

Circle of Advocates for Children’s Rights

Project Promoter: ELIZA – Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 12 months

Physical child abuse is a major global public health problem according to the National Convention on the Rights of the Child. As a result, the program’s main goal is to safeguard the rights of vulnerable children through prompt recognition of suspicious cases from public officials and awareness-raising of citizens...