The Ministry of Education and Science and the OSCE Mission to Skopje launched the second call 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. 

The call is for the Integrated Education Fund, which will provide support to public schools, teacher training/pedagogical faculties and municipalities to promote joint-curricular activities among children who learn in different languages. The Call is available at this link.

 

The 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, The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the United States of America. 

This 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.