€500.000
investment in education
projects in
Romania & Bulgaria!
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We know how we want the world to be.
Let’s educate our children to build it that way
The UniCredit Foundation initiative, “ Call for Education - Romania & Bulgaria” has concluded.
The 2 winning projects from Romania are:
- "Growth Mindset Programs for Vulnerable Children and Youth" by the Ana and the Children association, that provides vulnerable children in Bucharest and Ilfov with the tools they need to develop as functional and integrated adults, through interventions in education, support and counseling services for parents and teachers, and the involvement of volunteers;
- "Profession - toward the vision of my future" by the Hands across Romania association, that provides training opportunities for children from vulnerable communities, linking them directly to economic agents and reducing the dropout rate by providing them with a profession and helping to fill the shortage of skilled workers in the Romanian labor market.
Congratulations to all the winners, but also to the organizations that have accepted our invitation to register in the program and carry out projects that have a positive impact on local communities!
The local Jury was composed of:
Antoaneta Curteanu - Executive Vice-President (Retail Area)
Raluca Mihaela Popescu-Goglea - Executive Vice-President (Corporate Area)
Ioana Mazilescu - Corporate Regional Manager
Carmen Mihaela Durnea - Head of Digital Transformation
Aurelian Mihailescu - Head of Markets and Treasury
Laura Dinculescu - Head of Identity & Communication UniCredit Leasing
Alina Elena Robescu - Head of Learning & Development
Andrada Creata - Events & Corporate Sponsorship Senior Officer
UniCredit Foundation Jury was composed of:
Cappellini Silvia - UniCredit Foundation General Manager
Petkova Teodora - Head of CE & EE
Szilvia Gyurkó - UniCredit Foundation Board member and CEO of Hintalovon Children's Rights
ABOUT THE INITIATIVE
In coherence with its purpose, UniCredit Foundation is actively engaged in projects aimed at combating school dropout, enhancing the employability, and encouraging university attainment across Europe.
Accordingly, UniCredit Foundation launches the initiative "Call for Education - Romania & Bulgaria” to fund educational projects in these two countries.
The call intends to identify and support projects contrasting educational poverty in Bulgaria and Romania in favour of lower and upper secondary school students (11-19 age group), carried out by non-profit organizations with particular focus on:
- tackling early school leaving;
- acquisition of skills appropriate to the attainment of university studies;
- acquisition of adequate skills to enter the job market.
The call will welcome innovative projects both in the areas of intervention and in the operational methodology.
The total funding allocated by UniCredit Foundation for this initiative amounts to € 500,000. This amount will be assigned to maximum 4 projects. The amount will not necessarily be divided equally between the two countries, but it will be allocated on the basis of the contents and specificities of the selected projects.
HOW TO APPLY
First, you need a non-profit organisation to apply.
Then, submit your proposal at callforeducation@unicredit.ro, providing with the following documents:
1. ANNEX _Project Form - project sheet, including:
a) a short presentation of the organisation (in English)
b) the reasons why the project is worthy of support (in English)
c) a clear description of the objectives the project intends to achieve (in English)
d) a detailed description of the budget (in English)
e) description of the impact of the project, focusing on main goals, duration, geographical area, activities, beneficiaries (number and description), methods for monitoring the results. (in English)
Download ANNEX_Project Form, HERE.
2. Copy of the statute (alternatively the link)
3. Copy of the 2021 financial statements (alternatively the link)
4. ANNEX_Self Declaration - Anti-Corruption declaration signed by the legal representative.
Download ANNEX_Self Declaration, HERE.
Applications must be submitted by 31.03.2023.
Please note the size of your email attachments; if they are larger than 10MB, your application might not reach to us, therefore it is advisable to lower the size of the attachments or upload them on a transfer platform and share the link with us, in your email.
This initiative is reserved exclusively to Romania and Bulgaria.
Read the Regulation, HERE.
REQUIREMENTS
All projects must meet the following requirements:
- be consistent with the objectives of the call, in terms of contrasting educational poverty
- highlight any elements of innovation and/or experimentation with respect to the themes of the call
- have a relevant geographical scope
- provide for a total duration of 18-36 months.
Organizations can propose more than one project.
UniCredit Foundation will not consider projects aimed at: purchase or construction of real estate infrastructures; the ordinary management of the activity; study, research, training and granting of scholarships or the realization of events, conferences, or exhibitions.
The Committee will consider only projects that:
- are carried out by organizations with registered office (or operational office) in Romania and Bulgaria, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the problem and an overall consistency between objectives, intervention strategy, planned resources and implementation times
- foster social cohesion and the development of relational networks through the involvement of representative subjects of the territorial reality targeted by the intervention, especially the third sector
- provide for the involvement of entities with skills and professionalism appropriate to the implementation of the interventions
- do not represent the mere re-proposal of an initiative already underway, but are designed starting from the context, the needs identified, and the subjects of the territories involved
- propose effective and innovative methods of intervention, capable of producing significant effects in terms of contrasting educational poverty, also in cooperation with other organisations, in order to guarantee equal educational opportunities
- clearly identify the results they intend to pursue and the related methods of monitoring and impact assessment, ensuring an efficient use of resources
- present elements of sustainability, also in relation to the continuity of the actions and their geographical and temporal replicability.
