Graz info corner

Here we have put together a selection of funding opportunities for you. Of course, there are also many other funding opportunities at the various agencies & many other funding agencies. We make every effort to list relevant & current tenders here.

City of Graz

Funding from the Integration Department of the City of Graz

The Integration Department of the City of Graz supports projects and measures in the area of migration and integration.

tips

• The integration strategy and funding guidelines of the City of Graz form the basis for funding from the Integration Department. Read them carefully and refer to them in your application

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• Personal contact: Behind every sponsor are people who are interested in the topics and associations!

• Introduce yourself and your project idea, ask questions directly to the integration department and keep in touch!

Dates and deadlines

You can submit your application at any time.

Information and contact

https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10339989/9914876/Foerderungen_des_Integrationsreferats.html

Social Welfare Office of the City of Graz

The Social Welfare Office supports projects and measures that enable social inclusion and participation of all people in all areas of daily life. Funding includes projects to prevent poverty, measures that counteract social exclusion, housing and homelessness, and projects that support diversity and equal opportunities.

tips

• The integration strategy and funding guidelines of the City of Graz form the basis for funding from the Integration Department. Read them carefully and refer to them in your application

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• Personal contact: Behind every sponsor are people who are interested in the topics and associations!

• Introduce yourself and your project idea, ask questions directly to the integration department and keep in touch!

Dates and deadlines

You can submit your application at any time.

Information and contact

https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10024722/7762292/Foerderungen_des_Sozialamtes.html

Funding from the Department of Women and Equality of the City of Graz

The Department of Women & Gender Equality of the City of Graz supports women's policy institutions and projects.

Dates and deadlines

You can submit your application at any time.

Information and contact

https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10297584/8218351/Foerderungen_des_Referats_Frauen_und_Gleichstellung.html

State of Styria

Integration and local values

Funding is provided for projects with the following topics:

• Communication, acceptance and internalization of local values and traditions as well as those of the European cultural sphere

• Promoting an understanding of democracy, human rights awareness and civil courage.

• prevention of extremism and radicalization.

• Supporting integration regionally and locally by bundling and strengthening know-how and through municipal integration initiatives.

• Strengthening relevant knowledge and security of action among multipliers and central actors.

Dates and deadlines

Usually twice a year, check the website regularly.

Information and contact

https://www.soziales.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/131663389

Women and equality

The implementation of projects relevant to women and equality is supported.

Tip

• The basis for funding is, among other things, the Styrian Gender Equality Strategy and the accompanying action plan. Review them and refer to them in your application

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Dates and deadlines

Submissions can be made four times a year.

Information and contact

https://www.verwaltung.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/11684625/104132566

cultural funding

Cultural and artistic projects are supported in the areas of:

• Visual Arts, New Media and Architecture

• performing arts

• movie

• literature

• Music, musical theatre and sound art

• General folk culture

• museums

• Preservation of historical monuments and cultural assets

tips

• Show yourself in a creative way! Sponsors want to be able to imagine what you are doing artistically and what you are doing with it!

• Find personal contact with the funding agency. Don't be afraid to

ask.

Dates and deadlines

You can submit online at any time.

Information and contact

https://www.kultur.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/166342149/DE/

Austrian Development Agency

Is your association also active in development education or cultural education?
ADA supports projects that address issues of international justice and the goals for sustainable development.

tips

• Take a look at the further links on the ADA homepage. Review them and possibly refer to them in your application

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• Sign up for the ADA newsletter to stay up to date!

Dates and deadlines

Normally, the application must be submitted in the first half of the year.

Information and contact

https://www.entwicklung.at/ada/entwicklungspolitische-kommunikation-bildung-in-oesterreich/einzelprojekte-und-programme

EU funding

essential requirements

• Registration as a club is required

• Financially “stable” over several years (economically healthy)

• Experience in the area of financing

• Registration in the European Commission's participant portal

• Good European partnerships are becoming increasingly better or partly necessary

• Multi-year projects, not individual activities or events

• Sometimes complicated BUT not rocket science

• Most project financing requires partial self-financing or co-financing of 10-50%.

CERV — Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Four areas are funded here:

• Protecting and promoting Union values: Union values area of action.

• Promoting rights, non-discrimination and equality, including gender equality: area of action on equality, rights and gender equality.

• promoting citizen participation and participation in the democratic life of the Union and exchange between citizens of different Member States. Raising awareness of their common European history: area of action: Citizen participation and participation

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• Combating violence, including gender-based violence: Daphne area of action.

tips

• Sign up for the CERV newsletter. This will keep you informed about calls, appointments and deadlines as well as useful webinars!

• Get in touch and keep in touch with the national CERV office

Dates and deadlines

The different topics each have different deadlines for project submission. Find out more on the homepage or via the newsletter.

Information and contact

https://www.cerv.at/

Erasmus+

Projects on education and youth work in the areas of formal education in schools, vocational education, higher education (universities), adult education, youth and sport are supported here.

tips

• There are various conveyor rails here, which differ in complexity and conveyor height.

Dates and deadlines

Usually twice a year (March and October)

Information and contact

https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/funding-calls

AMIF - Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund

This funding program has four specific objectives:

• Strengthening and developing all aspects of the common European asylum system, including its external dimension

• to support legal immigration to Member States, including by contributing to the integration of third-country nationals

• Contributing to combating irregular migration and ensuring effective return and readmission in third countries

• to strengthen solidarity and sharing of responsibility between Member States, in particular towards those who are most affected by migration and asylum problems

Dates and deadlines

The financed projects are multi-year, check the website to see when the next call will be opened.

Information and contact

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/funding/asylum-migration-and-integration-funds/asylum-migration-and-integration-fund-2021-2027_en

Federal Chancellery

Department of Integration

The Integration Department of the City of Graz supports projects and measures in the area of migration and integration.

The targeted funding of projects is intended to integrate people with long-term prospects in Austria.

The projects (co-) financed as part of national integration funding schemes serve to improve the integration of third-country nationals, EU citizens or people of non-German mother tongue as well as asylum seekers and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection.

Dates and deadlines

Check the website regularly to see when submissions are possible.

Information and contact

https://www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at/agenda/integration/projektfoerderung/nationale-integrationsfoerderung.html

Additional financing options

Dreikönigsaktion Hilfswerk der katholischen Jungschar - Catholic youth support for projects in developing countries:

• https://www.dka.at/was-wir-tun/projektarbeit

Austrian Student Union - Special projects to support student activities:

• https://www.oeh.ac.at/formulare/sonderprojekte/