COVID-19 Funding Opportunities

Deadline: 8 Mar 2021

Supporting innovations that tackle educational disadvantage in Ireland.

COVID-19 is a massive disruption to Ireland’s education system. It exposes already vulnerable people to further educational disadvantage. It widens inequality and makes educational opportunities even harder to reach.  Now is the time for swift action.

This is why Rethink Ireland has created the Education Innovation Fund 2020 – 2023.  The Fund seeks to improve equal access to education and promote economic empowerment. 

This Fund has three strands:

1. Transitions in Education
2. 21st Century Models and Methods of Education
3. Reversing the Effects of Poverty on Educational Outcomes

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**Deadline: 16 Feb 2021**

One of the priorities under the 2017 Communication ”Reporting on the follow-up to the EU Strategy towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings and identifying further concrete actions” (”2017 Communication”) is to provide better access to and realise the rights of the victims of trafficking in human beings. Ensuring that funding matches anti-trafficking policy is a cross-cutting priority, taking particular account of the gender dimension of the phenomenon, high-risk groups, as well as high-risk sectors.

Proposals should focus on contributing to the achievement of the following outcomes:

• Improved identification, situation and integration of TCN victims of trafficking in human beings in those contexts, e.g. cities/regions/rural areas, and high-risk sectors, such as agriculture and hospitality, addressed by the proposal;
• Improved transnational cooperation between local and regional authorities and civil society for the identification, integration, as well as voluntary and safe return of third-country national victims of trafficking and for finding durable solutions for child victims;
• Developing practical approaches, tools and guidelines, by building on results of past projects when relevant and appropriate.

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LAWPRO launched its Community Water Development Fund 2021 on Saturday 28 November at the annual seminar of the Irish River Trusts and Catchment Community Groups – Communities Caring for Water. Demand for this fund has increased year on year since its inception in 2018 and it is exciting to announce that the fund has been increased to €360,000 in 2021, up from €225,000 in 2020.

Types of projects considered for funding will include:

• Capital projects such as restoration/habitat conservation/natural flood mitigation measures; fish passage projects; invasive species control, etc.
• Projects that promote public awareness/education and events such as biodiversity days, surveys, training workshops, surveys and plans, water conservation initiatives; Citizen Science, etc.
• General amenity such as beach clean, improving amenity areas, bird watching facilities, etc.

Grants awarded will range from €500 to €5,000; up to €10,000 and up to €25,000.

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