2015 Open Society Initiative for : Our Grantees OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE | 1

THE OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2013 TO CONTRIBUTE TO MORE VIBRANT AND LEGITIMATE DEMOCRACIES IN THE BY SUPPORTING THE ACTIVISTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS CONFRONTING EUROPE’S MANY CHALLENGES. THIS REPORT PRESENTS THE ORGANIZATIONS WE WERE PROUD TO SUPPORT IN 2015.

This list includes grants of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, which is the largest but not the only Open Society program operating within Europe. The list also includes grants from the Open Society Fund, which currently forms part of the Open Society Initiative for Europe but which still operated as an independent program in 2015. Additionally, it includes grants that were provided through Solidarity Now (currently an independent Greek organization), to run Solidarity Centers in Athens and Thessaloniki and provide support to Greek NGOs that are addressing the effects of Greece’s sovereign debt crisis and the refugee emergency. A small number of grants have been omitted at the request of the grantee.

This document presents grants awarded in 2015. The award date is the date that the grant letter was first signed by an Open Society Foundations signatory. This means that a grant that was approved in 2014 but only officially awarded in 2015 will feature in this list, whereas a grant that was approved in 2015 but officially not awarded until 2016 will not.

Only the name of the grantee with which we signed a grant letter is listed, even if the grantee was working in a collaborative or served as a fiscal agent for another organization.

All of the grants listed in this report were made by independent European members of the Open Society Foundations network, except the following seven grants which were made by the US-based Foundation to Promote Open Society: PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law; openDemocracy Limited; European Center for Non-for- Profit Law; Global Detention Project; Médicos del Mundo; Chancellor, Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford; and the European Stability Initiative.

Some of the grants listed here may be co-financed by other Open Society programs. The total amount of the grant is listed. 2 | DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE

DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE

DEMOCRACY CAN SUCCEED ONLY IF CITIZENS’ PARTICIPATION IS FULLY SECURED. ACROSS EUROPE, WE SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK TO PROMOTE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND TO IMPROVE DEMOCRATIC POLICY.

“PRAKSIS” PROGRAMS OF “PRAKSIS” PROGRAMS OF DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MEDICAL SUPPORT AND MEDICAL COOPERATION COOPERATION $112,456 $772,593 Humanitarian support via Support of first reception actions to interventions at the Korinthos new comers/third country nationals in Detention Center Greece 7 MONTHS 16 MONTHS

“PRAKSIS” PROGRAMS OF “PRAKSIS” PROGRAMS OF DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MEDICAL SUPPORT AND MEDICAL COOPERATION COOPERATION $11,856 $13,423 Extended medical services in Employability services within Athens Solidarity Centre Frourarhio”– Solidarity Centre Frourarhio”– operational grant operational grant 26 MONTHS 26 MONTHS OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE | 3

“PRAKSIS” PROGRAMS OF ANALITIKA–CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SOCIAL RESEARCH (BOSNIA SUPPORT AND MEDICAL AND HERZEGOVINA) COOPERATION $179,922 $65,594 Organizational Development Grant: “Break the Chain”: Two-day Festival Analitika against Human Trafficking; Expert 2 YEARS Officer in Field of Human Trafficking 7 MONTHS ANALITIKA–CENTER FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (BOSNIA 54°+ AND HERZEGOVINA) $1,444 $6,960 Peripheralizing Europe: an east/south Analitika–Think Tank Young encounter of translocal politics and Professional Development Program practices: travel grant 2015 1 month 8 MONTHS

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