Brussel, 15 July 2024

The European Commission approves our operating grant for 2024

On the 2nd of April, the European Commission transferred to us the first instalment of €112.000 to co-fund our annual work plan for 2024 as a result of our successful grant application.

The approved total funding for our 2024 work plan is €140.000

2024 is the sec­ond of three years cov­ered with­in the cur­rent oper­a­tional grants pro­gramme for inter­na­tion­al civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions offered by the Euro­pean Union. After the suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion of our 2023 work plan and after sub­mit­ting a plan for our work in 2024, the EU has award­ed us for this year with the total fund­ing vol­ume of €140.000, start­ing with a first instal­ment of €112.000. Accord­ing­ly, our man­ag­ing direc­tor and our project coor­di­na­tor attend­ed the offi­cial 2024 kick-off meet­ing host­ed by the Euro­pean Edu­ca­tion and Cul­ture Exec­u­tive Agency (EACEA) on the 16th of May.

Focusing on curriculum development and sustainability education

Our work plan for 2024 includes five dis­tinct work pack­ages that are large­ly build­ing on last year’s work. Work pack­ages 1 and 5 cov­er the man­age­ment and dis­sem­i­na­tion of the work plan imple­men­ta­tion. Work pack­age 2 focus­es on the theme of sus­tain­abil­i­ty, by low­er­ing ECSWE’s own car­bon foot­print and and by strength­en­ing green edu­ca­tion in schools. Build­ing on last year’s fea­si­bil­i­ty study, work pack­age 3 includes form­ing a ded­i­cat­ed group of experts work­ing towards a gen­er­al Euro­pean frame­work cur­ricu­lum for Stein­er Wal­dorf schools.

Engaging our members through trainings and working groups

Work pack­age 4 encom­pass­es the net­work­ing and capac­i­ty build­ing activ­i­ties for our mem­bers planned for this year. We are organ­is­ing a train­ing on advo­ca­cy, PR, and asso­ci­a­tion man­age­ment, pro­vid­ing resources for teach­ers on the EU elec­tions, offer­ing Eras­mus+ work­shops tai­lored for teacher and stu­dent mobil­i­ty, enabling struc­tur­al sup­port for our mem­bers in need, strength­en­ing the coop­er­a­tion between par­ents and teach­ers in our schools and inter­na­tion­al­ly, and coor­di­nat­ing our mem­bers’ work­ing groups on top­ics of their interest.

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