The ongoing war in Ukraine has changed everything not only for the Eastern Partnership region, but for Europe. With fighting taking place in many parts of the country, the situation is extremely volatile and hard to predict. What is already clear is that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding both within the country and abroad, with
Are you a civically minded person from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine? Do you have an idea for a project that you believe would benefit your community or your country? Are you looking for opportunities to bring your idea to life? Check our quiz to find out what suits you best, and: if
Dear colleagues, Our Project is now collecting information on civil society needs in the Eastern Partnership countries to better adapt the opportunities we will be offering in the coming years. By completing our survey below, you will help us better understand what you need in your civil society organisation or as civil society activists from
We are happy to announce that a new phase of the EU-funded Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility is starting and will run until December 2024. The new project will be implemented by a consortium led by GDSI and will bring together new and old team members from its previous phase. As before, the project will
Isaac Asimov famously said that ‘It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be’. That change is the dominant factor in society today
In 2017-2020 our Project organised four regional hackathons for civil society actors and IT professionals from the Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. We summarized our experience in organising the annual EaP Civil Society Hackathons and complemented it with some useful ideas suggested by our hackathon mentors, participants and the
After more than four years of intense activity, our project is coming to an end in March 2021. The past four years have not been easy ones: regional conflicts flared up, the recent pandemic brought everything to a halt, and protests started and are continuing in the region. Despite all these, we brought together a
We invite engaged citizens from the Eastern Partnership countries to join us for the Demo Day of the Adapt-an-App EaP Sprint: a live presentation and demonstration of the digital solutions replicated by Sprint participants on the 18th of March 2021 at 10:00 CET. If you wish to join us for the Demo Day, please fill
Tomorrow we launch our Adapt-an-App Eastern Partnership Sprint – a 4-week intense online development sprint where six teams of civil society representatives and IT experts from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine will work on the replication of six digital solutions developed during our Hackathons in 2017-2020. Meet the six teams selected through the Open
