Kick-off meeting with LOT2 subgrantees - ICEDA small grants scheme

18/10/2021

On 18th of October 2021, Mjaft organized the kick off meeting with awarded subgrantees under LOT2 for Digital Agenda Advocacy Initiatives. In the meeting participated representatives from Orbis Center and Young Proffesional Network. Below you can find more information about the awarded small grants: 

Qendra Orbis (Orbis Center) together with Fast News aims at “Advocating for better access of Albanian students towards e-services”. The main activities foreseen through this grant are an awareness raising campaign and a survey on the current e-services that are already available to this target group. Based on the survey findings they are going to create a list of recommendations and advocate in front of the National Agency of Information Society and the Municipality of Tirana for the creation of relevant e-services or improvement of the current ones.

Through the grant “Albanian Youth Fit for the digital age”, Young Professionals Network (YPN) in partnership with Politiko Center aims to mobilize young people to advocate for boosting the digital competencies thorough the future youth policies/strategies, as well as to develop at least four policy recommendations for the Albanian Youth Strategy 2022 – 2029. Their activities also aim at increasing the awareness of more than 500 young people on the Digital Agenda, reaching them out through TV shows, online articles and symposium.

The participants discussed upon the managing rules of the grants and the planned activities for the first quarter of the project. 

The project “Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda – ICEDA” is implemented by the Metamorphosis Foundation (North Macedonia), the Academy of e-Governance (Estonia), Levizja Mjaft! (Albania), CRTA – Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (Serbia), NGO 35mm (Montenegro) and ODK – Open Data Kosovo (Kosovo). The project is being implemented with financial support from the European Union.