Between 15-17 February, TRIALOG held the second edition of the Partnership Fair in Vienna. The event gathered more than 150 participants mainly from development CSOs from across Europe coming from different sectors. Its main objective was to enable various stakeholders from the European development CSO field to gather, network and discuss project proposals that will be submitted in future EC calls.The programme of the conference was exhaustive combining presentations, a market place where organizations had the opportunity to get to know each others' background and interests, and individual group work.
The presentations covered a wide range of topics and among others, offered the overview of EC funding schemes as well as guidelines on how to work in partnership, how to write a co-financing application or how to bring the “co-” into the financing. The speakers coming from diverse organisations (Europeaid, CONCORD, grassroots organisations, local authorities, experts on application writing...) provided input which covered all the relevant stakeholders of the contracting process.
In the end, the results were concretized into 17 different project proposals which covered a wide range of topics – from sustainability, consumer behaviour and corporate social responsibility to volunteering, gender equality, sexual education or conflict prevention. We are pleased that many interesting project ideas have been born, discussed and constructively elaborated upon, forming a basis for future partnerships.
The overall atmosphere emanated with hard work and deep interest and participants showed great commitment as they even continued to discuss their joint proposals throughout breaks or evening events.
The results, impressions and background material are all online! If you are interested in the Partnership Fair documentation (incl. presentations, photo gallery, videos, reports and evaluation), please consult http://www.trialog.or.at/start.asp?ID=216
We thank all participants for their contribution!
Information provided by Gabi Thomasová and Andra Tanase, TRIALOG
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