Call for Proposals: Play for Nature Grant Program (Up To 5000€ )

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Are you a biodiversity conservation NGO and would like to submit a project to be financed? If yes, then this call is for you! The Play for Nature provides technical and financial support to associations that carry out biodiversity conservation projects on the four continents.

These projects can take different forms but must always keep in their center the biodiversity conservation objective as well as the awareness of the local populations concerned by the project.

Types of Projects

They fund two types of projects:

Biodiversity conservation projects such as fauna and flora monitoring, scientific studies, reintroductions of individuals… with a share of awareness through information meetings, campaigns and education programs in schools.
Biodiversity conservation projects using sport and the organization of sporting events as a tool to raise awareness of populations and vector of key messages for biodiversity conservation.

Play for Nature Funding Information

This financial help will be of 5 grants of 5 000€ each for the 5 winners.

Eligibility Criteria for Play for Nature

The projects submitted must include sport in a bigger global project of biodiversity conservation with, among other things, awareness-raising and educational actions for the local citizens and authorities. These projects can be:
The organisation of already existent or new sporting events by the CSO applicant
A partnership between the applicant and another sporting association in favour of one of the applicant project of biodiversity conservation.
These projects must be thought out in order to raise awareness among a maximum of people about endangered species and ecosystems protection, sustainable uses of the natural resources. Thus, the actions can concern directly the sporting event participants but also the schoolchildren, citizens and local authorities in the geographical area concerned by the project. Applicants can submit annual or multi-annual events, in that case, the multi-annual events will be considered as a unique project.

Ineligibility Criteria

Play for Nature will not fund:

Sporting project which do not have a clear biodiversity conservation and/or awareness-raising objective
Operating costs and business-as-usual activities