CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS – THE:PLACE PROGRAMME

05/06/2026 00:00

Mercator Foundation

The programme aims to enhance CSOs’ capacity to make a significant impact in their respective work areas, by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and cooperation among those working on local issues

• adopt human rights or development based approach (İnsan hakları veya kalkınma temelli yaklaşım)
• are non-for-profit NGOs and Foundations (Türkiye için dernek, vakıf ve kar-amacı-gütmeyen kooperatifler);
• are based in Türkiye, in the European Union or in EU enlargement countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine).
• are interested in engaging in an international exchange process coupled with an enhanced engagement with a local authority at the city level, with a specific focus on participatory approaches (either municipalities or metropolitan municipalities/district municipalities and metropolitan municipalities in Türkiye)
• have an experience in project management and sufficient stability as an organisation. The effort expected under THE:PLACE programme is for 2 people per organisation to be engaged throughout each cycle (June 2026 – November 2027, November 2027 – April 2029).

• the cooperative doesn’t distribute the difference between incomes and expenditures to its members, board members or board of advisors,
• the cooperative doesn’t distribute any additional income coming from reserve funds or asset sales to its members,
• in the purpose and activity section of the main cooperative contract, it should be stated that the objectives of the cooperative are to be in the public interest.

Min:

Max: 32000

%

12 months