Grants talk:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves E.U.

Application received

Hi, Magioladitis! I'm a grants coordinator assisting WJifar (WMF), the rapid grants program officer.

Thank you for submitting this rapid grant request. We have received a high volume of requests, which may delay our review. We appreciate your patience and will respond to your request as soon as possible. In the meantime, I have a few requests:

• Please edit the application's sidebar to include a brief summary of your proposed project.
• Please edit the application's sidebar to include start and end dates (day, month, and year) for this project.
• Please edit the application's sidebar to include the amount of funding you are requesting in USD. We recommend using the website Oanda to make currency conversions, but if you use a different website please note that in the body of your application.

Please check this page for additional comments and questions as we review the application and please feel free to reach out to us with questions; we are here to help with a successful grant application! Best regards, LSmith (WMF) (talk) 23:03, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Eligibility comments

Hi, Magioladitis, my apologies for not catching this earlier, but UG GR is currently out of compliance and, therefore, is not eligible for funding. I have emailed you about this and have moved this application to draft for the time being. When the group is back in compliance please feel free to re-propose this at any time, even outside the 1st-15th application window. Best regards, LSmith (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi LSmith (WMF). We just subbmitted Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GR/Wiki Loves Monuments in Greece 2018/Report! -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:04, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Remaining funds from WLM 2018

Hello! Noting here that once this submission is ready to be reviewed, and if it is approved, the remaining funds from Wiki Loves Monuments in Greece 2018 would be deducted from the final approved amount. Thank you for submitting the final report and expenses! All the best, Morgan Jue (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Morgan Jue (WMF) and thank you for the great cooperation that helped speeding up things a bit! -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:00, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Edits requested

Hi, Magioladitis, thank you for submitting that report! Please see my earlier comments (under the header "Application received") and make the requested edits to your application at your earliest convenience. Many thanks! LSmith (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

LSmith (WMF) thanks for pinging me because I have missed the comment! I was abroad by the time the comment was made. I am on it! -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:51, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

LSmith (WMF) I think I did the requested edits! Please check! -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Magioladitis, those edits are all perfect! I have flagged this application for our program officers to review as soon as possible, given the early May event date. Just so you know, even if it were approved today, we would not be able to get the funds to you by May 1st because of our payment cycle. However, if this grant is approved, you would be able to use the funds to reimburse expenses incurred within the grant term. Please let me know if you have any questions! LSmith (WMF) (talk) 00:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Further comments from WMF

Hello, Magioladitis, MARKELLOS, and Wikimedia Community User Group Greece; thank you for submitting this proposal and for your patience with the delay in our review process. We understand that your project will run in May and we will respond a lot more promptly this time around when we receive your responses.

We have some comments and questions regarding your proposal:

Comments

1. As you state that you aspire to start an annual editathon with this initiative, we encourage the User Group to do intentional planning for this goal. You can find all sorts of Editathon-related resources in this program guide. In particular, we recommend that you have discussions and planning around collecting feedback from participants to improve future editathons, and that you plan a media outreach strategy.

Question

1. Can you please give us details about the travel item of your budget?

Looking forward to your response, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 15:00, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

MMontes (WMF) Thanks for the useful comments on editathons.

The travel is part of the project A new narrative for Europe: Bringing more union into the European Union organised by Inter Alia, NGO (Greece), The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (Romania), The Centrul Roman de Politici Europene - CRPE, NGO (Romania), Risk Monitor - NGO (Bulgaria) and Institute for European Politics, NGO (Germany).

The project ”A new narrative for Europe: Bringing more union into the European Union” aims to translate the messages from the grass root level and connect them to the EU public policies, favoring a more bottom-up approach, closer to EU citizens. There is an urgent need to raise awareness and know how among youth on the importance of EU 2019 elections and empowering them with the needed tools to gain momentum and influence over EU’s direction through interactive and user friendly methods.

The project targets youths, students, activists from Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, and Greece, with an interest in the recent street protests and demonstrations and engaged in the public debate that can further create appropriate mechanisms to combat the lack of trust in the EU and Euroscepticism.

The project is financed by the European Commission, EUROPE FOR CITIZENS Programme, Strand2: Democratic engagement and civic participation (https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens_en).

The 1st winner of the Wiki Loves EU Editathon will travel to Bucharest (Romania), in order to participate in the final -transnational- event of the project. Inter Alia will pay the travel costs (airplane tickets & accommodation). Food will be provided by the Romanian partners who will organise the event.

At the moment, we don't know the exact duration of the conference. Usually, it is a 2-day event.

At the final event, there will be staff-members from all the partners-organisations of the project and participants coming from Romania, Bulgaria, Germany and Greece (usually, 4-5 participants per country).

More info about the project: http://www.interaliaproject.com/news.php?id=222

I hope this info is useful to you! -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:59, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Request approved

Hello, Magioladitis; thank you for your response. We are approving your grant request. Regards, MMontes (WMF) (talk) 22:13, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

MMontes (WMF) thanks for the great news! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:20, 1 May 2019 (UTC)