Innovative ideas for civic tech solutions are awaiting new challenges! Are you the one to help them grow and bring them to your community? Then this Call for Applications is for you!

The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility – Regional Actions has launched this Call for Applications for their Adapt-an-App Eastern Partnership Sprint and is offering CSOs and activist groups from EaP countries the chance to get up to 7,000 EUR for adapting and launching one of the selected digital solutions developed during previous hackathons for civil society.

It is a 4-week intense online development sprint to be held in January-February 2021 where teams of civil society representatives and IT experts will work to adjust to their needs and launch selected digital solutions born within their Hackathons. The teams will be supported by mentors and by the authors of the original digital solutions. Up to 6 organizations / groups (applicants) will be selected to participate in the Adapt-an-App EaP Sprint.

Objectives

The Adapt-an-App EaP Sprint seeks to enable civil society actors from the EaP countries (organizations and activist groups) to benefit from the best regional practices in civic tech by taking up and adapting to the new realities (.e. adjusting and localizing) one of the following digital solutions:

• The Serebranka participatory platform enabling public participation in the design and transformation of public spaces in a Minsk district, Belarus
• The Doika online module enabling civil society organisations (CSOs) in Belarus to raise donations for any needs directly on their websites
• The Provodnik interactive map for citizens to evaluate the accessibility of public spaces in cities of Ukraine, and informing relevant public authorities on their incompliance with the accessibility norms though automatic requests
• The Market Research Tool platform for comparing sale prices of individual items throughout all pubic tenders in Ukraine since 2016
• The Donor.Online platform advancing volunteer blood donations in Transnistria, Moldova, and enabling a safe search for blood donors in emergency situations
• The SaveUs crowdfunding platform for volunteers helping stray animals, animal shelters and animal right defenders in Belarus (to be launched in January 2021.

Which solutions can be replicated?

• The Serebranka participatory platform enabling public participation in the design and transformation of public spaces in a Minsk district, Belarus.
• The Doika online module enabling civil society organisations  in Belarus to raise donations for any needs directly on their websites.
• The Provodnik interactive map for citizens to evaluate the accessibility of public spaces in cities of Ukraine, and informing relevant public authorities on their noncompliance with the accessibility norms though automatic requests.
• The Market Research Tool platform for comparing sale prices of individual items throughout all pubic tenders in Ukraine since 2016.
• The Online platform advancing volunteer blood donations in Transnistria, Moldova, and enabling a safe search for blood donors in emergency situations (to be launched in January 2021).
• The SaveUs crowdfunding platform for volunteers helping stray animals, animal shelters and animal right defenders in Belarus (to be launched in January 2021)

Funding Information

The maximum amount of financial support available for the replication of one solution is EUR 7,000.

The support is designed to allow the participants to adapt and launch the chosen digital solution in two ways:

• Engagement of additional technical expertise for those applicants who lack relevant human capacities and resources to adjust and localise the solution. The support will help to cover the expenses relevant for the design and development works and launch of the chosen solution. It may include hiring IT specialists, obtaining additional software, paying for a domain name and hosting for at least one year, getting access to the state registers and/or visual databases, etc.
• Procuring the services of an IT agency/company for the full cycle replication process (full outsourcing). The proposals must be all inclusive, i.e. include all relevant costs related to the design and development works, domain name and hosting for at least one year (if needed), access to the state registers and/or databases (if relevant), etc. The project provides a formal agreement to be signed with the IT company and the participant that identifies the roles and responsibilities for each party

Who can participate?

Participation in the Adapt-an-App EaP Sprint is open to civil society organizations (CSOs) and activist groups from the Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, MoldovaandUkraine.

Note that applications are accepted from teams only. Teams need to have sufficient technical expertise to replicate the chosen solution. Replication works can be done by the applying organization/group by engaging additional IT experts, or by fully outsourcing to an IT company/studio.

There are four sets of eligibility criteria relating to:

• the digital solutions
• the applicants – CSO and activists group
• the implementing team
• The costs

For more information, visit Eastern Partnership.