FAQ on EU Funding and Lobbying

BCSDN launched a new tailor-made service in July 2007 to provide member CSOs with practical information and advice on funding and civil dialogue. The service ran to December, 2008 as part of the EU-funded project "Partnership in Action - Strenghtening Balkan Civil Society Development Network".

EU help-desk aim was to helps CSOs to:
- identify EU funding opportunities for their particular projects,
- find prospective EU partners for the projects and advocacy campaigns, provide an assistance in developing EU grant proposals and lobbying strategies on EU and/or national levels

Civil dialogue help-desk aim was to help assists CSOs to:
- solve concrete problems in relation to civil dialogue (between CSOs, national authorities and EU institutions) and related legal issues.