Project Grant SLO10020GR0041

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $499,858 cooperative agreement to Acamedia, Z. U. of Çekya to support research and outreach activities from September 30, 2022 to September 29, 2024. The award will investigate, analyze, and publicize the Chinese Communist Party's foreign-directed propaganda, disinformation, and related interference activities. This aligns with the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) goal of informing and influencing foreign publics to...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $15,000 Project Grant to American Councils For International Education: Actr / Accels, Inc. under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program. The grant will support engagement of Slovak youth aged 15-18 from rural and urban areas in active learning about the role of civically engaged youth. American Councils For International Education: Actr / Accels, Inc. will deliver programming in Slovakia from...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $249,819 Project Grant to Acamedia, Z. U. of Çekya under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support countering disinformation through researching problematic PRC influence from September 27, 2021 through October 31, 2022. As part of the Public Diplomacy Programs, which aims to support U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and strengthening relationships with foreign publics, the grantee will conduct...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $109,000 project grant to Clovek V Ohrozeni, N.o. under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to highlight human rights issues through films and discussions with authors during the 2022 One World Film Festival in Slovakia. The grant-funded activities include the presentation of several American documentaries and opportunities for festival attendees to engage directly with the documentary filmmakers on the human...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $249,991.62 under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) federal grant program to The Atlantic Council of the United States, Inc. to support non-governmental organizations combating disinformation and malign narratives spread via social and traditional media in Ukraine. Specifically, the Atlantic Council will empower citizen activists and media to combat disinformation using data analytical tools. The period of...

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to Atlantski Savez Crne Gore, a non-profit organization based in Montenegro. This grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, funds the organization's efforts to counter disinformation, strengthen civil society and media resilience, and reduce the ability of malign information influence activities to destabilize democratic processes and institutions in...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Atlantski Savez Crne Gore to counter disinformation and strengthen civil society and media resilience in Montenegro. Funded under the Agency for International Development's Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia Public Diplomacy Programs (AEECA/ESF PD Programs, CFDA #19.900), the award's objectives align with the program's goal of supporting civil society and democracy building initiatives in Europe and...

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $1,499,939 cooperative agreement to Techsoup Global doing business as TECH Soup to establish several disinformation response networks in Romania from September 2022 through September 2024. The networks will increase the resilience and response capacities of cross-sector frontline workers to address and counter general and specific anti-Ukrainian disinformation threats. This award supports the Department of State's Public...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $150,053 Project Grant to the Liga Rozvytku Zhurnalistyky, Go to combat disinformation and malign narratives spread via social and traditional media in Ukraine. The grant was awarded on September 30, 2021 under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) with a completion date of November 30, 2022. The AEECA/ESF PD Programs provide $150K in civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs within Europe, Eurasia...

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to Institute For War And Peace Reporting -US to increase the abilities of professional Mexican journalists to recognize and counter disinformation and produce evidence-based content from September 27, 2022 through September 30, 2023. This award falls under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) which supports informing and influencing foreign publics and expanding relationships between...