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Title of session: BoF: EU funding calls and projects Session description: This BoF (birds of a feather) calls affiliates and other entities actively participating in the Wikimedia Movement with interests in diversifying funding for Wikimedia related projects through funding calls created by the European Union. This projects should have a direct applicability in the European Union area, but to be developed in the Movement for universal benefit. There are a lots of calls answering many, if not all, the 2030 Strategy goals. Think for example in the Europeana community (GLAM), Erasmus+ (skills development) or the data spaces initiative (fostering data reusability). Username for contact: @Olea Session duration: 30 minutes Session type: discussion Language of session: English Prerequisites: none special Interested? Add your username below:

Title of session: BoF: EU funding calls and projects Session description: This BoF (birds of a feather) calls affiliates and other entities actively participating in the Wikimedia Movement with interests in diversifying funding for Wikimedia related projects through funding calls created by the European Union. This projects should have a direct applicability in the European Union area, but to be developed in the Movement for universal benefit. There are a lots of calls answering many, if not all, the 2030 Strategy goals. Think for example in the Europeana community (GLAM), Erasmus+ (skills development) or the data spaces initiative (fostering data reusability). Username for contact: @Olea Session duration: 30 minutes Session type: discussion Language of session: English Prerequisites: none special Interested? Add your username below: =Notes from session= == BoF: EU funding calls and projects == Date and time: 5 of May, 11:30 == Relevant links == * Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364012 * Session slides: none == Facilitators == Susanna Ånäs User:Olea == Participants == == Notes == This BoF (birds of a feather) calls affiliates and other entities actively participating in the Wikimedia Movement with interests in diversifying funding for Wikimedia related projects through funding calls created by the European Union. Cultural commons where wikimedia projects are one of the projects out there in the oprn ecosystem safeguarding cultural heritage and making it availiable online taking into consideration the pripities of the foundation and making adense network with other actors in the ecosystem so we dont fail the cultural heritage. This can happen by: - Funding - Resources and the data spaces For Erasmus+ projects for example it was for any country in the woorld excluding North Korea, Vatican and United Kingdom, for many european funding you can't have partnership[ with countries that are not part of the European union. Differents programs have different agreements. The goal is to share information to those intrested, identify more induvidual/org who are intrested in this movement. Heritage Data spare is related with Europeana a massive federation and afiliated with who has over 200,000,000 in investments and would be greta to know how thse works and know which of these programs are adapted to our sizes. There is a new practice called Cascade Funding, the proposal is sent to the organizations who are the managers of the grants and these grants are for small organizations. E.G NGI who has 2 consourtium the NGI Zero (https://nlnet.nl/funding.html) and fund projects with up to 50,000 Euros and induviduals with Intresting projects can apply. The second consortium is callaed NGI Commons (https://commons.ngi.eu/) We also have Erasmus + they have a lot of calls and consider EU countries with several project focus areas. We find a call for our size and we can make a small consortium to apply for grant of about 100,000 Euros. One of the criterias is that there have to be 3 countries involced in the project. There are several patterns and criterias to the Erasmus + proposal. DARIAH - We are setting up a working group for wikimedia Espania in Glam to look for money to set up projects, consolidate ideas and grow with real development eg software Developments etc. You need to have a background and a project ongoing to be able to apply and be considered for these projects. There is massive interest in the EU to explore Glam projects (Open Glam) with so many active contributors to various areas of wikimedia. We need to identify the projects, the cause and start applying for proposals to help us develop. There are different data spaces for various domains in europe, europeana is representing the data space for cultures. The data space is about agreements and policies and principles on data and date exchange related issues. We can explore what opportunities it provides for wikimedia activities in Europe. == Questions == Q: In the European space what are your needs or Interests? A: We are making a project for schools to write on Women in Wikipedia in underrepresented languages. The project gives us money for 3 years and requires we provide justifications for each year (50,000 Euros in 3 years) and a 3rd party org affiliated to the wikimedia foundation and part of the project. Its about building long term relationships especially those in the infrastructure space. ERC grants the only criteria is Excellence but you can present the idea and convey the value and the impact and you have access to about 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 Euro. The have several progrmams a Starting program, Consolidated program and Advanced program and the funding level varies. EIT Culture and Creativity fund was initiated last year. Next Erasmus call is March 2025 so theres time to prepare. NGI Zero is a rolling fund. Q: How do we launch European Projects when we are all small? A: We could consider self fund. Q:The process of applying for grant application for small organizations might be a barrier. A: Many of the organizations are grassroot and dmight not have much experience also. In terms of writing grant applications with larger organizations or those with more experience helps with Grant writing. There are consortium filled with individuals with much experience in these areas. Q: What should we do? A: Currently we are working together with Wikimedia Spain who has some limits on what they can do and we plan to start a working group. We plan to facilitate a new consortium in the Erasmus plus plan and develop a project for very small glkam institutions giving them documentation that can help advance the projects. We need to understand what data spaces are and how they perform would be great to have a little funding to identify the similarities with Wikimedia and Data Spaces. We also plan to keep applying to NGI Zero till they give us funding.

Title of session: BoF: EU funding calls and projects Session description: This BoF (birds of a feather) calls affiliates and other entities actively participating in the Wikimedia Movement with interests in diversifying funding for Wikimedia related projects through funding calls created by the European Union. This projects should have a direct applicability in the European Union area, but to be developed in the Movement for universal benefit. There are a lots of calls answering many, if not all, the 2030 Strategy goals. Think for example in the Europeana community (GLAM), Erasmus+ (skills development) or the data spaces initiative (fostering data reusability). Username for contact: @Olea Session duration: 30 minutes Session type: discussion Language of session: English Prerequisites: none special Interested? Add your username below: =Notes from session= == BoF: EU funding calls and projects == Date and time: 5 of May, 11:30 == Relevant links == * Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364012 * Session slides: none == Facilitators == Susanna Ånäs User:Olea == Participants == == Notes == This BoF (birds of a feather) calls affiliates and other entities actively participating in the Wikimedia Movement with interests in diversifying funding for Wikimedia related projects through funding calls created by the European Union. Cultural commons where wikimedia projects are one of the projects out there in the oprn ecosystem safeguarding cultural heritage and making it availiable online taking into consideration the pripities of the foundation and making adense network with other actors in the ecosystem so we dont fail the cultural heritage. This can happen by: - Funding - Resources and the data spaces For Erasmus+ projects for example it was for any country in the woorld excluding North Korea, Vatican and United Kingdom, for many european funding you can't have partnership[ with countries that are not part of the European union. Differents programs have different agreements. The goal is to share information to those intrested, identify more induvidual/org who are intrested in this movement. Heritage Data spare is related with Europeana a massive federation and afiliated with who has over 200,000,000 in investments and would be greta to know how thse works and know which of these programs are adapted to our sizes. There is a new practice called Cascade Funding, the proposal is sent to the organizations who are the managers of the grants and these grants are for small organizations. E.G NGI who has 2 consourtium the NGI Zero (https://nlnet.nl/funding.html) and fund projects with up to 50,000 Euros and induviduals with Intresting projects can apply. The second consortium is callaed NGI Commons (https://commons.ngi.eu/) We also have Erasmus + they have a lot of calls and consider EU countries with several project focus areas. We find a call for our size and we can make a small consortium to apply for grant of about 100,000 Euros. One of the criterias is that there have to be 3 countries involced in the project. There are several patterns and criterias to the Erasmus + proposal. DARIAH - We are setting up a working group for wikimedia Espania in Glam to look for money to set up projects, consolidate ideas and grow with real development eg software Developments etc. You need to have a background and a project ongoing to be able to apply and be considered for these projects. There is massive interest in the EU to explore Glam projects (Open Glam) with so many active contributors to various areas of wikimedia. We need to identify the projects, the cause and start applying for proposals to help us develop. There are different data spaces for various domains in europe, europeana is representing the data space for cultures. The data space is about agreements and policies and principles on data and date exchange related issues. We can explore what opportunities it provides for wikimedia activities in Europe. == Questions == Q: In the European space what are your needs or Interests? A: We are making a project for schools to write on Women in Wikipedia in underrepresented languages. The project gives us money for 3 years and requires we provide justifications for each year (50,000 Euros in 3 years) and a 3rd party org affiliated to the wikimedia foundation and part of the project. Its about building long term relationships especially those in the infrastructure space. ERC grants the only criteria is Excellence but you can present the idea and convey the value and the impact and you have access to about 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 Euro. The have several progrmams a Starting program, Consolidated program and Advanced program and the funding level varies. EIT Culture and Creativity fund was initiated last year. Next Erasmus call is March 2025 so theres time to prepare. NGI Zero is a rolling fund. Q: How do we launch European Projects when we are all small? A: We could consider self fund. Q:The process of applying for grant application for small organizations might be a barrier. A: Many of the organizations are grassroot and dmight not have much experience also. In terms of writing grant applications with larger organizations or those with more experience helps with Grant writing. There are consortium filled with individuals with much experience in these areas. Q: What should we do? A: Currently we are working together with Wikimedia Spain who has some limits on what they can do and we plan to start a working group. We plan to facilitate a new consortium in the Erasmus plus plan and develop a project for very small glkam institutions giving them documentation that can help advance the projects. We need to understand what data spaces are and how they perform would be great to have a little funding to identify the similarities with Wikimedia and Data Spaces. We also plan to keep applying to NGI Zero till they give us funding.