CISU Education Weekend 13-15th of September

The role we play as civil society will be decisive. We must strengthen the core narrative that binds us together and makes us unique as development actors.

Many of you work both with development projects and with engaging people here in Denmark to understand and act on global challenges. What added value does working with both parts provide? 

In this track, there will be events around how we communicate about our work. There will be insights from the information and engagement work you are doing. 

We will get an insight into the collaboration CISU has initiated with other European civil society platforms and what we can use each other for. 

And we will discuss what role we play in the light of a geopolitical narrative, and how we as civil society avoid being forgotten and squeezed.

Money is needed and it is a real challenge especially for the small and medium-sized civil society organizations to secure enough funds for both stable operation and development in the partnerships. But what paths can you take, where you can still focus on what creates concrete improvements for people around the world. 

Through events that focus both on what you as Danish organizations can do, but also on what strong currents your partners can be inspired by, we hope to be able to start those conversations, in your partnerships, and at CISU. There will be an event that asks how the Danish foundations contribute to change. And there will be an event examining ”matching funds” and what positive results it has produced.

As many of you know, a major reform of the Civil Society Fund is underway. When we reach the Education Weekend, the hearing process will be over, and we can talk together about what kind of change we can create with the new framework.

In this track, will there be events that shed light on what kind of change we can create with the reform of the Civil Society Fund. We also want to talk about how you should deal more concretely with these new frameworks.

There will be amble opportunity to share your own considerations and get answers to questions related to the new guidelines.

How special and unique are we in the small and medium-sized organizations really? Can we do something that the big organizations cannot? Do we understand the context in which we want to work sufficiently? Are we geared up to do relevant work in the neighborhood region?

We invite researchers and experts to the college who have investigated our practice so that they can help us learn more about ourselves. We also hear from experts from some of the sectors and geographies that more and more of you work with. There will be an event dealing with the joint European research project that a number of CISU member organizations have entered into, which have investigated the partnerships.

Also, meet the members of DERF’s Advisory Committee, as well as experts in relation to the recent developments in the neighboring region.