Societal Resilience Grants 2025

• Eligibility Criteria
  To be eligible for the Societal Resilience Grants, projects should be in the following fields:
  – Grassroots initiatives and collective action;
  – Digital projects (podcasts, games, documentary series, etc.);
  – Campaigns (online, face-to-face, etc.);
  – Academic and investigative research (reports, innovative methodologies, etc.);
  – Capacity building, training programmes and workshops;
  – Community-building initiatives;
  – Public events and seminars;
  – Other relevant projects promoting peace and security.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: NATO member and partner countries
• Application Language: English

Do you have a project echoing NATO’s mission and directly contributing to societal resilience? NATO is calling for partners across civil society in 2025!

The NATO Public Diplomacy Division (PDD) is looking for impactful proposals from civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), universities, think tanks, youth organisations, media organisations and research bodies from NATO member and partner countries.

NATO encourages strong civil society involvement in public debate around security and defence issues, and individual and collective efforts to make an impact. In doing so, NATO seeks to promote understanding, trust in and support for the Alliance’s roles and mission: preserving peace and preventing conflict.

Priority Areas

• Countering information threats
• Defending NATO values
• Cooperative security in NATO’s southern neighbourhood
• Empowering women contributing to peace, security and societal resilience
• Free and independent media

Target Audience

The Societal Resilience Grants aim to support initiatives that reach out to audiences across the Alliance, in partner countries and globally. Particular focus should be placed on outreach to youth audiences, female audiences and key opinion formers, including those who have not previously connected with NATO.

The range of audiences that NATO seeks to reach include:

• Audiences who have an interest in NATO and wish to engage in discussions related to the organisation’s priorities.
• Audiences in locations where NATO’s role is not well known or who may be sceptical about NATO, but who are open to learning more.
• Audiences in challenging information environments, in particular on topics related to the Alliance, but who are open to learning more.

Funding Information

• Depending on the scale and quality of the proposed project, NATO support ranges from approximately EUR 5,000 to EUR 15,000.
• Exceptionally, projects above these amounts will also be considered, but should not exceed EUR 25,000.
• The final amount granted by NATO to a successful project may be lower than the amount initially requested.

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