Creative Force
Region: Russia
Application document: Seed funding 2020 (2)

General instructions
Start by reading the Guidelines. They explain the most important terms used in the application. You must answer all questions in this document for the application to be complete. The application may not exceed 10 pages in total (using font size 11). 

Guidelines
Programme objectives: The long-term goals that the Creative Force programme aims to achieve.  

Target group: The target group of your project should be agents of change and/or opinion makers in the target country. In other words, they are people who influence other people. Examples are cultural workers, journalists and other media professionals, human rights defenders, women’s rights workers, youth organisations and others who work to achieve positive change in society. 

Final beneficiaries: Final beneficiaries are groups and/or individuals in the target countries who are directly and positively affected by the project. Examples of final beneficiaries are women, children and youth as well as minority groups in especially vulnerable positions such as LGBTQ individuals or people with disabilities.

Indicators: An indicator is an instrument which is used to measure how well the project has succeeded in bringing about the proposed change(s). If you for example tick the Programme objective ” Women and men increasingly have equal power to shape society and their own lives.” below, you need to find and describe indicators that can show how your project has contributed to this objective. 

Risk analysis: Risk is the likelihood of an event occurring which has consequences for achieving the expected results of the initiative; risk is always about future uncertainty. Important: you must answer the question about the risk of corruption. 

Application
Which of the following fields will you work with?
 Culture and/or
 Media	
Project details
Project title: Answer here
Swedish applicant organisation: Answer here
International partner(s): Answer here
Participating country(s): Answer here
Project period: Answer here
Sum applied for (in SEK): Answer here

Application summary
Fill in the boxes below to briefly summarize the main information about your project. Please note that this text might be used by SI in information about the programme.
Project summary – 
What do you want to do, how and why?
(max. 500 characters) 	Answer here	
Target group(s) – 
who will the project work with?
	Answer here	
Final beneficiaries – who will benefit in the end?
	Answer here	
Main project activities
(max. 500 characters)	Answer here 	
Do you intend to apply for CF collaborative project funding after this seed- funded project?	 Yes
 No 	

Why?
Problem analysis
1.	What specific problem does the project seek to address? 
Answer here
2.	Why is this problem relevant with regard to: 
a.	Democracy or freedom of speech in this country or region? 
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b.	Gender-equality and non-discrimination in this country or region? 
Answer here

3.	Explain how you will use media or the arts as a tool to address this problem. 
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Objectives
4.	Tick which Creative Force programme objectives your project will contribute to. (Max. 3 objectives) These are the objectives you will use to evaluate the project if granted funding. You will be asked to explain how your project has contributed to every objective you choose ‒ so be restrictive.

	Improved conditions for democratic accountability to the people.	
	Enhanced capacity among drivers of change and civil society to promote democracy, human rights and non-discrimination. 	
	Mass media with increased capacity to promote transparency and public dialogue. 	
	Increased environmental awareness and responsibility primarily among civil society actors. 	
	Women and men increasingly have equal power to shape society and their own lives.	

5.	What do you expect the project to achieve?
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6.	How will you show that you have achieved this? Give indicators that will show whether you have succeeded. (See Guidelines for indicators.) 
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Who?
7.	Describe your target group(s) and explain how it/they will benefit from the project.
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8.	Describe your final beneficiaries and explain how they will benefit from the project.
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9.	Describe the background to the project. How did the idea arise? 
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10.	How will your partnership work? Who will be responsible for what? 
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11.	What particular knowledge/expertise do your organisations have that is relevant for this specific project and the problems it will work with?
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12.	Have you worked together before? 
 Yes
 No 

Implementation
13.	Activity plan 
Type of activity 	Details of activity 	Activity’s target group 	Expected result of activity	Date and place 	
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14.	Risks 
List the main risks of the project, their potential consequences and how you plan to mitigate them. 
Risk	Consequence	Risk mitigation measure	
Corruption 
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Sustainability
15.	How do you plan to make the project’s results live on when SI funding has ended? Describe how the target groups and/or local partner/s will continue the work.
Answer here