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An estimated 800,000 children in the European Union are separated from an imprisoned parent on any given day. Yet few people are aware of the impact that a parent's incarceration can have on a child. Children separated from a parent in prison frequently experience multiple emotional and social difficulties associated with their parent's incarceration. They not only have to cope with the parent's absence and the disruption of the child-parent bond, but are also vulnerable to social exclusion, financial hardship, discrimination and shame. Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) is a pan-European network which encourages innovative perspectives and practice to ensure that the rights of these children (as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights) are fully respected and that action is taken to secure their well-being and healthy development. The network is a membership-based organisation made up of non-governmental organisations and individuals across Europe and beyond, linked by a staff team based at its French headquarters. Raising awareness among child-related agencies, prison services and policymakers to the specific needs of children of prisoners and promoting initiatives that take these needs into account, the organisation is seeking to: - Expand programmes that support the child-parent relationship and help minimise violence for children with an imprisoned parent; - Introduce the child's perspective throughout the criminal justice process, from arrest to resettlement; - Foster cross-sectoral collaboration among public and private agencies involved in supporting and making decisions about children of prisoners; - Obtain better information and greater visibility for prisoners' children and influence policy at the national, European and international level on their behalf; - Promote the exchange of initiatives, expertise and good practice for children with imprisoned parents; - Enhance the competence of professionals within the field. Working to foster the promotion and provision of policies, frameworks and meaningful action on behalf of children affected by parental incarceration to protect their development and well-being, our aim is to ease the burden of the imprisonment of a parent on the child.

The Belgian Women in Science (BeWiSe) initiative was started more than 20 years ago by a German woman who came to Belgium to conduct research at a public research institute. She encountered gender inequalities in her work environment and was amazed that there was no such association to tackle this challenge in an organized way. She brought her insights from her home country and convinced a few fellow scientists to establish BeWiSe. Since then, all past and present Board members have been convinced that the association should continue until the attainment of its mission. BeWiSe is a non-profit organization that supports the position of women in science, both in the public and private sectors, and aims to improve communication among women in the Belgian and European scientific community. We develop support that is relevant to the research community, students and citizen and adapt them to participants' feedbacks and changing contexts. Our target group is girls and women. As we believe that diversity is a source of excellence, and that we need allies from all genders to achieve our aims, we include boys and men in some activities, while ensuring that girls and women are always in a leading position. BeWiSe wants to achieve gender-equal participation at all levels of science and engineering in the public and private sectors. It is open to specifically women, butanybody who promotes equal participation of women in science is welcome to join BeWiSe. BeWiSe encourages: Equal opportunities for both women and men to reach the most senior level in sciences Appropriate actions to achieve equal participation of women in science at universities, research institutes and companies all over Belgium Laws and policies that encourage and sustain increased participation of underrepresented genders in science Programmes for change towards more democratic and participatory systems in science Measures that facilitate the reconciliation of men's and women's professional and family life Equal participation of women in decision-making bodies Citizen of any age, gender and background to be interested and engaged in science, value the scientific methods in generating knowledge and advancing society The organization is mainly driven by the Board, which consists of four positions: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary. All members are working on a voluntary basis. The board is assisted by a pool of 3 to 6 regular volunteers: two responsible for the social media, and several former BeWiSe Board members. By choice, BeWiSe is operating only in Belgium: we tailor our reach to the Board and volunteers capacity, our focus is a communication strength, and we operate in a geographically distributed network of complementary initiatives. We operate in French, Dutch and English, the three major languages. In a spirit of diversity, we serve as a bridge between the formal Dutch-speaking and French-speaking education and research communities. The organization is strongly connected to European associations and initiatives, including through its active membership to the European Platform of Women Scientists, its participation to European calls and projects on science outreach, and its central Brussels location. Our immediate impact is focusedto the Belgian scientific community understood broadly: schools pupils and teachers, higher education students, professors and staff, private research centers, citizen and families who are temporarily or permanently living in Belgium. However, our indirect impact is broader: as BeWiSe members and target groups are from any nationality and origin, and are mobile throughout their careers, they carry and spread their own insights and BeWiSe's practices in many countries and organizations, including through informal networking practices outside of Europe, such as BeWiSe and the Society of Ethiopian Women in Science and Technology. Additionally, BeWiSe became not long ago a member of the eument-net network, where we reach out, learn, but also network with other organizations regarding mentoring and more specifically mentoring women. Our main activities are diverse, and vary with the target group: Any age (6 years and older): science outreach activities, with a consistent focus on female role models e.g. "exchange without taboo" sessions between pupils and researchers, European Researchers Night interactive workshops on societal challenges, pitching sessions by researchers to their peers, videos and podcasts on research projects and women scientists careers. Our current project has been awarded by the EU for 2 years. Our next edition will be held on Friday September 26th at the Planetarium in Brussels, and on Saturday September 27th at the Institute of Natural sciences. More information on www.wisenight.eu Teenagers: Girls Leading in Science (GirLS) team contest inviting Dutch- and French-speaking middle schools pupils to create, present and pitch their scientific project with team members they don't know, discover daily work at laboratories and stimulate them to enroll at a higher education institution in STEM. The contest is designed to grow the leadership of girls in science and transmit its (the) passion (for research), reflect on scientific methods, the value of collaboration and team diversity. The prize is a fully paid tuition fee for the first year at university within STEMfor each member of the winning team. More information on https://bewise.be/girls-leading-in-science/ Researchers mentoring program in both language communities for junior scientists working in Belgium, mainly to support young scientists who are in the important phases of completing their thesis or in the beginning of their post-doctoral research. The mentees also benefit from our networking and talks e.g. Lunch & Learn, inspirational talk. The program is complementary to intra-university programs. Higher education students, academics, university professionals, companies, diversity and inclusion officers and policy-makers: BeWiSe organizes a yearly Women in Science Conference exploring how to speed up the transition to gender equality in scientific careers and sharing good practices on including the sex and gender dimension in research (all disciplines). Several themes were explored in the past years: recruitment procedures, the Matilda effect, the EU gender equality plan. BeWiSe also organizes every other year an inspirational evening. During this captivating evening) in Brussels, inspirational women in STEM leadership will share experiences and advice from their leadership journeys. From leading in male-dominated environments to showing up as your authentic self, this unique event provides inspiration, energy, and tools for starting and mid-career women in sciences to continue their leadership journey with confidence. If we are awarded the 3M care giving, we would use the donation to Increase the impact of the GirLS by continuing to support students to choose STEM studies on the long term. We had received in the past a donation from Solvay to fund the contest and the prize (1st year university tuition fees for the winning team). However, this fund has ceased and we are currently in discussion with several organizations to find alternative sources of funding, but 3M donation could definitively support the continuation of the initiative. Attract more participants to our yearly Women in Science day Expanding the mentoring program by providing more training and meeting opportunities to both mentors and mentees. Providing more science outreach material in a broad range of disciplines by developing and spreading short video clips, increasing their usage by school teachers and pupils, as well as continue outreach events like WiseNight. Raising awareness of citizen sensitive to arts by organizing pictures exhibitions and talks at different locations (no dependency on uncertain European funding), for example by reusing the 40 portraits and podcasts of women scientists working in Belgium, developed as part of the WiseNight EU project. Discussions are ongoing with several universities to organize such exhibition in other locations after the 2025 edition of WiseNight where 2 series of portraits will be displayed both in the Planetarium and in the Institute of Natural Sciences. Providing space to the Board and key volunteers to discuss and consolidate a long term strategy, including considering synergies and structured collaboration with like-minded organizations. Reach out to other organizations promoting women (at regional level, or industry based) to enlarge our reach and reinforce the impact of our activities.

Pegode is a network of permanently linked projects. These projects provide customized support to persons with disabilities. At Pegode the client has control over his own life. Pegode support with questions about all areas of life, actively participates in an inclusive society and investing in expertise, creativity and commitment of its employees.

To spread the values of Judo throughout the world and inspire generations for a healthy life based on solid moral principles, to offer guidance and leadership for its stakeholders while preserving the integrity of the sport and of the athletes, as well as all its members and to organize entertaining events for fans

The Maecenata Foundation is an independent Think Tank founded in 2010 and based in Munich. It addresses issues of civil society, civic engagement, philanthropy, and foundations. Since 2011 it comprises all of Maecenata's activities. The foundation directs the activities of its programmes to represent carefully considered positions. It is heavily engaged in the transnational strengthening and development of an open society in Europe and beyond through civil society.

to mobilise its members to reintroduce sustainable Sport for All and physical activity practices into everyday lives, using the Designed to Move physical activity platform.

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COC Netherlands is the Dutch LGBTI organization and an international LGBTI human rights organization supporting activists in over 35 countries world wide. In the Netherlands our aim is to empower and emancipate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and promote the social acceptance of this group in the wider Dutch society as a whole. Internationally we support the LGBTI movement by building a constructive relationship with LGBTI activists where it is needed most, promote the dialogue on sexual orientationi and gender identity and access human rights instruments to promote the specific rights of LGBTI people where-ever we can

Natuurpunt is a public-interest organisation which defends nature and biodiversity in Flanders and the rights of all people to have access to nature . We strive to protect open spaces and the quality of the environment. Our objective is to safeguard the landscape and the natural heritage within it. Natuurpunt brings together those citizens who wish to contribute to this social mission, independent of any political or other beliefs. We motivate and support our members to actively be involved in this at local, regional and provincial level. Natuurpunt wishes to act as leverage for social change based on sustainable development. We strive to raise public awareness and to establish a broader base for the preservation and development of nature. In Flanders, we are taking the lead in everything relating to nature, biodiversity and quality of the landscape and this in an international context. Where possible, we work together with both public and private partners. We make our voice heard to encourage public authorities and other stakeholderss to achieve results.

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That Athletes With An Intellectual Impairment Across The World Have The Opportunity To Achieve Excellence In Sport And High-Level Competition

Board of European Students of Technology is a non-profit and non-political organisation that since 1989 strives to improve communication, cooperation and exchange opportunities for European students. The mission of BEST is to help students achieve an international mindset, reach a better understanding of cultures and societies and develop the capacity to work in culturally diverse environments. To achieve this mission BEST offers high quality services to technology students all over Europe. These services include a European engineering competition, academic courses, career events and events on educational involvement. BEST offers these events in 96 European Universities, spread among 34 countries, reaching over one million students, with the help of 3300 members. It is BEST's mission to provide complementary, non-formal education in every event that it organises. This to make sure that the students that are reached grow to their full potential before they enter the job market. It is essential for BEST to show students the value of complementary education, not only to widen their perspective on the technology topics covered in their studies, but also to teach them the needed soft skills. To begin, these soft skills are covered in BEST's events by bringing students together with its two other stakeholders, universities and companies, and letting them dialog. Secondly, BEST provides specific training sessions to teach students how to acquire these skills in a safe and stimulating environment among peers. Lastly, this is done not only towards outside students, but also towards BEST's own members. By letting them organise events after they had a thorough knowledge transfer and did some in-depth training sessions, they acquire a lot of hands-on experience that makes them valued assets on the job market. In all this soft skill acquirement, there is one thing that makes BEST special: everything happens in a culturally diverse environment. BEST's volunteers really learn how to cooperate with project members from all over Europe and also the outside students are introduced to a specific mindset that BEST likes to call 'the BEST spirit'. This means that everyone works together, respecting each other's backgrounds, to achieve a common goal: empower students and give them a voice in today's society. For this donation campaign BEST would focus on the educational involvement that it stimulates among European students. It is namely very unique that an organisation run by students offers their peers a voice by collecting data in surveys and events and presenting that data to the relevant authorities. BEST, therefore, attends a lot of conferences about education to be able to share our outcomes to the fullest. We hope to raise some donations in this campaign to be able to carry out next year's planning around the theme of Digital Literacy. This theme focuses on how prepared students and universities are for the upcoming digitisation wave. It raises the question of how we will learn and teach digital skills and how industry 4.0 will make its way into our education. For this program BEST invests in conducting surveys, doing symposia on education and writing scientific papers with the purpose of disseminating the outcomes. It is not the first time that BEST is going to conduct such an Educational Involvement Programme. Last year, for example, the theme was 'Diversity in STEM education' and the years before we covered topics such as pedagogical skills, new teaching methods, relation between university and industry, etc. So what were the steps BEST undertook to create all the materials around last year's topic? First, a team was created to do research on existing literature about 'Diversity in (STEM) education'. Based on that research a survey was created in which 4 diversity types were tackled: cultural diversity, ethnic diversity, gender diversity and students with disabilities. Then, after the answers of the survey were gathered and analysed, the subtopics for the BEST Symposia on Education were identified: in this case, each symposium had a different diversity type. The same team that worked on the content creation of the symposia also prepared and delivered the sessions of those symposia. After the events, the input of all the participating students is gathered in a scientific report, which is then either published in conferences, or disseminated through social media and newsletters. The approach used last year proved to be a successful one and will be repeated in this year's Educational Involvement Programme. If we manage to get more funds via Global Giving, this will mean that we can elaborate this process and spend more resources on content creation, promotion of the surveys and dissemination of our results. In short: we will be able to make a lot more noise in the educational world.