SOLID - Application Form

Strategies on litigation tackling discrimination
in EU countries

Project Partners

Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities

National Bureau against Racial Discrimination

(in an advisory capacity)

Application Form

This application form can be filled in and submitted online. However,a commitment sheet, including original signatures from the organisation's representative and the applicant, must also be completed and returned (by scanning, fax or post).

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SECTION 1 Which training are you applying for(please tick)?
Pilot 1 (Organisations working in Slovakia, Sweden or Belgium)
Pilot 2 (Organisations working in Hungary, Italy or the UK)
Training 1 (Organisations working in Austria, Germany, Poland or the Czech Republic)
Training 2 (Organisations working in France, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal or Spain)
Training 3 (Organisations working in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia or Lithuania)
Training 4 (Organisations working in Cyprus, Greece, the Netherlands, Ireland or Slovenia)

SECTION 2 - THE ORGANISATION

Name Of Organisation

Country Of Work
(if more than one, please state country in which majority of work is conducted)

Address

Telephone

Fax

E-Mail

Website

1 - Please provide a brief description of the organisation's main purpose and activities

2 - Does your organisation either (a) already offer advice/support to victims of race descrimination (not limited to legal support) or (b) is it in a position to offer this advice/support? Please give details, including planned activities in 2005/2006.

3 - Which ethnic or racial minority group(s) does your organisation work with?

4 - if you feel that your organisation would play a particular role/have a particular contribution in the formation or implementation of a national strategy on litigation and support, please give details.

SECTION 3 - THE APPLICANT

Name

Job Title

Address (if different from above)

Telephone

Fax

E-Mail

Mobile

Please describe your role within the organisation

How long have you been involved with your organisation?

3 - Please give details of your experience as you feel it relates to this training, in particular experience relating to advocacy (not limited to legal, see definition in information sheet 2). For example, please mention any experience you have in acting as an advocate for victims of discrimination, in delivering/receiving relevant training, lobbying and campaigning etc.

If prefered, an up to date CV detailing this information will be accepted.

4 - Please give details of your interest in discrimination law and its enforcement.

5 - Have you been involved in/applied for any other training programmes funded under the European Commission Community Action Programme Against Discrimination.
Please specify.

6 - What level of English Language proficiency do you have (please select)?

	High	Medium	Low
Speaking Skills
Listening Skills
Writing Skills

Additional Information. The following information will not be used in selection
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments, due to disability, to enable you to take part in this training, or which you wish to be taken into account when your application is considered. Reasonable adjustments are things like sign language interpreters, making the accommodation and training rooms accessible for you, written materials in accessible formats.

If you would like to discuss your disability requirements further please contact:

Françoise Barlet
SOLID Project Administrator
Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities
3rd Floor Ascot House
24-31 Shaftesbury Square
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT2 3DW
Tel: +44 (0)28 90238645
Fax: +44 (0)28 90319485
E-mail: fbarlet@nicem.org.uk

Do you have any dietary requirements (vegetarian, food allergies, hallal, kosher etc)? If so, please specify

Do you require a visa to travel within EU Member States?

SECTION 4 - CONFIRMATION SECTION

Please download the following form and get this signed by the relevant person in your organisation regarding your attendance on this training course.
This can be faxed to +44 2890 319 485.

Confirmation Sheet

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - FEE AND LANGUAGES

NOMINAL FEE FOR PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS

We are now into Year 2 of the Project, and due to a number of factors (including budgetary constraints) we have made the decision to require a nominal fee of €80 from participant organisations as a commitment to participation in the training workshop. The nominal participation fee will be deducted from the participants’ expense claims by the SOLID administrator. If this causes problems please contact us to discuss alternative methods of payment. A receipt will be sent to the organisation.

Please note that the Project will cover all other reasonable expenses (accommodation, meals and travel).

The SOLID project is committed to be as inclusive as possible and we are aware that in some cases the nominal participation fee of €80, which is to be covered by the participating organisation, may be create difficulties, especially for smaller organisations with limited resources.

To enable attendance of the participants chosen for the training but affected by this situation, the SOLID organisers are making a limited number of bursaries available. These bursaries will not necessarily cover the full amount of the participation fee. Instead each application will be considered on its own merit and will be evaluated using a sliding scale.
To apply for this bursary, we would be grateful if you could e-mail us, providing the following details:

1- Your organisation's annual income (overall)
2- Your annual salary
3- The number of staff employed by the organisation
4- Please provide a short statement explaining the reason why you need
a bursary to participate in the SOLID training

CHOICE OF LANGUAGES MADE AVAILABLE DURING TRAININGS 1 & 2

Although more than half of the training sessions are carried out within national groups, facilitated in the national language, English remains the common working language for all participants in the training and is used by the trainers during the plenary sessions. However, we realise that this can cause problems for some participants, so for Trainings 1 & 2 we have made additional arrangements.

In training 1 we have offered translations into German of most of the material used in the training, as well as English-German interpreting facilities during the plenary sessions and accommodation of language needs during working group sessions.

In training 2 we will offer the same service, using French as the second language.

For budgetary reasons, it is impossible for SOLID to cover translation and interpreting facilities in more languages. We have decided that, rather than restricting the training to English only, we would offer translation and interpreting facilities in the languages that will benefit the most participants.

Please also note that the training manual sent to participants in advance is only available in English. As the trainers will occasionally refer to it as part of the training, we will ask participants to have sufficient reading skills in English to be able to refer to the manual during the session.