OPEN SOCIETY INITIATVE FOR EUROPE (OSIFE)

Projects supported in the Netherlands up to 2014

Grants awarded in 2012
Organisation Project OSF Duration Amount Description
Prog
Al Nisa Do you know me? XF 3 months $ 11.990 Support for a campaign and symposium that aim to encourage the concept
Minority led NGO (finished) of diversity by increasing visibility and promoting a positive image of
Muslim women.
Art1 A closer look at ethnic XF 2 years $ 92.000 Support for a project that critically assesses the different manifestations
Mainstream NGO dealing profiling, minority trust in (ongoing) and effects of ethnic profiling with both police and public safety officials
with all kind of police and effects for public and representative organisations of ethnic minorities. The project aims to
discriminations safety facilitate a better understanding of the effects of ethnic profiling and a
willingness to question these practices and look for alternative
approaches. The project goals are to (1) change the nature of the debate
about ethnic profiling, to get it on the agenda of local and/or national
government and to enhance openness to alternatives; (2) sensitize police
and government officials; (3) raise awareness with youth and
organisations of groups targeted by ethnic profiling about rights and how
to gain influence for change when these rights are infringed.
Doetank P.O.L.I.T.I.E. (Police develops XF 1 year $ 99.460 The purpose of this grant is to strongly encourage the Dutch police to take
Innovative NGO, risky patience, integrity, tolerance, (finished) a stand against stereotyping and prejudices by Dutch police officers in
project vision and balance) their working practice towards migrants and people of migrant origin, and
to empower youngsters from migrant origin to record, edit and publish
possibly discriminatory police behaviour.
INACH (International Creating cyber hate XF 15 $ 19,100 Support for a project aiming to raise awareness about cyber hate with
Network Against awareness and countering months both users and industry, state actors and international bodies through (1)
Cyberhate) online hate (finished) campaigning activities (mostly around the Internet Common Values
A spin off project of Charter) and (2) the gathering, creation and dissemination of education
Magenta materials on how to counter online hate speech.
Magenta Electronic empowerment and XF 13 $ 46,735 Support to keep Magenta's secretariat running and allow them to continue
Monitoring hate facilitation of Human Rights months producing the ICARE and HateCrime newsletters.
speech/crime online and antiracism work (finished)
NGO focused on
discrimination on line
Spior Monitoring Islamophobia in XF 5 months $ 24,970 The purpose of this grant is to realize a preliminary research into the
Platform of Islamic the Netherlands (finished) nature and principal features of islamophobia in the Netherlands,
organisations in preceding the development and executing of a (periodical) monitor on
Rotterdam region islamophobia. The Jewish community in the Netherlands, has the most
long lasting tradition in the monitoring of anti-Semitism, whereas the
Islamic community in the Netherlands hardly has any substantial data on
the occurrence of islamophobia. This project explores whether the praxis

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 of recording and monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands provides an
example for the Islamic community to develop a comparable way to
gather and analyse data on Islamophobia.
Catharina Johanna Maria Translation of the Study: AHIE 1 month $ 8.320 to support the translation of the following study by Ineke van der Valk:
van der Valk Islamophobia and Islamophobia and Discrimination, from Dutch into English. The
Individual Discrimination in the translation will make the study available to a wider audience.
Netherlands

Grants awarded in 2013

Anne Frank House (AFH) Research on anti-Semitism in XF 6 months $ 25,000.00 The purpose of this grant is to co-finance a research project, meant to get
Foundation for anti- Secondary Education in the (finished) a full and up to date insight in the scope and amount of anti-Semitic
Semitism and racism Netherlands incidents that teachers are confronted with in Dutch secondary schools
research and advocacy (i.e. schools for 12 to 18 year-olds). Its correlated data will give insight in
the geographical scopes of the problem and give information per school
type. The qualitative data will be enriched by quantitative insights in
backgrounds and motives of perpetrators.
Amnesty International Countering ethnic profiling by XF 2 years $ 250,669 This grant will support Amnesty International Netherlands project on
Netherlands the Dutch police (ongoing) ethnic profiling in the Netherlands. Through a combination of advocacy,
Established NGO research and documentation, networking and campaigning, the
organization will step up its work against ethnic profiling, pave the way
and back up the work of other NGOs, and help to build a coalition
prepared to forcefully campaign against ethnic profiling.
Critical Mass Friend & Foe XF 2,5 years $ 187,000 With Friend&Foe, Critical Mass stimulates the curiosity of young people
Engages in playful ways (ongoing) towards each other and tries to establish new conversations. They
with youngsters in field of (OSF total encourage young people not to think in contradictions (Friend/Foe), but
discrimination, conflict With the additional support of support: 332.500 to think in a more constructive way to deal with peace, democracy and
and exclusion the Youth Initiative and the USD, by XF,YI and diversity. With five interactive experience containers they want to
Education Support Program ESP) approach schools throughout the country. This project aims to enhance
social safety at schools and counter social exclusion, bullying,
discrimination and violence at schools.
Humanity in Action the Institutional and core- XF 1 year $ 45,000 The grant aims to support the organization of the 2013 summer program,
Netherlands program support (ongoing) and continuity of the alumni network in the Netherlands. The summer
Network of students and program brings together students or young professionals of different
young professionals social and ethnic backgrounds and nationalities in a discussion
engaged in human rights programme on slavery and colonialism. Participants are required to
and discrimination execute senior fellow action projects.
Magenta (and INACH) Organisational development XF 1 year $ 9,250 This grant aims to support Magenta (and indirectly INACH the
NGO focused on support for Magenta (and (finished) International Network Against Cyberhate) through ODS to restructure and
discrimination on-line INACH) be more sustainable and effective.

OBEE Consultancy Fellowships for EU XF 2 years $ 25,186.00 The purpose of this grant is to cover the tuition fees of 14 participants
Consultancy advising participants to Black Europe (ongoing) from EU based NGOs who want to participate in the Black Europe Summer
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private and public Summer School (BESS) Schools in 2013 or 2014 but do not have the adequate means to pay for
institutions (led by the themselves. The Summer School on Black Europe is an intensive two-
professor Kwame Nimako) week course offered in Amsterdam. The overall goal of this course is to
examine the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora in
Europe. The program will focus on the historical and colonial legacies of
European countries to discuss the origins of Black Europe and investigate
the impact of these legacies on policies and legislation today.
Meldpunt Discriminatie Monitor Islamophobia and AHIE 2 years $ 49.275 The purpose of this grant is to facilitate the continuity of monitoring
regio Amsterdam Discrimination in the (ongoing) research on islamophobia and discrimination in the Netherlands in order
Anti-discrimination Netherlands to get more insight into the phenomenon, the possibilities to counter it
Bureau, works closely with (policies and practices) and to impact on policies against discrimination
other local NGOs and empower ethnic minority communities.

Netherlands Commission Dutch Strategic Litigation ECLP 2 years $ 201.899 The grant aims to provide support to the NJCM, one of the leading
of Lawyers for Human Project (ongoing) advocacy organization in the country to scale up strategic litigation efforts
Rights, NJCM on the field of anti-discrimination, ethnic profiling, asylum and other
relevant issues.

ProDemos Empowering voters through EE 7 months $217,249.00 This VAA project has been put forward by ProDemos - House for
VoteMatch Europe and Democracy and the Rule of Law, the organization behind the highly
Independent national Information Meetings successful Dutch VAA called StemWijzer, which is used by millions of
organisation. Provides voters in each election. Their VAA, called VoteMatch Europe 2014, is
information on the based on the policy positions of national political parties in 12 EU
democratic rule of law countries. Similar to Kieskompas, their voting advice is based on the
policy positions of national political parties in the participating countries.
This project has a strong national character, however, and in essence
there will be 12 different VAAs, as in addition to a common set of 20
questions there will be 10 questions which have particular national
relevance. Furthermore, while all participating partners work with the
same back end technology, the user interface is customized for each
national audience. ProDemos also organizes meetings during national,
local and EU elections for target groups that are difficult to reach. The aim
of these meetings is to provide information to the attendees, and to
mobilize them to vote. For the 2014 elections, they aim to organize 60
meetings throughout the country, working partly in conjunction with
Resto VanHarte, immigrant organizations, senior citizens associations
and womens groups with a potential reach of 3000-6000 voters.

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SPIOR Making every voice count: EE 6 months $100,000.00 This project aims to promote participation in the political process
Elections in the Netherlands amongst underrepresented groups, particularly migrants, women, and
Umbrella organization of 2014 Muslims. The project will be run by a consortium of three local
Islamic organizations in organizations in the Rotterdam area. SPIOR, a platform of Islamic
the Rotterdam area organizations which combines 66 mosques and other grassroots Muslim
organizations, will work together with Dona Daria, the center of expertise
for womens emancipation in Rotterdam, and PBR, an umbrella
organization of migrants grassroots organizations in the region, on a
community-led campaign and face-to-face information meetings. By
combining the knowledge and expertise of these three umbrella
organizations, the project does not only aim to stimulate women, Muslims,
and migrants to vote, but also to increase their sense of belonging to local,
Dutch, and European society. The project will also have a specific focus on
Surinamese, Antillean and Cape Verdean youth and women.

Stichting Onderzoek Public Loss, Private Gain EE 14 $150,000 SOMO proposes to target the EU as well as the governments of Italy and
Multinationale months the Netherlands to apply pressure before and after the EP elections to
Ondernemingen (SOMO) adopt concrete policy measures in the following areas: 1) more stringent
tax reporting and transparency requirements for transnational
Not-for-profit research companies, including on beneficial ownership and country-by-country tax
and network organisation payment reporting; 2) strengthening the fight against illicit capital flows;
working on social, 3) financial sector reforms that prevent the costs of excessive risk taking
ecological and economic. to be borne by tax payers and societies; and 4) enhanced enforcement
mechanisms for corporate accountability in general.

AHIE Research from 2007-2014

OSF Muslims in EU Cities Muslims in Amsterdam 2010 AHIE 2010 $71,054 The city of Amsterdam was chosen due to it being the largest in the
(including Netherlands; substantial Muslim population; its Muslim communities and
Rotterdam from municipal approach have attracted national and international attention; and
2007-2013) its developments and policies were seen as widely exemplary across the
Netherlands.. the focus was on the district of Slotervaart and the research
examined experiences of integration in housing, health, employment,
identity and belonging, civic and particular participation, safety and security
as well as the role of the media.
OSF Muslims in EU Cities Muslims in Rotterdam AHIE 2010 As above Rotterdam is commonly viewed as at the front line of societal developments
and tensions partly resulting from immigration and integration processes.
There is a wealth of Islamic institutions and facilities as well as NGOS. In
2002, the municipal government that came into power espoused a political
discourse which criticised integration policies led by the party Liveable
Rotterdam who achieved a major electoral victory premised on an anti-Islam
and integration platform. Muslims in Rotterdam focused on the area of
Feijenoord which had an almost 70% immigrant origin population composed
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OSF Muslims in EU Cities Muslims in Europe AHIE 2009 A comparative overview of 11 cities across Europe bringing the findings
from these cities together. The report findings and recommendations were
aimed at the local, national and the EU level
OSF Somalis in European Somalis in Amsterdam AHIE April 27,513 Amsterdams Somali population is smaller than other Dutch cities but has a
Cities 2014 strong civil society and historical presence in the Netherlands and
Amsterdam. Most are refugees or asylum seekers and the Netherlands is a
country of transit for many from the Scandinavian countries to the UK. With
the current discourse on assimilation rather than integration, Somalis face a
particular challenge as a refugee, recent, black and Muslim population. This
report focuses on core areas that matter when it comes to integration
including identity and belonging, employment and civic and political
participation. This report is part of a seven city research examining Somali
experiences in Europe.
OSF Engaging Amsterdam AHIE June 27,758 This six city research examines the views of white mainstream communities
Marginalised Majority 2014 from socio economically deprived districts in select cities. These
Populations and communities are an ignored population whose views and lives are invisible
Communities (EMMPAC) in the public discourse on integration and social inclusion and for whom
many people speak on their behalf. The impact of austerity, social discontent,
rise and mainstreaming of the views of the PVV party and a continuing anti
integration discourse play a role in why Amsterdam was chosen to be a focus
city in this research.

AHIE Advocacy activities 2009-2013

Muslims in Amsterdam Hague and Helsinki AHIE June Awareness raising on research findings: Metropolis conferences 2010 and
and Rotterdam 2009- 2013
2013
Amsterdam AHIE 2010 In partnership with district Mayor of Slotervaart launch of Muslims in
Amsterdam repot
Amsterdam and Rotterdam AHIE 2009 Convening on draft report findings with city administrations and civil society
groups
Gouda AHIE 2010-12 OSJI, Youth Initiative and AHiE collaboration on youth and ethnic profiling
Amsterdam and Rotterdam AHIE 2011 Debates: The Art of Inclusion
Amsterdam and Rotterdam AHIE 2012 Capacity building training of European grass roots organisations including
four Dutch NGOs
Amsterdam and Rotterdam AHIE 2008- Visual advocacy: photography project with Communications department
2013 Meet the Somalis illustrations with two stories from Amsterdam linking to
research findings
Op-Eds and Voices pieces

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ANNEX 1

European projects relevant for the Netherlands

Grants awarded in 2011

Organisation Project OSF Duration Amount Description
prog
Rand Europe Intolerance in Western XF 2 years USD 200,203 This research project analyses the trends in expressed intolerance, and trends and
not-for-profit research Europe factors considered to be associated with the phenomenon, in Western Europe. The
(finished)
institute focused on study compares attitudinal data for Western Europe with a particular focus on
policy Also with the support of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United
Open Society European Kingdom. It looks into policy examples and analyses, to the extent possible, the
Policy Institute (OSEPI) relationship between policies and other contextual factors and levels of
intolerance.
Key points for the Netherlands:
Data available from the EVS show a marked increase in intolerance between 1999
and 2008. This was a reversal of a previous downward trend, which offset any
gains registered pre-1999. However, this trend is not fully supported by data
collected through surveys conducted at the national level, which in several
instances showed an opposing sequence of trends in intolerant attitudes. Also, the
rise in intolerance observed in EVS is contrasted by patterns of rising social trust
among Dutch respondents.
From a policy perspective, the Netherlands has officially undergone a shift away
from multiculturalism towards greater efforts at assimilation over the past two
decades. Several notable events occurred at the backdrop of this transition and
may have played a role in the process. These include, among others, high-profile
murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, and the so-called Scheffer debate. In
its current form, Dutch integration policy scores above average in comparative
European terms
Over the studied period, several of populist political parties achieved large
electoral gains, although these have generally failed to sustain themselves and
were followed by significant losses or, in the case of LPF, eventual disintegration.
This suggests that contextual factors may be more important for explaining the
support for extremist parties than underlying intolerant sentiments.
Counterpoint Recapturing Europes XF 3 years USD 491,653 The report will examine the reluctant radicals voters tempted by populist and
Think tank focused on Reluctant Radicals - or how in 2011 xenophobic parties - and find ways to bring them back to mainstream politics. A
(ongoing)
cultural and social to beat populism detailed cross-country portrait of the reluctant radicals will include an analysis
research USD 289,404 of country-specific narratives and myths, and a set of proposals on how to counter
Also with the support of in 2012 the phenomenon drawing on international parallels.
OSEPI The Netherlands is one of the focus countries. The research found that reluctant
radicals, who have cast a vote for a populist party but do not feel close to those
parties, are mostly middle-aged males. Apart from the divide between ordinary
people and the elite, right-wing populism in the Netherlands is characterised by a
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 cleavage between the well-educated and the poorly educated. Reluctant and
committed PVV supporters as well as the Dutch potential radicals are
significantly more likely to be educated at a lower level than average. People who
have no income or whose main source of income is unemployment benefit are
more likely to be reluctant radicals than non-PVV voters. Reluctant radicals are
driven by extreme right identification, anti-immigration views (91% of the Dutch
reluctant radicals believe that immigrants should adapt to Dutch culture rather
than keep their own, compared to 60% of the whole electorate) and lack of trust in
political elite and broken promises.
Citizen consultations were conducted in the Netherlands in 2013. Discussions
showed that inequality is much more prominent in the publics concerns than most
Dutch people had thought. This is a driving factor of discontent among voters and
an important reason why votes for the PVV have increased. They also revealed that
most people do not feel that the current governing model is working, and that local
communities are eager to feel much more empowered and listened to than they
are now: Dutch voters are very nostalgic for past times when politicians were
constantly in touch with their electorate. The consultations will be the main source
of data and material for the tool kit that will be disseminated among European
policy makers just before the European elections of 2014 (and the Dutch local
elections of 2014).
In parallel, Counterpoint has been working on a related yet independent analysis
(with funding from the Dutch Foundation for Democracy and Media and the
Finnish Wihuri Foundation), consisting of a comparative study on the role that the
media has played in the rise in populist parties support in Finland, the
Netherlands and France.
European Network Core and institutional XF 3 years USD 134,978 The purpose of the grant is to provide general support to the ENAR, a
Against Racism (ENAR) support in 2011 membership-driven network bringing together some 700 non-governmental
(ongoing)
Network of anti-racism organizations working in the field of anti-racism from the 28 EU member states
NGOs focused on In-kind technical support USD260,000 in and Iceland. ENAR's mission is to foster a collective civil society voice and to
European advocacy for the transition 2012 influence decision-making in the EU and at national level in order to: Redress the
negative consequences of discrimination based on colour, ethnicity, national
USD135,000 in origin, religion or culture. Promote diversity and create the conditions for equal
2013 participation in a community characterized by a plurality of values.
Members in the Netherlands include Centre for Information and Documentation on
Israel (CIDI) and Roet in Het Eten.
Institute for Strategic Counter Terrorism impact XF 1 year USD 142,176 Convening of key stakeholders and experts from 5 Western European countries
Dialogue (ISD) assessment including the Netherlands - to develop a research proposal for a multi-country
(finished)
study of the impacts - of current counter-terror and counter-radicalization policies
Also with the support of on racial, ethnic and/or religious minorities.
OSJI The country report (http://www.strategicdialogue.org/Netherlands_FINAL.pdf)
sets the context for research on the impact of counter-terrorism legislation and
policies on racial, ethnic and religious minority communities in the Netherlands.
Despite the fact that over the last decade various security measures have been
assessed, there are few studies on their context-specific effect. This report
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 discusses the Dutch population and community situation, the counter-terrorism
legal framework, its policy and policing background as well as security and
political perspectives. It concludes that, in the years since 9/11, the Madrid and
London terror attacks, and the murder of filmmaker and Islam-critic Theo van
Gogh, fear of terrorism has decreased. Furthermore, the general public appears
more concerned about the effect that security measures have on their civil rights
and liberties. Public security and crime-prevention remain high on the political
agenda and various trends, including the emergence of anticipatory criminal
justice, the use and availability of ethnic data and the strength of populist parties
mobilising around immigration and integration, have made the risk of side-effects
of security measures for minority communities more pertinent. The apparently
decreased political and public support for the anti-discrimination framework and
the weak socio-economic position and institutional representation of ethnic
minorities and migrants, contribute to the necessity of sound empirical research
on the impact of security measures on minority, especially Muslim, communities in
the Netherlands.

Grants awarded in 2012

European Network Various Manifestations of XF 7 months USD 62,781 Support to a symposium convened by ENAR in consultation with OSF and the
Against Racism (ENAR) European Racism (finished) Institute of Race Relations (in Brussels on 27/28 Sept 2012). It shall gather experts
Network of anti-racism (Verimani) in the field of racism: academics, NGO representatives, policymakers etc. to explore
NGOs focused on the contemporary forms of European racism/s; the interconnections between
European advocacy institutional racism (structures and laws that legislate for exclusion) and popular
racist culture; and to help all participants understand how these structural and
ideological aspects of racism are driving the phenomena of racism on the ground.
The proceedings of the meeting will constitute a collective publication.
UNITED for Intercultural Core-funding XF 1 year USD 160,848 Support to the functioning of the UNITED network in order to re-balance the
Action (ongoing) organisational and financial structure, to strengthen actions taken by antiracist
European platform of grassroots organisations through its core activities, to update its online presence
grassroot anti-racist and develop new media strategies and to create a training platform. UNITED
NGOs includes many supporters in the Netherlands.
Institute of Race Support to European XF 2 years USD 24,274 Support the on-going work for 2012-13 of the ERP in its research, publication of
Relations (IRR) Research Programme (ongoing) in 2012 briefings and reports and other academic outreach and community-support
NGO focused on research (ERP) initiatives: http://www.irr.org.uk/research/europe For instance, ERP provides a
and monitoring Support to IRR Publication USD 24,274 daily online news service on developments in race and refugee issues in the UK
institutionalised racism on Far Right Violence in in 2013 and Europe which reaches over 9,000 people, publishes the quarterly
Europe international journal Race & Class and specific reports and briefing papers on
racism in the UK and Europe.
4 months USD 4,533 Support to the publishing and dissemination costs of the report Pedlars of hate:
(finished) the impact of the European far Right. The report found that, in the Netherlands:
- The success of the nativist and Islamophobic Dutch Party of Freedom (Partij
voor de Vrijheid - PVV) has been attributed, in part, to the traditional, rural vote.

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 Peoples fears about the city and immigration are what its leader Geert Wilders,
who himself hails from rural Limburg, deliberately plays on.
- 100 attacks on Dutch mosques have been documented between 2005 and 2010,
the majority of them (ranging from vandalism and racist graffiti to arson)
happened not in the largest cities but in smaller towns and municipalities.
- Dutch opponents of far-right policies have faced online threats, such as the
cartoonist Adriaan Soeterbroek,who drew a comparison of Wilders with the Nazi
death camps
- petrol bombings and other violent attacks occurred from April 2010 to August
2011, against mosques and worshippers.
- a link between the far Right and specific subcultures, such as football firms and
those that embrace causes such as anti-globalisation and anti-capitalism.
CEJI-A Jewish Facing Facts! XF 8 months USD 48,700 Co-fund a 2-year project aiming to enable CSOs in the EU to set up effective hate
Contribution to an (finished) crimes monitoring/recording systems. The project is mainly funded by the
Inclusive Europe European Commission and it is coordinated by CEJI in partnership with 4 other
European CSOs: the CST - Community Security Trust (UK), the CIDI - Dutch Centre
for Documentation and Information Israel (NL), the COC -Federation of Dutch
Associations for the Integration of Homosexuality (NL) and ILGA-Europe as an
associate partner.
European Womens Minority Women - Equal XF 2 years USD 122,533 Support to a Political Mentoring Programme (developed with the Danish
Lobby (EWL) Votes - Equal Voices. (ongoing) in 2012 organisation KVINFO), linking 11 women members of the European Parliament
Mentoring for Change in and 11 women of foreign origin or ethnic minority background, to engage the
view of the 2014 European USD 98,465 in latter group in politics at the EU level and raise awareness about parity and gender
elections 2013 diversity issues. The project, the first of its kind at European level, is co-funded
with AHIE and it also includes workshops with the EWL and communication
Also with the support of experts to train them to respond to populism, xenophobia sexism and racism in
OSEPI and At Home in political debates and to develop their skills in European policies and
Europe (AHIE) communication.
This project involves one mentee and 2 mentors from the Netherlands.
Global Dialogue Ariadne Network: XF 3 months USD 25,000 The purpose of this grant is to support the organisation of a knowledge sharing
Conference "Countering (finished) day for funders working in the field of xenophobia and intolerance in Europe. The
Hate, Supporting aim of the event is to encourage donors to enter this field and support them by
Tolerance" helping them to apply a strategic approach and supporting the creation of basic
frameworks to enable them to cooperate and share approaches and useful
information. The event will provide background papers including an overview of
this problem across Europe. Also it will represent the opportunity to go deeper an
explore synergies in three issues: the international anti-Muslim network, the work
on attitudes change of other donors and how to sustainably map private donors
investment in this area.
Dutch founders involved in Ariadne are Cordaid, Adessium, Mama Cash and
Haella Foundation.
Searchlight Educational Countering the XF 6 months USD 23,820 Transnational project ensuring a timely coverage of the Breiviks trial in order to
Trust (HOPE not hate) international anti-Muslim (finished) expose the ideology of the international anti-Muslim network which inspired him.

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 network The report identified 4 Dutch anti-Muslim organizations: the Dutch Defence
League (DDL) which collapsed, Nationalistische Actiegroep (NAG) Voorpost,
Nederlandse Volks-Unie (NVU - Dutch Peoples Union) and Geert Wilders Party
for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid - PVV).
Searchlight Educational Counter-Jihad Monitoring XF 2 years USD 154,614 2nd part of the project above mentioned. The aim is to monitor and analyse the
Trust (HOPE not hate) Unit (ongoing) growth and impact of the Counter-Jihad movement which is feeding and shaping
rising anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia across Europe and North America.
Through research documents, a toolkit and campaigning aids, it aims to investigate
the impact of this movement on the political and media discourse and its role in
radicalising people through the internet.
The University of Amsterdam is an important partner of Hope not hate in this
project.
European Journalism Data Journalism Study of XF 4 months $ 25,000 Support for a first pilot of a data journalism project with a number of prominent
Centre (EJC) Coverage of Migration (finished) journalism schools in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and Canada, Also
Issues with the support of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. The aim is to
analyze and visualize online coverage of migration during elections times, looking
at the terminology and semantics used in relation to migrants over a limited time
period.
In the Netherlands, the project took snapshots of how the press covered migration
within a four-week time frame around the parliamentary election in September
2012. During which migration was not a particularly contested political topic.
Results can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/ejc/unaoc-data-journalism. 52
articles from 5 national newspapers, 1 national magazine and 1 news website
containing migration terms were scrutinised. The Dutch coverage spread across a
broad spectrum of migration types from asylum seekers over documented and
economic migrants to irregular ones and refugees. Results show that the coverage
of migration related issues has been very little, while it has been an important
issue for Dutch civil society, and that the media showed little diversity regarding
the quoted and interviewed organizations.
Additionally, the tone of the coverage was compared with the provisions of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights to determine prevailing attitudes towards
migration. Results show that in the Netherlands11% of articles were in part
adversial to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 62% are neutral
(mostly because news came from press agencies) and 27% were in part supportive
of the UDHR.

Grants awarded in 2013

CEJI-A Jewish Facing Facts 2.0 XF 1 year USD 48,524 The purpose of this grant is to finance the project Facing Facts 2.0 which builds on
Contribution to an (ongoing) the previous Facing Facts! project and aims to empower Civil Society Organisations
Inclusive Europe to collect data on hate incident/crime through training, so that bias motivated
incidents will no longer be denied and victims rights protected.
FEMYSO - Forum of Research Report: European XF 1,5 year USD 13,190 The purpose of this grant is to support the dissemination of a research which aims

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European Muslim Youth Muslim Youth and the Rise (ongoing) to shed light on the rise of the far right anti-Muslim narrative in Europe and its
& Student Organisations of the Far-Right anti- impact on Muslim youth in Europe, in order to help shape better and more
Muslim effective policies, and support FEMYSOs advocacy efforts. The report
(http://www.femyso.org/media/articles/RP-26-09-13) documents the influence
of the far-right anti-Muslim narrative in France, Sweden, Belgium, The
Netherlands, the UK and Germany.
The research finds that:
The Netherlands has a significant Turkish and Moroccan Muslim presence, with
Muslims constituting an estimated 6% of the overall Dutch population.
The Dutch far-right party Partij Voor de Vrijheid (PVV) and its leader Geert
Wilders mobilise on the perceived threat of Islamisation of the Netherlands.
Increasing popularity and electoral success of the PVV: interviewees felt that the
general Dutch population is more inclined to sympathise with the far-right and to
openly admit to supporting far-right ideas.
Young Dutch Muslims interviewed felt that the PVV focused on the anti-Muslim
narrative, rather than promoting a wider political agenda. Those interviewed felt
that the far-right presents an image of Islam and Muslims as intolerant and
opposed to Dutch normative values, as aggressors who seek to limit the freedoms
and victimise the native Dutch population.
young Dutch Muslims felt that the anti-Muslim narrative was highly influential in
Dutch society
Young Muslims interviewed in the Netherlands felt that the media was central in
conveying and fuelling the far-right anti-Muslim narrative and also noted the use of
social media by the far-right to voice the anti-Muslim narrative.
Young Dutch Muslims interviewed stressed the importance of political
participation and media engagement by Muslims as a means of countering the anti-
Muslim narrative.
FEMYSO - Forum of IMAN- Islamophobia XF 1,5 year USD 16,662 The purpose of this grant is to support the Islamophobia Monitoring and Action
European Muslim Youth Monitoring and Action (ongoing) Network, a pan-European project aimed to train professionals, organizations and
& Student Organisations Network victims to identify and counter islamophobia.The project will develop a
quantitative approach, while taking into account the qualitative experience of the
victims of Islamophobia, establishing in 8 European countries (France, Belgium,
Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Hungary and Sweden) a system to collect
data and to track the cases of discrimination and violence towards citizens because
of their allegiance, real or perceived, to Islam. The project was launched in January
2013, with financial support from the European Commission.
Kieskompas EUVOX 2014 EE 12 $117,280.80 Kieskompas, will develop a VAA called EUVOX 2014, which will be available free
Online voting Advice months of charge to citizens of all 28 EU Member States. In order to determine the
Applications positions of all EU candidates this VAA, which is an improved version of the award-
winning EU Profiler that was co-developed by Kieskompas for the 2009 EU
elections, uses candidates election promises as expressed in official documents.
This VAA will use different questionnaires for each country, including EU-wide
issues, but also issues that are salient for voters in a particular region, and country-
specific issues. An important characteristic of this VAA is that it does not give one-
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 sided voting advice. Rather, it positions each user in the political landscape, giving
the user a nuanced portrayal of his or her distance from all parties in the political
spectrum. The result is visualized in a spectrum, as a pencil point, between the
different political parties or candidates. Visitors can then further analyze their
political preferences by clicking on the various issues, after which they can
compare their position on these different topics with the candidates or parties. By
indicating which issues are important to them and which are less relevant for their
choice, voters can also recalculate their position in the landscape, as well as all
other results and visualizations.
UNITED Lets demand equality! EE 11 $100,000.00 This project aims to counter the election of Members of the European Parliament
European Network Local community months from populist and far-right parties in Europe. Together with the European Network
against nationalism, mobilization for a racism- Against Racism (ENAR) and Hope not Hate, UNITED will start a community
racism, fascism and in free European Parliament mobilization campaign in all 28 EU Member States, while particularly focusing on
support of migrants and France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and the Netherlands. This project mobilizes local
refugees communities in five countries (France, Greece, Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands)
to act against the election of populist/far-right parties in the European Parliament.
Local groups in these five countries will be formed to organize meetings and door-
to-door campaigns ahead of the EP elections to (1) encourage voters to register
and vote; and (2) to vote for non-extremist candidates. These five local initiatives,
composing of one public campaign project, will be linked at the European level
through the strategic partnership of UNITED and ENAR, and thus raise attention
throughout the European Union. The local campaigns will be known and
recognizable via the dissemination of common awareness raising materials
(posters, postcards, buttons, T-shirts, etc.).
AEGEE-Europe Europe on Track EE 8 Months $32,268.00 The Europe on Track project aims to involve Europes youth in the upcoming
Interdisciplinary student elections, by telling them that their voice counts and is valued by decision makers.
organisations. Strives for More specifically, during one month AEGEE will send two teams of volunteers
a democratic, diverse travelling by train through 15 Member States to promote the European Parliament
and borderless Europe elections at universities and to provide students with relevant information,
enabling them to make an informed choice. Based on these interactions they will
also create a common message from the young people all over Europe for the
newly elected MEPs. The travel route will include Belgium, the Netherlands,
Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria,
Romania, Croatia, Italy, Spain, and France. During these tours the volunteers will
also engage with people via street actions, flash mobs, panel discussions,
workshops, interviews, information booths, and face to face meetings. AEGEE
already has experience with projects on engaging first time voters in the European
Parliamentary elections, as it ran a campaign in the run up to the 2009 elections. In
addition, last year AEGEE ran the first edition of Europe on Track, a project in
which six ambassadors travelled almost 10,000 km by train in one month, directly
engaging with more than 400 young people. Building on the lessons learned from
this project, which was awarded the first prize at the 2013 Charlemagne Youth
Prize ceremony, AEGEE now wants to implement a new edition of Europe on Track.
It should be noted that in addition to the Europe on Track project, AEGEE has
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 another project on promoting youth participation in the upcoming elections, the Y
Vote 2014 project, which includes youth conventions, bus tours, training events,
and local activities throughout Europe, as well as a special online voting guide for
young people. The Y Vote 2014 project falls under the umbrella initiatives of the
League of Young Voters, supported by OSF.
ALTER-EU Towards a European EE 12 $150,000.00 ALTER-EUs project will be building upon a pledge campaign it conducted in
Coalition of about 200 Parliament Committed to Months advance of the 2009 European Parliament elections, in which it launched a web
civil society groups, Transparency and platform that allowed more than 7,000 citizens to contact their MEP candidates
trade unions, academics Accountability asking them to commit to supporting measures to reduce the undue influence that
and public affairs firms corporations have on the EU. The campaign got 381 candidates to sign the pledge,
with 75 of those eventually being elected. The campaign for the 2014 elections will
build from the solid experience gained from the 2009 campaign, with a much more
ambitious target of 700 signatories to the pledge, and an aim to see 200 of those
being elected. That number would constitute a little over 25% of the Parliament
and would help to create the critical mass necessary to get further reforms on
lobbying transparency and conflicts of interest past existing logjams. The campaign
will encourage citizens to call on candidates to formally pledge to improve EU
accountability by introducing robust lobby transparency rules and limiting undue
influence once elected. A user-friendlly website will highlight MEP candidates that
have (or have not) agreed to the pledge, thus demonstrating that there is a choice
to be made between those candidates who have committed themselves to
transparency, accountability and the public interest and those who have not.
DEMOS Mobilising the vote through EE 9 Months $129,484.00 This project aims to make social media tools available to civil society organizations
Britain cross-party social media in 2014 throughout Europe, so that they can mobilize people more effectively to vote in the
think-tank. European elections in May 2014. In order to do so, Demos will start by trying to
better understand citizens concerns and attitudes in respect of the upcoming
elections, as this will allow for better crafted messages, which can really challenge
the frames and associations that prevent people from voting. Additionally, it aims
to produce tools and techniques, like open source software that could be used to
analyse real time Twitter data, in order to allow campaigners to increase turnout of
target groups. These tools will be made available online free of charge.
Furthermore, Demos wants to train advocates and civil society groups interested in
civic and political participation through a series of two-day face-to-face workshops
in France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK, to ensure that
campaigners in these countries really know how to use these techniques and tools
for the 2014 election. At the end of the project Demos will also launch a publication
setting out the project results, as well as some lessons learned and
recommendations for other groups. It will also analyze the turnout for the 2014
European elections and estimate the impact it has achieved.
EUobserver.com Open EU 2014 EE 5 Months $130,992.00 This project is about using professional news reporting to foster debate on how
not-for-profit open society values are under stress in the run up to the European elections.
organisation, online Topics will include the rise of hate speech by Europes far right, the increased use
news media covering EU of intolerant rhetoric and policies by mainstream politicians, as well as the rise in
political affairs. hate crime on the streets of Europe. EUobserver will recruit experienced, local
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 language and English-proficient journalists to visit campaign events, conduct
interviews and solicit high-level op-eds in 16 countries. By going local in these
European countries, EUobserver will be able to point out worrying cross-border
trends, rather than merely reporting on isolated incidents. The plan is to publish a
total of 128 articles in the period from February to May 2014.
European Alternatives Vote for the voiceless: EE 6 Months $50,000.00 The main objective of this transnational project covering 18 EU Member States is to
Italian branch Amplifying the voices of the amplify the voices of those far from the center of EU power, including those in
Civil society organisation powerless vulnerable situations, such as migrants and youth, as well as those who are
devoted to exploring the politically active locally but currently unaware of the European dimension of their
potential for work. They will therefore try to reach citizens who are less likely to actively take
transnational politics part in the European Parliament elections, particularly young people, through six
and culture. transnational caravan tours, election parties, a dedicated website
(voiceofthevoiceless.eu), video interviews, and an online communication campaign
which uses humor and satire. The project has a strong activists and community-
based nature, thanks to the collaboration with local NGOs, stakeholders, activists,
and volunteers. It builds on the experience of European Alternatives in running
participatory citizens panels across Europe for the last three years and developing
a Citizens Manifesto for the elections, which will be added to this project and
presented in the series of planned meetings and their online communication.
Finance Watch AISBL Changing the Rules of EE 6 months $175,576.00 Finance Watch will shift its attention during the EP elections and formation of the
Independent non-profit Finance in Europe is new European Commission away from the EU institutions, to engaging with the
Members association to Essential for Democracy public to build a stronger popular support base for reforms that can reign in the
act as a public interest finance sector. The project of Finance Watch has four main activities: 1. Adapting
counterweight to the Finance Watchs policy analysis material for a wider audience through animated
powerful financial lobby. videos, infographics, and cartoons; 2. Engaging its members, which include
consumer groups, trade unions, housing associations, and advocacy NGOs, to adapt
and spread Finance Watchs material to their own constituencies; 3. Lobbying MEP
candidates and prospective European Commissioners directly and through calls for
action to the general public to make financial reform a key priority for the
upcoming Parliament; 4. Ensure that media coverage of the EU elections reflects
Finance Watchs priority of making finance serve society. The target countries for
this project are Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium where Finance
Watch plans to engage more deeply with its members to try to turn support for
structural financial sector reform into real political capital. By taking its existing
analysis and creating a variety of products, such as cartoons, infographics,
visualizations, and videos, Finance Watch hopes to spur more members of the
public to demand that candidates for the European Parliament do not cow to
industry demands to undermine meaningful banking and financial sector reform.
Together with its members in each of the four target countries, Finance Watch will
create local coordination teams made up of members and other committed
individuals from Finance Watchs extended support circle to spread its materials
through social networks and organize large public events in each capital city. The
ultimate goal of the project is twofold: to get European citizens in four of the
countries most central to banking and financial sector reform to take an interest in
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 the European elections, and second to alert the political class in these countries
that their positions on finance sector reform are important to voters.
ILGA-Europe European elections 2014: EE 6 months $68,000.00 This project, which ILGA-Europe will develop in cooperation with the European
Equality of lesbian, gay, Cross-communities Network Against Racism (ENAR), will develop campaign initiatives and advocacy
bisexual, trans and mobilisation project for a tools, aiming to make both European political parties and individual candidates to
intersex people and their universal and indivisible commit to a universal, indivisible, and cross-communities equality policy agenda.
liberation from all forms EU equality agenda In addition to monitoring and advocacy work during the election campaign, ILGA-
of discrimination. Europe and ENAR will engage with the newly elected MEPs to help shape the policy
work plan of the future European Parliament.The project will include advocacy and
communication activities, including a public event, to engage with political parties
and candidates and obtain commitments on a universal and indivisible equality
and human rights policy agenda from 2014 to 2019. In parallel, support to ILGA-
Europe and ENAR member organisations cross-borders and cross-communities
campaign initiatives will be provided in the form of campaign materials
(translation of campaign documents and elaboration of campaign videos) and
thanks to a re-granting scheme for joint campaign initiatives (events, twinning,
exchanges of practices and of participations). Eventually, at the end of the
campaign and in June, the monitoring and advocacy components of the project will
allow ILGA-Europe and ENAR to capitalise on parties and candidates campaign
commitments by follow-up engagement in the context of the preparation of the
Parliaments role in the appointment of the new Commission and the definition of
its policy work plan.
International Alert Platform for Voice EE 7 months $49,930.00 International Alert and its project partners, Symbiosis and MVVN, will organize
peacebuilding local forums bringing together people from minority groups in the UK, Greece, and
organisation the Netherlands in order to identify key messages to combat sexist, racist and
xenophobic speech of candidates who are seeking (re)election in 2014. By sending
out these messages, which will be backed up by facts and statistics, through a
variety of different channels (and with the help of communication experts) they
aim to provide a platform to give voice to people who are marginalized from the
center of power, making their voices finally heard. The project partners will obtain
agreement on the key messages from participants via the online forum/platform
they will be establishing. After each forum has identified messages in draft form
the partners will, with assistance from communications experts, further develop
them and invite participants via the online forum to comment on them before
finalizing them. These key messages will then be spread through networks and
groups, as well as social media and regular media, aiming to combat sexist, racist
and xenophobic speech by those seeking (re)election in 2014. The project partners
will also monitor and micro target candidates and parties who use xenophobic
speech and send messages to their potential opponents.
Political Capital Institute Defining the stakes of the EE 10 $95,228.00 The project aims to make EU citizens aware of the significance of the upcoming
Policy research and EP elections months elections and to expose the activities of the far-right political forces, through a
consulting institute series of communication products, including a catalogue on ethnocentric, far-right,
and anti-EU parties, in-depth analyses on the elections, infographics, and videos.
The goal is contributing to the political mobilization of the pro-EU voters via public
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 analyses, by two interconnected tools: a) emphasising the stake of EP-elections and
the importance of EP as a political body and by b) alarming with the expansion of
the ethnocentric far-right and euroreject political forces.
Votewatch Reaching out to voters EE 8 Months $148,500.00 VoteWatch will make a VAA available in all 28 EU countries, but rather than
Independent ahead of the 2014 looking at election promises expressed by the various candidates, this VAA, called
organisation set up to European Parliament RecordMatch 2014, is based on the actual voting records of MEPs, national party
promote better debates elections (phase 2) delegations, and European party groups since the last European elections in 2009.
and greater This is particularly interesting, as actual voting records can offer a more accurate
transparency in EU indication of what voters can expect from political parties or individual candidates
decision-making than when looking merely at election promises. By voting on a set of 15-20 key
issues which MEPs have also voted on, website users can see to what extent the
voting record of MEPs matches their own policy preferences. New candidates will
be given the option of creating a profile based on the same set of 15 issues. The
VoteWatch VAA will be available in all 24 official EU languages, but its content will
be the same in all countries.

Grants awarded in 2014

Rand Europe Communicating the XF 4 months USD 23,625 The purpose is to support communication and dissemination activities in order to
not-for-profit research findings of the "Intolerance increase the reach and impact of a recently concluded research project on
(ongoing)
institute focused on in Western Europe" project intolerance in Western Europe, supported by OSIFE. The key message of the study
policy is that intolerance is not a uniform and monolithic phenomenon; trends in
Also with the support of intolerance vary substantially when broken down per country, time period and
Open Society European target group; and economic, demographic, socio-political and cultural factors are
Policy Institute (OSEPI) all associated with intolerance.
The objective is to disseminate the findings to a range of stakeholders, building on
and in many cases tailoring several briefings, in order to challenge the narrative
that intolerance is a monolithic phenomenon and to stimulate a set of policy
considerations for those seeking to tackle it. To achieve these objectives, RAND
Europe, in collaboration with OSEPI and a national think tank, will organize three
public events in EU member states, including the Netherlands.
Tactical Technology Visualisation for Advocacy: XF 3 months USD 13,853 The purpose of this grant is to support the visualization of the key findings of a
Collective Foundation Intolerance in Western report on intolerance in Western Europe, supported by OSIFE. This visual, which
(ongoing)
NGO supporting rights Europe will clearly present the complex messages of the report to policy makers, media,
advocates through IT funders and civil society organizations and challenge views and assumptions on
and communication Also with the support of trends in intolerance and factors which are associated with it, will serve as a
empowerment Open Society European reference point for the audience to inform their policy and funding decisions.
Policy Institute (OSEPI)

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