Call for Applications: ENCATE Bilateral Exchange Program

ENCATE Bilateral Exchange Program – Now open for applications in cooperation with IHRA

After a successful launch in 2024, the ENCATE Bilateral Exchange Program returns for its third round in collaboration with International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The program funds self-organized residency activities, in which a participant spends four to five days in a host organization.

September 19, 2025 – After a successful launch in 2024, the ENCATE Bilateral Exchange Program returns for its third round to foster deeper knowledge exchange and collaboration. The program funds self-organized residency activities, in which a participant spends four to five days in a host organization.

These exchanges facilitate knowledge transfer and experience sharing between sending and host organizations to effectively counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of discrimination as well as strengthen democracy and human rights.

As a result, sending and host organizations critically reflect on their work, translate their knowledge and skills into transferable methods, and develop new partnerships. In the third round, in cooperation with IHRA, ENCATE plans to support up to six exchange activities (the mobility of up to six participants).

In this third round, the exchanges should also include a focus on the effective implementation and use of the following IHRA resources:

– Resource 1: IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era

– Resource 2: The IHRA-UNESCO Capacity Building Training against Holocaust distortion.

Application Deadline

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2025, 10 am (CET).

Exchange Activities

Bilateral exchange activities last four to five full days, excluding travel time. Activities should take place between November 1, 2025, and April 30, 2026, and may focus on either direction of knowledge and experience transfer or a combination of both:

The participant can gain firsthand experience of the organization’s approaches, methods, programs, and local context.
The host organization can develop its approaches, methods, programs and new projects with the help of the sending organization, and the guest expert’s intensive contribution.

The schedule may include off-site meetings and visits if relevant to the program’s objectives. Furthermore, the activity schedule should include a form of contribution by the participants to their host organizations through input, such as holding a seminar or making a presentation about their work or areas of expertise.

The schedule must include:

Knowledge and experience transfer
Input by the participant
Session(s) focusing on the implementation, adaptation, and/or dissemination of either of the above-mentioned IHRA resources.

The schedule can also include:

Relevant site visits (other NGOs, memorial sites, etc.)
Meetings with NGOs, community members, officials and other stakeholders
Public events
Participation in educational or other programmatic activities (e.g., school workshops)
Development of joint projects.

The host organization will assign one supervisor for the exchange activity, who will be responsible for planning and conducting the activity and will ensure that the activity reaches the program goals. The work of the supervisor will be compensated (See Costs and Logitics).

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Requirements

The exchange activity should involve one ENCATE or IHRA member organization (either an IHRA delegate or belonging to an IHRA delegate’s institution) as a host or sending organization and should take place in an IHRA country (Member, Liaison, or Observer)
Participants must make use of one of the IHRA resources mentioned above.
The exchange activity should seek to either
- safeguard the record of the genocide of the Roma, or counter distortion of the genocide of the Roma (using Resource 1), or
- counter distortion of the Holocaust (Resource 2).
The exchange activity should set at least one specific goal of transferring/sharing a methodology, knowledge, and approach in which the host or sending organization has substantial experience.
As a follow-up, participants are expected to share the results of the exchange with IHRA delegates and ENCATE members.
An organization can apply for multiple exchange activities, but must submit separate application forms for each stay.
Parties to the selected exchange activities should be willing to sign an agreement with KIgA e.V. that includes responsibilities such as logistics, confidentiality, safeguarding, liability, and reporting.

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Application and Selection

Both the host and sending organization must jointly prepare the application.
The application form should clearly define the dates, the schedule, and the participants.
After an initial technical evaluation by KIgA e.V., the ENCATE Steering Committee will make a selection from the eligible applications.
Countries with fewer educational programs tackling antisemitism and discrimination will be prioritized.

If you need more information:

If you have additional questions, please join the Info Zoom call:

Info Call 1 : October 6, 14:00 CEST / 13:00 BST / 08:00 EDT
Info Call 2: October 13, 14:00 CEST / 13:00 BST / 08:00 EDT

Application Form

Costs and Logistics

Please note that ENCATE will reimburse all of the costs based on the guidelines and limitations provided below.

	Travel	Accommodation	Subsistence	Honorary Fee
Who is responsible for organizing?	Sending Organization or Participant	Sending Organization or Participant	Participant	A supervisor or Host Organization receives the compensation
Eligible costs	Actual intercity economic flight/rail/bus costs	Actual accommodation costs	Per diem to cover participant’s food, local transportation and other costs	Full activity days x 150 Euro
Upper limit of reimbursement by ENCATE	Within Europe: Actual costs up to EC unit costs Calculator & max. costs (Table 2) For overseas exchanges: Actual costs up to 1000 Euro	Up to 5 nights Within Europe: Actual costs up to EC unit costs: See 5.5 Amounts for accommodation and subsistence costs (page 37). For overseas exchanges: Actual costs up to 150 Euro per night	Up to 5 days Within Europe: Actual costs up to EC unit costs: See 5.5 Amounts for accommodation and subsistence costs (page 37). For Oversea exchanges: Actual costs up to 100 Euro per night	Up to 5 days In total max. 750 €
	Calculator & max. costs (Table 2)	5.5 Amounts for accommodation and subsistence costs (page 37).	5.5 Amounts for accommodation and subsistence costs (page 37)

/ Expenses will be reimbursed after activity reports are properly submitted and proof of expenses is delivered.

/ Participants are required to have or secure travel and liability insurance. Please be advised that KIgA e.V. and its partners cannot accept any liability for any harm incurred by, or caused to, participants or participating organizations.

European Network for
Countering Antisemitism through Education
Coordinated by KIgA e.V. Berlin, Germany
Contact us: encate@kiga-berlin.org