THE FRI GRANT SUPPORTS projects and activities, which PROTECT AND PROMOTe FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN DENMARK.
The grant is closed for new applications and will not have any more rounds.
The FRi Grant is part of the Fundamental Rights Initiative, a collaboration between Globalt Fokus and Nyt Europa, co-financed by the EU.
Since 2023, the FRi Grant has had three rounds and successfully allocated all designated funds, approximately DKK 13 million, through a total of 44 grants. You can find an overview of the supported projects on our joint FRi page at Nyt Europa.
Between 2023 and 2024, and across three rounds, the FRi Grant received 144 applications. At the end of 2024, the final funds from the Fundamental Rights Initiative were distributed to civil society actors in Denmark working to promote fundamental rights in Denmark.
The projects have focused on various rights-related agendas in Denmark. The FRi Grant has awarded grants to initiatives working with gender equality, activists’ rights, religious and ethnic minorities, refugees and migrants, children’s rights, fight against misinformation, climate and environment, Indigenous peoples including those from Greenland, and parents of children with disabilities.
Globalt Fokus has been responsible for managing the FRi Grant. The grant was established to financially support civil society’s work on rights, using EU funding.
At Globalt Fokus, we will carry forward the experiences from the FRi Grant into our future grant management, especially focusing on the frameworks we have created to support activist groups and smaller organizations that represent important voices and often the most vulnerable in our society. Together with Nyt Europa, we look forward to closely following the projects. We are grateful for the great interest in the grant and incredibly proud of the many important projects that the FRi Grant has supported.
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The Assessment Committee
Global Focus and Nyt Europa have established an assessment committee for the FRi Fund, consisting of representatives from large and small civil society organisations in Denmark. The assessment committee will ensure impartiality and substantiated distribution of funding.
The committee's task is to evaluate applications for the FRi Fund and make decisions on which projects receive grants. Committee members are nominated by their respective organisations and formally appointed by the steering group of Global Focus.
The assessment committee consists of:
Christoffer Ulrik Badse, Senior Consultant, Thinktank JUSTITIA
Dijana Dix Omerbasic, Manager, RED+, Red Center mod Æresrelaterede Konflikter
Ditte Bjerregaard, Director for Center for Voldsforebyggelse
Lisa Blinkenberg, Senior Political Advisor in the Field of Human Rights.
Marek Azoulay Jørgensen, Board member at danskdansk
Theis Dencker, Capacity building and learning specialist, CISU
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FRI is co funded by the EU
