EaP Civil Society Fellowship – Civic Digital Fellowship (2026 Call)

The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility Project is pleased to announce the first Call for Applications for its 2026 EU-funded Fellowship programme!

This Call for Civil Society Fellows is open to all citizens of the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) regardless of their current location. The submission of Concept Notes must be made online by 30th December 2025.

Apply for a Civic Digital Fellowship if you plan to do any of the activities below:

• Advocacy campaigns on issues such as open data, data quality, e-services for citizens, and budgetary transparency
• Improving the quality of data (such as making existing public data machine-readable or generating and publishing open and reusable data needed for further development of digital solutions for transparency and accountability in the region).
• Developing new digital solutions addressing community needs, helping citizens better hold governments to account, contributing to the improvement of public services, and/or improving CSO accountability.
• Promoting / rolling out and expanding the existing civic tech solutions that address community needs, help citizens better hold governments to account, contribute to the improvement of public services and/or CSO accountability, and building the relevant skills of the potential users

• Must be 18+ and citizen of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, or Ukraine
• Strong project idea in community engagement
• Working knowledge of English
• The first step in the application process is the submission of your Fellowship Concept Note. Applicants with Concept Notes who meet the required evaluation criteria will be invited to make a Full Application.
• Join the ‘live’ information webinar on how to make a Fellowship application on November 26, 2025. UPD: recording of the webinar is now available: check it on our e-Learning Hub or scroll down to see the video.
• IMPORTANT: Submitted Concept Forms are assessed on a rolling basis, so the sooner applicants make a submission the quicker they will find out if they can move on to the Full Application stage!
• Please remember that this is a 2-stage application process. At stage 1 you apply with a short Concept Note. Those who successfully pass it will be invited to submit Full Applications under Stage 2. Closing date for receipt of Full Applications for the 2026 Fellowships will be on February 15, 2026.
• 2026 Fellowships are expected to be awarded and start implementation in April 2026.