The Facebook page of the Faculty of Social Administration, Thammasat University has posted an announcement to remind TU students that they have until 10 January 2021 to submit project concept notes for the years 2021 to 2023 to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) Southeast Asia – Hanoi Office:
Each organization can submit a maximum of two project concept notes. Projects can be but are not limited to conferences, policy studies, dialogues, workshops, trainings, awareness raising events, development of communication material, educational art work and advocacy activities.
Projects should contribute to our three components (as in the picture) and focus on specific themes.
Project duration:
Project can be implemented in 1 year, 2 years or 3 years during the period from 2021 – 2023.
The Thammasat University Library collection includes a number of books about Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), a Polish philosopher, economist, and anti-war activist who died over a century ago.
Further details about the RLS projects to be submitted:
Project value:
Single activity projects should not exceed 30,000 EUR /project/year
Multiple activity projects should not exceed 45.000 EUR/project/year
For applicants, who don’t have any experience working with RLS, we just accept 1-year project concept notes with a maximum amount of 20,000 EUR.
Requirements for applicants
State agencies, research institutes, academic institutions, and not-for profit organizations:
- Based in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand
- Have legal status for implementation of projects with above topics.
Criteria for selection:
- Relevance with our thematic focus and political background.
- Relevant experiences and capacity of applicants.
- Proven profile to address social and ecological issues in lower Mekong region.
- Engagement of political actors in the project implementation.
- Budget efficiency and effectiveness.
Application procedure and deadline:
-Interested organizations are invited to submit concept notes in one file and pdf format (maximum 02) to Mr Nguyen Tung (Nguyen.Tung@rosalux.org) and Ms Hoang Tra My, RLS Project Manager (TraMy.Hoang@rosalux.org) latest by 10.01.2021.
Details: may be found at this link.
As TU students may know, the RLS is one of six major political foundations in the Federal Republic of Germany. It works to develop alternative approaches for transforming society towards a more united and just one. With this approach, it facilitates political analysis, education, and dialogues in Germany and internationally.
RLS currently has 26 offices worldwide. In over 80 countries, it works with partners,
including state agencies, academic institutions, and civil society organizations. RLS Southeast Asia (RLS SEA) – Hanoi Office aims to contribute to ensure social, ecological and political rights for all as well as overcoming unequal power structures by promoting participatory decision making processes, political exchange and dialogue, leading to a fair distribution of wealth and resources and a healthy environment.
To materialize this goal, it focuses on three components: Component A – Social Justice, Component B – Social and Ecological Transformation, and Component C – Raising progressive Mekong voices in the ASEAN region.
RLS SEA office in Hanoi is working in five countries with a broader view into the Southeast Asia region: Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
According to its website about the call from RLS Southeast Asia – Hanoi Office for project concept notes for the period from 2021 –2023:
Each organization can submit maximum two project concept notes. Projects can be, but are not limited to conferences, policy studies, dialogues, workshops, trainings, awareness raising events, development of communication material, educational art work and advocacy activities.
Projects should contribute to our three components and focus on specific themes as below:
Component A: Social justice
In this component, we support policy makers, academics, social stakeholders and politically
underrepresented groups to conduct intensive dialogues for improving the socio-political
situation of politically underrepresented groups and workers. We focus on below themes:
Global social rights, workers’ rights, labour codes and trade unions.
Feminism and feminist perspectives
Democratic socialism and socialist market economy.
Globalization, Regionalism (Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) and their impacts on social justice and environmental justice)
Component B: Social and Ecological Transformation (SET)
We support policy makers, academics and social stakeholders to build capabilities to address social and ecological problems by applying the framework of SET to develop, implement and share concrete examples and practical approaches. In this component, we focus on climate justice, climate migration, food sovereignty, sustainable food production and consumption, alternatives to an unsustainable growth focussed economic system. E.g. concepts of degrowth.
Environmental responsive transportation system
We see Feminism and feminist perspectives as a crosscutting issue.
Component C: Raising progressive Mekong voices in the ASEAN region
We support progressive policy makers, social stakeholders and academics from the Mekong region to share their perspectives and analysis at regional and international level for developing regional solutions to challenges that are relevant across different countries and to discuss/resolve cross-border problems. In this component, we focus on:
- ASEAN and Mekong cooperation for social justice and environmental justice combined
with the topics of Component A and B
Projects can be implemented in one, two, or three year years from 2021 – 2023.
- Project value:
Single activity projects should not exceed 30,000 EUR /project/year
Multiple activity projects should not exceed 45.000 EUR/project/year
Each applicant may submit a maximum of two concept notes.
For applicants without experience working with RLS, only one year projects are accepted, with a maximum amount of 20,000 EUR.
Requirements for applicants
State agencies, research institutes, academic institutions, and not-for profit organizations:
- Based in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand
- Have legal status for implementation of projects with above topics.
Criteria for selection
- Relevance with our thematic focus and political background.
- Relevant experiences and capacity of applicants.
- Proven profile to address social and ecological issues in lower Mekong region.
- Engagement of political actors in the project implementation.
- Budget efficiency and effectiveness.
– Organizations, with shortlisted concept note, will be contacted for further discussion
(interview, writing detailed proposal) by the beginning of February 2021.
Submission and template
Proposals should be prepared with the RLS template found on its website.
Thoughts from Rosa Luxemburg
- Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
- Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
Reported in Paul Froelich, The Russian Revolution (1940)
(All images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)