CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Small Grants for Grassroots Coding Projects in Belgium & the Netherlands as part of EU Code Week
04/06/25
The EU Code Week Grants for Grassroots programme is a new initiative designed to foster digital innovation and coding education throughout Europe For more information read our recent blog post, EU Code Week Grants for Grassroots: Supporting Digital Innovation Across Europe. Please find below a call for proposals from our Code4Europe consortium partner Digitale Wolven which is open to the Code Week community in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Small Grants for Grassroots Coding Projects in Belgium and the Netherlands as part of EU Code Week
Are you ready to bring your innovative coding project to life or scale your existing initiatives? Do you want to do something around EU Code Week in the classroom? Are you going to build robots or learn to code with us? Then submit your project now and have a chance to win a grant that can support you in hosting a workshop, buying some material like robots or much more.
Code4Europe Consortium is setting up a grant system in order to foster grassroots projects, proposing activities that significantly merge the priorities of EU Code Week. Digitale Wolven invites applications for small grants to support impactful flagship activities in digital education, coding, and computational thinking.
Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this Call for Grants is to identify and support impactful grassroots coding projects aligned with EU Code Week’s mission to promote coding, computational thinking, and digital skills across Europe.
Key objectives include:
- Enabling the development of innovative and scalable coding activities.
- Supporting initiatives that integrate coding into educational contexts and foster engagement.
- Encouraging community involvement and fostering collaboration among stakeholders.
- Prioritizing projects that bridge the gender gap and promote diversity in STEM education.
Grant Details
Grants will be given to the top successful applicants. The total grant given will be a minimum of €250 and maximum €1000, depending on the project’s request and the availability of funds. The selection will be based on the quality and impact of the proposals. Proposals will be assessed based on criteria such as clarity, feasibility, educational impact, and alignment with EU Code Week’s objectives.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants include all schools with students up to the age of 18 years old in any category or system of official Belgian or Dutch education. Organizations affiliated with schools can prepare a submission, but it always has to be a school who is the legal entity submitting for the grant. Legal entities require a registration in the ‘Staatsblad’ or with the ‘Kamer van Koophandel’. As such they should have a VAT number.
Application Process
Interested organizations are invited to submit a project proposal by May 26th 2025. Applications must be submitted through https://forms.gle/NCBcQMwaK9Thyi739
Each applicant needs to present:
- A description of the project, its objectives, and expected impact.
- Details on the implementation plan, timeline, and resources required.
- Information about the applicant organization, including relevant experience.
Evaluation and Selection
A selection committee comprising community stakeholders and representatives from the Regional Hub will evaluate proposals.
Evaluation Criteria Details
Proposals will be assessed based on:
- The quality of the project and its objectives: The applicant must explain why and how the activities they propose can stimulate learning of digital skills.
- Educational impact: The applicant must explain the added value that is created by the project within the educational perspective of the target group.
- The added value of the support: The applicant must clearly explain the added value of the support and how it will be used to implement the project. The financial support received will be used exclusively for the implementation of the project.
- Implementation timetable: The project must start between September and October 2025 and run until December 2025 at latest.
Timeline
- Call for Proposals Release: June 6th 2025
- Application Deadline: August 22th 2025
- Notification of Awardees: August 29th 2025
- Project Implementation Period: Between September and December 2025
Receiving of funds
- Grant winners will receive 50% of the won grant within 30 days after the winning announcement.
- During and after the projects, following items are requested for the completion of the project and the receiving of the remaining funds:
- A report about the submitted activity which includes, but is not limited to the number of people reached, the spending of funds and the future goals
- A blog post of minimum 500 words which shall be posted on https://eucodeweek.be/blog with minimum 3 GDPR compliant pictures
- Financial report (excel met kosten over factuur en details factuur) (statuut, btw recup?) als er btw kan gerecupeerd worden, kan enkel het niet gerecupereerde deel ingebracht worden
- A detailed end report is required by January 31st 2026
- By February 28th 2026 a final assessment will be given to the project by the grant organiser
- If all previous steps were completed and approved, the final remainder of the grant will be paid out by the end of March 2026
- The activities have to be registered on www.codeweek.eu
- Internal staffing costs are not allowed to be part of the proposed budget.
- A minimum of 50% is preferably budgeted for material costs.
- Any organization can take the initiative for a EU Code Week project, however only an educational institution can be the official applicant for a grant. Other organizations and individuals can however team up with a school in the organization of such.
Contact Information
For inquiries, please contact codeweek@digitalewolven.be
Submit your application here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejaP3qxWeT8VbyqRorMv0pkKsKKECmK3xAFVnmbPkqVVYZXg/viewform
