Auction Sessions

Nominate the session you’d like!

Would you like to invite GEF participants to discuss any topic which is of particular interest to you? Well, you can! Meeting rooms will be available during the course of the programme for smaller discussions, debates, or roundtables on topics suggested by our participants.

How?

If you’d like to suggest a session for one of the three slots available, please read carefully and complete the session proposal form, describing the format and discussion points of the session you’d like to see, giving us your name and organisation, and e-mail the form to gef@efc.be . The deadline for applications is Friday 6 July. The Steering Committee reserves the right to refuse publishing of sessions.

The GEF Steering Committee select the final sessions, based on relevance to the “Learn. Reflect. Connect” context and relevance to the overall programme.  Successful applications will then receive further guidelines on how to construct the sessions to ensure they run smootly and effectively.

Background

The Grantmakers East Forum, formerly The Grantmakers East Group (GEG) was created in 1992 by a group of European Foundation Centre (EFC) members active in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Independent States (NIS). The group first met as a side event at the EFC Annual General Assembly (AGA) and Conference. However, as interest for the group grew, in pace with developments of grantmaking in CEE and the NIS, the GEG was developed into an independent project resulting in the Annual Meeting (AM) which takes place in a different country each year.

Nominate Sessions

Do you have something you wish to discuss with fellow grantmaking colleagues working in the east? Then why not organise a session during the GEF! Submit your proposal on auction session page.