Project on Building BOLD’s Capacity Responds to Challenges Generated by Ukraine War

Project on Building BOLD’s Capacity Responds to Challenges Generated by Ukraine War

From August 2022, BOLD (Bulgarians Organising for Liberal Democracy) is launching a year-long project “Building BOLD’s Capacity in Response to New Challenges”.

The purpose of the project is to build the capacity of BOLD (Bulgarians Organising for Liberal Democracy) for a more effective response to new challenges created by the war in Ukraine. BOLD is an innovative membership organisation for citizen participation that makes use of digital deliberative decision making to develop and communicate policy positions related to democracy. This project will empower BOLD to reset its priorities on issues resulting from the war in Ukraine as the war is a threat to democracy in Bulgaria and Europe. Through the project, BOLD will mobilise citizen support for consistent Euro-Atlantic positioning of Bulgaria in the context of the war in Ukraine; identification and resistance to disinformation; and solidarity with people inside Russia who oppose the Putin regime. The project contributes to countering current challenges including: the risks of constructing the Bulgarian “national interest” in a way that undermines the country’s Euro-Atlantic orientation; the increased disinformation; the increased Russophobia.

The project’s expected outputs are: influential policy positions and events of BOLD; regular multimedia messages including video, blogs and articles, issued by a specially trained group of fact checkers; a conference on disinformation; publication of materials authored by Russian citizens opposing the war. The beneficiaries of the project include BOLD members, other civil society organisations, and the general public.

The “Building BOLD’s Capacity in Response to New Challenges” project benefits from a €25,000 grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants. The aim of the project is to build the capacity of BOLD (Bulgarians Organising for Liberal Democracy) for a more effective response to new challenges created by the war in Ukraine.

All responsibility for the content of the publications on the project is carried by the BOLD Foundation and under no circumstances can it be assumed that they reflect the official opinion of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area and the Operator – Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria (www.activecitizensfund.bg).