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Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) & Central Asia

This region includes:

Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine

Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Program Officer

Chris "Jethro" Schilling

Senior Program Officer for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Central Asia

cschillingwikimedia.org

Location: Chicago, Illinois,
United States

Timezone: UTC-6/-5

Language(s) spoken: English, Japanese

I JethroBT (WMF)

Regional calendar

General Support (Wikimedia Community Fund)

Upcoming Round 2 (2022-23)

• Applicant proposal support starts: February 6, 2023
• Submission deadline: March 10, 2023
• Eligibility check: February 6 - March 10, 2023
• Application translation: March 10 - March 17, 2023
• Review process starts: March 17, 2023
• Feedback received: March 31, 2023
• Engaging with feedback: March 31 - April 21, 2023
• Decisions announced: May 11, 2023
• Agreement signed: May 5 - May 19, 2023
• First payment sent: May 19 - June 1, 2023
• Midterm report due: January 15, 2024
• Final report due: July 31, 2024
• Yearly report due for multi-year funds: August 15, 2024

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Please reach out to your Program Officer if you are interested in applying before making any application or if you need flexibility on dates.

Contact us

Rapid Fund

If you want to apply or if have any questions about the Rapid Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: ceeca_rapidwikimedia.org

General Support Fund

If you have any questions about the General Support Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: ceeca_fundwikimedia.org

Office hours

The regional program officer is available several times during the week to meet with you to answer questions, receive feedback, and provide any general support or guidance around our funding programs in the region. Please review the program officer's calendar on Google Calendar below and reserve a time that is most convenient for you:

Reserve a time for Office Hours

(Note: Reservations require you to use services independent from the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information on usage policies of Google Calendar, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy.

To support preparation needs, please provide a brief explanation about the purpose of the meeting when reserving a time. This information can alternatively be provided via e-mail (cschillingwikimediaorg).

If none of the available times works for you, please contact the program officer via e-mail with a few times that will work well for you.

Past office hours
Date Time Language Topic Link to meeting Wednesday, October 6, 2021 (First Wednesday of every month) 15:00 - 16:00 UTC English Open to all topics Google Meet link (add this event to your calendar) Wednesday, October 13, 2021 14:00 - 15:00 UTC English General Support Fund applications Google Meet link (add this event to your calendar) Monday, October 18, 2021 14:00 - 15:00 UTC English General Support Fund applications Google Meet link (add this event to your calendar) Wednesday, October 27, 2021 14:00 - 15:00 UTC English General Support Fund applications Google Meet link (add this event to your calendar) March 10th, 2022 15:00 - 16:00 UTC English Meeting open to everyone. Prioritized discussion and open questions for General Support Fund and Wikimedia Alliances Fund applications. Google Meet link March 14th, 2022 14:00 - 15:00 UTC English Meeting open to everyone. Prioritized discussion and open questions for General Support Fund and Wikimedia Alliances Fund applications. Google Meet link

Regional Committee

Current members

• Красный, August 2021 - Wikimedian since 2009, co-founder of North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group, coordinator of various projects in Wikimedia Movement
• Reda Kerbouche October 2021 -
• MikyM, October 2021 - Longtime contributor; Ten years in various wiki grant programs and committees; Financial and Business Conslultant; Social Justice and Grantmaking; International Development; Project Coordinator.
• FocalPoint, October 2021 - user and admin in el-wiki / el-wikt, contributor in Wikidata / Commons, el-wikisource, fr-wiki
• W, November 2021 - Translator for Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus since October, 2020. Editor on Belarusian Classical Wikipedia since 2010.
• Nataev, February 2022 - PhD student, amateur musician, professional translator, and longtime Wikimedian (since 2009).
• Nina1009, April 2022 -
• Justine.toms, June 2022 -

Inactive and Past Committee Members

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