About IGLYO Grants
Launched in 2023 as a continuation of our mentorship project (2021-2022), our IGLYO Grants Programme aims to increase IGLYO’s impact by supporting our Members’ activities on the ground, as well as their work directly addressing the needs of local communities.
Every year, we provide €10k grants to three EU-based Members based on a call for applications to support grassroots and local projects on topics that are crucial for LGBTQI young people. But financial assistance is not all, we also provide expertise and support the Members all along the implementation of their projects.
The Grants Programme focuses on supporting organisations which are new, volunteer-based, and do not have easy access to funding.
Discover the selected projects in 2025, 2024 and 2023.
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This grant scheme is open only to IGLYO’s Member Organisations registered in European Union Member States and is funded by the CERV Programme 2021-2027 of the European Union.
Selected Projects 2025
We’re thrilled to announce the 5 Members who received a €10k IGLYO Grant this year through #IGLYOGrants2025 to implement a project serving their local queer youth communities:
- The Afghan LGBTIQ+ Organisation (ALO)’s project aims to create a multilingual toolkit to support LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced youth in Czechia by providing legal guidance, documenting discrimination, and advocating for policy change.
- Queerstion Media’s project’s project aims to empower BIPOC+ LGBTQI+ refugees in Sweden through healing spaces, resilience-building, and anti-racism advocacy.
- The Estonian Trans Alliance’s project aims to counter anti-gender narratives in Estonia by educating the trans community, equipping allies, and reaching cis youth with social media content.
- kolekTIRV’s project aims to improve the experiences of trans children in schools and institutions in Croatia during their social transition, ensuring they are recognised, respected, and supported before accessing legal or medical transition.
- Pink Summits’ project aims to achieve greater visibility of queer people in outdoor sports from German-speaking countries by sharing over 10 intersectional stories via a dedicated website and social media, focusing on youth, FLINTA, and BIPOC voices.
Congratulations to all 5 Members for their hard work, we’re very proud of everything they've achieved so far with their projects and are looking forward to the results later this year!
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Selected Projects 2024
In 2024, our Member Transfeminiinit (Finland) is using their IGLYO Grant to work with two trans artists to produce and distribute across the country two posters against the anti-gender movement (read more). Our Member rede ex aequo (Portugal) aims to foster an inclusive environment in schools in the current hostile political climate in Portugal through a conference, training for professionals, and online awareness campaign (read more). And our Member Trans*Parent & QTY CZ (Czech Republic) aims to enhance the organisation's accessibility to better serve the needs of autistic, neurodivergent, deaf, and disabled queer and trans youth (read more).
Selected Projects 2023
In 2023, our Member the Lithuanian Gay League (Lithuania) used their IGLYO Grant to make the Lithuanian Government aware of the direct negative impacts of the Lithuanian “Law on the Protection of Minors" on the LGBTQI students in Lithuania (read more). Our Member Szimpozion (Hungary) supported LGBTQI youth in the face of a growing hostile anti-LGBTIQ climate by organising various events and activities (read more). And our Member TransAkcija (Slovenia) used their IGLYO Grant to build a new visual identity and communications strategy to have a more powerful voice as a trans organisation in the Slovenian landscape (read more).
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