Increasing Public Resilience to disinformation and EU positive awareness (INCRES)
The “Increasing public resilience to disinformation and EU positive awareness” (INCRES) project is aimed at raising public awareness of, understanding of, and support for European integration among the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, with the focus on critical or misinformed audiences.
INCRES aims to achieve the following three objectives:
- To empower civil society to be effective in enacting positive change and democratic reforms in the Republic of Moldova.
- To enable civil society to effectively enhance cohesion around EU accession, increase public awareness, and reduce the consequences of polarisation and disinformation.
- To enhance multi-stakeholder cooperation and exchange through civil society platforms and networks.
Aspiring to EU integration, civic actors from the Republic of Moldova need to connect with peers from other countries in the region, especially from the EU, to access expertise on promoting societal cohesion around EU integration. Equally important, civic actors in the Republic of Moldova need to exchange with peers from the Eastern Partnership countries that face similar hybrid threats from Russia. INCRES is designed to respond to these needs of civil society, ensuring financial support through its grantmaking component and offering access to broader regional networks and advocacy support. INCRES will create synergies with several ongoing programs that are currently implemented by TF and co-funded by the EU in the Republic of Moldova. These strengthen societal resilience against electoral malpractices (ProElect) and organizational resilience through capacity-building programs (ERICS-EAP). INCRES adds financial support to different civil society actors (such as networks, civil society organizations, informal civic actors) in order to effectively counter disinformation and propaganda as well as to promote societal cohesion around EU integration.
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