On October 26, 2026, the official grant award ceremony for the Call „Contribution of Civil Society Organisations to Local Community Development Through Microprojects“ was held at Urania – space of creation in Zagreb, under the Swiss-Croatian Cooperation Programme. On this occasion, KORAK was officially awarded the contract for the project „Strength of Ecological Local Renewal (SELO)“.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Republic of Croatia, the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, and H.E. Beatrice Schaer, Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to the Republic of Croatia. Following the ceremonial award and project presentations, an implementation workshop dedicated to microprojects took place.
The total value of the SELO project is 101,020.92 EUR, with 90,918.83 EUR secured in grant funding through the Swiss-Croatian Cooperation Programme. The project will be carried out over the next 20 months across the municipality of Gornja Rijeka in Koprivnica-Križevci County, in the settlement of Kolarec.
Through the SELO project, the local community will be actively engaged via two complementary microprojects:
- „Rising from the Ashes“ – a participatory transformation of a public green area into a living memorial space through nature-based solutions.
- „Room of Silence“ – the creation of an intimate sound installation gathering recorded stories and reflections of local residents on resilience, local history, loss, and community cohesion.
By bringing together intergenerational collaboration, volunteering, ecological restoration, and the preservation of local memory, the SELO project provides a meaningful contribution to the social and climate resilience of rural communities.
