Announcement of the “Civil Island” Tender

The Sziget Cultural Management Office (Sziget Office) is announcing a tender for this year’s festival taking place between August 10th 2011 and August 15th 2011. The tender is open to all non-governmental organizations active in any of the EU member countries to submit proposals for their: participation at the Sziget 2011 Festival’s “Civil Island” venue.

Proposals can be submitted by associations and foundations, which have been active and incorporated at least for one year. The mission of applicants should focus on the education, integration, prevention or solution of problems concerning the 16 to 35 age group and be executed under the special environment of the festival.

We expect to receive proposals that clearly demonstrate the applicant’s useful social activity and aim to engage and involve patrons of the festival with their activities.

The Sziget Office will provide basic technical necessities (reserved space, tent, electricity, rudimentary furniture) to selected applicants so they can execute their program on the “Civil Island” venue.

We would like to draw the applicant’s attention that to enter the festival in 2011, the Sziget Office will provide reduced-cost professional passes.

The cost of these are as follows:

* Professional daily pass:10000 HUF
* Professional weekly pass: 34000 HUF (includes camping fees)

Selected applicants also have to cover their cost of travel, accommodation, catering, as well as any materials and services needed to execute their activities.

We will give preference to to those applicants, which have an international impact and are planning to execute high quality professional activities and conduct their activities in multiple languages. Further, we will give preference to applicants whose proposal is connected to the “European Year of Volunteering”.

Private individuals, government, municipal, for-profit and political organizations, as well as, music bands and artist are excluded from the application process.

The deadline to apply is the 31st of March 2011 (closing of the online application form). Results of the tender will be announced by the 30th of April 2011.

All applicants will receive feedback by e-mail. Preceding the formal agreement between the applicant and the Sziget Office about the conditions of participation, the selected applicants will be invited to personal discussions about their planned activities. The agreements will be signed at latest by the 31st of May 2011.

The Sziget Cultural Management Office reserves the right to take into consideration the proposed activities, the applicant organization’s history of successful projects, the objectives, program, possibilities and facilities of the festival.

Applicant’s proposal can only be submitted online. Since the application, and the following communication regarding the program organization is done via the Internet, the applicant is required to have at least one active regularly checked email address.