The Education Support Program's Resourcing Education: Fund for Innovations and Networking (RE:FINE) program selected seven projects for funding at its May 20, 2006, meeting in Ljubljana. In response to its November 2005 call for proposals, the Education Support Program received a total of 43 proposals.

RE:FINE supports projects that further open society goals in the general education field in four education priority areas: equity, quality, public accountability, and anticorruption. The program provides strategic grants for networking opportunities between NGOs and other organizations that support gains already made in the education sector in order to maximize impact and enhance capacity of civil society actors in bringing about school reform.

The 2006 RE:FINE-funded projects include the following:

• translating the book Anti-Corruption Education at School from English into Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Ukrainian, Armenian, and Azeri and disseminating best practices in anticorruption education;
• developing the capacity of journalists to cover education issues;
• strengthening the network of "open schools";
• improving governance and accountability of school governing bodies;
• setting up a transnational association of English-language teachers to promote higher standards of teaching and influence policy decisions;
• developing parents' advocacy skills;
• establishing an international network of school principals committed to democratic changes in education.

For more details on the selected projects, see the RE:FINE grantee list, or download the list in PDF format from the RE:FINE homepage.