The available call budget is EUR 20 mio.
This call will fund projects preventing and addressing antisemitism as well as fostering Jewish life in line with the 2021 EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. The objective of the call is further to support a comprehensive and intersectional approach, funding specific actions to prevent and fight against other forms of discrimination and combat intolerance, racism and xenophobia, in particular on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity. Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
With this aim, the following priorities will be financed:
1. Fighting against discrimination and combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, including antigypsyism, anti-black racism, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred;
- Actions supported include raising awareness of the phenomenon and its impact, supporting victims of antisemitism, improving the sex-disaggregated collection of antisemitic incidents data, encouraging reporting of such incidents, combating antisemitism in employment, education and sports, raising public awareness about the diversity of Jewish life and culture, and strengthening resilience of Jewish communities against discrimination and intolerance.
2. Promoting diversity management and inclusion at the workplace, both in the public and private sector;
3. Fighting discrimination against LGBTIQ people and promoting LGBTIQ equality through the implementation of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy;
4. Call for public authorities to improve their responses to (intersectional) discrimination, racism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia, LGBTIQ-phobia and all other forms of intolerance
- This priority is restricted to public authorities and bodies at national, regional and local level as lead applicant. It should help them develop and implement national action plans to combat racism, xenophobia, LGBTIQ-phobia and all other forms of intolerance, and to develop and implement national strategies against antisemitism.
- Activities could include : issuing action plans or strategies; training law enforcement officials and/or authorities at national, regional or local level; improving recording and equality data collection practices in Member States, in particular building on the work of the Subgroup on equality data and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights work on equality data; improving gender-sensitive support for victims of (intersectional) discrimination, in particular on the basis of racial or ethnic origin, religion or colour, antisemitism, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics, at national, regional or local level; addressing underreporting; building trust between communities and public authorities.
Important eligibility criteria are:
- Minimum request of 100.000 € per proposal;
- Minimum consortium of two organisations (no single applicants);
- Need to be based in EU (still no associated country);
- 90% co-financing by the European Commission;
- Priority 4 reserved for public authorities as coordinator (NOT universities, CSOs, etc.);
Deadline for submission: 20 June 2023 at 17:00 (Brussels time)
