CERV PROGRAMME CALLS

1. Call for proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Budget: 16 million EUR

Open for submission: 24 January 2023

Deadline to apply for funding: 25 May 2023

The Commission makes 11 million Euro available for projects building primarily civil society organisations capacity and awareness on the EU Charter of Fundmental Rights and for activities that help to ensure that the Charter is upheld.

This call has five priorities:

1. Capacity-building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

2. Promoting rights and values by empowering the civic space

3. Strategic litigation

4. Protecting EU values and rights by combating hate crime and hate speech

5. Supporting an enabling environment for the protection of whistleblowers

Specific targets are civil society organisations active in promoting and protecting the rule of law, fundamental rights and democracy as well as National Human Rights Institutions, Equality bodies, Ombuds Institutions and public authorities in parternship with civil society organisations.

2. Call for proposals to promote equality and to fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination (biennial call)

Budget: 20 million EUR

Deadline to apply for funding: 20 June 2023

Are you looking for EU funding for projects tackling racism, xenophobia, antigypsyism, antisemitism, LGBTIQ-phobia and all forms of discrimination and intolerance? Then, this is your call!

Four priorities are foreseen:

1. Fighting against discrimination and combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, including antigypsyism, anti-black racism, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred

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 restricted to public authorities and bodies (at national, regional and local level) to improve their responses to (intersectional) discrimination, racism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia, LGBTIQ-phobia and all other forms of intolerance

3. Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children: call to intermediaries (giving financial support to third-party civil society organisations) (biennial call)

Budget: 23.400 million EUR

Deadline to apply for funding: 30 April 2023

The aim of this call is to support, empower and build the capacity of independent civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in combating gender-based violence against women and girls as well as different forms of violence against children. For the 1st time, the call will finance a limited number of transnational, national or regional actors/intermediaries which will build the capacities of and re-grant (i.e. further disburse the grant) to civil society organisations (CSOs) active at local, regional, national level.

Activities should focus in particular on:

a. Providing victim support tailored to the specific needs of victims

b. Preventing violence

c. Tackling gender stereotypes as root causes of gender-based violence

d. Strengthening child protection systems

4. Calls for proposals for Networks of Towns

Budget: 6 million EUR

Open for submission: 19 January 2023

Deadline to apply for funding: 20 April 2023

The Commission makes 6 million Euro available for projects promoting exchanges between citizens of different countries. These projects will give citizens the chance to discover the diversity of the common heritage of the Union and to develop a sense of European belonging and identity. At the same time, these projects will encourage the active cooperation and exchange between towns and municipalities.

Specific focus is given to:

a. Promoting awareness and building knowledge of EU citizenship rights and associated 
European common values and common democratic standards

b. Promoting awareness and building knowledge of the 30th anniversary of the entry into 
force of the Maastricht Treaty

c. Promoting awareness, building knowledge and sharing best practice on the benefits of 
diversity as well as effective measures on how to tackle discrimination and racism at 
local level

d. Bringing citizens together to discuss actions on the climate and the environment

In addition, Networks of Towns projects may also reflect on any impact the COVID-19 pandemic may have had on life within their local communities, on the way in which their communities function and on the forms that civic participation and solidarity took under the COVID-19 crisis and how these forms could become sustainable in the future. Projects may also draw inspiration from or be related to the New European Bauhaus initiative.

JUSTICE PROGRAMME CALLS

1. Call for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters

Budget: 4.5 million EUR

Deadline to apply for funding: 20 April 2023

Do not miss funding for EU projects to promote the application of EU civil, commercial and criminal law. There are four priorities under this call: find the right one and submit your project proposal!

2. Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects on judicial training covering civil law, criminal law or fundamental rights

Budget: 4.075 million EUR

Deadline to apply for funding: 19 April 2023

Do you know that training acitivities for justice professionals coming from different EU countries are supported by the Justice programme? With your project you could help addressing their training needs in the fiels of civil law, criminal law and fundamental rights and, therefore, contribute to a better application of EU law in the Member States.

3. Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects in the fields of e-Justice, vicitms' rights and procedural rights (biennial call)

Budget: 10.100 million EUR

Open for submission: 4 May 2023

Deadline to apply for funding: 4 October 2023

This biennial call is a novelty since it merges the previous calls on e-Justice and on access to justice which are now covered by the following two priorities:

1. e-justice

2. Victims' rights and procedural rights

Are you looking for funding for projects which could facilitate effective and non-discriminatory access to justice for all (including by electronic meeans) and/or support the rights of people involved in criminal proceedings as victims or suspects/defendants? Then, this call is the right one!

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                                 IMPORTANT:

We have prepared an indicative calls planning for 2023 and 2024 for both the Justice  and CERV programmes. Please note that the budget indicated under each call is indicative and, above all for 2024 calls, is subject to the adoption of the 2024 budget by the budgetary authority.   As you will see, under both programmes, some calls for proposals are now biennial (like EQUAL and the Access to justice/e-Justice calls). This means that, for these calls, you will have only a single big opportunity to apply either in 2023 or in 2024.