CERV – Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children – 2024

Objective

• To fight violence, including gender-based violence and violence against children by:
  • Preventing and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls in all their diversity and domestic violence, including by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
  • Preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people and other groups at risk, such as LGBTQI persons and persons with disabilities
  • Supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of the forms of violence referred to in points (1) and (2), such as the victims of domestic violence perpetrated within the family or within intimate relationships, including children orphaned as a result of domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence

Priorities

• Priority 1: Large-scale and long-term transnational actions on tackling genderbased violence
• Priority 2: Targeted actions for the protection of and support for victims and survivors of gender-based violence
• Priority 3: Targeted actions for the prevention of gender-based violence, in the domestic sphere, in intimate relationships, and online, including through targeted actions with perpetrators
• Priority 4: Targeted actions making integrated child protection systems work in practice

Among financed actions

• Development of tools to help recognise and address early signs of domestic violence and violence against children
• Awareness-raising, including social media or press campaigns, outreach and empowerment activities, including communication activities and dissemination of information
• Capacity building and training for professionals and relevant stakeholders, in particular train-the-trainer programmes, training activities of national, regional and local authorities;
• Design and implementation of strategies, protocols, development of transferable working methods and tools, coordination platforms and groups
• Design of services and measures improving access to victim support services
• Identification and exchange of good practices, cooperation, mutual learning, development of working and learning methods, including transferable mentoring programmes
• Development of guidelines and manuals for specialised support services (e.g. in the work place, schools, universities, online)

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action:
  • For Priority 1: between 24 and 36 months
  • For Priorities 2 to 4: between 12 and 24 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be a non-profit making entity
• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

• Total budget of the call: 24.800.000 euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • For Priority 1: between 1 million and 2.5 million euro
  • For the other priorities: between 100.000 and 1 million euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs