CERV – Call for proposals for 3-year framework partnership agreements to support European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level and European think tanks in the areas of Union values – 2025

Objectives

• To protect, promote and raise awareness of rights, as laid down in the EU Treaties, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in the applicable international human rights conventions by providing financial support to European networks, civil society organisations active at EU level, and European think tanks in promoting and cultivating those rights
• To strengthen the protection and promotion of Union values including respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency as well as good governance
• To support the strive for a Union where there is no place for hate, racism, discrimination or violence in any of its forms

Priorities

• Priority 1: To promote and to protect Union values
• Priority 2: To promote equality, to prevent and to combat discrimination
• Priority 3: To promote gender equality
• Priority 4: To prevent and to combat gender-based violence
• Priority 5: To protect and to promote the rights of the child
• Priority 6: To prevent and to combat violence against children
• Priority 7: To combat racism, xenophobia and all forms of intolerance
• Priority 8: To promote citizens’ engagement
• Priority 9: To promote European remembrance

Among financed actions

• Policy analysis and advice
• Advocacy
• Citizens’ education at different levels and age groups
• Capacity building
• For European networks: network activities, network development, and procedural improvements to increase clarity, transparency, respect of EU values, and equal treatment
• Mutual learning, training, and exchange of good practices
• Awareness raising
• Critical thinking and media literacy activities (including pre-bunking) to fight hate speech and disinformation, information manipulation and foreign interference
• Citizens’ (including children) engagement activities inspired by methods of participatory and representative democracy
• Information and dissemination activities with EU added value

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be a non-profit making entity
• Be established in an EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
• Be a European network, or a civil society organisation active at EU level, or a European think tank
• Be a single applicant; in case of European networks: only the network may submit an application; the member organisations are not eligible to apply
• Only applications by single applicants are allowed

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 36 months
• Contact: EACEA-CERV@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: the budget will be allocated via specific calls to the selected framework partners
• Amount of the grant: up to 60.000 euro