CERV – Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children – 2025

Objectives

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, 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: To tackle large-scale and long-term actions on gender-based violence, with regranting (providing financial support to third-party Civil Society Organisations)
• Priority 2: To carry out targeted actions for the protection of and support for victims and survivors of gender-based violence and domestic violence
• Priority 3: To carry out targeted actions for the prevention of gender-based violence, including cyber violence
• Priority 4: To carry out targeted actions making integrated child protection systems work
  in practice

Among financed actions

Eligibility

• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: countries associated to the CERV Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (Click here)
• 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

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action:
  • Priority 1: between 24 and 36 months
  • Priorities 2 to 4: between 12 and 24 months
• Contact: EC-CERVCALLS@ec.europa.e

Useful

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

• Total budget of the call: 23 million euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • Priority 1: between 1.000.000 and 3.000.000 euro
  • Priorities 2 and 3: minimum 100.000 euro
  • Priority 4: between 100.000, and 1.000.000 euro
• Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs