INTERNAL SECURITY FUND (ISF) – Call for proposals on the community engagement and empowerment programme (CEEP) – 2026

Objectives

• To prevent and counter the spread of violent extremist content online by strengthening the capacity of civil-society actors in the EU
• To empower youth, civil society organisations (CSOs), educators, and community leaders to build resilience against extremist recruitment, propaganda and harmful online influence

Priorities

• Priority 1: strengthening the ability of individuals and communities to critically assess and resist extremist content online
• Priority 2: reinforcing social cohesion, trust, and early prevention capacities within communities to reduce susceptibility to radicalising dynamics
• Priority 3: addressing threats linked to jihadist, violent rightwing, violent left-wing, and cross-cutting extremist narratives
• Priority 4: enabling young people to act as credible messengers, strengthen peer-to-peer prevention, and promote positive alternatives to extremist narratives
• Priority 5: ensuring that projects are designed with, not only for, youth, parents, educators, and affected communities

Among financed actions

• Training
• Development of e-learning modules
• Reports

Eligibility

• Be legal entities:
  • public bodies or, by the competent authority’s mandate, a public or non-public implementing agency or body of a Member State participating in the ISF
  • non-profit-making public/private entities
  • profit-making entities
  • international organisations
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), excluding Denmark
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal
• A consortium composed of minimum 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different EU Member States, among which at least two should be civil society organisations from at least two different EU Member States.e must be constituted
• The following entities can NOT apply as coordinator:
  • profit making entities
  • international organisations

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: HOME-ISF@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 5 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 1.000.000 and 1.500.000 euros
• Funding rate: 90% of the total eligible costs