CERV – Annual operating grants 2026 to support EU level Networks active in the area: “Rights of persons with disabilities” – 2025

Objectives

• To promote, protect and monitor the rights of persons with disabilities by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level
• To contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (ESRPD) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
• To support the Commission in putting the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 into practice
• To organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the ESRPD and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe;
• To build a stronger social Europe and ensure that people with disabilities can fully enjoy their rights

Priorities

• Priority 1: To contribute concretely and directly to the implementation of the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (ESRPD), with a particular focus on national and local level
• Priority 2: To organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the Strategy and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe
• Priority 3: To strengthen the capacity of national member organisations to enable them to actively contribute to the Strategy implementation
• Priority 4: To provide concrete support to the European Semester process (at EU and national levels)

Among financed actions

• Commitments
• Mainstreaming
• Awareness
• Capacity-building
• Peer-learning
• Dissemination
• Cooperation

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be a non-governmental, non-profit-making, and independent of industry, commercial and business or other conflicting interests
• Have national member organisations in at least fourteen (14) Member States of the European Union
• 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 (Click here)
• Only applications by single applicants are allowed

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 12 months
• Contact: EC-CERV-CALLS@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: 7.700.000 euros
• Amount of the grant: between 100.000 euros and 1.500.000 euros
• Funding rate: up to 85% of the total eligible costs