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Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme – Call for proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – 2024

CERV – Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme aims at protecting and promoting EU rights and values and to contribute to sustaining and further developing open, rights-based, democratic, equal, and inclusive societies based on the rule of law.

2024-09-18
16 million euro
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Appeal framework

Call reference CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI
Program Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Cooperation & Development Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training EU Membership Justice, Security, Defence
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Professional organisation & network Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities

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Call reference

CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To protect, promote and raise awareness of fundamental rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights
  • To reinforce the protection and promotion of Union values and respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency and good governance

Priorities

To promote rights and values by building primarily civil society organisations capacity and awareness on the Charter and by carrying out activities to ensure that the Charter is upheld.

  • Priority 1:  To build capacity and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
    • Sub-priority 1: To promote an understanding of the rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and awareness of the Chater’s scope of application
    • Sub-priority 2: To protect fundamental rights in the digital age
  • Priority 2: To promote rights and values by empowering the civic space
  • Priority 3: To use strategic litigation
  • Priority 4: To protect EU values and rights by combating hate speech and hate crime
  • Priority 5: To support an enabling environment for the protection of whistleblowers

Among financed actions

  • Training and train-the-trainer activities for professionals
  • Mutual learning, exchange of good practices, development of working and learning methods, including mentoring programmes
  • Communication activities, including dissemination of information and awareness raising about the state of play on civic space, including towards the EU level
  • Development of synergies and protocols of cooperation
  • Analytical activities, such as data collection and research, and the creation of tools or data bases
  • Communication activities, including dissemination of information and awareness raising about rights, redress mechanisms, and strategic cases
  • Activities to ensure support to victims of hate speech and hate crime, encouraging reporting, providing practical help in seeking redress and gender-sensitive and psycho-social support
  • Activities to enhance the resilience of civil society organisations working on combating racism, antisemitism, hate speech and hate crime in all its forms, against threats and in particular cyber-attack
  • Activities to enhance the effective implementation of the national laws in force transposing the Directive on Whistleblower protection
  • Activities and tools to promote awareness raising and communication activities to increase the public’s knowledge and understanding of the national laws

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be a non-profit making entity
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • A consortium composed of at least 1 entities

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months
  • Contact: EACEACERV@ec.europa.eu

Useful

Guidelines: Click here

Other call documents: Click here

DG website: Click here

More information: Click here

Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 16 million euro
  • Total budget of the topic:
    • CERV-2024-CHARLITI-CHARTER EUR 3.1 million euro
    • CERV-2024-CHARLITI-CIVIC EUR 3 million euro
    • CERV-2024-CHARLITI-LITIGATION EUR 2.4 million euro
    • CERV-2024-CHARLITI-SPEECH EUR 5.5 million euro
    • CERV-2024-CHARLITI-WHISTLE EUR 2 million euro
  • Amount of the grant: not longer than 75.000 euro
  • Funding rate: 90% of the total eligible costs

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