The Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations (OEPCR), as the operator of the “Creative Europe Desk Cyprus”, the “CERV Cyprus National Contact Point” and as the Head of the Cypriot Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, organises an online info session of the “Call for proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CERV-2025-CHAR-LITI)”.
Date and time: Friday 4 July 2025, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Language: Greek
Platform: ZOOM (after registering)
Registration (free): https://tinyurl.com/vd2v2nr8
The online info session is open to beneficiaries of the European programmes represented by OEPCR, who intend to prepare and submit a proposal. The session is open to governmental authorities, governmental local and regional authorities, state organisations or companies, public organisations, civil society organisations, non-governmental and non-profit organisations, associations, academic and research institutions, whose work is relevant to the call’s topics, and which are based in Cyprus and Greece.
The first part of the session includes an introductory presentation of the EU Programme “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values” (CERV), followed by a presentation of the “Call for proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CERV-2025-CHAR-LITI)” which aims to promote the founding rights and values of the Union by building primarily civil society organisations’ awareness on and capacity to apply the Charter and to carry out activities to ensure that the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter are upheld.
In the second part of the session, Mrs Paschalia Leventi, Project Manager at the Center for Social Innovation Cyprus – CSI Cyprus will present the CERV-funded project “CHASE: Combatting online HAte Speech by engaging online mEdia (CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH)”, a project which is related to call’s priorities. For more information on the project, please visit the CSI Cyprus website here.
Through the presentation, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about project management and implementation methods of EU-funded projects.
Center for Social Innovation Cyprus – CSI Cyprus is a Research and Development organization, which focuses on fostering social innovation that can bring about a positive change to local, national, regional, and global entities. These entities include but are not limited to governments, local administrative agencies, non-for-profit agencies, commercial entities, and educational institutions. The CSI team is composed of open-minded, fully equipped researchers, entrepreneurs, project managers, trainers, and Information Technology specialists. CSI encompasses the capability and capacity to identify social needs, design and implement adjusted initiatives, and provide for sustainable growth. The CSI team’s areas of expertise are in the fields of traditional education and e-learning, entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation, creativity, negotiations, IP advisory services, social responsibility, business advisory solutions, data analytics, information technologies, project management, project evaluation services, product validation, training and computer gaming. CSI draws know-how and skills from its wide global network, which includes academic institutions, IT companies, public services, international organizations, start-ups, and public services.
Short description of the CHASE project
Online gender-based hate speech has catastrophic consequences, fuelling physical violence, victimisation and often leads to hate crimes. CHASE responds to the EU challenge of tackling online gender-based hate speech, which thrives on online mass media. The overall objective of CHASE is to establish and put into practice in Cyprus, Italy, Greece and France, a comprehensive mechanism for online media to effectively detect and respond to cases of online gender-based hate speech.
The workshop aims to:
- help applicants in getting a deeper understanding of the call’s priorities and objectives;
- strengthen applicants’ skills to approach the call more effectively, enhancing the competitiveness of their applications;
- assist applicants in understanding the evaluation process to improve their proposal’s success chances;
- provide applicants with information on effective project management and implementation methods;
- give applicants the opportunity to expand their network.
- Introductory presentation of the EU programme “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)”
- Presentation of the Call for proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CERV-2025-CHAR-LITI)
- Presentation of the CERV-funded project “CHASE: Combatting online HAte Speech by engaging online mEdia
- Q&A