Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Funding through CERV programme aims at protecting rights and values enshrined in the EU treaties in order to sustain open, democratic and inclusive societies.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
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 referred to in points (1) and (2), 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.
Detailed Call Description
Policy initiatives supported:
- EU Gender Equality Strategy,
- EU strategy on the rights of the child,
- EU Strategy on victims’ rights,
- The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) to which the EU has acceded as of 1 October 2023,
- Proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence,
- Victim’s Rights Directive,
- Upcoming Recommendation on harmful practices (planned for the first half of 2024),
- Upcoming Recommendation on integrated child protection systems in the EU (planned for the first half of 2024)
- LGBTIQ Strategy,
- EU Anti-racism action plan 2020-2025,
- EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality,
- Participation and Inclusion (2020-2030).
1. Large-scale and long-term transnational actions on tackling gender based violence
In line with the Gender Equality Strategy, this priority aims to support the development of large-scale, integrated actions to combat gender-based violence and achieve long-term and structural changes with a wide geographical coverage.
To do this, a number of transnational proposals will be selected, each focusing on one of the areas set out below:
- domestic violence
- harmful practices
- gender-based cyber violence
- violence and harassment in the world of work
- gender stereotypes
Indicative funding available for this priority: €11.000.000.
Projects have to be transnational.
2. Targeted actions for the protection of and support for victims and survivors of gender-based violence
This priority will focus on the protection of and support for victims of gender-based violence, including children.
Indicative funding available for this priority: €4.800.000.
Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
3. Targeted actions for the prevention of gender-based violence, in the domestic sphere, in intimate relationships, and online, including through targeted actions with perpetrators
Indicative funding available for this priority: €5.000.000.
Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
4. Targeted actions making integrated child protection systems work in practice
The overall aim of this priority is to contribute to systemic changes to prevention, protection and support to children in cases of violence through integrated child protection systems, i.e. through multi-disciplinary cooperation between relevant cross-border/national/regional/local authorities and education, child protection, judicial authorities, psychosocial support and social services, health care professionals, care professionals and educators, among others, responding to children’s needs.
Indicative funding available for this priority: €4.000.000.
Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to range:
- For Priority 1 – the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than €1.000.000 and higher than €2.500.000.
- For Priority 2, 3 and 4 – the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than €100.000 and higher than €1.000.000.
The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.
The grant will be a lump sum grant. This means that it will reimburse a fixed amount, based on a lump sum or financing not linked to costs.
Thematic Categories
- Public Administration
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- 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 (list of participating countries)
- other eligibility conditions:
To be eligible under the first priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
- Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations, or international organisations;
- the project has to be transnational;
- the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner from 2 different eligible countries, not being affiliated entity or associated partner);
- the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than €1.000.000 and higher than €2.500.000.
To be eligible under the second, third and fourth priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
- Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented cannot submit applications as lead applicants, but only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations, or international organisations;
- the project can be either national or transnational;
- the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner not being affiliated entity or associated partner);
- the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than €100.000 and higher than €1.000.000.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Organization for European Programmes and Cultural Relations
Head of CERV Contact Point
Nenad Bogdanovic
Email: nb@epcr.org.cy
Website: www.epcr.org.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact EC-CERV-CALLS@ec.europa.eu