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
Capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
The Charter Strategy underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter in the Member States, in particular through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives.
Detailed Call Description
The projects funded under this priority could address the needs on capacity building and awareness raising on the Charter in general, or they could focus on one or several of the thematics below:
Rights enshrined in the Charter and awareness of the Charter’s scope of application
In accordance with its Article 51, the Charter is applicable to Member States only when they are implementing EU law. Given the specific nature of this instrument, in comparison with other international Treaties protecting fundamental rights, and considering the increasing number of references to the Charter in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU, there is a specific need to promote a good understanding both of the rights enshrined in the Charter and of the situations in which the Charter applies, i.e. when EU law is being implemented.
Protecting fundamental rights in the digital age.
To follow up on the Annual Charter Report 2021, on fundamental rights in the digital age, the aim of the priority is to protect fundamental rights by strengthening accountability for the use of automation where rights are at stake. This includes approaches for addressing and combatting bias and multiple/intersectional discrimination based on gender and on other grounds including ethnic and racial origin, caused or intensified by the use of artificial intelligence systems. Projects will aim to develop guidelines (including measures that ensure gender-sensitive implementation), technical benchmarks and tools, including for algorithm-audits. Projects are expected to develop a concrete tool or a benchmark process in an area of the applicant’s choice with demonstrated relevance for fundamental rights, without prescribing the area or the type of the tool (e.g. it could be software, a benchmark data set, a simulation environment, a procedure).
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
The EU grant cannot be lower than €75 000. There is no limit as to the maximum grant amount.
Thematic Categories
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- 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 must be:
- For lead applicants (i.e. the “Coordinator”): non-profit legal entities (private bodies)
- For co-applicants: non-profit or profit legal entities (public or private bodies). Organisations which are profit-oriented may apply only in partnership with private non-profit organisations;
- be formally established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)).
The project can be either national or transnational.
The application may involve one or more organisations.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Organization for European Programmes and Cultural Relations
Nenad Bogdanovic
Planning and Development Coordinator, Head of CERV Contact Point
Telephone: 99589774
Email: nb@epcr.org.cy
Website: www.epcr.org.cy
(Publish Date: 10/03/2023-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Website: https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en