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
Objectives
- To promote exchanges between citizens of different countries.
- To give citizens the opportunity to discover the cultural diversity of the European Union and to make them aware that European values and cultural heritage constitute the foundation for a common future.
- To guarantee peaceful relations between Europeans and to ensure their active participation at the local level.
- To reinforce mutual understanding and friendship between European citizens.
- To encourage cooperation between municipalities and the exchange of best practices.
- To support good local governance and reinforce the role of local and regional authorities in the European integration process.
Detailed Call Description
Networks of Towns should provide towns and municipalities the possibility to deepen and intensify their cooperation and debate in a long-term perspective, to develop sustainable networks and to outline their long-term vision for the future of European integration.
While maintaining a bottom-up approach, specific focus could be given to
- Promoting awareness and building knowledge of EU citizenship rights and associated European common values and common democratic standards, ensuring the provision of information to mobile EU citizens (ie. citizens using their right of free movement in the EU to move from one EU Member State to another), including those in a precarious situation and EU citizens with a migrant background, and their family members, and encouraging the inclusion and democratic and equal participation of mobile EU citizens and under-represented groups.
- Promoting awareness and building knowledge of the 30th anniversary of the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty (1 November 2023) which introduced the concept of European Union citizenship and the adoption of electoral laws taking into account that EU citizenship;
- Promoting awareness, building knowledge and sharing best practice on the benefits of diversity, gender equality as well as effective measures on how to tackle discrimination and racism at local level;
- Bringing citizens together to discuss local actions on the climate and the environment, including energy-related issues, solidarity and sharing best practices, and thus helping to increase citizens’ engagement in society and ultimately their active involvement in the democratic life of the Union.
Networks of Towns projects may also reflect on any impact the COVID-19 pandemic may have had on life within their local communities, on the way in which their communities function and on the forms that civic participation and solidarity took under the COVID-19 crisis and how these forms could become sustainable in the future.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Page 17 of the Call document.
Thematic Categories
- Culture
- Natural and Cultural Heritage
- Public Administration
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- 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 association agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
- other eligibility conditions:
- for lead applicants ‘coordinators’ 10 and co-applicants: be non-profit making towns/municipalities and/or other levels of local authorities or their twinning committees or other non-profit organisations representing local authorities.
- activities must take place in at least two different eligible programme countries.
- the application must involve at least four applicants (lead applicant ‘coordinator’ and at least three co-applicants not being affiliated entity or associated partner) from at least four different eligible countries of which at least two are EU Member States.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 4 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities or associated partners), which complies with the following conditions:
- entities are towns/municipalities and/or other levels of local authorities, their twinning committees or other non-profit organisations representing local authorities; these must come from at least 4 different eligible countries of which at least 2 are EU Member States.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
CERV Contact Point Cyprus
Organization for European Programmes and Cultural Relations:
Website: www.epcr.org.cy
Name: Nenad Bogdanovic
Planning and Development Coordinator, Head of CERV Contact Point
Telephone: 99589774
Email: nb@epcr.org.cy
(Publish Date: 17/03/2023-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Website: https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en