CERV - Fighting against discrimination and racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, including antigypsyism, anti-black, and anti-Asian racism

Deadline :
October 23, 2025 5:00 PM

Brussels time

Project Duration:
Projects must range between 12 and 24 months
Funding available:
EUR 13 200 000
Partners required:
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants. Consortium coordinator and partners can be either based in the same eligible country (national project) or come from different eligible countries (transnational project).

Funding programme

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) is the EU's funding programme for citizens' engagement and the implementation of EU rights and values.

Call overview

This call supports holistic and intersectional responses5to discrimination and intolerance

Objectives

This priority supports holistic and intersectional responses to discrimination and intolerance in particular on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, colour and religion aswell as to racism and xenophobia, antigypsyism intolerance, including their manifestations on the ground. Such responses should aim to build trust between individuals, communities and national authorities.

The priority will support projects that help to effectively implement:

- the EU Anti-racism action plan

- the Racial Equality Directive

- the EU Roma strategic framework

See more details in the call document.

Activities that can be funded

- Multisectoral cooperation between civil society organisations, public and private organisations and local authorities to address systemic and structural racism in areas related to access to quality housing, employment (i.a. skills, vocational training.) and social inclusion (fight against poverty, etc.).

See more details in the call document.

Eligibility

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).

Consortium composition

For all call priorities, proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities): i.e. one coordinator and at least one partner. Consortium coordinator and partners can be either based in the same eligible country(national project) or come from different eligible countries (transnational project).

Project duration

Projects must range between 12 and 24 months

Budget

EUR 13 200 000

Project budgets (requested grant amount) are expected to range between EUR 150 000and EUR 750 000

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Deadline :
October 23, 2025 5:00 PM

Brussels time

Project Duration:
Projects must range between 12 and 24 months
Funding available:
EUR 13 200 000
Partners required:
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants. Consortium coordinator and partners can be either based in the same eligible country (national project) or come from different eligible countries (transnational project).