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.

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Call overview

This priority supports key policy objectives set out in the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy2020-2025 and will support projects that help to effectively implement it.

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Objectives

This priority supports key policy objectives set out in the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy2020-2025 and will support projects that help to effectively implement it. The strategy includes initiatives to address intersectional discrimination and inequality experienced on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics in employment, education, health and other areas of life.

Projects should take into account the:

− Report on the Implementation of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025

− The 3rd LGBTIQ survey of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

− 2023 special Eurobarometer on discrimination in the EU

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See more details in the call document.

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Activities that can be funded

This call is looking for projects that focus on:

− addressing the challenges LGBTIQ people face in areas where they are particularly disadvantaged (e.g. education, health care, housing)

- LGBTIQ people in the most vulnerable situations, such as transgender and intersex people and those experiencing intersectional discrimination; and rainbow families.

See more details in the call document.

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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).

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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).

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Project duration

Projects must range between 12 and 24 months.

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Budget

EUR 13 200 000

Project budgets (requested grant amount) are expected to range between EUR 150 000and EUR 500 000.

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