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 calls aims to fund projects that will  fight violence, including gender-based violence and violence against children.

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Call details

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.

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With this call, divided into 4 priorities, the Commission aims at financing projects that will:

• 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
• protect and support victims and survivors of gender-based violence, including children
• prevent gender-based violence, in the domestic sphere, in intimate relationships, and online, including through targeted actions with perpetrators
• make integrated child protection systems work in practice

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Activities to be funded

.Activities shall include:

• Development of tools to help recognise and address early signs of domestic violence and violence against children;

• Awareness-raising, including social media or press campaigns, outreach and empowerment activities, including communication activities and dissemination of information;

• Capacity building and training for professionals and relevant stakeholders, in particular train-the-trainer programmes, training activities of national, regional and local authorities;

• Design and implementation of strategies, protocols, development of transferable working methods and tools, coordination platforms and groups;• Design of services and measures improving access to victim support services;

• Identification and exchange of good practices, cooperation, mutual learning, development of working and learning methods, including transferable mentoring programmes;

• Development of guidelines and manuals for specialised support services (e.g. in the work place, schools, universities, online);

• Analytical activities, such as data collection and research, and the creation and implementation of tools or data bases/data collection strategies and systems.

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Eligibility

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In order to be eligible:

1. the applicants 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)) or 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

To be eligible under the first priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:

(a) 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;

(b) the project has to be transnational;

c) the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner from 2 different eligible countries, not being affiliated entity or associated partner);

(d) the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 1 000 000 and higher than EUR 2 500 000.

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To be eligible under the second, third and fourth priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:

(a) 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;

(b) the project can be either national or transnational;

(c) the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner not being affiliated entity or associated partner);

(d) the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 100 000 and higher than EUR 1 000 000.

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Project duration

For Priority 1: Projects should normally range between 24 and 36 months.

For Priorities 2 to 4: Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months.