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Call for proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CERV-2025-CHAR-LITI?order=DESC&pageNumber=2&pageSize=50&sortBy=startDate&isExactMatch=true
Overview
| Donor: | European Commission (EC) - CERV |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | Belgium |
| Reference number: | CERV-2025-CHAR-LITI |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
| Deadline: | 18.09.2025 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Medium - up to $1,000,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 75.000€ |
| Total available budget: | 18.000.000€ |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | - |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Capacity Building
- Governance & Democracy
- Human Rights
- Peace & Conflict Resolution
- Social Inclusion
Project Locations
Europe
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Description
1) Objective
The objective of the call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of fundamental rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights, thereby also strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values and respect for the rule of law, and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency and good governance.
This call for proposals aims to promote the founding rights and values of the Union by building primarily civil society organisations’ awareness on and capacity to apply the Charter and to carry out activities to ensure that the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter are upheld. Projects can be national or transnational. Each project application under the call must address only ONE of the following priorities:
- Priority 1. Capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;
- Priority 2. Promoting rights and values by empowering the civic space;
- Priority 3. Strategic litigation;
- Priority 4. Protecting EU values and rights by combating hate crime and hate speech;
- Priority 5. Supporting an enabling environment for the protection of whistleblowers.
2) Eligibility
Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
3) Location
Actions must take place in EU member states.
4) Budget
The budget is €18,000,000 for this call. The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than €75,000.
5) Application
The application deadline is 18 September 2024. A full proposal must be submitted. All application templates can be downloaded at the given website. Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.