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Overview
| Donor: | European Commission (EC) - CERV |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | Belgium |
| Reference number: | CERV-2026-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
| Deadline: | 15.09.2026 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Medium - up to $1,000,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 75.000€ |
| Total available budget: | 16.500.000€ |
| 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
Projects should establish or enhance systematic and comprehensive monitoring systems to regularly assess the environment in which CSOs operate at national level. These should build on and align as closely as possible with existing frameworks—such as the indicators developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and data from international organisations—as well as national monitoring systems, to ensure comparability and consistency.
Such proposals can cover in particular the following:
- focus on breaches of fundamental rights affecting CSOs and human rights defenders, including the right to freedom of association.
- capture emerging issues such as digital threats and transnational repression within the EU.
- improve data collection, analysis and reporting, enabling the early identification of risks, including SLAPPs.
- Support timely, coordinated and evidence-based responses to civic space threats by relevant actors.
- strengthen the resilience of civil society actors, including through capacity-building on digital and cyber-security.
- strengthening capacity of CSOs to communicate effectively around their activities and to build effective, visible and impactful advocacy activities.
- improve access to information on available protection mechanisms, for instance through platforms or tools centralising support services.
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 €16,500,000 for this call. The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than €75,000.
5) Application
The application deadline is 15 September 2026. 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.