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Citizenship, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) is the EU's funding programme for citizens' engagement and the implementation of EU rights and values.
This call supports projects that promote to all generations the defining moments and reference points of European integration.
European integration has substantially transformed the life of Europeans. While it has provided new opportunities for cross border travel, study and work, it has also affected the identities of people who more and more feel European as part of their identity. European integration has progressively advanced and protected the rights of people in all EU countries, rights that are often taken for granted now. However, apart from being an institutional process, European integration has been built and advanced by different people and movements at different moments. From the Ventotene manifesto to the Congress of Europe, the foundation for European integration has a long history.
The projects under this priority should explore and promote to all generations the defining moments and reference points of European integration, its history, and how these changes have in practice affected the daily lives of Europeans. Projects can focus on specific rights granted in the European Union such as freedom of movement, on specific achievements such as a common currency, or on defining moments such as accession of countries. Testimonies of witnesses could be a particular valuable resource for making the experience tangible and provide an intergenerational perspective.
Projects are expected to:
− Link different types of organisations to create synergies (between non-profit, local, regional and national administration, academia and memorial and learning site with educational institutions),
− Develop different types of activities (training activities, publications, online tools, (provenance) research, non-formal education, public debates, exhibitions, awareness-rising, collection and digitisation of testimonies, innovative and creative actions, etc.), also by using new methods of teaching and new technologies;
− Establish and conduct trainings for rights defenders, civil servants, members of the judiciary, law enforcement officials and policymakers;
− Provide opportunities for inter-generational exchanges between witnesses and future generations;
− Involve people from different target groups and gender, including, where possible, people facing racism, antisemitism, antigypsyism or other forms of discrimination and intolerance.
In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
a) Lead applicants (i.e., the “Coordinator”): be non-profit legal entities (public or private bodies) or an international organisation.
b) For co-applicants: be non-profit or for profit legal entities (public or private bodies). Organisations which are for profit may apply only in partnership with public entities, private non-profit organisations or with international organisations
c) Applicants must be formally 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.
d) Activities must take place in any of the eligible countries.
e) The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 50 000.
f) The project can be either national or transnational; the application must involve at least two applicants (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant not being affiliated entity or associated partner).
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 2 applicants (lead applicant ("Coordinator") and at least one co-applicant, not being affiliated entity or associated partner).
Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months. Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.
The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 50 000.
Maximum grant amount: No limit.
The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.
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