Funding Programme

Citizenship, 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 call supports projects that find new ways of remembering and educating about these crimes to protect society against resurging threats of hatred.

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Call detail

Projects under this priority should focus on specific crimes such as the Holocaust, totalitarian crimes or other 20th century crimes like genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity and should analyse how these crimes were organised, which actors were involved and how they were committed.

Projects under this priority are encouraged to find new ways of remembering and educating about these crimes to protect society against resurging threats of hatred, antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, antigypsyism and LGBTIQ-phobia.

Projects are encouraged to look for new teaching methods and modern forms of educating on historical events including the Holocaust. New and modern approaches should ensure inclusiveness and create an enabling learning environment for participants of all gender. In line with the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, as well as the other key policy initiatives this priority supports, projects can focus in this regard on developing networks of Young European Ambassadors to promote Holocaust remembrance. Young Europeans should learn how to access and share accurate information about the Holocaust, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and should be empowered to act both online and in the physical world.

Projects can focus on countering Holocaust distortion, trivialization, and denialas well as digitalising historical material and testimonies of witnesses for education and training purposes. These projects are encouraged to work as well with young people, together with other generations, in order to transmit the memory of events.

Projects can also focus on reaching out to newcomers and migrants and teach about the history of the Holocaust, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.Additionally, projects under this priority can also analyse and highlight resistance and/or organised opposition to totalitarian rule.

Projects under this priority can also focus on promoting awareness and memory of the Roma Holocaust and reconciliation processes in society, to help reduce prejudice and antigypsyism as important causes of discrimination and contribute to achieving the EU Roma Strategic Framework’s objectives in the area of equality.

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Activities funded

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.

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Eligibility

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).

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Consortium composition

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).

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Duration

Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months. Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

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Budget

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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