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Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) is the EU's funding programme for citizens' engagement and the implementation of EU rights and values. It replaces both Europe for Citizens and the Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme.
This call for proposals aims at supporting, advancing and implementing comprehensive policies to protect and promote the rights of the child, including the right to participate.
This call responds to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU, through three priorities:
This call focuses on the implementation of the actions and recommendations at EU, national and local levels of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child. It aims at responding to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU. It pays attention to the rights of children with specific needs and vulnerabilities, including those who fled the Russian’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
The call stresses the importance of taking into account gender differences and intersectionality in providing support to children. All proposals must embrace and respect a child rights-based approach and be clearly grounded in the EU Charter of Fundamental rights and the UN Convention on the rights of the child (UNCRC). As per the UNCRC definition, a child is a human being below the age of eighteen years. Projects submitted under this call should limit their focus to this age group.
Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged
Activities may include:
• Mutual learning, trainings, exchange of good practices, cooperation and networking;
• Dissemination and awareness raising, including social media or press campaigns;
• Capacity building and training activities of national, regional and local authorities;
• Training activities and awareness raising sessions for children;
• Design and implementation of protocols, development of working methods and tools.
Activities should be designed, implemented and co-created with children, to make sure that the action is well tailored to children’s needs. All proposals are expected to respect the child's right to participate and all project activities must clearly integrate and protect the child's right to be heard. Proposals must make children's involvement central and integral in every stage of the project’s design, implementation and evaluation. All actions and activities shall ensure that actions are adequate to the age and gender specific needs of children.
As a good practice, organisations that already work with children could consult them on the project proposal and include reflections/references to this process in the applications. Voices of children can also be brought in based on available reports and documents recording children’s opinions and needs.
In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
a) Lead applicants and co-applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies) or an international organisation.
b) Lead applicants must be non-profit making. Organisations which are profit-oriented may apply only in partnership with public entities or private non-profit 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 200 000.
f) The application must involve at least two applicants (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant not being affiliated entity or associated partner). However, the project can be either national or transnational.
Moreover, to be eligible under priority 3 “Embedding a rights of the child perspective in actions at national and local level”, grant applications must involve at least one public authority (national, regional or local authority) in the consortium, either as lead applicant or co-applicant.
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities).
For priority 3 “Embedding a rights of the child perspective in actions at national and local level”, consortia must involve at least one public authority (national, regional or local authority), either as lead applicant or co-applicant.
The available call budget is EUR 17 000 000.
Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months.
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