Deadline: 21-Jun-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce the call for proposals to promote and protect:
- human rights and fundamental freedoms
- democracy
- the rule of law
Objectives
The specific objective(s) of this call for proposals is are:
- Protecting and empowering individuals: to contribute to the full enjoyment by everyone of all human rights, be they civil, political, economic, social or cultural rights.
- Building resilient, inclusive and democratic societies: to foster a functioning, pluralist, participatory and representative democracy and protect the integrity of electoral processes.
- Safeguarding fundamental freedoms, including harnessing the opportunities and addressing the challenges of new technologies: to create and maintain an environment conducive to the full exercise of all fundamental freedoms, online and offline.
Priorities
The priorities of this call for proposals are:
- Enhanced oversight by – and a strengthened role for – civil society in monitoring, preventing and responding to human rights violations and abuses
- Improved integrity, transparency and accuracy of democratic and electoral processes
- Strengthened capacities of civil society organisations and independent media to exercise fundamental freedoms
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 800,000.
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 700,000
- maximum amount: EUR 800,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead applicant
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making
- be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, local authority, international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 156 of the EU Financial Regulation
- be established in any country or territory, this obligation does not apply to international organisations
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity (ies), not acting as an intermediary
- Co-applicant(s)
- Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
- Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant himself.
- Co-applicants must sign the mandate
- Affiliated entities
- Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
- This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control.
- Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant.
- Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
- Entities affiliated to an applicant may hence be:
- Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association,…) as the proposed affiliated entities.
- Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings
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