Deadline: 30-Jun-2020
The European Parliament awards ‘The European Citizen’s Prize’ for citizens, groups, associations or organisations for projects they have carried out and through which they have displayed exceptional achievements and/or outstanding commitment in the following areas:
- Projects promoting better mutual understanding and closer integration between citizens of the Member States or facilitating cross-border or transnational cooperation within the European Union.
- Projects involving long-term, cross-border or transnational cultural cooperation contributing to the strengthening of a European spirit.
- Projects linked to the current European Year (if applicable).
- Projects giving concrete expression to the values enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
- Citizens, groups of citizens, associations or organizations can apply for the European Citizen’s Prize for projects they have carried out, or can nominate one other citizen, group, association or organisation for the European Citizen’s Prize.
Members of the European Parliament have the right to submit nominations – one per Member each year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only projects carried out exclusively within EU Member States or partially within EU Member States (where the part of the project carried out within EU Member States represents more than 50% of the project’s overall budget) shall be considered.
- Eligible for the award are citizens who are either nationals of an EU Member State or third-country nationals who reside legally on the territory of the Union at the date of the submission of their nomination or application.
- Groups, associations and organisations with legal personality are eligible for the award if they are registered in an EU Member State at the date of the submission of their nomination or application. Groups, associations and organisations without legal personality are eligible for the award if the project leader and the person representing the group / association / organisation are either nationals of an EU Member State or third-country nationals residing legally in an EU Member State on the date of the submission of the nomination or application of the group / association / organisation. For the purpose of the eligibility of groups, associations and organisations without legal personality, the project leader and the person representing the group / association / organisation may be the same person.
Exclusion criteria
Citizens, groups, associations or organisations who are involved in the following projects shall not be eligible for a prize:
- projects which receive more than 50% funding from the EU budget;
- projects that have already received a prize awarded by a European institution, body, office or agency;
- activities which have been carried out in the exercise of a political function or elected mandate;
- activities which do not comply with the values enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
- activities that have a profit-making objective;
- activities by public and governmental organisations.
Citizens, groups, associations or organisations shall not be eligible for the Prize in case they had been found guilty of a criminal offence by a final judgement.
Groups, associations or organisations without legal personality are not eligible for the Prize if the project leader or the person representing them had been found guilty of a criminal offence by a final judgement.
For more information, visit https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/be-heard/prizes