Deadline: 12-Apr-22
The European Commission (EC) is inviting proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against children.
Objectives
To fight violence, including gender-based violence:
- preventing and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls and domestic violence, including by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
- preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people and other groups at risk, such as LGBTQI persons and persons with disabilities;
- supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of the forms of violence referred to in points (1) and (2), such as the victims of domestic violence perpetrated within the family or within intimate relationships, including children orphaned as a result of domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence.
Policy initiatives supported: Gender Equality Strategy, EU strategy on the rights of the child, EU Strategy on victims’ rights.
Priorities
With this call, divided into 5 priorities, they aim at financing projects that will:
- integrate prevention of various forms of gender-based violence against women in different contexts, with a systemic approach
- tackle harmful practices against women and girls
- prevent gender-based violence by tackling its root causes
- support and improve national data collection on violence against children
- strengthen responses that prevent and support child victims of violence by reinforcing child protection systems at national and local level
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 30 500 000.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be 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
- other eligibility conditions:
- To be eligible under the first priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
- organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
- the project has to be transnational;
- the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);
- the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 1 000 000 or higher than EUR 2 000 000.
- To be eligible under the second and third priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
- organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
- the project can be either national or transnational;
- the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);
- the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000 or higher than EUR 1 000 000
- To be eligible under the fourth and fifth priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
- organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
- the project can be either national or transnational;the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);
- the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000
- To be eligible under the first priority, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
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