European Commission: Supporting National or Transnational Projects

Deadline: 9 November 2017

European Commission is seeking applications for its Grant program entitled “Support National or Transnational Projects on Non-discrimination and Roma Integration” to co-fund national or transnational projects tackling at least one of the following grounds of discrimination of Art. 19 TFEU: racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. They should aim at:

Fighting against discrimination based on sexual orientation in society and promoting the rights of LGBTI people.
Promoting diversity management in the public and private sector: identification of existing practices, measurement of diversity management benefits, and awareness-raising. The proposed activities may be linked to the launch and implementation of Diversity Charters.
Fighting against discrimination of Roma through: activities aiming to raise awareness and combat harmful stereotypes of Roma and thereby supporting their integration into mainstream society; identify and exchange good practices in fighting discrimination against Roma and antigypsyism, in particular in education and housing and promoting the empowerment of Roma (youth and women) as well as their active involvement in the process of Roma integration.
Raising awareness about intergenerational solidarity and non-discrimination on the basis of age (in particular of young people).

Activities

This call will fund activities on:

data collection and survey; monitoring the implementation of non-discrimination legislation;
training of professionals;
mutual learning, exchange of good practices, cooperation, including identifying best practices which may be transferable to other participating countries;
dissemination and awareness raising activities (including at local level), such as seminars, conferences, campaigns or social media and press activities.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant/s and co-applicants must be a public entity or a private organisation, duly established in one of the countries participating in the Programme, or an international organisation.
Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations.
The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their overseas departments, Iceland and Lichtenstein are eligible.
Eligibility of the Application
- To be eligible, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
  - the application 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 500 000 Euro