Deadline: 22-Apr-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its grant program to Promote and Protect Defenders of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Objectives
It is composed of three specific objectives:
- to protect and empower individuals to the full enjoyment of all human rights, whether civil, political, economic, social or cultural;
- promote functional, pluralistic, participatory and representative democracy and protect the integrity of electoral processes;
- safeguard fundamental freedoms, in particular by exploiting the opportunities and meeting the challenges of new technologies.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 1,920,000.
- The amount of EUR 1,000,000 is financed from the country allocation for 2021 and the rest, i.e. EUR 920,000 from the 2022 allocation.
- Grant amount
- Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
- minimum amount: EUR 400,000
- maximum amount: EUR 800,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead applicant(s)
- To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal person and
- have no profit motive and
- be a non-governmental organization
- be directly responsible for preparing and managing the action with the co-applicant(s) and the affiliated entity(ies) and not act as an intermediary.
- To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- Co-applicant(s)
- Co-applicants take part in drawing up and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those borne by the lead applicant.
- Co-applicants must meet the same eligibility criteria as apply to the lead applicant itself.
- Co-applicants must sign the mandate form.
- Affiliated entities
- The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with one or more affiliated entities.
- Only the following entities can be considered affiliated to the lead applicant and/or co-applicant(s):
- Only entities that have a structural link with the applicants (the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
- This structural link mainly encompasses two notions:
- control, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings.
- Entities affiliated with an applicant can therefore be:
- entities controlled directly or indirectly by the applicant (subsidiaries or first-tier subsidiaries) or controlled by an entity itself controlled by the applicant (sub-subsidiaries or second-tier subsidiaries). This is valid for the other control levels;
- entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Similarly, they may be entities controlling a company controlling the applicant;
- entities with the same level of direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies);
- Entities affiliated with an applicant can therefore be:
- membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as, for example, a network, federation or association of which the proposed affiliated entity is a member, or the applicant is a member of the same entity (for example, a network, a federation or an association,) than the proposed affiliated entity.
- control, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings.
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