Ensuring comprehensive geographical coverage of the Network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs)
Accelerating Best Use of Technologies · DIGITAL-SIMPLE
What this call funds
This call funds national Safer Internet Centres to protect and empower children online. Winning teams run an awareness centre, a helpline, a CSAM reporting hotline, and a youth panel, reaching kids, parents, and teachers with resources on online risks like cyberbullying, harmful content, and emerging tech threats. Only one centre per country will be funded, prioritising countries not previously covered.
digital health · mental health · civil society democracy · education skills · cybersecurity · social innovation
Who wins this
A national consortium of NGOs, government agencies and/or private organisations experienced in child online safety, helplines/hotlines and youth engagement, based in a country not yet covered by the SIC network.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €1.6M (call budget ÷ expected grants)
- Funding model
- DIGITAL-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- DIGITAL Simple Grants
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Eligible applicants
- NGO, public body, private sector organisation
- Also required
- Only one Safer Internet Centre will be co-funded per country, and only centres not already funded under the previous DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs call are eligible.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document. Call document and annexes: Call document
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