Promoting an enabling civic space
Call for proposals to support the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights · CERV-PJG
What this call funds
This call funds projects that help civil society organisations and human rights defenders operate safely and freely in the EU. It supports monitoring of threats against civic space (like SLAPPs, digital attacks, and repression), building protection systems and support services for activists, and strengthening strategic litigation capacity to defend fundamental rights.
civil society democracy · justice rights
Who wins this
Civil society organisations, human rights networks, or legal advocacy groups, ideally working transnationally across multiple EU Member States, seeking to protect and strengthen civic space and human rights defenders.
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The call in detail
- Funding model
- CERV-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- CERV Project Grants
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Eligible applicants
- civil society organisation, non-profit
- Also required
- Transnational partnerships across several EU Member States and networks such as NHRIs, equality bodies, Ombuds institutions, and Charter Focal Points are particularly encouraged.
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout Proposal page limit and layout are described in: Section 5 of the Call document. 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 in Section 8 of the Call document. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are 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. Publication of the call: 29 April 2026 Deadline for submitting applications: 15 September 2026 – 17:00:00 CET (Brussels) Evaluation period: October 2026 - February 2027 Information to applicants: March 2027 Signature of grant agreement: June 2027 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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