Raising awareness of and building capacity for the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Topic description

Scope: Topic scope: Raising awareness of and building capacity for the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CERV-2026-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER) The Charter strategy underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives. Accordingly, projects under this priority are intended to raise the fundamental rights knowledge of relevant actors. While building on the central role of civil society organisations and human rights defenders, funded projects could involve national, regional and local authorities as partners (co-applicants), with the aim of supporting joint capacity building and awareness raising efforts. The projects funded under this priority should address the capacity building and awareness raising needs on the Charter. In particular, relevant projects should focus on raising awareness and building capacity on at least one of the following topics: the Charter in general and/or the contents of an individual Charter right or several of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter; the Charter’s scope of application; the remedies available in cases of breaches of the Charter rights. In accordance with its Article 51, the Charter is applicable to Member States only when they are implementing EU law. Given the specific scope of application of this instrument, unlike that of international human rights agreements, and considering the increasing number of references to the Charter in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU, there is a specific need to promote an understanding of when the Charter applies, i.e. when EU law is being implemented, and of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter. Please consult the Call document for more information.

Conditions and documents

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 Application form templates Standard application form (CERV) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Model Grant Agreements (MGA) CERV MGA Additional documents: CERV Work Programmes CERV Regulation 2021/692 EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Budget overview

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