The European Union is currently inviting Action Grants supporting transnational projects to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance. This call for proposals for action grants is based on the 2015 annual work programme of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC Programme).
The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is EUR 5.400.000.
Funding priorities
The proposals under this call will focus on the priorities described below:
- Best practices to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance (BEST)
- Training and capacity building for strengthening criminal responses to hate crime and hate speech (TRAI)
- Empowering and supporting victims of hate crime and hate speech (VICT)
Eligibility of applicants
To be eligible, applications must fulfil all of the following criteria.
- Applicants and partners must be legally constituted public or private organisations, or international organisations. Bodies set up by the European Union falling under Article 208 of the Financial Regulations (EU bodies and institutions) are not eligible for funding and cannot submit applications. They can be associated to an application, but their costs will not be co-financed. Only legally constituted organisations can participate. Natural persons (private individuals) are not allowed to submit applications.
- The applicant must be a public entity or a non-profit organisation:
- a legal entity that is by its legal form non-profit-making; or
- has a legal statutory obligation not to distribute profits to its shareholders or individual members. The provision that profits will not be distributed must be clearly stipulated either in the law or in the statutes of the organisation; decisions on (not) distributing profits made by its managing board, associates, stakeholders, members or representatives are not sufficient proof of the non-profit nature.
- Eligible country: All EU Member states including Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Eligibility of the application
- The project must be transnational and must be submitted by a partnership of eligible organisations. For the purpose of this call, the proposal must be submitted by organisations (applicant and partner(s)) from at least five different eligible countries;
- The EU grant requested cannot be lower than EUR 300 000. There is no upper limit.
- Projects must not have started prior to the date of submission of the grant application.
Deadline
The deadline for submitting proposals via the PRIAMOS system is 18 February 2016, 12:00 (noon) Central European Time.
How to apply
Applicants must submit applications via PRIAMOS online system. The applicant will be able to download the specific Grant Application Form mandatory for this call once it has registered in PRIAMOS.
For more information, please visit EU Action Grants.