Deadline: 25 September 2018

Applicants are invited to submit proposals for “Raising Public Awareness of Development Issues and Promoting Development Education in European Union (DEAR)” to ensure the commitment of EU citizens to development and contribute to sustainable lifestyle patterns of EU citizens.

Specific Objectives

The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:

• to develop European citizens’ awareness and critical understanding of the interdependent world, of roles and responsibilities in relation to the development issues of the “People” and “Planet” pillars of the Consensus, and
• to encourage their active engagement with global attempts to address these issues whilst simultaneously promoting fundamental values.

Priority Issues

• Focus areas to be addressed: Migration and/or Climate Change
• Youth as target group and work directly with citizens
• Communication and outreach strategy

Funding Information

• Lot 1: Focussed and strategic pan-European campaigns on targeted priorities bringing EU Development policy and EU answers to global challenges closer to citizens led by a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) or an association of CSOs, from all EU member states
  • minimum amount: EUR 7.000.000
  • maximum amount: EUR 12.000.000
• Lot 2: Focussed and strategic pan-European campaigns on targeted priorities bringing EU Development policy and EU answers to global challenges closer to citizens led by a CSO or an association of CSOs from EU 13 member states
  • minimum amount: EUR 2.000.000
  • maximum amount: EUR 7.000.000
• Lot 3: Focussed and strategic pan-European campaigns on targeted priorities bringing EU Development policy and EU answers to global challenges closer to citizens led by a Local Authority or Association of LAs, from all EU member states
  • minimum amount: EUR 3.000.000
  • maximum amount: EUR 7.000.000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead Applicants
  • Under Lot 1 and 2, in order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) or an association of CSOs and
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union (for lot 1) or be established in an EU 13 Member state (for lot 2) and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the Action with the co-applicants and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary and
    • be able to demonstrate to have carried out activities in the field of development awareness raising, campaigning, communication and/or global learning for at least three years.
  • Under lot 3, in order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be a Local Authority (LA) from a Member State of the European Union, constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the country or Associations of Local Authorities (ALA) registered in a Member State of the European Union and
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the Action with the co-applicants and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary and
    • be able to demonstrate to have carried out activities in the field of development awareness raising, campaigning, communication and/or global learning for at least three years.
• Co-applicant(s)
  • For all lots, co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the Action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Under all lots, the lead applicant must act together with a minimum of two co-applicants. The three of them must be established in three different EU Member States.
  • All co-applicants must satisfy the following three eligibility criteria:
    • be legal persons and
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union or of an eligible partner country or territory as defined in the OECD DAC list constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the country
    • be non-profit-making and be a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) or an association of CSOs; or be a Local Authority (LA) or an association of LAs; or be a private sector operator with communication/campaigning/marketing expertise.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies)
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
  • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
  • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
    • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      • Entities affiliated to applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

How to Apply

In order to apply for the grants, applicants have to register themselves in PADOR, an on-line database via given website.

For further information, please visit European Commission.