CfPs to promote Equality and to Fight Against Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination
Deadline: 24-Feb-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to promote equality and to fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination.
The objective is to support a comprehensive and intersectional approach and specific actions to prevent and fight against intolerance, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination, in particular on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, including when this manifests in the form of antigypsism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred, Afrophobia and LGBTIQ phobia, offline and online.
Priorities
The following priorities will be financed:
Fighting against intolerance, racism, xenophobia, discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes
Promoting diversity management and inclusion at the workplace, both in the public and private sector
Fighting discrimination against LGBTIQ people and promoting LGBTIQ equality through the implementation of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy
Preventing, reporting and countering hate speech online
Restricted to public authorities to improve their responses to (intersectional) discrimination, racism and xenophobia, in particular, based on racial or ethnic origin, religion, or colour as well on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristic
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 12 240 000.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible under the first, second, third and fourth priority, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
non-EU countries:
countries associated to the CERV Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
other eligibility conditions:
organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
the project can be either national or transnational;
the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);
the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000.
In order to be eligible under the fifth priority, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be public authorities; partners must be public entities or private organisations;
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
non-EU countries:
countries associated to the CERV Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
other eligibility conditions:
the project can be either national or transnational;
the application must involve at least two organisations (applicant and partner);
the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000.
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