Protecting EU values and rights by combating hate speech and hate crime
CERV Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH
- Programme
- Promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- January 24, 2023
- Deadline
- May 25, 2023
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €16,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-SPEECHCERV-2023-CHAR-LITI
Description
Protecting EU values and rights by combating hate crime and hate speech
All forms and manifestations of hatred are incompatible with the EU values and the fundamental rights enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty and the Charter. Hatred affects the individual victims and the groups they belong to, generates societal polarisation and silences wide sectors of the population, weakening pluralism and undermining respectful public democratic debates. The online world has amplified the negative effects of hate speech. Hate crimes are a direct violation of the victims’ fundamental right to dignity, to equality and non-discrimination. Combating hate speech and hate crime is therefore a key part of the Commission’s action to promote EU values and to ensure that the Charter is upheld.
At EU level, the 2008 Council Framework Decision requires the criminalisation of certain forms of hate speech and hate crimes. Also, the Commission adopted a Communication in December 2021 inviting the Council of the European Union to extend the legal basis for EU-level criminalisation to other forms of hate speech and hate crime beyond the racist and xenophobic grounds already covered by the Framework Decision.
Civil society organisations play a crucial role in combating hate speech and hate crime, thereby safeguarding and promoting fundamental rights. Projects under this priority should aim to enable civil society organisations to establish mechanisms of cooperation with public authorities to support the reporting of episodes of hate crime and hate speech; to ensure support to victims of hate speech and hate crime; and to support law enforcement, including through training or data collection methodologies and tools. Projects should also focus on activities that tackle hate speech online, including reporting content to IT companies, designing countering narrative and awareness raising campaigns, and educational activities to address the societal challenges of hate speech online.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Eligible countries: as described in the Call document.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: as described in the Call document.
4. Evaluation: Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the Call document.
5. Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement: as described in the Call document.
Publication of the call: 15 December 2022
Deadline for submitting applications: 25 May 2023 17:00 (Brussels Time)
Evaluation period: June - September 2023
Information to applicants: October - November 2023
Signature of grant agreement: January - February 2024
6. Proposal templates, guidance and model grant agreements (MGA):
Standard proposal template
Call document
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement
Visit the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme page from the European Commission's website where you can download the Work Programme 2023-2024
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Latest Updates
CALL UPDATE - FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS
· Publication date: 15 December 2022
· Opening date: 24 January 2023
· Type of action: CERV-PJG CERV Project Grants
· Single-stage
· Deadline: 25 May 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time
· Call budget: 16.000.000 EUR
Number of proposals submitted: 236
Number of eligible proposals: 226
The results of the evaluation were communicated to the applicants via the Funding and Tenders Portal on 20/11/2023.
Summary of the results:
- 34 proposals are proposed for funding for the amount of EUR 15.907.748,05
- 14 proposals are placed on the reserve list for the amount of EUR 9.288.407,89
- Rejection of 101 proposals for lack of budget
- Rejection of 77 proposals due to insufficient relevance and/or quality proposals
- Rejection of 4 inadmissible
- Rejection of 6 ineligible proposals
Call CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI closed on 25 May 2023.
236 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER: 63 proposals
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC: 40 proposals
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-LITIGATION: 33 proposals
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH: 78 proposals
- CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-WHISTLE: 22 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in November 2023.
The link to the Keeping Children Safe Child Safeguarding Standards has been corrected in the Call document page 19.
The presentations of the info session on the CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI Call for proposals organised by EACEA on 16 February 2023 are available under the following link: Info session: CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI - Presentations available! (europa.eu)
The presentations of the info sessions on the priorities of the CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI Call for proposals organised by DG JUST on 26-27 January 2023 are available under the following links:
JUST - INFO session on 2023 EU project funding on combating hate speech and hate crime (europa.eu)
JUST - INFO session on 2023 EU project funding CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI (europa.eu)
CALL DOCUMENT TRANSLATIONS
Please find at this link the translations of the CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI Call document in French and German.