Strategic litigation
CERV Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-LITIGATION
- 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
- April 23, 2024
- Deadline
- September 18, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €16,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-LITIGATIONCERV-2024-CHAR-LITI
Description
Strategic litigation
Strategic litigation involving the rights enshrined in the Charter contributes to a more coherent implementation and application of EU law and to the enforcement of individuals’ fundamental rights.
Strategic litigators are key to fostering the promotion and protection of Charter rights and support should be given to strengthening their capacity and specialised knowledge on the Charter and on how to develop a strategic approach to cases. In this context, the support and assistance to victims provided by civil society organisations, NHRIs and equality bodies and Ombuds-institutions is instrumental.
Projects under this priority should, through training, knowledge sharing and exchange of good practices, strengthen the knowledge and ability of civil society organisations and human rights defenders as well as of practitioners, legal professionals and independent human rights bodies, to effectively engage in litigation practices at national and European level and to improve access to justice and enforcement of rights under EU law, including the Charter.
Projects under this priority can also include a focus on countering manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings against journalists and human rights defenders who engage in public participation (Strategic lawsuits against public participation).
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: 20 March 2024
Deadline for submitting applications: 18 September 2024 17:00 (Brussels Time)
Evaluation period: October 2024 - February 2025
Information to applicants: March 2025
Signature of grant agreement: June 2025
6. Proposal templates, guidance and model grant agreements (MGA):
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) 2023-2024 Work Programme
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement
Visit the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme page from the European Commission's website for further information.
Support & Resources
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Latest Updates
EVALUATION RESULTS - FLASH REPORT
- Publication date: 20/03/2024
- Opening date: 23/04/2024
- Type of action: CERV-PJG
- Single-stage
- Deadline: 18/09/2024, 17:00:00 Brussels time
- Call budget: EUR 16.000.000
- Number of proposals submitted: 570
- Number of eligible proposals: 562
The results of the evaluation were communicated to the applicants via the Funding and Tenders Portal on 14/03/2025.
Summary of the results:
- 33 proposals are proposed for funding for the amount of EUR 15,949,344.36
- 14 proposals are placed on the reserve list
- Rejection of 351 proposals for lack of budget
- Rejection of 164 proposals due to insufficient relevance and/or quality of proposals
- Rejection of 1 inadmissible proposal
- Rejection of 7 ineligible proposals
Please also find below the updated number of eligible proposals submitted under each topic, following the closing of the selection. This updated distribution takes into account the fact that some proposals had initially been submitted under the wrong topic.
The breakdown per topic is:
CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER: 146 proposals
CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC: 124 proposals
CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-LITIGATION: 45 proposals
CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH: 222 proposals
CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-WHISTLE: 25 proposals
Update - Call Closure
The Call CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI closed on 18 September 2024 at 17:00 CET (Brussels time).
570 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
• CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER: 167 proposals
• CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC: 126 proposals
• CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-LITIGATION: 43 proposals
• CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH: 209 proposals
• CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-WHISTLE: 25 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in March 2025.
Online Info Session - CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI – Presentations available
The slides presented at the Online Info Session on the 2024 CHAR-LITI Call (27 – 28 May 2024) are available at this link.
ONLINE INFO SESSION – CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI CALL
On 27 and 28 May 2024 the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) will organise an online Info Session to present the 2024 Call for Proposals to promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI).
Please find the details and register at this link. The registration closes on 23 May 2024 at 17:00 Brussels time.
CALL DOCUMENT TRANSLATIONS
The French and German translations of the CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI Call document are available on the EACEA webpage.
CALL DOCUMENT TRANSLATIONS
The French and German translations of the CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI Call document are available on the EACEA webpage.