Call for proposals to promote gender equality
CERV Lump Sum Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CERV-2024-GE
- Programme
- Call for proposals to promote gender equality
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- December 21, 2023
- Deadline
- April 9, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €10,100,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CERV-2024-GECERV-2024-GE
Description
The objective of the Call is to support, advance and implement comprehensive policies to promote women’s full enjoyment of rights, gender equality, including work-life balance, equal pay between women and men, women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming.
More specifically, the call focusses on the following two priorities:
- Tackling the root causes of the gender care gap by promoting a gender-transformative approach and challenging gender stereotypes with the aim to support promotion of family-friendly practices in companies encouraging the take up of the new rights under the Work-life Balance Directive by both women and men; prevention/protection against any form of unfavourable treatment and discrimination of women during and after pregnancy as well as of women and men who took family leave and flexible work arrangements; raising awareness of the value of care work by reflecting on the appreciation of skills needed for care work; and challenging gender stereotypes that perpetuate the traditional division of labour.
- Supporting the implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive with the aim to foster Member States authorities responsible for implementation of the provision of the Pay Transparency Directive (possibly in cooperation with other public entities, private organisations or international organisations) in developing national guidance and/or tools for gender-sensitive job evaluation and classification systems and in raising awareness of this guidance and/or tools among employers and workers representatives in their respective countries.
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.
Opening for submission: 21 December 2023
Deadline for submitting applications: 09 April 2024 17:00 (Brussels Time)
Evaluation period: April - September 2024
Information to applicants: September - October 2024
Signature of grant agreement: October - December 2024
6. Proposal templates, guidance and model grant agreements (MGA):
Standard proposal template
Call document
Detailed Budget Table (the budget table can also be downloaded during submission)
Guide for applicants
Mono/Multi-beneficiary Model Grant Agreement
CERV 2023-2024 work programme
Regulation establishing the CERV Programme
Decision authorising the use of lump sums for actions under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (2021-2027)
Decision on unit costs for travel and subsistence
Decision on unit costs for volunteers
Guidance: How to manage your lump-sum grant
Support & Resources
Please carefully read all provisions of the Call document and get familiar with the proposal template and its annexes before the preparation of your application.
For help related to this call, please contact [email protected] or the CERV National Contact Point of your country, if established.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
Call update flash info
CERV-2024-GE: Call for proposals to promote gender equality
Publication date: 21 November 2023
Type of action: CERV Project Grants
Opening date: 21 December 2023
Single-stage
Deadline: 09 April 2024 17:00:00
Call's budget: 10.100.000 EUR
Number of proposals submitted: 196
Number of eligible proposals: 188
The results of the evaluation were communicated to the applicants via the Funding and Tenders Portal on 17 July 2024.
Summary of the results:
Priority 1 – Gender Care Gap:
• Award a grant to 17 proposals for EUR 6,082,027.20
• Place 4 proposals on the reserve list for EUR 1,674,834.34
• Reject 89 proposals for lack of budget
• Reject 67 proposals due to insufficient relevance and/or overall quality
• Reject 5 proposals due to inadmissibility/ineligibility
Priority 2 – Pay Transparency Directive Implementation:
• Award a grant to 8 proposals for EUR 3,844,320.31
• Place 0 proposals on the reserve list
• Reject 0 proposals for lack of budget
• Reject 3 proposals due to insufficient relevance and/or quality
• Reject 3 proposals due to inadmissibility/ineligibility
INFORMATION SESSION ON CERV-2024-GE:PRIORITY 2 OF 23/02/2024 – PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE:
Dear applicants,
You can find the materials presented during the info session of 23/02/2024 on CERV-2024-GE:Priority 2 (Pay Transparency Directive Implementation by the national authorities) published here on the bottom of the page in section "Downloads".
They cover:
- Policy aspects (policy background, objectives, activities to be supported, practical examples)
- Administrative aspects (Eligibility requirements, Application + Evaluation process)
- Budgetary aspects (rationale of lump-sum type 2, explanation of Detailed Budget Table).
The submission deadline of the call CERV-2024-GE has been extended from 29 February to 09 April 2024.
INFORMATION SESSION OF 18/01/2024 – PRESENTATION + Q&A AVAILABLE:
Dear applicants,
You can find the materials presented during the Joint info session on CERV-2024-DAPHNE and CERV-2024-GE of 18/01/2024 and related questions-answers published here.
They cover:
- Objectives of the call
- Eligibility requirements
- Award criteria
- Application process
- Detailed budget table (lump-sum type 2).
Hence, they can be valuable aids for preparation of your proposals.
INFORMATION SESSION:
Join us online to know more about the call for proposals to promote gender equality (CERV-2024-GE).
During the session, we will talk about the objectives of the call, eligibility requirements, award criteria, application process and the use of the budget table (lump-sum type 2).
Time: Thursday 18 January 2024, 09.30 - 13.00 (CET)
For the registration to the event, please follow this link or join the event directly here.