Rights of the child and children’s participation
CERV Lump Sum Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CERV-2025-CHILD
- Programme
- Rights of the child and children’s participation
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- January 16, 2025
- Deadline
- April 30, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €17,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CERV-2025-CHILDCERV-2025-CHILDPromoting and protecting the rights of the child, mainstreaming child rights in all relevant policiesRaising awarness of children and/or young people
Description
This call for proposals aims at supporting, advancing and implementing comprehensive policies to protect and promote the rights of the child, including the right to participate. It responds to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU, through three priorities:
- Children’s rights in the digital age
- Children’s engagement and participation
- Embedding a rights of the child perspective in actions at national and local level
This call focuses on the implementation of the actions and recommendations at EU, national and local levels of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child. It aims at responding to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU.
It pays attention to the rights of children with specific needs and vulnerabilities, including those who fled the Russian’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Proposal page limits and layout are described in:
- Section 5 of the Call document
- Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
Described in section 6 of the call document.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
Described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
Described in section 8 of the call document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Described in section 9 the call document.
5. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
Described in section 4 of the call document.
Publication of the call: 17 December 2024.
Deadline for submitting applications: 29 April 2025, 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: May-October 2025.
Information to applicants: October 2025.
Signature of grant agreement: December 2025-January 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Described in section 10 of the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (CERV) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget table (CERV LSII)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Support & Resources
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 evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Please consult the Q&A on the Topic page CERV-2025-CHILD for call-specific questions.
Please also consult the Topic page regularly, since we will use it to publish call updates, including invitations to info sessions for applicants (if any) after the opening of the call.
For non-IT related questions, please contact the CERV National Contact Point of your country (if established) or send an email to the following address: [email protected]. Please clearly indicate in the subject of the email the call reference: "CERV-2025-CHILD".
Latest Updates
FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS
Published: 17/12/2024
Deadline: 30/04/2025
Available budget: EUR 17.000.000
The results of the evaluation for each topic are as follows:
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 502
Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
Number of ineligible proposals: 7
Number of above-threshold proposals: 334
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 16.752.722,06 €
Number of proposals retained for funding: 30
Number of proposals in the reserve list: 6
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
For questions, please contact: [email protected]
PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call CERV-2025-CHILD has closed on 30.04.2025.
502 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in October 2025.
Please note that due to the electricity blackout that affected Spain, Portugal and Southern France on 28 April, the deadline of CERV-2025-CHILD call has been postponed to 30 April 2025 17:00:00 Brussels local time.
TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE
Translations of the call document into French and German can be found here
INFORMATION SESSION
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) will organise an online information session on the call for proposals CERV-2025-CHILD.
Besides the presentation of the objectives, priorities and expected outputs of the call, the session will also cover the practical side of the submission process, including on the use of the budget table for lump-sum type II.
Time: Wednesday 26 February 2025, 09.30 - 12.30 (CET)
For the registration to the event, please follow this link or join the event directly here.
Please check out our EACEA webpage for detailed information.
The submission session is now available for: CERV-2025-CHILD