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CERV – Annual operating grants 2026 to support EU level Networks active in the area: “Rights of persons with disabilities” – 2025

CERV – Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme aims at protecting and promoting EU rights and values and to contribute to sustaining and further developing open, rights-based, democratic, equal, and inclusive societies based on the rule of law.

2025-08-27
7.700.000 euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference CERV-2025-OG-DISA-SGA
Programme CERV - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme
Institution European Commission
Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Education & Training Health Research & Innovation
Beneficiaries Association & NGO

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Call reference

CERV-2025-OG-DISA-SGA



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To promote, protect and monitor the rights of persons with disabilities by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level
  • To contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (ESRPD) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
  • To support the Commission in putting the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 into practice
  • To organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the ESRPD and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe;
  • To build a stronger social Europe and ensure that people with disabilities can fully enjoy their rights

Priorities

  • Priority 1: To contribute concretely and directly to the implementation of the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (ESRPD), with a particular focus on national and local level
  • Priority 2: To organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the Strategy and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe
  • Priority 3: To strengthen the capacity of national member organisations to enable them to actively contribute to the Strategy implementation
  • Priority 4: To provide concrete support to the European Semester process (at EU and national levels)

Among financed actions

  • Commitments
  • Mainstreaming
  • Awareness
  • Capacity-building
  • Peer-learning
  • Dissemination
  • Cooperation

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be a non-governmental, non-profit-making, and independent of industry, commercial and business or other conflicting interests
  • Have national member organisations in at least fourteen (14) Member States of the European Union
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
    • Non-EU states: countries associated to the CERV Programme (Click here)
  • Only applications by single applicants are allowed

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: 12 months
  • Contact: EC-CERV-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 7.700.000 euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 100.000 euros and 1.500.000 euros
  • Funding rate: up to 85% of the total eligible costs