CERV – Call for proposals to promote gender equality – 2026

Objectives

• To support, advanced 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

Priorities

• Priority 1: supporting work-life balance, equal share of care responsibilities
• Priority 2: promoting and supporting the implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive
• Priority 3: supporting equal participation and representation of women and men in economic and political decision-making
• Priority 4: tackling gender stereotypes in media and advertising

Among financed actions

• Capacity building and training
• Training and support activities
• Development of ready-made tools
• Activities by educational organisations

Eligibility

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  • non-EU countries:
• countries associated to the CERV Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list
  of participating countries)
  Please check the list regularly, to get the latest status on countries in the process of association
• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months
• Contact: EC-CERV-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 23 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 100.000 and 500.000 euros
• Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs