CERV – Citizens’ engagement and participation – 2025

Objective

Promoting citizens’ and representative associations’ participation in and contribution to the democratic and civic life of the Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas of Union action.

Priorities

• Priority 1: To promote exchanges on future Union policy priorities and challenges
• Priority 2: To participate in countering disinformation, information manipulation and interference in the democratic debate
• Priority 3: To promote citizens’ active engagement and democratic participation

Among financed actions

• Participation in the policymaking process and thus create the conditions for a stronger bottom-up approach and a more inclusive policymaking process, fostering civic and democratic engagement

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the CERV Programme (Click here)
• 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 (see details on the call document)

Additional information

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

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 33 million euro
• Budget per topic:
  • 12.500 000 euro (Priority 1 : Promoting exchanges on future Union policy priorities and challenges)
  • 8 million euro (Priority 2 : Countering disinformation, information manipulation and interference in the democratic debate)
  • 12.500.000 euro (Priority 3 : Promoting citizens’ active engagement and democratic participation)
• Amount of the grant: minimum 75.000 euro