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Call key data

Call for proposals to promote gender equality

Funding Program

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme

Call number

CERV-2024-GE

deadlines

Opening
12.12.2023

Deadline
29.02.2024 17:00

Funding rate

90%

Call budget

€ 10,100,000.00

Estimated EU contribution per project

min. € 100,000.00

Link to the call

ec.europa.eu

Link to the submission

ec.europa.eu

Call content

short 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.

Call objectives

The call focusses on 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.

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Expected effects and impacts

Tackling the root causes of the gender care gap through a gender- transformative approach and challenging gender stereotypes

  • Improved knowledge of the gender care gap and of ways to tackle gender stereotypes with regard to care and work;
  • Improved knowledge and awareness of potential hindrances to gender
  • equality, including obstacles to equal sharing of care and domestic work, and to obstacles to take up of family leaves and family friendly working time arrangements;
  • Increased awareness of policy measures and good practice examples that are leading to more gender equality in the workplace as well as more work- life balance for both working women and men throughout the life course, as well a good practice examples by companies and authorities;
  • Increased knowledge about working conditions in care work and about value of care work;
  • Improved awareness of policy measures and good practice examples that lead to more sustainable working conditions in care work and that address gender segregation in the care sector;
  • Ultimately, leading to better work-life balance for women and men over the life course, reducing the gender care gap and provide more gender equality.

Supporting the implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive

  • Establishment of gender-sensitive tools and methods for transparent pay systems and detection of direct or indirect pay discrimination based on sex related to the undervaluation of jobs typically done by women and correction;
  • Increased awareness of gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems’ purpose and benefit;
  • Increased knowledge and expertise to negotiate on equal pay and use of gender-neutral job classification systems;
  • Challenge of traditional, outdated, non-transparent criteria for assessment and comparison of the value of work, which are not gender neutral and thus reinforce occupational segregation and inequality in pay on grounds of sex.

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Expected results

Tackling the root causes of the gender care gap through a gender- transformative approach and challenging gender stereotypes:

  • Design of new approaches to encourage a dual earner dual carer model and to tackle gender stereotypes;
  • Capacity building and training, including of human resource managers, representatives of public authorities, social partners and other concerned stakeholders including from civil society organisations;
  • Mutual learning, exchange of good practices, cooperation between different actors;
  • Dissemination of information and awareness raising, including via social media or press campaigns.

Practical projects that develop and implement specific measures and involve the target group are preferred. Where relevant, applicants should strive for active participation of children and youth in the design and implementation of activities.

Supporting the implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive

  • Development of guidance, tools, and checklists for the assessment and comparison of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value within the same employer, including the implementation of gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, for the use of public and private employers and more generally social partners in the context of collective bargaining;
  • Development and conduct of training programmes to build capacity of employers and social partners in assessing equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and implement gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems;
  • Promotion of gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems;
  • Monitoring implementation of the concept of work of equal value via the assessment of existing job evaluation systems and pay classification schemes by employers and those used by social partners and recommendation for amendment when necessary to comply with equal pay principle and gender-neutral criteria.

Practical projects that develop and implement specific measures and involve the target group are preferred.

Under both priorities, projects’ design and implementation are expected to promote gender equality and non-discrimination mainstreaming. Applicants should include in their proposal a gender-analysis that maps gender-specific needs and risks. Given the specific scope of the call, projects are expected not to have any unintended negative effects on either gender, do not reproduce gender-stereotypes in all their activities and to go beyond the basic do no-harm approach.

The gender equality perspective should also be taken into account when designing the ‘format’ of activities such as mutual learning, empowerment, awareness raising and possible training activities, to ensure that they allow for balanced participation of women, men, girls and boys as well as that they promote gender-sensitive approaches. For the promotion of gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems, applicants are advised to pay particular attention to gender-biases that might be induced based on historic data.

Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

EU Member States, Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT)
Albania (Shqipëria), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Kosovo (Kosova/Kosovë / Косово), Montenegro (Црна Гора), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Ukraine (Україна)

eligible entities

Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

No

Project Partnership

In order to be eligible under the first priority (Tackling the root causes of the gender care gap through a gender-transformative approach and challenging gender stereotypes) grant applications must comply with all the following criteria:

  • The applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
    • be legal entities (public or private bodies);
    • be international organisation or 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)
  • Organisations which are profit-oriented may apply only in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations;
  • Activities must take place in any of the eligible countries;
  • The maximum duration of the action is 24 months;
  • The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 100 000;
  • The project can be either national or transnational;
  • The application must involve at least two applicants (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant not being affiliated entity or associated partner).

In order to be eligible under the second priority (Supporting the implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive) grant applications must comply with all the following criteria:

  • Lead applicants must be EU national authorities responsible for implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive (e.g. responsible Ministry or national agency); with only one application per Member State being accepted;
  • Co-applicants (if any) must be international organisation or public entities or private organisations, formally 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)
  • Activities must take place in any of the eligible countries;
  • The maximum duration of the action is 24 months;
  • The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 100 000;
  • The project can be either national or transnational;
  • The application may involve one or more organisations (lead applicant and co-applicants).

other eligibility criteria

Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person.

International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.

Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.

EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.

Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’ . Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).

Additional information

Topics

Administration & Governance, Institutional Capacity & Cooperation, 
Competitiveness of Enterprises, Employment/Labour Market, SME & entrepreneurship, 
Equal Rights, Human Rights, People with Disabilities, Social Inclusion, 
Health, Social Services, Sports

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

between 12 and 24 months

Additional Information

Proposal page limits and layout:

  • Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
  • Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
  • Part C — contains additional project data and the project’s contribution to EU programme key performance indicators (to be filled in directly online)

mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):

  • detailed budget table/calculator (template available in the Portal Submission System – to be re-uploaded filled out in the format .xlsx)
  • CV (standard) of core project team
  • Activity reports of last year (coordinators only)
  • list of previous projects of the coordinator (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
  • For participants with activities involving children: their Child Protection Policy (CPP) covering the four areas described in the Keeping Children Safe Child Safeguarding Standards. It should be clearly indicated in the application which partner(s) will work directly with children/minors.

Page limit - part B: 45 pages

The grant will be a lump sum grant.

Call documents

Call document CERV-2024-GECall document CERV-2024-GE(708kB)

Contact

CERV Contact Points 2021-2027
Website

CERV Nationale Kontakstelle Österreich
+43 1 531 15–202907
ernst.holzinger@bka.gv.at
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