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Call key data

Capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Funding Program

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme

Call number

CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER

deadlines

Opening
23.04.2024

Deadline
18.09.2024 17:00

Funding rate

90%

Call budget

€ 3,100,000.00

Estimated EU contribution per project

min. € 75,000.00

Link to the call

ec.europa.eu

Link to the submission

ec.europa.eu

Call content

short description

This call for proposals will promote rights and values by building primarily civil society organisations capacity and awareness on the Charter and by carrying out activities to ensure that the Charter is upheld. It focusses on capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Call objectives

The Charter Strategy underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter in the Member States, through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives. Accordingly, projects under this priority are intended to raise the fundamental rights knowledge of relevant actors. Building on the central role of civil society organisations and human rights defenders, funded projects could involve national, regional and local authorities as partners (co-applicants), with the aim of supporting joint capacity building and awareness raising efforts.

The projects funded under this priority could address the capacity building and awareness raising needs on the Charter in general, or they could focus on one or several of the topics below:

Rights enshrined in the Charter and awareness of the Charter’s scope of application.

In accordance with its Article 51, the Charter is applicable to Member States only when they are implementing EU law. Given the specific scope of application of this instrument, unlike that of international human rights agreements, and considering the increasing number of references to the Charter in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU, there is a specific need to promote an understanding of when the Charter applies, i.e. when EU law is being implemented, and of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter. Relevant projects could therefore focus on the scope of application of the Charter and/or on the contents of an individual Charter right and/or several rights.

Protecting fundamental rights in the digital age.

To follow up on the Annual Charter Report 2021 on fundamental rights in the digital age, the aim of the priority is to protect fundamental rights by strengthening accountability for the use of automation where rights are at stake. This includes approaches for addressing and combatting bias and multiple/intersectional discrimination based on gender and on other grounds including ethnic and racial origin, caused or intensified by the use of artificial intelligence systems. Projects could aim to develop guidelines (including measures that ensure gender sensitive implementation), technical benchmarks and tools, including for algorithm-audits. Projects are expected to develop a concrete tool or a benchmark process in an area of the applicant’s choice with demonstrated relevance for fundamental rights, without prescribing the area or the type of the tool (e.g. it could be software, a benchmark data set, a simulation environment, a procedure).

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Expected effects and impacts

  • Increased awareness on the Charter and the fundamental rights it enshrines by CSOs, NHRIs, equality bodies, Ombuds institutions, other rights defenders, and other relevant partners, including authorities at national, regional and local levels; Increased capacity of the above actors to apply the Charter and the fundamental rights it enshrines in daily work, including for instance through fundamental rights impact assessments and participatory mechanisms to strengthen the application of fundamental rights;
  • Improved cooperation between CSOs, NHRIs, equality bodies, Ombuds institutions, other rights defenders and authorities at national, regional and local levels on fundamental rights issues;
  • Increased prevention of fundamental rights breaches and improved knowledge of available redress mechanisms, including - where relevant - the preliminary ruling mechanism under national and EU law, and how they can be used for the benefit of various rights holders and rights holder groups, including people and groups in vulnerable situations;
  • Improved accountability of the development and use of automated systems, including specific algorithms and their output;
  • Increased capacities to mitigate or otherwise address discriminatory biases in automated systems;
  • Improved knowledge of fundamental rights, including gender equality and non-discrimination law, the legal requirements associated with the development and use of automated systems, and of practical approaches to ensure compliance.

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Expected results

  • Awareness raising and capacity building activities aiming to increase the knowledge of civil society organisations in particular, but also human rights defenders and other key partners, on the use of the Charter, especially on its scope of application and the rights it contains;
  • Facilitating cooperation between civil society organisations and other key actors on enforcing the Charter, such as NHRIs, equality bodies, Ombuds institutions and Member State authorities (at national, regional and local level);
  • Training and train-the-trainer activities for professionals (such as experts, lawyers and legal advisers, communicators, policy and advocacy advisers, professionals from national, regional and local authorities), including through operational guidance and learning tools;
  • Mutual learning, exchange of good practices, development of working and learning methods, including mentoring programmes that may be transferable to other countries, methods for fundamental rights impact assessments and for stakeholder consultation;
  • Analytical activities, such as sex-disaggregated data collection and research, and the creation of tools or data bases on fundamental rights (e.g. databases of jurisprudence);
  • Communication activities, including dissemination of information and awareness raising about the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter and redress mechanisms, relevant to the priorities of the call;
  • Development of procedures, guidelines, technical benchmarks and tools, including for algorithm-audits, to help to protect fundamental rights, including gender equality and non-discrimination, where automation is used.

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

EU Member States, Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT)

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

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 1 applicant (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities).

In order to be eligible the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

  • For lead applicants (i.e., the “Coordinator”): be non-profit legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • For co-applicants: be non-profit or for profit legal entities (public or private bodies). Organisations which are for profit may apply only in partnership with private non-profit organisations
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))

Specific cases:

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

other eligibility criteria

Other eligibility conditions: 

  • Activities must take place in any of the eligible countries (EU Member States);
  • The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000;
  • The project can be either national or transnational; the application may involve one or more organisations (lead applicant and co-applicants). Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
  • Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

Additional information

Topics

Demographic Change, European Citizenship, Migration

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

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System (NOT the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).

Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:

  • 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 (templates available to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):
    • detailed budget table/calculator: not applicable
  • supporting documents (to be uploaded):
    • CVs (standard) of core project team;
    • the activity reports of last year (n/a for newly established organisations);
    • a list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B) (n/a for newly established organisations);
    • for any of the participants implementing activities involving children (persons under the age of 18): their child protection policy covering the four areas described in the Keeping Children Safe Child Safeguarding Standards.

Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B).

Call documents

CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI call documentCERV-2024-CHAR-LITI call document(556kB)

Contact

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