€200,000 to €2.5M EU Daphne Grants

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers is funding projects that prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children, under the Daphne strand of its Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme. Registered organisations in the EU and eight associated countries can apply for a lump-sum grant covering 90 percent of a project in one of five priorities, from victim support and prevention to child protection and regranting to grassroots groups. The whole call shares €21 million.

What you get:

• An EU lump-sum grant worth 90 percent of your estimated project budget; your organisation or a partner covers the other 10 percent
• Priorities 2 to 5: €200,000 to €600,000 per project, for projects lasting 12 to 24 months
• Priority 1, for intermediaries that regrant to grassroots groups: €1,000,000 to €2,500,000 per project over 36 months, with typically 60 to 70 percent of it passed on to small organisations
• Normally an 80 percent prefinancing payment after the grant is signed, so you can start the work
• A fixed lump sum unlinked to actual costs, so there is no cost reporting
• Volunteers' time can be budgeted using the EU's unit cost for volunteers, and one in-person meeting with the Commission in Brussels can be budgeted for up to two people
• Indicative budgets: €8 million for priority 1, €4 million each for priorities 2 and 3, €2 million for priority 4 and €3 million for priority 5

What you'll do:

• Organisations only: legal entities, public or private. Individuals cannot apply, except self-employed sole traders
• Must be established in an EU Member State (including its overseas countries and territories) or in a country associated to the CERV programme: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia or Ukraine
• Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein do not take part in CERV; organisations from countries outside the list can join only as associated partners, which receive no EU funding
• International organisations are eligible wherever they are based, and all project activities must take place in eligible countries
• For priorities 1, 2, 3 and 5 the lead applicant must be non-profit (a public body, a private non-profit or an international organisation); for-profit organisations can take part only as partners
• Priority 4 must be led by a public authority at national, regional or local level, alone or with partners
• Priorities 2, 3 and 5 need a consortium of at least two applicants (affiliated entities and associated partners do not count); priorities 1 and 4 also accept a single applicant. Projects can be national or transnational
• Priority 5 must include a public authority in the consortium, as lead or partner
• Priority 1 applicants need at least three years of recent proven experience building the capacity of civil society organisations on gender-based violence or violence against children, plus recent experience awarding and managing grants in those fields
• One proposal per lead applicant across the whole call, or all of that applicant's proposals are rejected; joining other proposals as a partner is unlimited
• Your organisation and its partners must be able to fund 10 percent of the project; one partner can cover all of it
• Organisations whose activities involve children need a child protection policy covering the four areas of the Keeping Children Safe standards
• Organisations without legal personality can take part only exceptionally, if their representatives can take on legal obligations on their behalf
• Coordinators other than public bodies go through a financial capacity check if their proposal is selected