€200,000 to €2.5M EU Daphne Grants
- Organization: European Commission
- Type: Other
- Location: Global
- Deadline: November 3, 2026
- Funding: Partially Funded
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:** - Pick one of the five priorities; each proposal can address only one - Priority 1: as an intermediary, run open calls that give up to €60,000 to each small grassroots group working on gender-based violence or violence against children, and build their capacity - Priority 2: protect and support victims and survivors, for example through one-stop shops, children's houses (Barnahus), rape crisis centres, or tools that help authorities respond quickly and prevent femicides - Priority 3: prevent gender-based violence, for example with consent education that engages men and boys, digital literacy against cyber violence, perpetrator programmes, or tackling stereotypes in the media - Priority 4, for public authorities only: train judges, lawyers, police, court staff and health, social and education professionals to apply the EU Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence - Priority 5: strengthen child protection systems so that education, social services, health, justice and other sectors work together against violence towards children, with children taking part in the project and a public authority in the consortium - Run practical activities such as awareness campaigns, training, support services, protocols and tools, and exchange of good practice; projects that are mainly research are not funded - Apply online through the EU Funding and Tenders Portal with Part A (organisations and budget), Part B (a project description of up to 45 pages, or 70 for priority 1), the KPI tool, a detailed budget table and the annexes - Once funded, report progress at mid-term and ask people at your events to fill in the EU Survey on Justice, Rights and Values **Key dates:** - 7 July 2026: call opened - Monday 14 September 2026, 14:00 to 17:30 CET: online information session in English on Webex; registration is optional and the session will not be recorded - 3 November 2026, 17:00 Brussels time: applications close, according to the call document - 5 November 2026, 17:00 CET: the later deadline given in a portal update of 17 August 2026; aim for 3 November to be safe - November 2026 to May 2027: evaluation - May 2027: results - June to July 2027: grant agreements signed **More information:** - The 49-page call document sets out every condition: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/cerv/wp-call/2026/call-fiche_cerv-2026-daphne_en.pdf - Each topic page carries the latest call updates, a public Q&A and a partner search for finding consortium members - Every organisation in the consortium needs an EU Login account and a nine-digit participant identification code (PIC) from the EU Participant Register before you submit - You can write the proposal in any official EU language, but the summary must be in English and the Commission strongly advises English throughout - Evaluators score relevance (40 points, with a 25-point minimum), quality (40) and impact (20); a proposal needs 70 of 100 to be considered for funding - Questions go to your country's CERV Contact Point or to EC-CERV-CALLS@ec.europa.eu, after checking the call document and the portal FAQs
