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

Funding Program	Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme
Call number	CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER
deadlines	Opening 24.01.2023	Deadline 25.05.2023 17:00
Funding rate	90%
Call budget	€ 16,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project	no limit
Link to the call	ec.europa.eu
Link to the submission	ec.europa.eu

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short description	This call for proposals will promote right 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. Projects will be selected to ensure a balanced representation of the five priorities. Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.
Call objectives	The Charter Strategy underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter in the Member States, in particular through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives. The projects funded under this priority could address the needs on capacity building and awareness raising on the Charter in general, or they could focus on one or several of the thematics 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 nature of this instrument, in comparison with other international Treaties protecting fundamental rights, 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 a good understanding both of the rights enshrined in the Charter and of the situations in which the Charter applies, i.e. when EU law is being implemented. 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 will aim to develop guidelines (including measures that ensure gendersensitive implementation), technical benchmarks and tools, including for algorithm-audits6 . 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). read more
Expected effects and impacts	Increased awareness and better use of the Charter by CSOs, NHRIs, equality bodies, Ombuds Institutions, other rights defenders, and Member State authorities; Improved knowledge of available redress mechanisms under national and EU law, and how to make the best use of them for the benefit of rights holders; Improved cooperation between CSOs, NHRIs, Equality bodies, Ombuds Institutions, other rights defenders and Member State authorities on Charter-related issues; Increased prevention, mitigation, detection of and redress for breaches of fundamental rights, including algorithmic discrimination; 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. read more
Expected results	The following activities can be covered: Capacity building of civil society organisations and awareness raising activities aiming to increase the knowledge and the use of the EU Charter, including its gender dimension, especially on its scope of application; Facilitating cooperation between civil society organisations and other key actors in 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), 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; Analytical activities, such as sex-disaggregated data collection and research, and the creation of tools or data bases (e.g. thematic databases of jurisprudence); Communication activities, including dissemination of information and awareness raising about rights 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. read more

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 can be submitted by one or more organisations (lead applicant “Coordinator” and co-applicants). In order to be eligible, the applicants (lead applicants “Coordinator”, co-applicants and affiliated entities) must: For lead applicants (i.e. the “Coordinator”): be non-profit legal entities (private bodies) For co-applicants: be non-profit or profit legal entities (public or private bodies). Organisations which are profit-oriented may apply only in partnership with private non-profit organisations; be formally established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) other eligibility conditions: Activities must take place in any of the eligible countries 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). Programme Contact Points are eligible as coordinator or beneficiary in open calls, if they have procedures to segregate the project management and the information provision functions and if they are able to demonstrate cost separation (i.e. that their project grants do not cover any costs which are covered by their other grant). This requires the following: use of analytical accounting which allows for a cost accounting management with cost allocation keys and cost accounting codes AND application of these keys and codes to identify and separate the costs (i.e. to allocate them to either one of the two grants) recording of all real costs incurred for the activities that are covered by the two grants (including the indirect costs) allocation of the costs in a way that leads to a fair, objective and realistic result.
other eligibility criteria	The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than € 75,000.00. Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

Additional information

Topics	Administration & Governance, Institutional Capacity & Cooperation, Demographic Change, European Citizenship, Migration, Education & Training, Children & Youth, Media, Equal Rights, Human Rights, People with Disabilities, Social Inclusion
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	12-24 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) Application Form Part C (to be filled in directly online) containing additional project data including mandatory indicators mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded): CVs (standard) of core project team the coordinator's activity report of last year (n/a for newly established organisations) the coordinator's list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (n/a for newly established organisations) for any of the participants implementing activities involving children (person 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-2023-CHAR-LITI_call document-EN (531kB)
Contact	CERV Nationale Kontakstelle Österreich +43 1 531 15–202907 ernst.holzinger@bka.gv.at Website CERV Contact Points 2021-2027 Website

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