Call: Daphne call - Action grants to support transnational projects on the elimination of corporal punishment for children

The general objective of the Programme shall be to contribute, in accordance with Article 4 of the Treaty on the EU (TEU), to the further development of an area where equality and the rights of persons as enshrined in the TEU, in the Treaty of the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), in the Charter of fundamental rights of the EU and in the international human rights conventions to which the Union has acceded, are promoted, protected and effectively implemented. The Programme follows 9 Specific objectives:

1. Promote non–discrimination
2. Combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance
3. Promote rights of persons with disabilities
4. Promote equality between women and men and gender mainstreaming
5. Prevent violence against children, young people, women and other groups at risk (Daphne)
6. Promote the rights of the child
7. Ensure the highest level of data protection
8. Promote the rights deriving from Union citizenship
9. Enforce consumer rights

The Daphne III programme aims to contribute to the protection of children, young people and women against all forms of violence and attain a high level of health protection, well-being and social cohesion. Its specific objective is to contribute to the prevention of, and the fight against all forms of violence occurring in the public or the private domain, including sexual exploitation and trafficking of human beings. Lastly, it also aims to take preventive measures and provide support and protection for victims and groups at risk.

The aim of this call is to prevent and combat violence in the form of corporal punishment against children and to protect child victims of such violence. The priority of the call is to contribute to the elimination of corporal punishment of children. This call is addressed to organisations registered in EU Member States that have already enacted a total prohibition on the corporal punishment of children and aims to support prohibition in law with the necessary flanking measures. Projects under this priority must fully engage governments in multi-agency action. Projects must include a qualitative assessment component to measure the impact of project activities with a view to disseminating information on what works more widely in the EU.

Applicants and partners must be legally constituted public or private organisations, or international organisations. Bodies set up by the European Union falling under Article 208 of the Financial Regulations (EU bodies and institutions) are not eligible for funding and cannot submit applications. They can be associated with an application, but their costs will not be co-financed.

Only legally constituted organisations can participate. Natural persons (private individuals) are not allowed to submit applications. The applicant must be non-profit-oriented. Bodies and organisations which are profit-oriented shall have access to grants only as partners.

‘Non-profit organisation’ can be:

1. a legal entity that is by its legal form non-profit-making; or
2. has a legal or statutory obligation not to distribute profits to its shareholders or individual members. The provision that profits will not be distributed must be clearly stipulated either in the law or in the statutes of the organisation; decisions on (not) distributing profits made by its managing board, associates, stakeholders, members or representatives are not sufficient proof of the non-profit nature. 

The application must involve organisations from at least three participating countries (applicant and co-applicants); 

Projects must be transnational and should be elaborated in partnership with and/or be led by key players, such as ministries and/or agencies responsible for children (e.g. ministries for children, education, health, child protection agency, social affairs), child rights organisations, children's ombudspersons and national human rights institutes for children, etc. Furthermore, one public authority per participating country must either be involved in the project (as applicant or partner) or express in writing its support to the application. 

The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than 75 000 €. There is no upper limit;

Maximum possible rate of EU co-financing of the eligible costs: 80%.

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