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Call Town Twinning 2025
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Location:EU 27
Funding agency:
Grantmaking entity: EACEA - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
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Objectives: The Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) aims to promote intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding across Europe through Town Twinning proj...
Eligibility criteria: To be eligible for the Town Twinning grant under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV), applicants must ensure compliance with the detailed eligibility conditions stated in the call documents. The progra...
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Topic updates
19 September 2025
PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT has closed on 17.09.2025.
480 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in March 2025.
21 August 2025
Q&A Session: Call for proposals Town Twinning (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TT) (via Webex) 04/09/2025 (9h30-11h).
You can joint the session at https://ecconf.webex.com/ecconf/j.php?MTID=m77568b08c01021be8c9fd5b457bd2acf.
23 April 2025
ONLINE INFO SESSION: CALL FOR PROPOSALS TOWN TWINNING (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT) (via Webex) 14/05/2025 (9h30-12h).
You can connect at https://ecconf.webex.com/ecconf/j.php?MTID=m87c5a1a05fad61603b8a678d58f9cc41
20 March 2025
CALL DOCUMENT TRANSLATIONS
Translations into 23 EU official languages of the Call document for CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT are available: Call for proposals Town Twinning (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT) | European Education and Culture Executive Agency
https://www.eacea.ec.europa.eu/document/bf29fd56-58e3-4d50-8855-57980fe64a32_en
Call Town Twinning 2025
TOPIC ID: CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)
Call: Call for proposals for Town Twinning (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT)
Type of action: CERV-LS CERV Lump Sum Grants
Type of MGA: CERV Lump Sum Grant [CERV-AG-LS]
Status: Forthcoming
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 09 April 2025
Deadline dates: 17 September 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Objective:
The programme helps to promote intercultural dialogue by bringing people of different nationalities and different languages together and giving them the opportunity to participate in common activities. In this context, Town-Twinning projects will raise awareness of the richness of Europe's cultural and linguistic environment and promote mutual understanding and respect, contributing to the development of a respectful, dynamic and multifaceted European identity and the respect of common values, democracy and fundamental rights.
In view of this overall objective, the projects may address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive):
- The EU is built on solidarity: solidarity between its citizens, solidarity across borders between its Member States, and solidarity through support actions in and beyond the EU. Solidarity is a shared value that creates cohesion and responds to societal challenges. Town-Twinning projects will help to overcome national perceptions by fostering mutual understanding and by creating fora where common solutions can be discussed in a constructive way. Their aim should be to raise awareness of the importance of reinforcing the European integration process based on solidarity and EU values;
- Town-Twinning projects will give citizens the opportunity to express what kind of Europe they want. Debates supported under the Town-Twinning measure should be based on the EU's specific achievements and on lessons learnt from history and from European integration. They should also reflect on current trends, and enable participants to challenge euroscepticism and to suggest possible actions that the EU could take to foster a sense of belonging to Europe, to increase an understanding of the benefits of the EU and to reinforce the EU's social and political cohesion.
Projects aiming at benefiting not only the direct participants but also the citizens of the participating towns are particularly encouraged, as these can help to multiply the practical experience of the richness and diversity of the common heritage of the Union. Also, there may be a general, but not exclusive, reflection on any impact the COVID-19 pandemic may have had on life within the applicants’ local communities, on the way in which their communities function and on the forms that civic participation and solidarity took in the applicants’ towns under the COVID-19 crisis and how these forms could become sustainable in the future. Projects may also draw inspiration from or be related to the New European Bauhaus initiative.
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
described in thecall document.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described in the call document.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.
5. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document.
Publication of the call: 09 February 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 17 September 2025 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period:October 2025 - February 2026
Information to applicants:March 2026
Signature of grant agreement:April/May 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
n/a
Call document
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (CERV) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (CERV OG) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (CERV FPA OG) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget table (CERV LSII)
Calculator (CERV LS REM, CIV and NETW)
Calculator (CERV LS TownTT)
Calculator (CERV LS NCP)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
CERV MGA
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Operating Grants MGA
Framework Partnership Agreement FPA
Additional documents:
CERV Work Programmes
CERV Regulation 2021/692
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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