Rights of the child and children’s participation

Topic updates

28 October 2025

FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

Published: 17/12/2024

Deadline: 30/04/2025

Available budget: EUR 17.000.000

The results of the evaluation for each topic are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 502

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 7

Number of above-threshold proposals: 334

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 16.752.722,06 €

Number of proposals retained for funding: 30

Number of proposals in the reserve list: 6

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact: EACEA-CERV@ec.europa.eu

01 May 2025

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call CERV-2025-CHILD has closed on 30.04.2025.

502 proposals have been submitted.

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in October 2025.

Rights of the child and children’s participation

TOPIC ID: CERV-2025-CHILD

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme: Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)

Call: Rights of the child and children’s participation (CERV-2025-CHILD)

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: 16 January 2025

Deadline dates: 29 April 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

Scope:

This call for proposals aims at supporting, advancing and implementing comprehensive policies to protect and promote the rights of the child, including the right to participate. It responds to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU, through three priorities:

1. Children’s rights in the digital age
2. Children’s engagement and participation
3. Embedding a rights of the child perspective in actions at national and local level

This call focuses on the implementation of the actions and recommendations at EU, national and local levels of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child. It aims at responding to children’s current needs and challenges in the EU.

It pays attention to the rights of children with specific needs and vulnerabilities, including those who fled the Russian’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

Projects can be national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.

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