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

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:

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.

Publication of the call: 17 December 2024.

Deadline for submitting applications: 29 April 2025, 17:00 (Brussels time).

Evaluation period: May-October 2025.

Information to applicants: October 2025.

Signature of grant agreement: December 2025-January 2026.