CERV-CIV Citizens' Engagement and Participation: the application, step by step

What it is

Citizens' engagement and participation is a CERV call with three topics: free, fair and inclusive electoral processes; citizens' active engagement and democratic participation in public policymaking, beyond elections; and countering disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference. Who may lead a project depends on the sub-priority chosen. The grant is a prefixed lump sum per event, from €75,000 with no maximum.

Who can apply

It depends on the sub-priority. Sub-priorities 1.1 and 2.1, and priority 3: the lead applicant must be a non-profit private legal entity or a public university. Sub-priority 1.2: a national public body competent in electoral matters. Sub-priority 2.2: a local or regional public body. Co-applicants in every case: non-profit legal entities (public or private bodies) or international organisations. All must be established in an EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories) or a country associated to the CERV Programme.

Partnership

At least 2 applicants from 2 different eligible countries (lead applicant and at least one co-applicant, not being an affiliated entity or associated partner). Under sub-priority 1.2 a single applicant is allowed, and the project can be national or transnational.

Duration

Normally 12 to 24 months.

Grant

From €75,000, with no maximum. The grant is a prefixed lump sum: one lump sum per work package, and one work package per event.

Deadlines

Deadlines are set in each call. Check the current deadline on the call's topic page on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

How many applications

The lead applicant cannot submit more than one application under this call for proposals, across all priorities/topics. If it does, all its proposals are rejected.

How it is scored

To be considered for funding a proposal must score at least 70 points out of 100 overall, and reach the individual threshold of 25 on Relevance. The other criteria have no individual threshold.

Proposals that pass the individual threshold for the criterion ‘Relevance’ AND the overall threshold will be considered for funding — within the limits of the available budget (i.e. up to the budget ceiling). Other proposals will be rejected.

Proposals with equal scores are prioritised by their score for ‘Relevance’, then ‘Quality’, then ‘Impact’.

The form structure

Part B, the technical description, in the order of the CERV Part B template (V3.0). Part A — administrative data and the lump-sum budget — is filled in online on the Funding & Tenders Portal. In AvenEU you first choose the topic and sub-priority, which the call requires but Part B does not ask.

1. 1.Project summary
   • See Abstract (Application Form Part A)
2. 2.1. Relevance
   • 1.1 Background and general objectives
   • 1.2 Needs analysis and specific objectives
   • 1.3 Complementarity with other actions and innovation — European added value
3. 3.2. Quality
   • 2.1 Concept and methodology
   • 2.2 Consortium set-up
   • 2.3 Project teams, staff and experts
   • 2.4 Consortium management and decision-making
   • 2.5 Project management, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation strategy
   • 2.6 Cost effectiveness and financial management
   • 2.7 Risk management
4. 4.3. Impact
   • 3.1 Impact and ambition
   • 3.2 Communication, dissemination and visibility
   • 3.3 Sustainability and continuation
5. 5.4. Work plan, work packages, activities, resources and timing
   • 4.1 Work plan
   • 4.2 Work packages, activities, resources and timing
6. 6.5. Other
   • 5.1 Ethics and EU values
   • 5.2 Security
7. 7.6. Declarations
8. 8.Annexes

How you write it in AvenEU

• ✦Part B section by section, with every question of the template and an estimate of the pages your text fills against the call's 70-page limit.
• ✦EUri analyses each section against the call's own award criteria, including the individual threshold on Relevance.
• ✦EUri states the lead-applicant and consortium rule of the sub-priority you choose.
• ✦An event lump-sum calculator: each event's amount from the CERV lump-sum decision, from its participants and countries, with the total checked against the call's minimum.
• ✦Partner suggestions from Erasmus+ data, filtered to the countries CERV admits, with the call's own rule on who may take part.
• ✦A Word file of Part B that keeps the template's instructions and processing tags, ready to move into the official template.