Comprehensive and inclusive support for women and girls' victims of GBV
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values · Cascade funding
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds experienced civil-society organisations in Italy, Greece and Spain to protect women, girls and children affected by gender-based violence.
- Who can apply
- Companies cannot apply: NGO.
- Amount
- €900,000Indicative budget
- Deadline
- 23 Nov 2026 16:00 CETin 30 days · +1 later cut-off
- Status
- Openopened 18 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
The CoPower project is implemented by Oxfam Italia ETS, Action Aid Hellas, Asociación Bienestar y Desarolloa and We World-GVC. It started on 1 March 2026 and will end on 28 February 2029.
Its objective is to strengthen the capacity of Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) to provide safe and inclusive services for victims of gender-based violence (GBV) against women, girls, and children in all their diversity across six European countries: Italy, Greece, Spain, Serbia, Romania, and Albania.
The project foresees three national calls, along with transnational calls involving the following country pairs: Italy–Serbia, Spain-Romania, and Greece-Albania. The national calls will fund at least 10 projects in Italy, 10 in Spain and 10 in Greece. The transnational calls will fund 5 projects for Italy and Serbia, 5 projects for Spain and Romania and 5 projects for Greece and Albania. Overall, a minimum of 60 CSOs will be engaged, fostering meaningful cross-country cooperation.
A comprehensive capacity-sharing programme for CSOs will include needs assessments, training, mentoring, and both national and international workshops to promote mutual learning and support in the full implementation of the EU Violence Against Women Directive.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- NGO
- Purpose
- Health and social
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- No
- Country limit
- Italy, Greece or Spain.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Optional
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Gender-based violence
- Victim protection
- Inclusive support services
- Women's rights
- Harmful practices prevention
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant restriction
- A co-applicant must be legally established for at least two years and have at least one year of experience in the listed fields.
- Applicant restriction
- Lead or single applicant must be legally established for at least two years and demonstrate at least two years of relevant experience in GBV prevention/response, women’s rights and/or human rights.
- Application restriction
- Current CoPower operator page lists national first-round deadline 23 Nov 2026 at 15:00 and second round 26 Feb 2027 at 15:00; these are child-call rounds and not the parent CERV topic status.
- Consortium members, maximum
- 3
- Consortium required
- No
- Eligible geography
- This CoPower child call supports civil-society organisations registered in Italy, Greece or Spain; this is the child operator route, not the parent CERV topic’s call status.
- Eligible project scope
- Eligible workstreams are enhanced protection response for women, girls and children who are victims of gender-based violence, with an intersectional approach, and reduction of harmful practices.
- Other condition
- Requested grant generally cannot exceed 40% of the applicant’s average income in the last two approved financial statements (not earlier than FY2023); this is an income-denominator limit, not an award amount.
- Other condition
- As a general rule, the requested grant may not exceed 40% of the average income recorded in the organisation’s last two approved financial statements.
- Other condition
- The operator page describes a broader programme-wide reach of at least 30 projects / 30 CSOs across Italy, Spain and Greece and EUR 900,000 disbursed; this broader programme figure is not substituted for the route-specific round pools.
- Project duration, maximum
- 16
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €900,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Call allocation
- €200,000
- Call allocation
- €100,000
Specific second round only; distinct from the first-round EUR 200,000 pool already recorded.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 18 Sept 2026
- Deadlines
- 23 Nov 2026 16:00 CET
- 01 Mar 2027 16:00 CET
- Deadline model
- Multiple cut-off
- Programme
- Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- Comprehensive and inclusive support for women and girls' victims of GBV
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 18 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.