Annual operating grants 2026 to support EU level Networks active in the area: “Rights of persons with disabilities”

Annual operating grants 2026 to support EU level Networks active in the area: “Rights of persons with disabilities” is sponsored by European Commission (EC) - CERV. This call aims to promote, protect, and monitor the rights of persons with disabilities by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations.

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com/en/cart/) * Fundraising strategy & fund mapping * Project engineering & application preparation * Reporting and implementation support * Welcomeurope Hackathon: Build Your Project in Record Time * Our catalogue training courses * Our tailor-made training courses * Online training EUSKILLs * European grant programs # CERV – Annual operating grants 2026 to support EU level Networks active in the area: “Rights of persons with disabilities” – 2025 CERV – Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme aims at protecting and promoting EU rights and values and to contribute to sustaining and further developing open, rights-based, democratic, equal, and inclusive societies based on the rule of law.

Call reference CERV-2025-OG-DISA-SGA Programme CERV - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme Institution European Commission Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Education & Training Health Research & Innovation Beneficiaries Association & NGO ## Register for free to access the content ### Free access to all information Priorities and funded actions * To promote, protect and monitor the rights of persons with disabilities by providing financial support to EU-level networks of civil society organisations active in this area at local, regional, national and transnational level * To contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (ESRPD) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) * To support the Commission in putting the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 into practice * To organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the ESRPD and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe; * To build a stronger social Europe and ensure that people with disabilities can fully enjoy their rights * Priority 1: To contribute concretely and directly to the implementation of the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (ESRPD), with a particular focus on national and local level * Priority 2: To organise communication and engagement activities to raise awareness of the Strategy and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in Europe * Priority 3: To strengthen the capacity of national member organisations to enable them to actively contribute to the Strategy implementation * Priority 4: To provide concrete support to the European Semester process (at EU and national levels) **Among financed actions** * Be a public or private entity * Be a non-governmental, non-profit-making, and independent of industry, commercial and business or other conflicting interests * Have national member organisations in at least fourteen (14) Member States of the European Union * Be established in one of the eligible countries: * EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories) * Non-EU states: countries associated to the CERV Programme (Click here) * Only applications by single applicants are allowed **Additional information** * Initial duration of the action: 12 months * Contact: EC-CERV-CALLS@ec.

europa. eu * Other call documents: Click here * More information: Click here * Total budget of the call: 7. 700.

000 euros * Amount of the grant: between 100. 000 euros and 1. 500.

000 euros * Funding rate: up to 85% of the total eligible costs ## Need help with your public financing ?

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