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Commission programmes funding relevant projects combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life.

Funding programmes

With the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, the European Commission significantly increased funding opportunities in support of fighting antisemitism, fostering Jewish life, and Holocaust remembrance and education, through several funding programmes.The Commission publishes the new funding opportunities on this page and in its Newsletter on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life.

Currently open calls

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Previous calls for proposals

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)

  • Priority funding on combating antisemitism

Open until 20 June 2023: Call for proposals to promote equality and to fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination 
The European Commission published on 12 December 2022 the EQUAL call for 2023 as part of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme (CERV). The call budget was EUR 20 mio. This call funds projects preventing and addressing antisemitism as well as fostering Jewish life in line with the 2021 EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. The deadline for submission was 20 June 2023.

Please see the Call document for more information.

  • Priority funding for Holocaust remembrance, research and education

Open until 6 June 2023: Call for proposals on European Remembrance including remembrance, education and research on the Holocaust
For the very first time, the European Commission provided over EUR 10 million for projects on European Remembrance with a particular priority on strengthening Holocaust remembrance, education and research and combating Holocaust denial and distortion. 

Please see the Call document for more information. 

Internal Security Fund Programme (ISF)

  • Priority on protection of places of worship

Open until 11 May 2022: Call for proposals for actions on the protection of public spaces (including places of worship)

Security remains the concern number one for many Jewish communities. This call for proposals supported proposals on the protection of public spaces, in particular places of worship. The total budget for this call was EUR 14 500 000.

Horizon 2020

Under Horizon2020, the European Commission supported the project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” with around EUR 5 million. It is an innovation action that focused on the digital curation and preservation of film records relating to the discovery of Nazi concentration camps and other atrocity sites. The duration of the project was 4 years (2019 – 2022).

Protecting the Jewish cemeteries of Europe

Before World War II, more than seven million Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe. Jewish communities had existed there for centuries. Records show thousands of towns and villages with Jewish populations, which is also attested to by the establishment and use of independent burial sites owned by Jewish communities. Eighty years on, even the traces of many of these cemeteries have been lost, or they lie overgrown and unprotected, as a result of the annihilation of their communities in the Holocaust. In this regard, education about Jewish cultural heritage, as integral part of European, national and local cultural heritage is a key factor in preventing antisemitic stereotypes and prejudices to take roots and building up resilience against intolerance.

The EU co-funded the “Protecting the Jewish Cemeteries of Europe” project launched in December 2018 with the aim of mapping thousands of Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe and educate about the importance of Jewish cultural heritage. You can watch here the video of the project.