Research
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 is the EU research and innovation programme. The main Horizon 2020 work programme comprises 18 thematic sections. The thematic section for societal challenge includes funding for research projects on the themes of inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, addressing social exclusion, discrimination and various forms of inequality. The programme also covers projects dealing with memory, identities, tolerance and cultural heritage.
Horizon 2020 open calls for proposals
Budget: €77 billion
Eligible actions
Eligible projects cover inequalities in the EU and their consequences for democracy, social cohesion and inclusion, radicalisation, democratic discourse and the rule of law, religious diversity in Europe and European cultural heritage.
Eligible applicants
Eligible applicants include universities, research institutes, public authorities as well as small businesses. For more information, please consult the website and the video.
Examples of projects
MYPLACE (Total Investment: €9,968,172. EU contribution: €7,994,449)
The project explores how young people’s social participation is shaped by totalitarianism and populism in Europe.
MigRom (Total investment: €3,278,504. EU contribution: €2,487,903)
MigRom is a European research consortium led by the University of Manchester (UK). The researchers are specialists in the study of Romani society and culture and the relations between Roma and non-Roma. All research teams have staff of Romani background.
CITISPYCE (Total investment: €3,042,746. EU contribution: €2,496,684)
The project addresses widening social inequality and the disproportionate impact of the global economic crisis on young people.
ACCEPT PLURALISM (Total investment: €3,444,706. EU contribution: €2,600,230)
The project investigates tolerance in European societies over the past 20 years. ACCEPT PLURALISM produced a report on tolerance and cultural diversity in Europe, a handbook on ideas of tolerance and cultural diversity in Europe, a tolerance indicators toolkit, and a book on tolerance, pluralism and cultural diversity in Europe.
Edu MAP: Adult education as a means for active participatory citizenship (Total investment: €2,498,112. EU contribution: €2,498,112)
The EduMAP project looks at policies and practices for adult education, with the aim of including young adults in active participatory citizenship in Europe. The project will look at the efficacy of the European adult education system in preventing social exclusion and compile an inventory of successful initiatives and communicative practices in and outside the EU.
Education
Erasmus+ programme
Since 2014, Erasmus+ brings together seven existing EU programmes in the fields of education, training, and youth. It also supports sport for the first time. Erasmus+ aims to boost skills and employability, as well as modernising education, training, and youth work.
Details on the conditions of the published calls for proposals can be found in the Erasmus+ programme guide (pdf).
Budget: €14.7 billion
Eligible actions
The programme covers mobility projects for students and staff in different types of education such as traineeships, youth exchanges, volunteering, Erasmus Mundus joint master degrees, Erasmus+ master loans, strategic partnerships, knowledge and sector skills alliances, and capacity building in the field of higher education. Also, the programme promotes voluntary activities in sport, social inclusion and equal access to sport for all. A special focus is on projects supporting social inclusion of refugees and migrants, as well as preventing radicalisation.
Eligible applicants
In general, the programme is open to any organisation active in the fields of education, training, youth or sport. Several actions are also open other organisations on the labour market.
Information on the application process can be obtained through the national agency.
Examples of projects
10 Commandments of tolerance in Europe
Throughout the project, students and teachers discovered differences in the level of (in)tolerance between the partners. To conclude the project, the partners constructed the Ten Commandments of a Tolerant Europe.
20 young European and Turkish musicians followed the track of the Orient Express train stolen by the German Empire during the 1st World War. The Balkanzug was used for propaganda and material support to build Europe through military power. The group of young musicians re-imagined a Europe built on peace, humanism, fraternity and transmission of knowledge.
The project aimed to promote intercultural tolerance, combat xenophobic and extreme far right tendencies, as well as to consolidate democratic and civil society structures in Germany and Bulgaria.
Fundamental rights
Rights, equality and citizenship programme
The Rights, equality and citizenship programme aims to promote the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as well as to prevent and combat racism, xenophobia, homophobia and other forms of intolerance.
For more information on the open calls for proposal, please consult the website.
Budget: €439 million
Eligible applicants
All public or private organisations, international organisations from all EU countries, as well as Iceland and Liechtenstein are eligible. Profit-oriented organisations can participate in the programme only as part of a consortium with non-profit or public organisations.
Eligible actions
Eligible actions include training activities, mutual learning, cooperation activities, exchange of good practices, peer reviews, development of ICT tools, awareness-raising activities, dissemination, conferences, support for principal actors such as European NGOs and authorities in EU countries that implement Union law and analytical activities.
Examples of projects
ENAR (Total investment: €1,000,573. EU contribution: €800,450)
ENAR aims to mobilise members of marginalised communities and to combat racism and intolerance at the national and local levels. Other objectives are strengthening the principle of equal treatment in employment by raising awareness of structural discrimination, and sharing best practices with employers.
PRISM (Total investment €632,749.44)
This project has been implemented implemented in 5 EU countries (Italy, France, Spain, Romania and UK). tIt aims to map hate speech online and on social media, monitor online hate speech through data collection, develop effective tools to counter online discrimination and harassment, and raise awareness on hate speech.
Lifecycle of a Hate Crime (Total investment: €528,000)
This project will examine the application of criminal law and sentencing provisions for hate crimes across 5 EU countries, capturing best practice in the actionsused to combat hate crime across Europe.
Promoting best practices to prevent racism and xenophobia towards migrants through community building (Total investment: €328,000)
The project will identify and promote best practices to prevent racism and xenophobia against migrants in 9 different European countries through community building programmes.
MANDOLA (Total investment: €918,000)
The project will monitor online hate speech in Europe in order to inform future policies and decision makers. It will also develop tools for people to deal with online hate speech.
Creating an online network, monitoring team and phone app to ounter hate crime actics(CONTACT) (EU grant: €560,884)
The project aims to promote cooperation on reporting and monitoring of online hate speech within European countries. It will also facilitate cooperation between NGOs, universities specialising in research on discrimination, and key stakeholders such as the Ombudspersons.
Research Report Remove (Total investment: €1 million)
The project focuses on countering cyber hate. It aims to create standards for the assessment of cyber hate on social media, for content guidelines for internet service providers (ISPs) and social media to promote guidance and recommendations for effective counter strategies to cyber hate.
The project also seeks to create a central system and contact point to file online complaints. Partners from 16 EU countries are participating in this project.