The eligibility criteria and the application procedure for the European Commission’s Civil Society Facility are mentioned below.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a legal person and
- be non-profit-making and
- be a specific type of organisation such as:
- civil society organisations, including non-governmental non-profit organisation and
- independent political foundations, community based organisations, and private sector nonprofit
- agencies, institutions and organisations, and networks thereof at local, national,
- regional and international level;
- public sector non-profit agencies, institutions and organisations and networks at local,
- national, regional and international levels;
- be established in a Member State of the European Union or in Israel and;
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
- The lead applicant must act with co-applicants that participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
- The lead applicant (and if requested its co-applicants) may act with affiliated entity(ies)
- that include:
- Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
- Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
- Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
How to Apply
- The application procedure consist of two phases:
- Concept Notes
- Full Applications
- In the first instance, only concept notes must be submitted for evaluation. Thereafter, lead applicants who have been pre-selected will be invited to submit a full application.
For more information, please visit Civil Society Facility and download the guidelines.
