Empowering the EU! - MO Grants 2025
Empowering the EU is the Grant Programme that FYEG is launching in 2025. This programme is an opportunity for all candidates and full MOs to design and implement projects that will strengthen their capacity to protect and promote rights and EU values and to increase citizens' awareness on EU rights and values.
Call for Decentralised Projects 2025 - MO Grant Programme
FYEG is launching Empowering the EU, an opportunity for all its candidates and full MOs to design and implement in-person trainings, campaigns and dissemination activities to protect, promote and raise awareness about EU rights and values. The projects can be implemented at the local, regional or national level.
This activity is part of FYEG’s project “FYEG 2025: No One Behind”, supported by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme of the European Commission.
two different topics for the interested applicants to choose from:
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By applying to this grant topic, the MO will receive funds to organise and implement an in-person training / strategic meeting of its structures (board, secretariat, etc.) with the aim to develop a plan to strengthen the organisation and its capacities to promote EU values.
Budget for this topic: between 2,000 to 4,000 EUR per project.
The following activities will be considered for funding:
Offline strategic internal training to reinforce the organization's capacity to safeguard and advocate for EU rights and values. This activity must include a follow-up that increases the outreach of the green youth perspective at the national and European levels.
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The MOs applying to receive funds for this topic will have to design an online and/or offline campaign (printed material, campaign events, social media posts…) and/or dissemination activity (conferences, educational event, creation and publication of media…) on relevant issues connected to European rights and values.
Budget for this topic: between 5,000 to 10,000 EUR per project.
The following activities will be considered for funding:
Online and/or offline campaign about EU rights and values(including campaign materials, design of campaign materials, campaign actions and sponsored ads);
Online and/or offline awareness-raising and/or dissemination activity about EU rights and values (including conferences, educational events, media creation and production and publication)
The applicant can design a project with a bigger budget if needed, bear the extra expenses with its own resources or through other funders, and indicate the amount requested from FYEG.
This opportunity is also open to MOs established in non-EU states, for which different requirements apply including the possibility to lower the minimum amount granted by FYEG. Non-EU MOs interested in this programme are strongly advised to contact FYEG office before preparing their application in order to discuss the conditions.
With this activity, FYEG’s MOs have the possibility to:
organise dissemination activities and/or campaigns in their local contexts;
develop project management experience;
expand their understanding of EU rights and values and their effect on their communities, plus implement strategies to share and promote it;
identify relevant stakeholders at the institutional level and in social movements and establish channels and processes of cooperation to increase the outreach of the actions and the involvement of CSOs in decision-making processes.
FYEG will organise an online information session in January/February for all the interested MOs. This info-session will include a presentation of the Grant program with explanation of the practical details of the application and a Q&A session for potential applicants.
The applicant should design an activity according to the topic elected. This grant programme will be divided into two different topics, both of which focus on EU rights and values.
The projects must be implemented between the 1st of June 2025 and 31st of October 2025. If there was a need from the applicant to organise the event before this timeline, they should communicate it to the FYEG office before applying. The awarded organisation is responsible to submit the appropriate report as described in the call document as soon as possible, and latest one month after the implementation of the activity.
This grant will be considered as income for the calculation of the member organisation membership fee to FYEG in 2026 (calculated on the 2025 financial report).
Click HERE to download the document call, and make sure to read and understand it before starting to design your proposal. Only applications submitted through the appropriate channels and in the required formats before the 1st of April 2025 at 23:59 CET will be considered.
Please contact marta.marzaflorensa@fyeg.org in case of doubt.