# Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust, genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity to reinforce democracy in the EU
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**topic id:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME
**call id:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM
**title:** Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust, genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity to reinforce democracy in the EU
**programme:** Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-06-19T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME
**description:** Objective:
3. CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME - Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust, genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity to reinforce democracy in the EU
Projects under this topic should focus on the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, including Roma and LGBTIQ people, as well as other genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity of the 20th century’s Europe. 
Projects under this topic should NOT address the Holocaust against Jewish people which is covered by Topic 2.
The European Union is founded on the principles of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, and the rule of law. Europe’s 20th century was marked by horrific crimes, genocides including Holocaust, war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as the crimes committed under authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, including those of communist and fascist dictatorships. The remembrance of these gravest crimes committed on European soil plays a critical role in upholding these values.
Strengthening collective memory of such crimes contributes not only to preventing their recurrence but also to reinforcing democratic resilience, fostering civic engagement, and building a common European culture of remembrance.
The legacy of these crimes requires continuous sharing, remembering, teaching as well as research. Education targeting all generations, in particular young people on the importance of safeguarding democracy and fundamental rights should draw on the lessons from these crimes. This also implies countering distortion, denial and trivialisation of the historical facts.
Among these atrocities, the Roma Holocaust—often overlooked or insufficiently acknowledged—requires dedicated attention. Remembering the Roma Holocaust (Porajmos) and other genocides is essential not only to honour the victims and survivors but also to address its lasting impact on the situation of Roma today who are significantly lagging behind in all areas of life. The continued presence of antigypsyism and structural discrimination underscores the urgent need to integrate Roma history and memory into broader European narratives. The importance of initiatives raising awareness on the Roma genocide, advancing reconciliation efforts, helping to challenge prejudice is recalled by the EU Roma Strategic Framework and its aligned Council Recommendation. 
During the Holocaust, amongst other minorities, LGBTIQ people were also persecuted by the Nazi regime, and were often imprisoned in concentration camps. In addition, many LGBTIQ people suffered severe abuse and forced labour, facing marginalization both during and after the war, with their experiences largely unrecognized for decades. As a result, the history of LGBTIQ persons in Europe is marked by both struggle and resilience, shaped by periods of persecution as well as progress toward equality. The preservation and recognition of LGBTIQ history and memory are essential to building an inclusive European identity rooted in dignity, diversity, and human rights, thus acknowledging their vital role in Europe's democratic and cultural legacy.
Projects under this topic could focus on:
• Addressing how genocides, including Holocaust, war crimes and crimes against humanity were organised, which actors were involved and how they were committed, the roles of collaborators, perpetrators and bystanders.
• Finding new ways of remembering, educating and teaching about these crimes to protect society against resurging threats of hatred, such as racism, xenophobia, antigypsyism and LGBTIQ phobia. They can include artistic work on Holocaust-related memory projects, as well as stimulating memory activism. These new methods should be inclusive, where applicable participatory and create an enabling learning environment.
• Countering historical falsification and memory competition related to the genocide of the Roma and other genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially among Europeans that shared a common history but have divergent views on their common past.
• Countering denial, distortion, trivialization, and especially on false comparisons.
• Addressing divergent and opposite national historical narratives, on regional basis, of these darkest hours of Europe history and other negative common shared historical events.
• Promoting memory activism by supporting grassroot commemorative work.
• digitalising historical material and testimonies of witnesses for education and training purposes.
• Fostering intergenerational dialogue by involving young people and older generations in transmitting the memory and understanding.
• Engaging newcomers and migrants and teach about Europe’s history of genocides, including Holocaust, war crimes and crimes against humanity, contributing to a shared understanding of the values underpinning the European Union.
• Foster awareness raising, mutual learning or training activities that accurately reflect the persecution of Roma, LGBTIQ people, and other minorities during the Holocaust and other times in the history.
 For further information about the call and its conditions, please see the Call document.
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the Call document.
Proposal page limits and layout:
• 70 pages as decribed in the section "5. Admissibility and documents" of the Call document
• Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
Described in the section "6. Eligibility" of the Call document.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
Described in the section "6. Eligibility" of the Call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in the section “7. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion” of the Call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
Described in the sections “8. Evaluation and award procedure” and “11. How to submit an application” of the Call document.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Described in the section “9. Award criteria” of the Call document.

5. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
Described in the section "4. Timetable and deadlines" of the Call document.

Publication of the call: 19 June 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 1 October 2025, 17:00 CET (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: October 2025 - March 2026.
Information to applicants: March 2026.
Signature of grant agreement: April - July 2026.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Described in the section “10. Legal and financial set-up of the Grant Agreements” of the Call document.

Call document and annexes:
 Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (CERV) — The application form specific to this call is available in in the Funding: Submission Service by clicking on Start Submission.
Calculator (CERV LS REM, CIV and NETW) - The form to use is available in the Funding: Submission Service by clicking on Start Submission. The European Remembrance call is a lump sum call. The lump sums are based on participation, number of countries and type of events [i.e. in-situ or online]. The use of the lump sum calculator is mandatory to calculate the budget. The total of the budget calculated with the lump sum calculator must correspond with the total of the budget in the part A of the proposal.
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 

Additional documents:
 CERV Work Programmes
CERV Regulation 2021/692
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
DECISION authorising the use of lump sums for actions under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (2021-2027)
**action type:** CERV Lump Sum Grants
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          - 2025-10-01
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**keywords:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME, CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM, Authoritarian regimes, Civil society, Crimes against humanity, Democracy, Discrimination, Equality, Europe in a changing world, Extremism, Fake-news, Gender, Genocide, Healing of society, Holocaust, Holocaust denial and distortion, Human rights, Inter-cultural dialogue, LGBTQ+, Minorities, Multicultural European societies, Oppression, Organised opposition, Persecution, Political systems and institutions, governance, Populism, Racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance, Radicalism, Raising awarness of children and/or young people, Reconciliation, Roma, Rule of law, Societal division, Solidarity, Totalitarian regimes, Violence, War, War crimes, Youth
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