# Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people
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**topic id:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-HOLOCAUSTJEW
**call id:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM
**title:** Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people
**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-HOLOCAUSTJEW
**description:** Objective:
2. CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-HOLOCAUSTJEW - Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people
The Shoah is a defining legacy for the EU. Six million Jewish children, women and men were murdered, and all others were persecuted. While other groups were persecuted, the Nazis have set up across Europe and beyond a state policy with the sole aim to kill every single Jews they could find.
First-hand accounts of the Shoah continue to have the most powerful impact on following generations. As there are less and less survivors to share the story of their survival, the importance of memorial sites and education increases, as well as the work done by second and third generations of survivors and associations.
Current events show the growing instrumentalization of the Holocaust by Kremlin propaganda claiming to denazify Ukraine. In parallel, there is also a politicization of the Holocaust in several EU Member States, and a tendency to minimize the atrocities of the Shoah. In addition, since the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas, we have seen a growing conflation of the Shoah with the conflicts in the Middle East. Citizens should be empowered to counter this conflation.
Holocaust distortion fuels antisemitism. In addition, hate speech relating to the condoning, denial or gross trivialisation of the Holocaust is prohibited under the Council Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.
Wounds of mass atrocities of the 20th century are still open today, fuelling divergences among Europeans. Free, open and independent research, education and memory on all aspects of the Shoah is essential to increase understanding. This includes telling the story of collaborators, bystanders, and saviours. This implies exploring Europe’s negative history with the aim to reconcile divergent and alternative regional and national narratives related to the Shoah and its immediate aftermath.
European citizens should become ambassadors of this memory. Teachers, policy-makers, university students (especially history students) could be among key target audiences and be empowered to develop a common European history, to counter historical falsification, distortion and inversion. Target groups could include newcomers and migrants that do not have a direct link with the Shoah. Target groups could also include journalists, to raise awareness about Holocaust distortion and Holocaust-related contemporary events (such as for example Neo-Nazi marches).
In line with the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life (2021-2030), as well as with other key policy initiatives, this topic supports projects that can focus on developing networks of Young European Ambassadors to promote Shoah remembrance. This topic will also support projects that develop and support networks that use places of memory, ‘where the Holocaust happened’ for educational purposes.
Projects under this topic could focus on:
• Addressing how the Shoah took place, how the crimes were committed, which actors were involved, the roles of collaborators and bystanders, as well as the roles of saviours and Righteous among the Nations. As well as pre-war and immediate postwar historical developments.
• Countering Holocaust denial, distortion, trivialisation and victims’ inversion. This includes countering false comparisons, conspiracy theories propagated online, and conflation with the Middle East conflict.
• Countering historical falsification and memory competition related to the Shoah, especially among Europeans that shared a common history but have divergent views on their common past.
• Addressing divergent and opposite national historical narratives, on regional basis, of the history of the Shoah, including parallelism with other negative common shared historical regional events.
• Promoting memory activism related to the Shoah including by supporting grassroot commemorative work.
• Digitalising historical material and testimonies of witnesses for education and training purposes.
• Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and national Holocaust remembrance days.
• Combating glorification of Nazism, countering neo-Nazis manifestations and activities.
• Promoting provenance research on looted art to foster awareness raising, mutual learning or training activities.
 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)
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**keywords:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-HOLOCAUSTJEW, CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM, Authoritarian regimes, Civil society, Combatting Anti-Semitism, Crimes against humanity, Democracy, Discrimination, Equality, Europe in a changing world, Extremism, Fake-news, Fostering Jewish Life, 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, Rule of law, Societal division, Solidarity, Totalitarian regimes, Violence, War, War crimes, Youth
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