# Call Town Twinning 2025
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**topic id:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT
**call id:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT
**title:** Call Town Twinning 2025
**programme:** Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT
**description:** Objective:
The programme helps to promote intercultural dialogue by bringing people of different nationalities and different languages together and giving them the opportunity to participate in common activities. In this context, Town-Twinning projects will raise awareness of the richness of Europe's cultural and linguistic environment and promote mutual understanding and respect, contributing to the development of a respectful, dynamic and multifaceted European identity and the respect of common values, democracy and fundamental rights.
In view of this overall objective, the projects may address the following topics (the list is not exhaustive):
- The EU is built on solidarity: solidarity between its citizens, solidarity across borders between its Member States, and solidarity through support actions in and beyond the EU. Solidarity is a shared value that creates cohesion and responds to societal challenges. Town-Twinning projects will help to overcome national perceptions by fostering mutual understanding and by creating fora where common solutions can be discussed in a constructive way. Their aim should be to raise awareness of the importance of reinforcing the European integration process based on solidarity and EU values;
- Town-Twinning projects will give citizens the opportunity to express what kind of Europe they want. Debates supported under the Town-Twinning measure should be based on the EU's specific achievements and on lessons learnt from history and from European integration. They should also reflect on current trends, and enable participants to challenge euroscepticism and to suggest possible actions that the EU could take to foster a sense of belonging to Europe, to increase an understanding of the benefits of the EU and to reinforce the EU's social and political cohesion.
Projects aiming at benefiting not only the direct participants but also the citizens of the participating towns are particularly encouraged, as these can help to multiply the practical experience of the richness and diversity of the common heritage of the Union. Also, there may be a general, but not exclusive, reflection on any impact the COVID-19 pandemic may have had on life within the applicants’ local communities, on the way in which their communities function and on the forms that civic participation and solidarity took in the applicants’ towns under the COVID-19 crisis and how these forms could become sustainable in the future. Projects may also draw inspiration from or be related to the New European Bauhaus initiative.
**conditions:** Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in the call document.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described in the call document.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document.

5. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document.

Publication of the call: 09 February 2025.
Deadline for submitting applications: 17 September 2025 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: October 2025 - February 2026
Information to applicants: March 2026
Signature of grant agreement: April/May 2026.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
n/a

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 the Submission System 
Standard application form (CERV OG) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System 
Standard application form (CERV FPA OG) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System 
Detailed budget table (CERV LSII) 
Calculator (CERV LS REM, CIV and NETW) 
Calculator (CERV LS TownTT) 
Calculator (CERV LS NCP) 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
CERV MGA 
Lump Sum MGA 
Operating Grants MGA 
Framework Partnership Agreement FPA

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
**action type:** CERV Lump Sum Grants
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2025
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **109906:** 
      -         **action:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT - CERV-LS CERV Lump Sum Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 5000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2025-09-17
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 0
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-04-09
**keywords:** CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT, CERV-2025-CITIZENS-TOWN-TT, Cultural diversity and heritage, Democracy, Democratic engagement and civic participation, EU citizenship rights, Europe for citizens, European identity, Local authorities, Local governance, Migration, Minorities, Municipalities, Rule of law, Solidarity, Town twinning
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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