CERV Call: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children (CERV-2026-DAPHNE)

CERV Call: Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children (CERV-2026-DAPHNE)

CALL 9

Deadline of the call  10/09/2026

Location:  EU Member States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine

Objective: To fight violence, including gender-based violence and violence against children, by: 

– preventing and combating at all levels, all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls in all their diversity and domestic violence, including by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; 

– preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people and other groups at risk, such as LGBTIQ people and persons with disabilities; 

– supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of the forms of violence referred to above, such as the victims of domestic violence perpetrated within the family or within intimate relationships, including children orphaned as a result of domestic crimes; 

– supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence.