Strengthening the remembrance of LGBTIQ+ victims and other victims
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values · Grant topic
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds remembrance of LGBTIQ+ and other specified victims of twentieth-century crimes through nonprofit-led consortia; companies may participate only as partners.
- Who can apply
- Companies as partners only: SME, large company, startup, NGO, public body, other.
- Amount
- €50K – €500K per projectTotal budget €28,000,000
- Deadline
- 24 Feb 2027 01:00 CETin 123 days
- Status
- Openopened 21 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Objective:
3. Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust, acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity to strengthen democracy in the EU.
Projects under this topic should focus on the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust 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 are covered by Topic 2.
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME-2 - Priority 2: Strengthening the remembrance of LGBTIQ+ victims and other victims
Projects under this priority should not address projects focusing on the remembrance of Roma victims (Projects focussing on the remembrance of Roma victims should apply under Priority 1).
Europe’s 20th century was marked by horrific crimes, genocides, 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.
Despite growing efforts to preserve the memory of the victims of these crimes, the experiences of many groups remain overlooked, marginalised or insufficiently recognised in public memory. This includes, among others, LGBTIQ+ people and other communities targeted on the basis of their identity, beliefs or perceived social status.
Throughout history, LGBTIQ+ people have faced systemic persecution under a wide range of political and social regimes, often shaped by prevailing religious, cultural, and legal norms. Under the Nazi regime, it is estimated that 50000 gay and bisexual men were subject to ‘severe jail sentences in brutal conditions’, with around 10-15000 being sent to concentration camps. Lesbian women, transgender people, and others whose identities did not conform to Nazi ideals of gender and sexuality also faced surveillance, discrimination, violence, and social exclusion, with their experiences largely unrecognized for decades.
As a result, the history of LGBTIQ+ persons in Europe is marked by both struggle and resilience. The preservation and recognition of LGBTIQ+ history and memory are essential to building an inclusive European identity rooted in dignity, diversity, and human rights. Remembering and recognising these atrocities is essential to restore justice as underlined in the LGBTIQ+ equality strategy 2026-2030.
Greater awareness of all these histories contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the causes, mechanisms and consequences of mass atrocities and contributes not only to preventing their recurrence but also to reinforcing democratic resilience, fostering civic engagement, and building a common European culture of remembrance.
Projects under this topic could focus on:
• Addressing how genocides, 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. They can include artistic work on memory projects, as well as stimulating memory activism. These new methods should be inclusive, where applicable participatory and create an enabling learning environment.
• Fostering awareness raising, mutual learning or training activities that accurately reflect the persecution of LGBTIQ+ people, and other minorities throughout history.
• Countering historical falsification and memory competition related to the persecution of LGBTIQ+ people, genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially among Europeans that shared a common history but have divergent views on their common past.
• Fostering awareness raising, mutual learning or training activities that accurately reflect the persecution of LGBTIQ+ people, and other minorities under the Nazi regime while countering denial, distortion, trivialization, and especially 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.
• Digitalising historical material and testimonies of witnesses for education and training purposes.
For further information about the call and its conditions, please see the Call document.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME, Large company, Startup, NGO, Public body, Other
- Purpose
- Culture and media
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- EU Member States, OCTs and eligible CERV associated countries; pending agreements must enter into force before grant signature.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Required
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €50K – €500K
- Topics
- LGBTIQ+ victim remembrance
- Genocide remembrance
- Crimes against humanity
- Democratic education
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant restriction
- Lead applicant must be a non-profit legal entity (public or private) or international organisation; co-applicants may include for-profit legal entities only together with an eligible public entity, non-profit or international organisation. Natural persons are ineligible except sole traders.
- Application restriction
- Call timetable: opened 21 October 2026 and closes 24 February 2027 at 17:00 CET (Brussels); SEDIA captured record agrees on dates and open status.
- Applications closed
- No
- Consortium required
- Yes
- Eligible geography
- Applicant establishment and activity-country eligibility follow the call rules for EU Member States, OCTs and CERV associated/negotiating countries where the applicable agreement enters into force before grant signature; international organisations are treated under separate rules.
- Eligible project scope
- Activities must involve direct participation of the target groups to be eligible; listed activities include training, exhibitions, public debates, non-formal education, awareness raising, research, collection and digitisation of testimonies, publications and online tools.
- Eligible project scope
- LGBTIQ+ victims and other victims Projects under this priority should not address projects focusing on the remembrance of Roma victims (Projects focussing on the remembrance of Roma victims should apply under Priority 1). Europe’s 20th century was marked by horrific cri
- Ineligible project scope
- Priority 2 does not cover projects focusing on the remembrance of Roma victims; those projects should apply under Priority 1.
- Other condition
- The reviewed call fiche sets a project lump-sum grant range and activity/event calculation parameters; it does not publish salary, stipend, named staffing role or per-person compensation rates.
- Other condition
- Financial support to third parties is not allowed under this call.
- Partner requirement
- Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (coordinator plus at least one co-applicant); topic-specific role and country conditions still apply.
- Expected project duration, maximum
- 24 months
The call says projects normally last 12–24 months; extensions require justification and amendment. This is the upper end of an indicative range, not a hard maximum.
- Expected project duration, minimum
- 12 months
The call says projects normally last 12–24 months; extensions require justification and amendment. This is the lower end of an indicative range, not a mandatory minimum.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €28,000,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Call allocation
- €28,000,000
Estimated total call budget; availability depends on adoption of the 2027 EU budget, and the call reserves the right not to award all funds or to redistribute them among priorities.
- Eligible cost
- Grant uses lump-sum financing, with the amount and funding parameters set in the grant agreement; it is not an actual-cost salary reimbursement schedule.
- Project funding, maximum
- €500,000
Maximum grant awarded; separate from the topic-level allocation pool.
- Project funding, minimum
- €50,000
Minimum grant requested; the call states the grant awarded may be lower than the requested amount.
- Topic allocation
- €2,500,000
Budget allocated to this topic/priority, not per-project. Call fiche says the estimated total budget depends on adoption of the 2027 EU budget; not all funds need be awarded and redistribution between priorities is reserved.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 21 Oct 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM · European Remembrance - 2026
- Types of action
- CERV Lump Sum Grants
- Keywords
- 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
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 21 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.