Funding Fairer Futures
Donor: CAN Europe
Location: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
Beneficiaries: Organisations
Project focus areas: Just transition and climate justice
Funding amount: €10,000 per project
Project duration: Minimum 6 months, ending no later than October 2027
Deadline: 30 October 2026
Objectives and priorities of this call
To mobilise people in Europe to act for and drive political and systemic change towards climate justice and just transition. The Climate Action Engagement Fund provides financial support to CSOs/groups promoting just transition and climate justice in the European Union, via awareness-raising, campaigning, mobilisation, public engagement and advocacy activities.
CAN Europe is in particular looking to support proposals that develop, implement and strengthen gender-just, disability-just, intersectional and decolonial approaches to European climate policy and actions.
In particular, funding is for:
- Proposals that design advocacy, campaigns, and actions using a systemic and holistic approach to connect different issues and perspectives, challenge policy responses based on dominant models presented as neutral or universal, and advance gender-just, disability-just, intersectional and/or decolonial approaches to European climate policy and actions.
- Proposals that challenge ableist assumptions in climate policies and actions and strengthen the rights, participation, accessibility and visibility of disabled people in climate emergency responses, just transition policies, advocacy and campaigns.
Proposals related to the above are welcome to include actions that help advance gender justice, disability justice, intersectionality and decoloniality in their organisations’ working culture, strategies and allyship within and beyond the climate movement.
Eligibility
The funding aims to support small to medium CSOs/groups. This includes those that usually work with small budgets, have small teams, or find it hard to get grants or core funding. CSOs/groups led by women/non-binary, youth, frontline communities, people with disability or people with a marginalised background or identity are favoured.
To be eligible for funding under this Call for Proposals, applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- be a legal person or an entity without legal personality be non-profit making
- if a legal person, be a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) or an association of CSOs constituted in accordance with the legislation in force in the country
- be established in the European Union v) not be a beneficiary of a grant (neither lead, co-applicant, affiliated entity, associates, contractors) in the frame of the European Commission's DEAR programme
- not have had the financial, administrative or operational capacity to compete directly for EU funding under the EC DEAR 2022 CfP EuropeAid/173998/DH/ACT/Multi. This means they were not eligible or able to apply directly to the 2022 DEAR call for proposals.
- adhere to EU due diligence requirements, as listed in the Declaration on exclusion criteria
- declare that they have not received and are not expecting to receive financial support from another project resulting from the EC DEAR 2022 CfP EuropeAid/ 173998/ DH/ ACT/Multi Eligible
Eligible Activities:
- Awareness-raising
- Public engagement
- Campaigning
- Advocacy
- Projects funded are encouraged to include capacity-building (internal/external), networking and organisational development components
Learn more here.