Closing Date: 20 October 2025
Call for Projects 2025-2026: Civic Innovation Fund (10,000 € grants awarded)
Do you have a project idea in civic education that lacks funding? Are you a member of a young NGO in civic education searching for financial support? If so, apply to the Civic Innovation Fund and seize the opportunity to bring your project to life! Each selected project will receive 10,000 € for piloting, incubation, and scaling up for the period of 12 months.
Civics Innovation Hub is opening a new call for projects under the Civic Innovation Fund (CIF).
Civic education is facing pressing questions – how to rebuild trust, strengthen democratic resilience, and respond to loneliness, radicalisation and polarisation. With this call, Civics Innovation Hub seek ideas that do not just raise these issues but test concrete approaches that can make a difference in practice. Selected projects will receive up to €10,000 to pilot, incubate or scale their work over a 12-month period. This CIF call is made possible with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Eligibility criteria:
Projects should be startups in civic education that focus on strengthening democratic competencies that promote participation, cohesion, and resilience. Project ideas can range from workshops, cultural interventions, eyewitness talks, exhibitions, scientific studies, scenario methods, to apps, or augmented reality storyboards.
·Projects should align with one of the following topics:
- The concept of trust in civic education (linked to all NECE formats in 2026, including the NECE Festival)
- democratic resilience
- loneliness and radicalisation of young people
- polarisation or peacebuilding with polarised groups
· Projects should be carried out in a transnational partnership with at least one partner (individual, organisation, etc.) from Europe, incl. wider Europe. The main implementing organisation should be based in a European country. The partnership can be set up across sectors, but one of the partnering organisations should come from either the formal or non-formal/informal civic education sector.
· Projects should incorporate the principles of diversity, interdisciplinarity, and inclusiveness.
Click Here To Apply
Follow Opportunities For Everyone on Social Media
