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Global Human Rights and EU values

Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: EU and national policymakers promote and protect human rights and gender equality globally by developing and implementing effective mechanisms for investigating and prosecuting international crimes, and cooperation frameworks with third countries to ensure humanitarian assistance, security, and respect for international law. Organisations in the…

Deadline 23 Sep 2027Opens 13 May 2027Budget €12MIndicative grants 3EU contribution per project €3.5M–€4MSingle stageHORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

Funding and competition

  • 3grants expected (official)
  • €3.5M–€4MEU contribution per project
  • €2.8Mmedian EU grant of the most similar funded projects
  • 127projects funded in earlier topics of this programme line

Success rates vary widely between topics (often from below 5% to above 30%). Ask us for the success-rate history of this topic before you commit to a proposal.

Organisations with a track record in this topic

Organisations that took part in the EU-funded projects most similar to this call (Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020), ranked by how close those projects are to the call, how recent they are and whether the organisation coordinated them. Being listed does not mean an organisation is looking for partners: use the list to target your outreach.

OrganisationCountryTypeSimilar EU projectsAs coordinatorExamples (CORDIS)
Universiteit Maastricht
Maastricht
NetherlandsUniversity91InvigoratEU, HRJust, REUNIR
Centre D'Informacio I Documentacio Internacionals A Barcelona
Barcelona
SpainResearch organisation81InvigoratEU, SHAPEDEM-EU, EUFOG
Centre For European Policy Studies
Bruxelles / Brussel
BelgiumResearch organisation62REUNIR, ASILE, JOINT
Goeteborgs Universitet
Goeteborg
SwedenUniversity52HRJust, ASILE, EventRights
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Roma
ItalyResearch organisation · SME51InvigoratEU, SHAPEDEM-EU, JOINT
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Krakow
PolandUniversity40InvigoratEU, SHAPEDEM-EU, EUFOG
Universiteit Gent
Gent
BelgiumUniversity60EUFOG, EMBRACE, PROTECT
Sihtasutus Rahvusvaheline Kaitseuuringute Keskus
Tallinn
EstoniaResearch organisation40REDEMOS, REUNIR, EUFOG
Universite De Geneve
Geneve
SwitzerlandUniversity50COLUMN, RE-InVEST, FAiR
European University Institute
Fiesole
ItalyUniversity51ASILE, MENARA, ENSURED
Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona
Cerdanyola Del Valles
SpainUniversity31EUFOG, INIA, FRIDA
Stockholms Universitet
Stockholm
SwedenUniversity30HRJust, EMBRACE, REBALANCE
National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Kyiv
UkraineUniversity30SHAPEDEM-EU, REUNIR, JOINT
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven
BelgiumUniversity41RE-InVEST, ENSURED, INVOLVE
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Berlin
GermanyUniversity51MERID, JOINT, LEGITIMULT

Spanish organisations with experience in this field

The Spanish organisations that appear most often in the closest funded projects.

OrganisationCountryTypeSimilar EU projectsAs coordinatorExamples (CORDIS)
Centre D'Informacio I Documentacio Internacionals A Barcelona
Barcelona
SpainResearch organisation81InvigoratEU, SHAPEDEM-EU, EUFOG
Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona
Cerdanyola Del Valles
SpainUniversity31EUFOG, INIA, FRIDA
Institut Barcelona D Estudis Internacionals, Fundacio Privada
Barcelona
SpainUniversity22EUFOG, LAC-EU
Universidad Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona
SpainUniversity30MAGnituDe, LAC-EU, RESIST
Universitat De Barcelona
Barcelona
SpainUniversity21DEMOCRAT, LAC-EU
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
Madrid
SpainResearch organisation21FORAM, SWIFT
Universidad De Navarra
Pamplona
SpainUniversity11ReMeD
Universitat De Girona
Girona
SpainUniversity10GEPINC

What a typical winning consortium looks like

  • 14partners (median)
  • 10countries (median)
  • 6%of partners are SMEs
University 52%Research organisation 24%Other 13%Company 6%Public body 6%

Based on the 25 funded projects closest to this call. Use it as a benchmark, not a rule: always check the call conditions for the minimum consortium.

Most similar funded projects

Read their CORDIS pages to see the full consortium, results and deliverables.

  • InvigoratEU – Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-08)
  • HRJust – States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification: a study in civil society engagement and human rights through the lens of gender and intersectionality (HORIZON · 2023 · HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-09)
  • SHAPEDEM-EU – Rethinking and Reshaping the EU’s democracy support in its Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood (HORIZON · 2022 · HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01-04)
  • RE-ENGAGE – Re-Engaging with Neighbours in a State of War and Geopolitical Tensions (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-08)
  • REDEMOS – REconfiguring EU DEMOcracy Support ? Towards a sustained demos in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood (HORIZON · 2023 · HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01-04)
  • MERID – Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue (H2020 · 2015 · INT-02-2014)

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Track-record data: CORDIS open data (European Commission), organisation level only, refreshed weekly. Rankings are calculated automatically by Ullswater Investments from text similarity between the call and funded projects; they are indicative.