Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The general objective of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (‘Mechanism’ or ‘UCPM’) is to strengthen the cooperation between the Union and the Member States and to facilitate coordination in the field of civil protection in order to improve the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for and responding to natural and man-made disasters.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective of this topic is to improve civil protection preparedness and response to all kinds of disasters inside the Member States by providing a testing environment and a learning opportunity for all actors involved in civil protection assistance interventions through a full-scale filed exercise.
Detailed Call Description
The scenario for the exercises should build on risk assessments.
Examples, but not exclusively: extreme weather, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, industrial risk, critical infrastructure disruption, marine pollution, epidemic/health risk, CBRN, and multi-sectorial emergencies.
In addition to the main theme, cross-cutting issues such as gender, age, persons with disabilities, human rights, environmental sustainability, green economic practices, digitalisation, resilience in infrastructure, the protection of cultural heritage, etc. are encouraged to be considered and included as relevant.
The beneficiaries will design, plan, prepare, implement, conduct, and evaluate one full-scale exercise project in Member States/Participating States or eligible third countries (see section 6 of the Call for Proposals document).
The proposals shall include the following elements:
- Realistic and challenging scenario linked to risk assessments
- Management and control structures for the project and for the conduct of the exercises
- Activation of the Mechanism
- Deployment of an EU Civil Protection Team
- Deployment of assets and teams of the European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP)
- Use of the Common Emergency Communication and Information System (CECIS)
- Information exchange between the affected country(ies), participating states and the ERCC
- The involvement of relevant national operational structures
- EU Host Nation Support guidelines
- EU observers
- Evaluation, lessons learned and way forward
- EU visibility
This call supports exercise projects aiming to design, plan, prepare, implement, conduct and evaluate different civil protection activities including a full-scale exercise in a multi-national scenario as the main event of the project.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
85%
The maximum EU contribution is capped at €1 000 000 per project. The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested, with a minimum of €400 000.
Thematic Categories
- Public Administration
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Parliamentary Bodies
- Private Bodies
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- Participating States in the UCPM: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, and Türkiye.
- Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) beneficiary countries not participating in the UCPM: Kosovo.
- European Neighbourhood Policy countries: East (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) and South (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia).
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies), established in an EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories), UCPM Participating States, beneficiary countries to the instrument for pre-accession (IPA) not participating in the UCPM and European Neighbourhood Policy countries.
National, regional and local authorities should cooperate, together with the private sector and civil society organisations.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by a consortium consisting of at least three beneficiaries from a minimum of three different eligible states.
The project coordinator must be an entity from a UCPM Member/Participating State.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Civil Defence, Ministry of Interior Affairs
Kyriakos Hadjigeorgiou
Senior Civil Defence Officer
Telephone: +357 22 403448
Email: khadjigeorgiou@cd.moi.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 15/03/2022-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
DG Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection: