Ukraine2EU Launches Call for Proposals: CSOs Advancing Ukraine’s EU Accession

The Ukraine2EU – EU Integration Support Programme for Ukraine announces the launch of a new Call for Proposals “CSOs Advancing Ukraine’s EU Accession.”

The aim of the Call is to engage Ukrainian civil society organisations (CSOs) to contribute to Ukraine’s progressive alignment with the EU acquis and the negotiation process, and support the country’s broader EU membership objectives.

Sectors and Themes

Projects across various thematic areas and sectors related to Ukraine’s EU accession are eligible, such as advocacy, impact assessment, public consultation and communication, policy analysis, drafting of legislative inputs, and activities facilitating negotiation processes.

Priority will be given to applications from CSOs proposing to engage in areas such as agriculture, industry, energy, free movement of labour, and environment, and, more broadly, the following four Clusters of EU integration:

• Cluster 2: Internal market,
• Cluster 3: Competitiveness & inclusive growth,
• Cluster 4: Green agenda & sustainable connectivity, and
• Cluster 5: Resources, agriculture & cohesion.

The applicants can also propose relevant projects within Cluster 1 (Fundamentals) and Cluster 6 (External relations) but would have to carefully justify the relevance of such projects, given the ongoing activities and CSO projects funded by the EU and other donor programmes dedicated to areas related to Cluster 1, and taking into account that Cluster 6 is not EU acquis heavy.

Types of Action

Impact assessments related to directives which are cost-heavy and in other ways challenging for the private and/or public sector. Priority may be given to impact assessments that address cross-sectoral issues, such as those linking climate change and energy or green transition and agriculture. This can, as appropriate, include consultations and engagement with relevant citizen groups, business associations and similar.

Work and engagement with relevant state institutions through structures such as (but not limited to) negotiation working groups, which deal with accession issues, deemed particularly important by the relevant Government or Rada entity.

Assistance to the Government of Ukraine and/or Verkhovna Rada with the legislative alignment and reform process linked to Ukraine’s EU accession obligations and reform commitments, including through identifying and addressing needs in cooperation with the relevant Governmental and Parliamentary bodies.

Pioneering of new and smart ways to combine the need for speed with the need for quality in the EU accession process.

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must not exceed EUR 200.000, with the optimal amount of EUR 125.000.

Projects may last up to 18 months and take place in Ukraine.

Concept notes must be submitted electronically via the Good Grants platform by 1 September 2025 (23:59 EEST, UTC+3).

Information Session

An online information session will take place on 8 August 2025 at 10:00 EEST (UTC+3) via Zoom. The session will last up to 1.5 hours, including a Q&A. Interested participants can register HERE.

For detailed guidelines, application forms, and additional information, please visit the call’s dedicated page HERE.

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