CIF 2026 Financial and Economic Literacy Call

16/02/2026 12:00

ERSTE Foundation

Projects should relate to the topic of financial and economic literacy, and should clearly link these topics with the broader goals of civic education, democratic participation, inclusion, and social resilience. Projects should focus on strengthening democratic competencies that promote participation, cohesion, and resilience. Project ideas can range from workshops, training courses, cultural or community based interventions, eyewitness talks, exhibitions, scientific studies, scenario methods, to apps, or augmented reality storyboards.

While we encourage and welcome applications from all organisations, CIF is particularly interested in promoting projects from startups in civic education (i.e organisations that were established in the last 3 years) and youth led-organisations. Applications from these will therefore be more prioritised in the selection process.

Projects should be carried out in a transnational partnership – with at least one partner (individual, organisation, etc.) from Europe, incl. wider Europe in addition to the lead partner. CIF can only provide financial support for projects based in Europe – as such, 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.

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Max: 10000

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8 months