#BeActive-EU-SPORT-AWARDS-Peace
Award recognizing organizations using sport to promote peace, dialogue, and cooperation across communities.
This award honors organizations that use sport to foster peace and bring diverse groups together. It celebrates initiatives promoting dialogue, tolerance, and collaboration through physical activity. The goal is to support peaceful coexistence locally, nationally, or globally.
Likely relevant for
- Sports organizations
- Peacebuilding NGOs
- Community groups using sport
- Cultural integration projects
- Youth organizations
Project signals
What it funds
- Recognition of organizations using sport as a tool for peace
- Initiatives fostering dialogue, tolerance, and cooperation through sport
- Projects contributing to peaceful coexistence at various levels
Expected outcomes
- Increased mutual respect and cooperation among diverse communities
- Enhanced dialogue and tolerance through sport
- Promotion of peaceful coexistence locally, nationally, or globally
Who can apply / participate
- Organizations
- NGOs
- Community groups
- Single applicants only, no consortium required
- Eligible countries as per call document
- Refer to call document sections 5 and 6 for detailed eligibility and admissibility conditions
- Specific eligible countries and applicant types must be verified in call document
Must check before shortlisting
- Eligibility criteria in call document
- Country eligibility
- Submission requirements and deadlines
Money
The award provides a prize of €25,000 for the winning organization in 2026.
- Prize amount — 25000EURSingle prize awarded in 2026
Application notes
- Single-stage submission process.
- Proposal page limits and layout as per Part B of the Application Form.
- Eligibility and admissibility conditions detailed in call document sections 5 and 6.
- Evaluation criteria and process described in call document section 9.
- Legal and financial setup outlined in call document section 10.
- Prepare proposal following call document guidelines.
- Submit application by 17 September 2026, 17:00 Brussels time.
- Contact EACEA-SPORT@ec.europa.eu for support.
- Use Funding & Tenders Portal for submission.
- Check eligibility and admissibility carefully in call document.
- Ensure compliance with proposal page limits and layout.
- Evaluation and award timeline runs from September 2026 to March 2027.
Derived from official EU Funding portal source · updated 2 Jul 2026, 08:38 UTC. Use this as a shortlisting aid; the official call text remains authoritative.
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Official source text
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Topic description
Scope: This award seeks to recognise organisations that have successfully used sport as a powerful tool to promote peace. It honours those that have made significant contributions in bringing together diverse communities, groups, and individuals, transcending differences and fostering dialogue, tolerance, and collaboration beyond divisions. This category celebrates initiatives that leverage sport and physical activity to build relationships founded on mutual respect and cooperation toward shared goals, ultimately contributing to peaceful coexistence at the local, national, or global level.
Conditions and documents
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
As described in section 5 in the Call document
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible countries
As described in section 6 in the Call document
3. Other eligibility conditions
As described in section 6 in the Call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
As described in sections 6 and 7 in the Call document
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
As described in section 8 in the Call document
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in section 9 in the Call document
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
As described in section 4 in the Call document
Publication of the call: 25 June 2026.
Deadline for submitting applications: 17 September 2026 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period: September 2026-March 2027
Information to applicants: March 2027
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
As described in section 10 in the Call document
Call Document
Additional documents:
Support information
For help related to this call, please contact EACEA-SPORT@ec.europa.eu Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals . IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc. Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
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