Online Info Session on the REM 2025 Call of the CERV programme

The Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations (OEPCR), as the operator of the “Creative Europe Desk Cyprus”, the “CERV Cyprus National Contact Point” and as the Head of the Cypriot Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, organises an online info session of the Call for Proposals “European Remembrance (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM)”.

Date and time: Wednesday 16 July 2025, 11:00am – 12:30pm

Language: Greek

Platform: ZOOM (after registering)

Registration (free): here  

The online info session is open to beneficiaries of the European programmes represented by OEPCR, who intend to prepare and submit a proposal. The session is open to governmental authorities, local and regional authorities, state organisations or companies, public organisations, civil society organisations, non-governmental and non-profit organisations, memorial and heritage sites, museums and archives centres, survivors’ associations, and cultural, youth and research organisations educational and training providers, whose work is relevant to the call’s topics, and which are based in Cyprus and Greece.

The first part of the session includes an introductory presentation of the EU Programme “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values” (CERV), followed by a presentation of the “European Remembrance (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM)” and its priorities, which focus on commemorating defining events in modern European history of the 20th century, including the causes and consequences of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, slavery and colonialism, and the Holocaust, and at raising awareness among European citizens, of their common history, culture, cultural heritage and values.

In the second part of the session, Mr Nikos Bakirtzis, Junior Research Fellow, Project Manager at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) will present the CERV-funded project “(Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the 2004 EU enlargement – REWEU (CERV-2023-CITIZENS-REM)”, which is related to the call’s priorities. For more information about the project, please visit ELIAMEP’s page here. Through the presentation, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about project management and implementation methods of EU-funded projects.

The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) is an independent, non-governmental, nonprofit think tank, established in Athens, Greece, in 1988. Its mission is to conduct policy-oriented research and provide policy makers, academia and the public at large with authoritative information, analysis, and policy recommendations, for the development of evidence-based responses to major European and foreign policy challenges. ELIAMEP is committed to excellence, open dialogue and policy deliberation, research, training and any other undertaking that falls within its spheres of interest. ELIAMEP promotes pluralist democratic values; a rational level-headed public debate on the major regional, European and global challenges; the resolution of disputes through dialogue; Greece’s European and Euro-Atlantic commitment.

Description of REWEU

The project (Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the 2004 EU enlargement (REWEU) is focused on the commemoration of the 2004 “big bang” EU enlargement at the occasion of its 20th anniversary in May 2024. This event had numerous positive effects on shaping Europe as we know it today, boosting its security, economic potential, and spreading democracy, good governance and European values across the European continent. However, despite being a historical moment of European integration, the 2004 enlargement is also often viewed as a root of many challenges that the Union is currently facing, such as democratic backsliding in some new EU Member states or the rise of Euroscepticism. Through the combination of local, national and international public events, collection of historical memories and narratives, studies on impacts of 2004 enlargement, costs of non-enlargement and role of women in the process, as well as exhibitions and media articles, the project contributes to wider contemporary efforts of EU memory politics.

The workshop aims to:

• help applicants in getting a deeper understanding of the call’s priorities and objectives;
• strengthen applicants’ skills to approach the call more effectively, enhancing the competitiveness of their applications;
• assist applicants in understanding the evaluation process to improve their proposal’s success chances;
• provide applicants with information on effective project management and implementation methods;
• give applicants the opportunity to expand their network.

Programme

• Introductory presentation of the EU programme “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)”
• Presentation of the Call for “European Remembrance (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM)”
• Presentation: 20 years since the 2004 “big bang” EU enlargement – “(Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the 2004 EU enlargement (REWEU)”

Mr Nikos Bakirtzis, Junior Research Fellow, Project Manager, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

• Q&A