Call for proposals to prevent and counter violent extremism and radicalisation

European Commission has launched a new call for proposals to support projects aiming to prevent and counter radicalisation leading to violent extremism and terrorism across the EU. This call responds to the growing challenge of online radicalisation, including the manipulation of youth and vulnerable groups through violent extremist, terrorist, and other harmful content distributed via digital platforms. It will strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations to act strategically and sustainably, combining online engagement with offline, community-based prevention to ensure tangible local impact.

The call is launched in parallel with the new ProtectEU: Agenda to preventing and countering terrorism, ensuring policy coherence and immediate operational follow-up to the priorities set out in the Agenda.

The call is funded under the Internal Security Fund with the total budget of EUR 5 million. It is foreseen and follows the priorities announced in the Thematic Facility Work Programme 2023-2027 for the Internal Security Fund.

The call will support projects that focus on:

• Digital resilience - strengthening the ability of individuals and communities to critically assess and resist extremist content online;
• Community protective factors - reinforcing social cohesion, trust, and early-prevention capacities within communities;
• Multi-ideological scope - addressing threats linked to jihadist, violent right-wing, violent left-wing, and cross-cutting extremist narratives such as antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred;
• Youth empowerment - enabling young people to act as credible messengers, strengthen peer-to-peer prevention, and promote positive alternatives to extremist narratives;
• Co-creation and inclusion - ensuring that projects are designed with, not only for, youth, parents, educators, and affected communities.

The application deadline is 27 May 2026.

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