Ukraine2EU Call for Proposals “Ukrainian CSOs advancing EU accession”

Submission of concept notes

The concept notes shall be completed and submitted in English in electronic form using the “Good Grants” submission system. The concept note should be accompanied by the signed Declaration by the Lead Applicant, as outlined in section 2.2.1 of the Guidelines for Applicants.

SUBMIT CONCEPT NOTE

The deadline for submitting concept notes is September 1, 2025, 23:59 EEST (UTC+3).

Main Objective

The Call for proposals is launched under the “EU Integration Support Programme for Ukraine (Ukraine2EU)”.

This call aims to actively engage Ukrainian civil society organisations (CSOs) in contributing to Ukraine’s progressive alignment with the EU acquis and supporting the country’s broader EU integration objectives, with a view towards future EU membership.

Sectors or themes

Projects across various thematic areas and sectors are eligible, including 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 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, as well as to impact assessments focused on specific industries or conducted from a private sector perspective. 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, that are 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.

Location

Actions must take place in Ukraine.

Eligible applicants

To be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must: 

• be a legal person,
• be non-profit-making,
• be a non-governmental organisation, as defined by the Law of Ukraine ‘On Public Associations’ No. 4572-VI of 22 March 2012,
• be effectively established in Ukraine,
• be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s), not act as an intermediary, not be in any of the exclusion situations listed in Annex E of the guidelines, and have an annual turnover above €200.000 and at least double the grant size (applicable only for the lead applicant). 

The lead applicant may act individually or with co-applicant(s).

Size of grants

Any grant requested under this call for proposals must not exceed EUR 200.000.

The optimal grant requested under this call for proposals is EUR 125.000.

Projects implementation duration

The initial planned duration of an action may not exceed 18 months.

Information session for applicants

An online information session on this call for proposals will be held on August 8, 2025, at 10:00 EEST (UTC+3) via Zoom. The planned duration of the session is up to 1.5 hours, including Q&A session. Interested participants can register HERE.

Questions and Answers

Questions and requests for clarification may be sent by email not later than August 18, 18:00 EEST (UTC+3), indicating clearly the reference of the call for proposals.

Application and Selection process  

The call follows a two-stage competitive selection process: 

• Concept Note stage: Submission of concept notes by September 1, 2025. Evaluation results will be communicated preliminary by September 15, 2025.
• Full Application stage: Shortlisted applicants will be invited to submit full proposals.