World War II commemoration funding

The Commission has issued a call for proposals for actions to preserve and commemorate the main sites and archives associated with deportation, symbolised by the memorials which have been raised on the sites of the former camps and other places of mass civilian martyrdom and extermination, and to keep alive the memory of the victims at these sites.

Eligible candidates are non-profit-making bodies and independent bodies, with legal status and legal personality, active in the field of culture, with an objective aimed at public good.The programme covers deportations between the beginning of the 1930s and May 1945.

Actions should, in particular, cover one or more of the following:

• Projects preserving and commemorating the memory of the victims of incarceration in the camps;
• Projects explaining why, how and what happened in the former camps and other places of mass civilian martyrdom and extermination;
• Projects facilitating the dissemination of the European Populations History and improving the knowledge of the present and future generations on that period.

Example of eligible projects (the list is not exhaustive):

• Projects consisting in a ceremony of commemoration;
• Video interviews;
• Research for exhibition;
• Exhibition;
• Digitalisation of archives, etc.

The application form and guidance notes can be found on the General Direction Culture and Education’s website

Application forms can also be obtained by writing to

Education, Audio-visual & Culture Executive Agency
Culture Unit P.5
Call for Proposals 11/06
Rue Colonel Bourg 135-139
B-1140 Brussels (Evere)

Closing date: 21 April 2006.