Towards an EU free from antisemitism: upcoming events

Meeting on Rising Antisemitism in Europe with Commissioner Brunner
26 June 2025 – In light of the concerning increase in antisemitic incidents across Europe and globally, Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, met with representatives from leading Brussels based umbrella Jewish organisations to show solidarity, listen to their concerns and look into practical ways to ensure that Jewish communities are safe and supported throughout Europe.

Commissioner Magnus Brunner stated: “Standing up against antisemitism and hatred is not optional — it is a responsibility we all share to safeguard our democracy and core principles. The fight against antisemitism must be systematically included in EU policy, including security and countering extremism. I will raise these important security issues with national authorities.”

The Commission Coordinator addresses the IHRA Plenary

As Permanent International Partner of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the European Commission was represented by the Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, Katharina von Schnurbein, at the first Plenary under the Israeli Presidency that was held online between 23-26 June 2025.

Katharina von Schnurbein addressed the Plenary session as well as the ‘Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust denial’. The 35 Member States of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance have adoped by unanimity a strong statement, calling on local, regional, and national governmental agencies to protect Holocaust remembrance practitioners from antisemitic and distortionist threats and attacks.

As Permanent Internation Partner of the IHRA, the European Commission welcomes this call and underlines its urgency.

Funding opportunities

The call for proposal on ‘Fighting against antisemitism’ was published

The European Commission published is call for proposal on ‘Fighting against antisemitism’. This topic is one of the six priorities of the call for proposals for EU action grants to promote equality and to fight against racism, xenophobia and all other forms of discrimination under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Value Programme (CERV).

Opening for submission: 15 July 2025
Deadline for submitting applications: 23 October 2025, 17:00 (Brussels time)

The call for proposal on ‘Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people’ was published

The European Commission published the call for proposal under CERV Programme (Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values) on ‘Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people’.

In line with the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life (2021-2030), as well as with other key policy initiatives, this topic supports projects that can focus on developing networks of Young European Ambassadors to promote Shoah remembrance. This topic will also support projects that develop and support networks that use places of memory, ‘where the Holocaust happened’ for educational purposes.

Opening date: 19 June 2025
Deadline date: 01 October 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is organising an event called Civil Dialogue Group – Online Info Session: Call for proposals European Remembrance – 2025 (CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM) on 30 June 2025, from 9:30 to 17:00, Brussels time.

Registration platform: Online info session

Projects under this topic could focus on:

• Addressing how the Shoah took place, how the crimes were committed, which actors were involved, the roles of collaborators and bystanders, as well as the roles of saviours and Righteous among the Nations. As well as pre-war and immediate postwar historical developments.
• Countering Holocaust denial, distortion, trivialisation and victims’ inversion. This includes countering false comparisons, conspiracy theories propagated online, and conflation with the Middle East conflict.
• Countering historical falsification and memory competition related to the Shoah, especially among Europeans that shared a common history but have divergent views on their common past.
• Addressing divergent and opposite national historical narratives, on regional basis, of the history of the Shoah, including parallelism with other negative common shared historical regional events.
• Promoting memory activism related to the Shoah including by supporting grassroot commemorative work.
• Digitalising historical material and testimonies of witnesses for education and training purposes.
• Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and national Holocaust remembrance days.
• Combating glorification of Nazism, countering neo-Nazis manifestations and activities.
• Promoting provenance research on looted art to foster awareness raising, mutual learning or training activities.