The complexity and interdependency of risks the EU faces shows the importance of identifying vulnerabilities in critical sectors, anticipating hazards and threats and reinforcing collective action to better prevent and prepare for disasters.

The Knowledge for Action in Prevention and Preparedness (KAPP) calls for proposals aim to identify projects strengthening cooperation among Member and Participating States on disaster prevention and preparedness, as well as providing a testing environment and a learning opportunity for all actors involved in civil protection assistance interventions, through full-scale field exercises. It also supports the implementation of the Union disaster resilience goals and the Preparedness Union Strategy.

Who can apply?

The calls are open for applications of consortia formed by legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries. For both calls, this includes:

• EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
• Participating States in the UCPM: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine.

In addition, for the KAPP Prevention and Preparedness call, the following countries are eligible for funding:

• Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) beneficiary countries not participating in the UCPM: Kosovo.
• European Neighbourhood Policy countries not participating in the UCPM: East (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia[i]) and South (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia).

Please note that specific eligibility provisions apply to the two calls. Check Section 6. Eligibility and Section 7. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion of the KAPP calls’ documents on the Funding & Tenders portal.

[i] Following the conclusions of the European Council of 2024 expressing serious concerns about political developments in Georgia and a de facto pause of its EU accession process, the European Commission has suspended financial assistance directly benefiting Georgian authorities until further notice. Georgian civil society organisations and other non-state actors remain eligible to apply and participate in the consortium as a partner.

How to apply?

• Proposals must be submitted within the deadline specified via the Commission's Funding & Tenders portal - 19 May 2026 – 17:00 CET.
• Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System (NOT the documents available on the call page of the portal). The only exception is the Annex of key performance indicators (KPIs), available on this page applicable only to the KAPP Prevention and Preparedness call.
• Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents.

More details on the application process are available in Section 5. Admissibility of the KAPP call documents.

Additional guidance is available on how to submit a proposal using the application tool. This web page includes tutorial videos on the different steps to get prepared for submitting a proposal.

You can also find useful the following documents:

• EU Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
• EU Grants Annotated Grant Agreement.

Available budget

The available calls budget is EUR 15 100 000

Indicative allocation of funds: 

1. Prevention Preparedness: 10 600 000 EUR
2. Full-scale field exercises: 4 500 000 EUR

The Commission reserves the right not to award all available funds or to redistribute them between the calls, depending on the proposals received and the results of the evaluation.

 Funding from these calls can constitute up to 90% of any budget proposal and is capped at EUR 1 000 000 per project regardless of the overall budget proposal.

KAPP supporting documents

• Union Disaster Resilience Goals
• Tips for quality KAPP applications