The 2025 KAPP call for proposals will be published on the funding and Funding & Tender Opportunities portal in January. The submission phase will begin on 4 February 2025. The KAPP 2025 page provides an overview of the call components, its timeline as well as access to documents that can support potential applicants with the preparation of their proposal.
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) call for proposals aims 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.
The 2025 KAPP call is organised in two separate call topics:
The call is open for applications of consortia formed by legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries. For all call topics, this includes:
In addition, for Topic 1 (Prevention), the following countries are eligible for funding:
These two last groups of countries are not eligible as member of the consortium for Topic 2 (Full-scale exercises) but, if an agreement with the project consortium is reached, they may participate with teams and capacities in the field exercise.
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium consisting of at least three beneficiaries from a minimum of three different eligible states.
The project coordinator must be an entity from a UCPM Member/Participating State.
For more information, refer to Section 6. Eligibility and Section 7. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion of the KAPP call 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 video tutorial features the steps to register your organisation and to get prepared for submitting a proposal.
You can also find useful the following documents:
23 January 2025
Publication on Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal
Potential applicants are invited to review the call documents ahead of the submission phase.
28 January 2025
KAPP call Information day
DG ECHO presents the KAPP call during a public information session, providing additional context, requirements, as well as other valuable information. The recording of the info day are available here: https://civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/events/2025-kapp-c….
4 February 2025
Funding & Tender Opportunities portal opens for submissions
The Funding & Tender Opportunities portal opens for submissions, applicants have from now until the submission deadline to submit proposals.
29 April 2025, 17:00 CET
Submission deadline prevention-preparedness topic
All proposals must be submitted in full on the Funding & Tender Opportunities portal to be considered eligible for the evaluation process.
15 May 2025
Submission deadline full-scale exercises topic
All proposals must be submitted in full on the Funding & Tender Opportunities portal to be considered eligible for the evaluation process.
May-June 2025
Evaluation phase
Proposals are evaluated and scored in accordance with the relevant award criteria, as outlined in the call document.
July 2025 (tentative)
Invitation of selected project proposals to the grant agreement phase
Projects that have been selected for funding will be notified and invited to sign a Grant Agreement. Projects that have been rejected will also be notified at this stage.
1 January 2026
Launch of implementation phase
All projects selected for funding under this call are expected to start their activities in January 2026.
The available call budget is EUR 14 000 000.
Indicative allocation of funds by topic:
The Commission reserves the right not to award all available funds or to redistribute them between the topics, depending on the proposals received and the results of the evaluation.
Funding from this call 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.
A Letter of Support from the competent national civil protection authority is needed, except for applicants which themselves are the national civil protection authority. Please see under the supporting documents a Guidance document on seeking endorsement from the national authorities.
In case of doubt on who to contact in your respective national civil protection system to facilitate a letter of support for your project proposal, please consult the information available on the DG ECHO website or contact us at: ECHO-CP-P-P@ec.europa.eu.
Key Performance Indicators
(53.56 KB - DOCX)Keywords for KAPP & Track 1 calls and TAFF
(177.2 KB - PDF)UCPM-2025-KAPP: Logical framework
(168.54 KB - PDF)Guidance document on seeking endorsement from the national civil protection authority.
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