European Commission CFPs: Action Grants Programme
Deadline: 22-Mar-22
The European Commission is calling for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects on judicial training covering civil law, criminal law or fundamental rights.
Scope
The objective of the call is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU law in the areas of civil law, criminal law and fundamental rights, as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the rule of law related issues, by helping to address the training needs of justice professionals in these fields.
Priorites
The priorities of 2022 will concentrate funding on training activities and tools for training providers, as described below, in order to support cross-border training activities:
for justice professionals, and/or
for multipliers, such as judicial trainers or EU law court coordinators, where there are guarantees that the multipliers will pass on their knowledge to justice professionals in a systematic way, and/or
for cross-professional training, in order to stimulate discussions across judicial professions about the application of EU law and contribute to a European judicial culture across professional boundaries on precisely identified topics of relevance to the concerned professions.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 5 000 000.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)
non-EU countries:
countries associated to the Justice Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
and comply with other eligibility conditions:
Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations;
the applications must be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries;
the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than € 75 000.
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