Deadline: 06-May-21
The European Commission is seeking applications for its Action Grants to Support National or Transnational e-Justice Projects. The key objective of the call for proposals is to contribute to achieving the goals of the European e-Justice Strategy and Action Plan 2019-2023 by supporting the implementation of e-Justice projects at the European and national level, as far as they have a European dimension.
The European e-Justice aims to support cross-border initiatives in this respect, and has the objective to allow actors from different Member States to join forces towards designing and operationalising IT solutions of EU relevance and added value.
Programme Priorities
The key priorities for 2021 under this call are to:
- Contribute to achieving the goals of the Commission Communication on the Digitalisation of Justice in the EU2 and the Council European e-Justice Strategy and Action Plan 2019-2023 by supporting the implementation of e-Justice projects at the European and national level, as far as they have a European dimension.
- Support projects aiming at joining or enhancing existing or on-going e-Justice projects.
- Support the development of concrete use cases based on artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology in the justice area.
Funding Information
- The available call budget is EUR 2 800 000.
Programme Activities
Project activities under this call would in principle include:
- Analytical, conceptual, design and elaboration work;
- IT software development, quality assurance and related auxiliary measures necessary for the establishment of IT systems;
- Expansion and adaptation of existing national and transnational solutions towards addressing the objectives of the call.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)
- non-EU countries:
- countries associated to the Justice Programme (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
- Organisations that are profit-oriented may only submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit organisations.
- The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000.
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