Call for Proposals for Action Grants Programme

Deadline: 16-Mar-22

The European Commission is calling for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

Scope

• Funding under this call will support national and trasnational projects that promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

Priorities

The priorities for 2022 are:

• Judicial cooperation in civil matters
• Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
• Support to the Member States for the setting up and strengthening of national networks active in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters

Funding Information

• The available call budget is EUR 5 500 000
• Projects should normally range between 12 and 24 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • 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)
• In addition, under the priorities 1 and 2 the applicants must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies);
  • Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations;
  • be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries.
• In addition, under the priority 3, the applicants must:
  • in the area of civil and commercial matters, the application must be submitted by the officially appointed members of EJN in civil and commercial matters, or by the national authorities, courts and professional associations representing the officially appointed members of EJN in civil and commercial matters;
  • in the area of criminal matters, the application must be submitted by national authorities, courts, prosecution services and professional associations representing them;
  • Only one application per participating country will be accepted. Projects do not need to have a transnational aspect.

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