Deadline: 22-Jun-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants under “Fight Against Corruption” to:
- enhance EU-level actions against corruption to address the current and evolving security threats that corruption poses to citizens and the licit economy and
- support the work carried out by Member States' competent authorities in the prevention and fight against corruption.
Priorities
Project applications submitted under the present call for proposals must address at least one of the following priorities:
- Corruption as an enabler of organised crime and as a means to infiltrate the licit economy and the society;
- Structural and/or operational obstacles in the investigation, prosecution and adjudication and sanctioning of corruption, in particular high-level corruption;
- Sector-specific corruption, including, but not limited to, corruption in customs, in environment, corruption linked to drug trafficking, illicit financial flows and money laundering;
- Challenges to corruption prevention in the public and private sector, including, but not limited to, on conflicts of interest, revolving doors, codes of conduct, ethics;
- Obstacles to transparency in public decision-making, including in areas such as lobbying, asset disclosure and political party financing.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 2 000 000.
Activities
Project applications submitted under the present call for proposals should provide for activities supporting the prevention of and the fight against corruption, including in particular with regard to:
- Monitoring of corruption, in particular, in corruption risk hotspot sectors, including, but not limited to, public procurement, healthcare, citizen investments and residence schemes, corruption linked to the disbursement of EU funds, others;
- Analysis of corruption to expand corruption-specific research, knowledge and understanding in law enforcement, prosecution services and the wider public, including, but not limited to, the use of robust statistics on corruption for evidence-based policy-making;
- Repression of corruption by expanding activities supporting the fight against corruption, including strengthening the digitalization of law enforcement as well as police's investigative capacities including new methods used by criminals and criminal networks, including in the dark web;
- Development and dissemination of good practices in the prevention of or fight against corruption across the EU;
- Support for anti-corruption action by for example, reinforcing civil society and citizens in exposing corruption and other serious crime.
Target Groups
The projects of this call should ensure they reach the relevant targets involved in the prevention of and fight against corruption, including:
- Citizens
- Private Sector (eg SMEs, large companies and non-profit organisations)
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National authorities, in particular:
- Specialized anti-corruption authorities: anti-corruption coordination body, specialized anti-corruption prosecution, audit institutions, tax and competition authorities, FIUs, financial institutions,
- Authorities with competences in the field such as Ministries and/or authorities linked to a particular high-risk sector (healthcare, construction, public procurement, etc.)
- Authorities at European level, in particular Europol, Eurojust, EPPO, OLAF,
- Target countries (if activities are expected to take place in certain countries, indicate here),
- EU Member States.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies, including profit and non-profit private entities)
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be established in one of the eligible countries, ie:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), excluding Denmark,
- non-EU countries: without any limitation as long as relevant for the call for proposals in view of their advanced competences.
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