European Commission seeking Proposals on “Prevention of Radicalisation”

Deadline: 24-Nov-20

The European Commission has announced a call for proposals on “Prevention of Radicalisation”.

Priorities

• The present call for proposals aims at funding projects providing approaches for disengagement and reintegration of extremist offenders and radicalised individuals related to violent right wing and Islamist extremism, including returning foreign terrorist fighters and their families.
• Project applications submitted under the present call for proposals must develop such approaches addressing both of the following sub-priorities:
  • strengthen the collaboration among stakeholders involved in disengagement and reintegration programmes
  • enhance the preparedness of stakeholders involved in disengagement and reintegration programmes

Proposals focusing on:

• media campaigns with counter-narrative or alternative narrative;
• research studies of the motivations of phenomena of polarisation and/or radicalisation;
• the issue of the online content which can lead to radicalisation;

Expected outcomes

For each sub-priority, projects must be aiming to achieve one or more of the following outcomes:

• Strengthen the collaboration among stakeholders involved in disengagement and reintegration programmes:
  • Designing and implementing collaboration models and protocols for disengagement and reintegration work addressed to violent right wing extremists,
  • Designing and implementing collaboration models and protocols for disengagement and reintegration work addressed to Islamist extremists, including also foreign terrorist fighters and their family members (differentiating between men, women and children),
  • Designing and implementing methods to assess the expertise and trustworthiness of non institutional partners (such as NGOs) in disengagement and reintegration programmes
• Enhance the preparedness of stakeholders involved in disengagement and reintegration programmes:
  • Developing and rolling out train-the-trainer modules, – of the different professional profiles involved in disengagement and rehabilitation work within programmes addressed to violent right wing extremists
  • Developing and rolling out train-the-trainer modules – of the different professional profiles involved in disengagement and reintegration work within programmes addressed to Islamist extremists, including also foreign terrorist fighters and their family members (differentiating between men, women and children)
  • Developing and rolling out risk assessment methods that could be used both during the implementation of disengagement and reintegration programmes and when these programmes have been concluded, addressing the risks posed by far right extremists and Islamist extremists, including also foreign terrorist fighters and their family members (differentiating between men, women and children).

Funding Information

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects under this call for proposals is estimated at EUR 4 000 000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Legal Status
  • The following entities can apply as lead applicants and co-applicants:
    • public bodies;
    • non-profit-making private entities.
  • The following entities can only apply as co-applicants:
    • profit making entities;
    • international organisations;
    • entities established in the Western Balkans partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo6 , Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia).

The following are not eligible, neither as applicants nor as co-applicants:

• Union Agencies;
• natural persons.
• Affiliated entities, i.e. legal entities having a legal or capital link with applicants, shall take part in the action as individual co-applicants in order to declare eligible costs unless they are affiliated to a public body.

Eligible Countries

• Applicants must be established in the following countries to be eligible: the Member States of the European Union with the exception of Denmark (“Member States participating in the ISF Police instrument”).
• Co-applicants must be established in the following countries to be eligible:
  • the Member States of the European Union with the exception of Denmark (“Member States participating in the ISF Police instrument”)
  • the Western Balkans partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia).
• International organisations can be established outside the above-mentioned countries.

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