Deadline: 19-May-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to launch a call for proposals to facilitate and enhance breaking the criminal business model of traffickers in human beings by strengthening the law enforcement and judicial responses against trafficking in human beings, in particular as regards children and labour exploitation.
Priorities
Project applications submitted under this call for proposals should address at least one of the following priorities:
- The disruption of financial flows of the criminal business model of traffickers;
- The intensification of investigations (including evidence-led investigations), prosecutions and the judicial response in the area of trafficking in human beings, in order to dismantle the trafficking chain;
- The disruption of the digital business model of traffickers by improving the digital capabilities of law enforcement and judicial authorities;
- The improvement of confiscation and asset recovery activities with the view of contributing to the compensation of victims.
Focus Areas
Proposals should focus on:
- Developing measures, tools and methodologies aimed at intensifying investigations (including the collection of digital evidence), prosecutions and the judicial reponse in the area of trafficking in human beings, in order to reduce reliance on victims’ testimony and to address, where applicable, the use of services exacted from victims of trafficking.
- Reducing cyber-enabled trafficking in human beings by disrupting perpetrators’ use of the technology and improve the use of technology to prevent and combat trafficking.
- Operational actions, including joint investigations and increased cooperation and involvement of the labour inspectorates.
- Capacity building, including specialised trainings targeted at officials involved in investigation and prosecution of trafficking offences, and focused on the disruption of the digital business model and of financial flows.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 3 000 000.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities
- public bodies – including local and regional authorities or European groupings of territorial cooperation – or, by the competent authority’s mandate, a public or non-public implementing agency or body of a Member State participating in the ISF
- non-profit making private entities
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)
- non-EU countries: not applicable
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