JUST – Call for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters – 2024

Objective

To facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, and promote the rule of law, independence and impartiality of the judiciary, including by supporting the efforts to improve the effectiveness of national justice systems, and the effective enforcement of decisions.

Priorities

• Priority 1: Judicial cooperation in civil matters
• Priority 2: Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
• Priority 3: 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
• Priority 4: Support to the Member States for the linking and exchange of their biometric data with the ECRIS-TCN central system

Among financed actions

• Facilitating cooperation between competent authorities and agencies, legal
  practitioners and/or service providers
• Mutual learning, identifying and exchange of best practices, development of working methods which may be transferable to other participating countries
• Analytical activities, including data collection, statistics, surveys, research
• Exchange and provision of information and development of information tools
• Capacity building for professionals
• Dissemination and awareness raising activities
• Training activities can also be funded under this call, as long as they are of ancillary nature and not the main purpose of the project

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• For priorities 1 and 2, a consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

• Total budget of the call: 5.8 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 75.000 and 350.000 euro
• Co financing-rate: 90% of the total eligible costs

This grant is a lump sum grant.