JUSTICE PROGRAMME – Call for Framework Partnership Agreements to support European networks active in the area of facilitating and promoting judicial cooperation in civil and/or criminal matters and/or in the area of access to justice – 2025

Objectives

• In the area of judicial cooperation:
  • 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.
• In the area of access to justice:
  • To facilitate effective and non-discriminatory access to justice for all, and effective redress, including by electronic means (e-justice), by promoting efficient civil, and criminal procedures and by promoting and supporting the rights of all victims of crime as well as the procedural rights of suspects and accused

Priorities

• Priority 1: To strengthen judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
• Priority 2: To improve access to justice, uphold the rule of law, protect the rights of crime victims and suspects or accused persons in criminal proceedings, and enhance e-Justice

Among financed actions

• Improving clarity and transparency
• Analytical activities
• Training activities
• Research and data collection
• Mutual learning
• Network strengthening
• Awareness-raising
• Information dissemination

Eligibility

• Be a private entity
• Be a non-profit making entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories, excluding Denmark)
  • Non-EU states: 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 (Click here)
• A consortium composed of only one applicant must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 36 months
• Contact: EC-JUSTICE-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: See the specific call JUST-2025-JCOO-JACC-OG-SGA
• Amount of the grant: maximum 60.000 euro