Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects on judicial training covering civil law, criminal law or fundamental rights
Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The overall objective of the Justice programme is to help create a European area of justice, based on mutual trust.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective of the call is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU law in the areas of civil law, criminal law and fundamental rights, as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the rule of law related issues, by helping to address the training needs of justice professionals in these fields.
Detailed Call Description
The activities may cover EU civil, criminal and fundamental rights law, legal systems of the Member States, and the rule of law:
Judicial training principles / Training needs assessment / Gender mainstreaming / Non-legal skills and knowledge
Priority will notably be given to training on the following topics:
- Fundamental rights and the rule of law.
- The scope and application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
- Child-friendly justice, in line with the EU Strategy on the rights of the child.
- Hate speech and hate crime, including training to develop the necessary skills for their investigation, prosecution and sanctioning, and to ensure a fair and adequate support to and treatment of victims.
- Whistle blower protection.
The 2023 priorities will concentrate funding on training activities and tools for training providers, as described below, in order to support cross-border training activities for:
- members of the judiciary and judicial staff, meaning judges, prosecutors, court and prosecution offices’ staff, other justice professionals associated with the judiciary, such as lawyers in private practice, notaries, bailiffs, insolvency practitioners and mediators, as well as court interpreters and translators, prison and probation staff;
- justice professionals in initial / induction training, multipliers, such as judicial trainers or EU law court coordinators, where there are guarantees that the multipliers will pass on their knowledge to justice professionals in a systematic way,
- cross-professional training, in order to stimulate discussions across justice professions about the application of EU law and contribute to a European judicial culture across professional boundaries on precisely identified topics of relevance to the concerned professions.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Thematic Categories
- Justice - Security
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)
- non-EU countries:
- 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 (list of participating countries)
- and comply with other eligibility conditions:
a) Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations;
b) the applications must be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries;
c) the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than € 100,000
This call supports training of members of the judiciary and judicial staff, meaning judges, prosecutors, court and prosecution offices’ staff, other justice professionals associated with the judiciary, such as lawyers in private practice, notaries, bailiffs, insolvency practitioners and mediators, as well as court interpreters and translators, prison and probation staff.
Non-justice professionals cannot participate in the training activities as participants whose participation costs are eligible unless there is a duly justified exception acknowledged at the moment of the grant award.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Justice and Public Order, Republic of Cyprus
Konstantina Filippou
Administrative Officer
Tel: +357 22805955
Email: cfilippou@papd.mof.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 08/12/2022-for internal use only
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