The Fund will contribute to reach a high level of security in the EU, in particular by preventing and combating terrorism, radicalisation, serious and organised crime and cybercrime, by assisting and protecting victims of crime, and by preparing for, protecting against and effectively managing security-related incidents, risks and crises.

Project applications submitted under the present call for proposals must address at least one of the following priorities:

1.  Strengthening cross-border and EU-level responses to corruption including the implementation of EU anti-corruption recommendations: Supporting coordinated, cross-border and EU-level actions to detect, investigate and address corruption, in particular where it is linked to organised crime and affects the security of the Union, its citizens and businesses, including through the implementation of recommendations addressed to Member States in the Rule of Law Reports and the European Semester.
2. Enhancing prevention, detection, and enforcement capacities: Supporting the work of Member States’ competent authorities and other relevant stakeholders in preventing, detecting, investigating and sanctioning corruption.
3. Promoting integrity and institutional resilience: Fostering a culture of integrity and strengthening the resilience of democratic institutions against corruption.

90%

Up to €2.000.000 EU contribution per project.

• Education and training
• Information Technology
• Justice - Security
• Public Administration
• Social Affairs & Human Rights

• Associations
• Businesses
• Central Government
• Educational Institutions
• International Organisations
• Legal Entities
• Legal Entities under Public Law
• Local Authorities
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Private Bodies
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities:
  • public bodies or, by the competent authority’s mandate, a public or nonpublic implementing agency or body of a Member State participating in the ISF
  • non-profit-making public/private entities
  • profit-making entities
  • profit-making 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: legal entities established in the following third countries can participate only as part of a consortium composed of at least 2 independent legal entities, at least 1 of which is established in an eligible EU Member State: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine.

Target groups:

This call should ensure they reach the relevant targets involved in the prevention of and fight against corruption, including:

• Civil society, journalists and academics;
• Private sector (e.g. SMEs, large companies and non-profit organisations);
• National authorities, in particular:
  • Specialised anti-corruption authorities both as regards prevention and/or repression of corruption: anti-corruption coordination body, specialised anti-corruption law enforcement or prosecution, audit institutions, tax and competition authorities, FIUs, financial institutions, etc.;
  • Authorities with competences in the field such as ministries;
  • Authorities operating in or linked to areas of high risk of corruption (healthcare, construction, public procurement, etc.).
• Authorities at European level, in particular Europol, Eurojust, EPPO and OLAF.

Ministry of Interior

Contact person
Doris Constantinou
Administrative Officer
Telephone: 22 409904
Email: dconstantinou@moi.gov.cy

Christina Hadjieconomou
Administrative Officer
Telephone: 22 409944
Email: chadjieconomou@papd.mof.gov.cy

JUST-ISF-ANTICORRUPTION-CALL-1@ec.europa.eu

• Funding & Tenders
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