Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The overall objective of the action is to dismantle organised criminal networks engaged in trafficking in human beings (THB) in the EU, including poly criminal networks, by strengthening operational cooperation including with third countries, establishing cooperation and partnership with the private sector in particular with the online platforms, enhancing financial investigations, improving criminal justice effectiveness, and ensuring a robust victim-centred approach throughout the criminal justice chain.
Detailed Call Description
- Exploring the links between trafficking in human beings and other forms of serious crime, including migrant smuggling, corruption and drug trafficking.
- Increasing the detection and early identification of victims of trafficking, including in the online environment and improve detection of trafficking for all forms of exploitation, in particular for sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced begging and forced criminality, trafficking for the purposes of organ removal and the trafficking and exploitation of children.
- Enhancing cooperation with online platforms, technology providers, financial service providers and other private actors through structured public-private partnerships;
- Intensifying cross-border cooperation between law enforcement authorities and judicial authorities by facilitate joint investigations, coordinated prosecutions, and the use of EU cooperation instruments and by strengthening information exchange and coordination in complex cross-border THB cases.
- Increasing the systematic use of parallel financial investigations in THB cases and by improving tracing, freezing, confiscation, and recovery of criminal assets;
- Improving overall prosecution and conviction outcomes by enhancing the specialised knowledge of prosecutors and judges regarding the specificities of THB, including evidentiary challenges, and the cross-border access to online evidence.
- Improving the referral of trafficking victims to support services, following operational anti-trafficking actions, including cooperation between law enforcement authorities and victims’ support services. Guarantee victim rights and victim protection throughout the criminal proceedings.
- Improving the protection of victims in criminal proceedings.
- Promoting awareness raising, including measures addressing the demand that fosters trafficking in human beings.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Public Administration
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Central Government
- Financial Institutions
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Legal Entities under Public Law
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Services Providers
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
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 non-public implementing agency or body of a Member State participating in the ISF
- non-profit-making public/private entities
- profit-making entities
- International organisations
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), excluding Denmark
- non-EU countries as long as relevant for the call for proposals
NB: legal entities established in third countries can participate only as part of a consortium composed of at least two independent legal entities, at least one is established in an EU Member State.
Co-beneficiaries and affiliated entities are allowed, public or private, as long as they are established in the EU Member States (except for Denmark) or the third countries or a geographical area/countries of interest
Natural persons — Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of selfemployed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them. International organisations can participate as co-beneficiaries regardless of their geographical location. However, being based in an eligible country does not contribute to the fulfilment of the minimum number of eligible countries required in the eligibility criteria related to the consortium composition.
Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
EU bodies — EU bodies can NOT be part of the consortium.
Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).
Target groups
The project applications should ensure they reach the relevant targets, including:
- general public
- social and educational services,
- law enforcement authorities,
- civil society organisations,
- private sector including the online platforms.
Target countries:
- EU Member States
- non-EU countries: in particular countries of origin and transit of illicit flows towards the EU and countries which are relevant for the fight against criminal networks active in European illicit markets and countries of origin and transit of victims and perpetrators of trafficking in human beings. These include the following regions: Western Balkans, Latin-America and the Caribbean (LAC), West-Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA), Eastern Partnership and the following countries: United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Ukraine, Moldova, China, Afghanistan Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
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