Technical Assistance

Code: 33078 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2024-TA | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 29/02/2024 | End submission calls: 07/05/2024

The EUAF Programme pursues the general objective to protect the EU financial interests. To achieve this general objective, the EUAF sets a specific objective to prevent and combat fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the EU financial interests.

The AWP 2024 provides for a technical assistance call for projects having as their main purpose the acquisition of specialised equipment, tools and data technologies, including a compulsory accompanying training component on the use of purchased equipment. Hence, all technical assistance applications should demonstrate a training component on the use of purchased equipment.

The call will support the following four topics in 2024:

• EUAF-2024-TA-01 — Investigation and surveillance equipment and methods
• EUAF-2024-TA-02 — Digital forensic hardware
• EUAF-2024-TA-03 — Data analytics technologies and data purchases
• EUAF-2024-TA-04 — Detection of illicit trade

Comparative law studies and periodical publications

Code: 32931 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2024-TRAI-04 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 29/02/2024 | End submission calls: 07/05/2024

Projects must aim to protect the EU’s financial interests by preventing and combating fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity affecting the EU’s financial interests.

Under this topic, the following activities can be funded: studies in comparative law and periodical publications and disseminating relevant information through periodical publications.

Staff exchanges

Code: 32924 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2024-TRAI-03 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 29/02/2024 | End submission calls: 07/05/2024

Projects must aim to protect the EU’s financial interests by preventing and combating fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity affecting the EU’s financial interests.

Under this topic, the following activities can be funded: organising staff exchanges between national and regional administrations (including from candidate and neighbouring countries) aiming to help further develop, improve and update staff skills in protecting the financial interests of the Union.

Conferences, workshops and seminars

Code: 32715 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2024-TRAI-02 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 29/02/2024 | End submission calls: 07/05/2024

Projects must aim to protect the EU’s financial interests by preventing and combating fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity affecting the EU’s financial interests.

Under this topic, the following activities can be funded: organising conferences, workshops and seminars and creating networks and structural platforms between Member States, candidate countries, other third countries, EU institutions and international organisations in order to:

• facilitate the exchange of information, experience and best practices, including in the field of IT anti-fraud and anti-corruption systems and data analysis;
• create networks and improve coordination between Member States, candidate countries, other third countries, EU institutions and international organisations;
• facilitate multidisciplinary cooperation and awareness-raising between anti-fraud and anti-corruption practitioners (in particular customs authorities and other law-enforcement bodies) and academics on protecting the financial interests of the Union, including support for the Association for European Criminal Law and the Association for the Protection of EU Financial Interests;
• raise the awareness of this matter among the judiciary and other legal professionals.

Specialised training sessions

Code: 32698 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2024-TRAI-01 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 29/02/2024 | End submission calls: 07/05/2024

Projects must aim to protect the EU’s financial interests by preventing and combating fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity affecting the EU’s financial interests.

Under this topic, the following activities can be funded: development of specialised training sessions to improve the knowledge and use of IT tools and to increase anti-fraud data analysis capabilities by acquiring new skills and knowledge of specialised methodologies and techniques.

EUAF-2023-TA — Technical Assistance

Code: 27855 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2023-TA | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 09/03/2023 | End submission calls: 04/05/2023

τhe main purpose the acquisition of specialised equipment, tools and data technologies, including an accompanying training component on the use of purchased equipment.

Training, conferences, staff exchanges and studies

Code: 27770 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2023-TRAI | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 09/03/2023 | End submission calls: 11/05/2023

The 2023 EUAF Work Programme provides for a specific call for proposals to provide financial support for training, conferences, seminars, studies, webinars and e-learning activities. The projects must aim at the protection of the EU financial interests by preventing and combatting fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the EU financial interests.

Investigation and surveillance equipment and methods

Code: 20826 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2022-TA-01 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 31/03/2022 | End submission calls: 24/05/2022

The purchase and maintenance of investigation and surveillance equipment and methods used by beneficiaries in   the fight against irregularities, fraud and corruption, detrimental to the Union’s financial interests.

Data analytics technologies and data purchases

Code: 20810 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2022-TA-03 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 31/03/2022 | End submission calls: 24/05/2022

The purchase and maintenance of commercial specialised databases, data analysis platforms capable of running analysis in big data environments, risk and predictive analysis and data mining tools, as well as systems supported by artificial intelligence used in the fight against irregularities, fraudulent activities and corruption, detrimental to the Union’s financial interests.

Detection of illicit trade

Code: 20804 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2022-TA-04 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 31/03/2022 | End submission calls: 24/05/2022

The purchase and maintenance of equipment to strengthen beneficiaries’ operational and technical capacity to detect smuggled and counterfeited goods, including cigarettes and tobacco, imported into the Union with the intention of evading VAT, customs duties and/or excise taxes.

Digital forensic hardware

Code: 20799 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2022-TA-02 | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 31/03/2022 | End submission calls: 24/05/2022

The purchase and maintenance of digital forensic equipment and software, mobile forensic tools and computer forensic collaborative systems used in the fight against (fraudulent) irregularities, fraud and corruption detrimental to the Union’s financial interests.

Union Anti-Fraud Programme Training, Conferences, Staff Exchanges and Studies

Code: 11356 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2021-TRAI | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 22/07/2021 | End submission calls: 05/10/2021

The Union Anti-Fraud Annual Work Programme 2021 provides for a specific call for proposals to provide financial support for training, conferences, seminars, studies, webinars and e-learning activities. 

Union Anti-Fraud Programme Technical Assistance

Code: 11353 | Identifier Code: EUAF-2021-TA | Programme name: EU Anti-Fraud Programme | Start submission calls: 22/07/2021 | End submission calls: 05/10/2021

The EUAF aims to:

• strengthen and improve the beneficiaries’ investigative and operational capacity, through the activities detrimental to the EU financial interests, arrests made, convictions, seizures, confiscations, recoveries, prevented losses to the national and EU budgets, and fraud schemes uncovered;
• strengthen and improvement of beneficiaries’ technical capacity to carry out verifications of trucks, containers and (other) vehicles.