Call: Action grants to support transnational projects on judicial training covering civil law, criminal law, fundamental rights and fight against terrorism and radicalisation

The general objective of the Programme shall be to contribute to the further development of a European area of justice based on mutual recognition and mutual trust, in particular by promoting judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

Specific objectives:

• to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters;
• to support and promote judicial training, including language training on legal terminology, with a view to fostering a common legal and judicial culture;
• to facilitate effective access to justice for all, including to promote and support the rights of victims of crime, while respecting the rights of the defence;
• to support initiatives in the field of drugs policy as regards judicial cooperation and crime prevention aspects closely linked to the general objective of the Programme, in so far as they are not covered by the Internal security fund for financial support for police cooperation, preventing and combating crime, and crisis management or by the Health for Growth Programme;

The specific objectives of the Programme shall be pursued through, in particular:

• enhancing public awareness and knowledge of Union law and policies;
• with a view to ensuring efficient judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, improving knowledge of Union law, including substantive and procedural law, of judicial cooperation instruments and of the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and of comparative law;
• supporting the effective, comprehensive and consistent implementation and application of Union instruments in the Member States and the monitoring and evaluation thereof;
• promoting cross-border cooperation, improving mutual knowledge and understanding of the civil and criminal law and the legal and judicial systems of the Member States and enhancing mutual trust
• improving knowledge and understanding of potential obstacles to the smooth functioning of a European area of justice;
• improving the efficiency of judicial systems and their cooperation by means of information and communication technology, including the cross-border interoperability of systems and applications.

This call for proposals for action grants is based on the 2015 annual work programme of the Justice Programme. It aims to co-fund transnational projects that contribute to the further development of a European area of justice based on mutual recognition and mutual trust, in line with the specific objective to support and promote judicial training, including language training on legal terminology, with a view to fostering a common legal and judicial culture. The aim of this call is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU law notably in the areas of civil law, criminal law and fundamental rights and to mutual trust between legal practitioners. Proposals should aim to produce results with EU added value. 

For the purpose of this call, the proposal must be submitted by organisations (applicant and partner(s)) from at least two different eligible countries.

The EU grant requested cannot be lower than EUR 50 000. There is no upper limit.

The funding under this call is based on the co-financing principle: the grant cannot constitute more than 80% of overall eligible project costs.

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