Call: Action grants to support transnational projects on promoting the quality of the national justice systems

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Programme	Justice
Type of Fund	Action programme
Description of programme "Justice"	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. The Programme focuses on the following 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
Link	Link to Programme
Call	Action grants to support transnational projects on promoting the quality of the national justice systems
Description of call "Action grants to support transnational projects on promoting the quality of the national justice systems"	The priority of this call for proposals is to provide an analysis of courts' practices, and initiatives taken, aiming at enhancing the quality of the judicial systems in Member States. Proposals should focus on court best practices in Member States to improve the functioning of the judiciary, for example as regards court management, streamlined case handling, in-house coordination, communication with the parties, possibility to follow up on the case file, quality assurances and other methods to make court proceedings effective and user friendly. Proposals should also promote a better knowledge of best practices in Member States contributing to the effectiveness of national judicial systems and they should have a clear dissemination strategy actively spreading information about the project, its activities and its results.
Link	Link to Call
Thematic Focus	Justice
Funding area	Austria / Österreich Belgium / Belgique-België Bulgaria / България Croatia / Hrvatska Cyprus / Κύπρος Czech Republic / Česká Republika Estonia / Eesti Finland / Suomi France Germany / Deutschland Greece / Ελλάδα (Ellada) Hungary / Magyarország Ireland / Ireland Italy / Italia Latvia / Latvija Lithuania / Lietuva Luxembourg / Luxembourg Malta Netherlands / Nederland Poland / Polska Portugal / Portugal Romania / România Slovakia / Slovensko Slovenia / Slovenija Spain / España Sweden / Sverige
Origin of Applicant	Albania / Shqipëria Austria / Österreich Belgium / Belgique-België Bulgaria / България Croatia / Hrvatska Cyprus / Κύπρος Czech Republic / Česká Republika Estonia / Eesti Finland / Suomi France Germany / Deutschland Greece / Ελλάδα (Ellada) Hungary / Magyarország Ireland / Ireland Italy / Italia Latvia / Latvija Lithuania / Lietuva Luxembourg / Luxembourg Malta Netherlands / Nederland Poland / Polska Portugal / Portugal Romania / România Slovakia / Slovensko Slovenia / Slovenija Spain / España Sweden / Sverige
Eligible applicants	Federal State / Region / City / Municipality / Local Authority, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees), NGO / NPO, Start Up Company, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined), Public Services
Project Partner	Yes
Project Partner Details	The project must be transnational and must be submitted by a partnership of eligible organisations. For the purpose of this call, the proposal must be submitted by organisations (applicant and partner(s)) from at least five different eligible countries as referred to under section 4.2.1 of this call. Please note that any associate partners participating in the project are not counted for the purposes of this criterion.
Recurring Call	No
Project duration max	12 months
Further info	The indicative maximum time for the European Commission to finalize evaluations of the submitted proposals is 6 months counted as of the submission deadline. The indicative maximum time to inform the applicants about the results of the evaluation may take additional 3 months (in total 9 months as of the submission deadline).
Financial details	The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is: 1 000 000 €. The EU grant requested cannot be lower than 150 000 €. The funding under this call is based on the co-financing principle: the grant cannot constitute more than 80% of overall eligible project costs.
Submission	Submitting an application is only possible online via the Electronic Submission System of the Participant Portal and before the call deadline.
Contact Details	BOVING Philippe Philippe.BOVING@ec.europa.eu BEDNARZ Barbara Programme Assistant - EU policies Barbara.BEDNARZ@ec.europa.eu