Last date : October 28, 2015
This call for proposals for action grants is based on the 2015 annual work programme1 of the Justice Programme. It aims to co-fund transnational and or national projects that contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU criminal law in the area of the rights of persons suspected or accused of crime and to the preparation of new EU action, in line with the specific objective to facilitate effective access to justice for all. Proposals should aim to produce results with EU added value.
Organisations interested in submitting applications are strongly advised to study the detailed terms and conditions set out in this call for proposals and in the Guide for Action Grants published together with this call and constituting an integral part of the conditions of the call.
Organisations interested in submitting applications are strongly advised to study the detailed terms and conditions set out in this call for proposals and in the Guide for Action Grants published together with this call and constituting an integral part of the conditions of the call.
PRIORITIES AND ACTIVITIES TO BE FUNDED
The proposals under this call shall focus on the priorities described below. Proposals shall complement the efforts of the EU in the area of the rights of suspected and accused. Duplications of already existing initiatives will not be funded. Applicants shall explain and demonstrate how their proposals are aligned with the respective EU policies and with the documents published by the European Commission and referred to under each priority. The degree of relevance to the priorities of the call for proposals will be assessed under the relevance award criterion.
BUDGET AVAILABLE
The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 2 000 000 EUR.
The Commission reserves the right not to award all available funds, and/or to redistribute the amounts per priority depending on the projects received and the outcome of the evaluation procedure.
The indicative available budget under this call for proposals is 2 000 000 EUR.
The Commission reserves the right not to award all available funds, and/or to redistribute the amounts per priority depending on the projects received and the outcome of the evaluation procedure.
EVALUATION PROCEDURE
All applications are subject to an evaluation process involving five sets of criteria.
The evaluators will check whether the application complies with all the formal requirements (admissibility, exclusion and eligibility criteria).
Applications are furthermore subject to the verification of operational and financial capacity (selection criteria), and they will be evaluated on the basis of the award criteria mentioned in the call. For the verification of the selection criteria the evaluators, based on the documents submitted, will check whether the applicant and partners have enough financial, human and operational resources to carry out the activities described in Annex 1- Project Description and Implementation Form.
For the evaluation of the award criteria the evaluators will assess the proposal on its merits against the award criteria, giving points to each proposal.
Proposals will be evaluated by an evaluation committee composed of Commission staff. The committee may be assisted by external experts. The submitted proposals will be evaluated solely on the basis of the criteria outlined below. In most cases, admissibility, exclusion and eligibility criteria will be checked first, but the evaluation committee may decide to proceed in a different order or assess different sets of criteria in parallel.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, applications must fulfil all of the following criteria. If a grant application is declared ineligible, it will not be considered for further evaluation and a rejection letter to that effect will be sent to the applicant.
To be eligible, applications must fulfil all of the following criteria. If a grant application is declared ineligible, it will not be considered for further evaluation and a rejection letter to that effect will be sent to the applicant.
Eligibility of the applicant and of the partners
Applicants and partners must comply with the following requirements:
(a) Legal status: Applicants and partners must be legally constituted public or private organisations, or international organisations.
Bodies set up by the European Union falling under Article 208 of the Financial Regulations (EU bodies and institutions) are not eligible for funding and cannot submit applications. They can be associated to an application, but their costs will not be co-financed.
Only legally constituted organisations can participate. Natural persons (private individuals) are not allowed to submit applications.
(b) Bodies and organisations which are profit-oriented can apply, be it as applicant or as partner, only in partnership with private non-profit or public organisations.
‘Non-profit organisation’ can be
1) a legal entity that is by its legal form non-profit-making; or
2) has a legal or statutory obligation not to distribute profits to its shareholders or individual members. The provision that profits will not be distributed must be clearly stipulated either in the law or in the statutes of the organisation; decisions on (not) distributing profits made by its managing board, associates, stakeholders, members or representatives are not sufficient proof of the non-profit nature.
(c) Eligible country: Applicant and partners must be legally established in an eligible country. This is not applicable for International organisations.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Eligible countries8: the EU Member States, except for UK and DK9.
Applicants and partners must comply with the following requirements:
(a) Legal status: Applicants and partners must be legally constituted public or private organisations, or international organisations.
Bodies set up by the European Union falling under Article 208 of the Financial Regulations (EU bodies and institutions) are not eligible for funding and cannot submit applications. They can be associated to an application, but their costs will not be co-financed.
Only legally constituted organisations can participate. Natural persons (private individuals) are not allowed to submit applications.
(b) Bodies and organisations which are profit-oriented can apply, be it as applicant or as partner, only in partnership with private non-profit or public organisations.
‘Non-profit organisation’ can be
1) a legal entity that is by its legal form non-profit-making; or
2) has a legal or statutory obligation not to distribute profits to its shareholders or individual members. The provision that profits will not be distributed must be clearly stipulated either in the law or in the statutes of the organisation; decisions on (not) distributing profits made by its managing board, associates, stakeholders, members or representatives are not sufficient proof of the non-profit nature.
(c) Eligible country: Applicant and partners must be legally established in an eligible country. This is not applicable for International organisations.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Eligible countries8: the EU Member States, except for UK and DK9.
Eligibility of the application
(a) The EU grant requested cannot be lower than EUR 75 000. There is no upper limit.
(b) Projects must not have started prior to the date of submission of the grant application.
(a) The EU grant requested cannot be lower than EUR 75 000. There is no upper limit.
(b) Projects must not have started prior to the date of submission of the grant application.
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