European Commission Action Grants, 2016

The European Commission is seeking proposals for its “Action Grants” to support national or transnational projects regarding the criminal justice response to prevent radicalisation leading to terrorism and violent extremism.

Priority Areas:
- De-radicalisation/disengagement/rehabilitation programmes in prisons (projects should be tailor-made to prevent violent radicalisation and terrorist recruitment);
- Training of professionals (in particular prison management and staff, probation officers, prosecutors, judiciary, prison chaplains/imams, counsellors) involved in dealing with radicalised violent extremists or those at risk of becoming radicalised, in a sustained and multi-disciplinary way).

Eligibility
- The applicants and partners must be public entities or private organisations or international organisations. Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations.
- The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 75 000;
- The project must not have started prior to the date of submission of the grant application;
- The duration of the projects should not exceed 24 months;
- The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their overseas departments, except for the United Kingdom and Denmark are eligible to submit proposals.

Grant

This call will cover the following activities:
- Analytical activities, such as data collection, surveys, research activities, evaluations etc.;
- Mutual learning, identifying and exchange of best practices, development of working methods which may be transferable to other participating countries;
- Exchange and provision of information and development of information tools;
- Training activities;
- Capacity building for professionals;
- Facilitating cooperation between competent authorities and agencies, legal practitioners and/or service providers (including multi-disciplinary networks at international, national, regional or local levels);
- Dissemination and awareness raising activities.

Further details:
http://www.mladiinfo.eu