Criminal Justice Programme

Call for proposals for the Criminal Justice Programme


The Call for Proposal JUST/2011-2012/JPEN/AG was published in the framework of the CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme. The CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme, as part of the General Programme "Fundamental Rights and Justice", promotes judicial cooperation based on mutual recognition and mutual confidence, promotes the compatibility in rules applicable in the Member States as may be necessary to improve judicial cooperation, improves contacts, exchange of information, best practices and mutual trust.

The projects funded in the framework of this CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s call for proposal must revolve around the following priorities:

• Supporting victims of crime 
• Procedural and defence rights for suspected and accused persons (including legal
interpretation and translation)
• European judicial training of European legal practitioners
• Networking and exchanging best practice among practitioners, including
implementation of existing cooperation instruments, procedural rights, victims\'
rights, restorative justice, mediation and detention
• Improving conditions relating to detention
• e-Justice

The target groups for the results of this CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s call for proposal are:
• Victims of crimes
• Suspected and accused persons
• Legal practioners
• Prison dwellers

Eligible participants within this CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s call for proposal are non-profit making bodies and organisations (institutions and public or private organisations, including professional organisations, universities, research institutes and legal and judicial training institutes for legal practitioners, and non-governmental organisations) based in one of the 27 Member States of the European Union.

The eligible actions that can be funded within this CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s call for proposal must be either national or transnational projects, involving at least two EU Member States or at least one Member State and one other country which may either be an acceding or a candidate country.

The total budget available for this CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s call for proposal amounts to EUR 28.950.000. EU funding cannot exceed 80% of the total eligible costs of the project.

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the current CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s Call for Proposals is 20 MARCH 2012.

Further information on the current CRIMINAL JUSTICE Programme’s Call for Proposals is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/files/just_2011-212_jpen_ag_en.pdf