The present Call for Proposals aims at funding projects in the area of law enforcement aimed at strengthening cross-border police cooperation addressing threats to the EU's internal security.

This call for proposals is addressed to transnational projects aiming at exchanging best practices, setting common procedures, joint procurement and deployment of necessary equipment, including funding operational meetings, innovative projects and test runs, investment in new technologies.

To meet this priority, projects must aim to ensure effective and adequate safeguards for protection of personal data and to increase the use of cross-border police cooperation instruments such as joint patrols, joint operations, hot pursuits, surveillances, joint threat assessments, joint trainings, including through the use of existing or new technologies such as mobile telecommunication solutions provided to end-users.

The following types of activities are eligible under this Call for Proposals:

1. projects promoting public-private partnerships, learning, identification and dissemination of best practices and innovative approaches at Union level, training and exchange programmes;
2. projects supporting the development of methodological, notably statistical, tools and methods and common indicators;
3. the acquisition, maintenance and/or further upgrading of technical equipment, expertise, secure facilities, infrastructures, related buildings and systems, especially ICT systems and their components at the Union level;
4. innovative projects developing new methods and/or deploying new technologies with a potential for transferability to other Member States, especially projects aiming at testing and validating the outcome of Union funded security research projects;

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

• 2,00 Million EUR (Global Budget)

• 13 February 2018 - more than one year ago (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)

• Official page of the Call

• Call for Proposals (Legal base)

Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:

• Local authorities
• Regional authorities
• National authorities

Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:

• European Union (EU)

Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security

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