Details
- Status
- Closed
- Publication date
- 11 April 2025
- Opening date
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Deadline date
- 5 May 2025, 17:00 (CEST)
- Industrial Ecosystem
- Digital
- Level of funding
- EU level
Description
Overview
Objectives
The EUAF Programme pursues the general objective to protect the EU financial interests. To achieve this general objective, the EUAF sets a specific objective to prevent and combat fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the EU financial interests. This call focuses on developing specialised training sessions to improve knowledge and use of IT tools and to increase anti-fraud data analysis by acquiring new skills and knowledge of specialised methodologies and techniques.
Activities/actions supported
The development of specialised training sessions to improve knowledge and use of IT tools and to increase anti-fraud data analysis by acquiring new skills and knowledge of specialised methodologies and techniques.
Anticipated outcomes
Professionals, in particular staff from customs authorities and other law enforcement bodies, are better able to protect the financial interests of the EU through:
- the acquisition of new skills;
- acquisition of knowledge of specialised methodologies and techniques;
- an increased awareness of fraud-risk indicators at EU level and
- more opportunities to develop and implement anti-fraud strategies at EU level.
Institution providing the funding
European Commission
Size of funding
EUR 1,000,000
Conditions
Overview of eligibility criteria
To be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) which are national or regional public authorities or international organisations that can help to achieve a EUAF objective, in particular to protect the EU financial interests or research and educational institutes and non-profit making entities that can help to achieve the objectives of the EUAF Programme, in particular to protect the EU financial interests, and have been established and operating for at least one year.
Furthermore, applicants must be from an EU Member State or EEA country or country associated to the EUAF Programme or country which is in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
Overview of award criteria
An evaluation committee will assess all applications. Proposals will first be checked for formal requirements (admissibility, and eligibility). Proposals found admissible and eligible will be evaluated against the operational capacity and award criteria and then ranked according to their scores. Award criteria include:
- Conformity with the objectives of the EUAF Programme (30 points)
- Quality (20 points)
- Value for money (20 points)
- Added value for the protection of the EU financial interests (30 points)
The overall pass score is 60/100.
Procedures
Application procedures
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section).
Application support available
For help related to this call, please contact OLAF-ANTI-FRAUD-TRAINING@ec.europa.eu. Also consult the: Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ, IT Helpdesk and Online Manual.