Call for proposals

Internal Security Fund Police “Radicalisation" - ISFP-2017-AG-RAD

 

Objective and description

A new call for proposals has been launched under the Internal Security Fund Police for “Radicalisation" - ISFP-2017-AG-RAD.

 

The present Call for Proposals aims at funding projects on preventing and countering radicalisation leading to violent extremism in the area of one of the following priorities:

1.     Increasing awareness, protecting, strengthening resilience of individuals and in particular vulnerable groups (such as children, youth, etc.) to polarisation.

2.     Developing targeted exit programmes enabling radicalised individuals to deradicalise and disengage and rehabilitate based on an integrated multi-agency approach.

 

Projects must be aiming to achieve for the priority chosen one or more of the following outcomes:

1.     Polarisation

·         increasing awareness and capacity of first-line practitioners (e.g. police, teachers) to understand the dynamics, recognise and respond to the phenomena of polarisation at grass-roots level especially through awareness-raising and training activities;

·         strengthening polarisation detection and response capacities through for example the setting up of mechanisms such as monitoring and polarisation management systems. This could enable to assess the causes and develop appropriate response to changes in community tensions and social unrests for the police and local authorities;

·         promoting interaction and cooperation between different local actors from public sectors (law enforcement social services, etc) and NGOs that specialise in working with vulnerable groups and prevention of extremism as well as religious communities and other community-based organisations through the development of cooperation models;

·         promoting the views of moderate voices, which are too often muted by more extreme voices through offline channels like organising debates and workshops, supported by online communication activities;

·         developing and promoting concrete tools targeting vulnerable groups (e.g. via new media, application) on preventing polarisation.

 

2.     Exit programmes

·         setting up and facilitating the implementation of exit programmes building on existing programmes and offering practical assistance to individuals who want to deradicalise, disengage and rehabilitate within society. In particular, it could be done through local actors based on the development of methodological approaches and of quality and assessment criteria for interventions;

·         setting up and facilitating the implementation of exit programmes that ensure continuity between interventions in the prison and probation context and further rehabilitation efforts into community in particular through local actors;

·         setting up and facilitating the implementation of approaches that sow doubt in the mind of those individuals still not convinced to leave extremist groups and can lead to participation in exit programmes taking into account in the programmes, the ideology dimension (far, left wing, jihadism) but also practical and social living conditions of the individual in an integrated multi-agency approach.

 

Eligible activities

The following types of activities are eligible under this call for proposals:

·         the activities promoting networking, public-private partnerships, mutual confidence, understanding and learning, identification and dissemination of good practices and innovative approaches at Union level, training and exchange programmes as well as organisation of seminars and workshops;

·         the activities enhancing awareness of Union policies and priorities listed under point 2 among stakeholders and the general public, including the organisation of events such as conferences, seminars, debates, workshops and facilitating a better dissemination and awareness of also relevant policies and actions at national level;

·         the development and the dissemination of new methods and/or deploying new technologies with a potential for significant transferability to other Member States, especially activities aiming at testing and validating the outcome of Union funded security research projects;

·         the development and/or the implementation of tools/toolkits such as (e-)learning materials;

·         the drawing up of lessons learned and good practices to be actively shared within the RAN network;

·         management of the project and evaluation of activities.

 

Eligible applicants

In order to be eligible for a grant, the Applicant and the Co-applicants must be:

a) legal persons; applications from natural persons are not eligible;

b) a public body, a non-profit-making private entity or an international organisation. An international organisation can only be a Co-applicant;

c) established in a Member State of the European Union participating in the ISF Police instrument (All EU Member States, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Denmark). In duly justified cases where their participation is necessary to achieve the objectives of the project, the Co-applicants may also be established in a third country. However, the applications may not envisage provision of financial support to third parties.

 

In order to be eligible for a grant, applications must be transnational, transnational, i.e. involving at least 3 organisations established in 3 different Member States participating in the ISF Police instrument.

 

Budget and duration

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects is estimated at EUR 3 000 000.

 

In order to be eligible for a grant, applications must be seeking EU co-funding equal to or more than EUR 250.000 and equal to or less than EUR 750 000.

 

The EU grant is limited to a co-funding rate of 90% of the total eligible costs of the action.

 

Projects cannot be scheduled to last more than 24 months. Applications for projects scheduled to run for a longer period will be rejected.

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission

The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 March 2018, 17:00 (Brussels Local Time).

 

Applications must be submitted using the Electronic Submission System of the Participant Portal.

 

Further information

Please find attached the call documents.

 

Questions about the call shall be sent to the following email address: HOMEISF@ec.europa.eu. In order to ensure an efficient handling of any enquiry please indicate clearly the reference of this Call for Proposals.

 

More information: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/isfp/topics/isfp-2017-ag-rad.html

 

Kind regards,

Flora

 

Flora Stavropoulou
Junior Officer

European Office of Cyprus

Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor

B-1000, Brussels

Tel/Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85

E-mail: eoc.brussels2@ucy.ac.cy

 

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