New methods and technologies in service of community policing and transferable best practices

The call is aimed at projects that contribute to new methods and technologies in service of community policing and transferable best practices

Projects’ results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

Strengthened resilience of local communities against crime and radicalisation, lowered feeling of insecurity and improved law enforcing;
Negative factors in local communities are identified early, possible threats are detected, and crime reporting is enhanced;
Better recognition for community diversity within neighbourhoods, and tailored approaches to milieus including communities traditionally not engaging with statutory authorities resulting in comprehensive community empowerment;
The interactions, and potential feedback between CP and alternatives to incarceration are explored;
Identification and EU wide dissemination of validated community policing best practices;
New methodologies, tools and adoption of technological support are developed; and
Training curricula for Police Authorities are developed on community policing in non-homogenous local milieus with social complexities, including balancing of majority needs while recognising expectations of minorities and/or sub-groups.

Applications must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal electronic
submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section).
Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Applications must include a plan for the exploitation and dissemination of results
including communication activities, unless provided otherwise in the specific call
conditions.

the limit for a full application is
45 pages

Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
-at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State; and
-at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.