The call for project proposals reflects the priorities of the EU strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse and supports its implementation by providing funding in two areas:
- improving prevention of child sexual abuse and assistance to victims. This priority aims to encourage initiatives to reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse online and offline, in particular but not exclusively programmes for offenders and people who fear that they might offend, and to ensure that victims of child sexual abuse receive appropriate and holistic support.
- developing the capacity to effectively fight child sexual abuse. The goal is to enhance the technical toolset available to detect, investigate and prosecute child sexual abuse. This includes e.g. the development of technical tools to enable relevant online service providers to proactively detect child sexual abuse in encrypted electronic communications, forensic tools to detect child sexual abuse material in a vast number of seized photos or videos, tools to locate victims or offenders, or tools to conduct investigations in the darknet or in peer to peer networks.
The call is open for public bodies, non-profit entities and international organisations established in an EU country.
Not-for profit, public bodies and international organisations established in a non-EU country can apply as co-applicants (with an EU-located entity in the lead). Private profit-making entities can also apply as co-applicants.
The call opened today and the deadline for applications is 24 February 2022. All the information about eligibility criteria, general conditions and application process is available on our webpage.