Digital forensic hardware
European Comission
Scope :
Support the purchase and maintenance of digital forensic equipment and software, mobile forensic tools, and computer forensic collaborative systems used to prevent and fight against irregularities (and fraudulent irregularities in particular), fraud, and corruption detrimental to the financial interests of the Union. Cross-border cooperation enabling the exchange of information and best practices, in particular at operational level, is strongly encouraged. Projects may also include updates of existing software systems and associated training. Specialised training to enable staff to operate these tools must be included as part of the action.
Expected Impact :
Strengthening and improvement of beneficiaries’ investigative and operational capacity, as measured, for example, by the number of successful operations carried out with the purchased products to support investigations into activities detrimental to the financial interests of the Union. This includes the number of arrests, convictions, seizures, confiscations, recoveries, prevented losses to national and Union budgets, and fraud schemes uncovered.
Conditions
- Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document
Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document
Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document
Evaluation and award:
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
- Submission and evaluation processes : described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document
6 . Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System