Funding & Grants – Calls for proposals

Hercule II programme– 2007-13

The EU's Hercule II programme provides funding for action to combat fraud affecting the EU's financial interests, including cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting.

2013 Calls for proposals [68 KB]

How much funding?

Hercule II has a budget of € 98,525 million for 2007-2013 to fund general anti-fraud actions (paid through grants or contracts)

Who can apply?

Funding can be awarded to:

• administrations (national or regional)
• research and education institutes
• non-profit bodies

Hercule II covers all current EU countries and upon certain conditions those that will join soon or are official candidate countries.

What can be funded?

• Technical assistance – support for national authorities
  • Call for proposals
• Training - Conferences, e-learning, round tables, staff exchanges, training courses, seminars, symposiums, working groups.
  • Call for proposals
  • Evaluation and final report documents
  • Projects co-financed in preceding years:
    2003 [12 KB] - 2004 [19 KB] - 2005 [24 KB] - 2006 [21 KB] - 2007 [34 KB] - 2008 [23 KB] - 2009 [34 KB] - 2010 [106 KB] - 2011 [109 KB]

• Legal Part – seminars, comparative studies, dissemination of expertise, annual meetings of presidents.
  • Call for proposals
  • Projects co-financed in previous years:
    2004 [11 KB] - 2005 [297 KB] - 2006 [12 KB] - 2007 [125 KB] - 2008 [131 KB] - 2009 [142 KB]

Legal background

• Commission Decision of 7.2.2013 concerning the adoption of a financing decision for 2013 in the framework of the Hercule II Programme [108 KB]
• EU decision 804/2004 – protecting EU financial interests
• EU decision 878/2007 - decision amending that establishing the Hercule II programme
  (extending the scope of the programme, following a risk analysis revealing the need for greater institutional cooperation on cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting)

Pericles programme

The Pericles programme provides funding for staff exchanges, technical assistance and training to combat euro counterfeiting

• Call for proposals
  • Projects from previous years
    2002 [15 KB] - 2003 [19 KB] - 2004 [19 KB] - 2005 [18 KB] - 2006 [21 KB] - 2007 [20 KB] - 2008 [21 KB] - 2009 [239 KB] - 2010 [23 KB] - 2011 [73 KB] - 2012 [44 KB]

Additional information

If you are looking for information on other funding available from the European Commission please visit the Contracts and Grants websiteAll available translations..