Expired programmes
The EU Council adopted the first funding programmes concerning the area of freedom, security and justice in December 1996. Having a lifetime of normally 4 years, these programmes meanwhile expired and have been replaced by new funding programmes with broader objectives.
This page gives a general presentation in three parts:
I) Latest developments
II) General context
The expired programmes are:
- Falcone: Helping people and organisations fight against organised crime at EU level.
- Hippokrates: EU funding for organisations involved in crime prevention.
- OISIN II: Making EU police and customs officials more familiar with each others' systems and practices.
- Grotius II-Criminal: Helping professionals from the EU Member States to cooperate in criminal matters
- Grotius Civil: To facilitate judicial cooperation between Member States by fostering mutual knowledge of legal and judicial systems.
- Robert Schuman: Designed to remedy the widespread lack of information and training in Community law of judges, prosecutors and lawyers.
- Odysseus: To help strengthen EU-wide cooperation in the field of asylum and immigration
- STOP II: To help prevent and combat trade in human beings and all forms of sexual exploitation
- Victims of terrorism: Pilot project: To support projects intended to help the victims and/or their relatives of terrorist acts and raise awareness of the public against terrorist threat.
We invite you to have a look at the pages of the programmes you're interested in. You will find there information on the outcomes and results of the projects realised under these funding programmes and also information on the ongoing funding programme which has replaced it.