Prevent and combat violence against children, young people and women and to protect victims and groups at risk
This page gives a general presentation in three parts:
I) Latest developments
- 19/08/2010: Call for proposals "Action grants" 2008 reporting documents are now available
- 19/08/2010: Call for proposals "Operating grants" 2008 reporting documents are now available
- 19/08/2010: Call for proposals "Action grants" 2007 reporting documents are now available
- 19/08/2010: Call for proposals "Operating grants" 2007 reporting documents are now available
II) General context
On 20 June 2007, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Decision No 779/2007/EC establishing, for the period 2007-2013, the specific programme Daphne III as part of the General Programme "Fundamental Rights and Justice". The aforementioned decision was published in the Official Journal L 173 of 3 July 2007.
The aim of this programme is to contribute to the protection of children, young people and women against all forms of violence. Over the next twelve months, around 3,500 children under the age of 15 will die as a result of physical assault and neglect in the world’s richest nations. One out of every ten schoolchildren faces violence at school – some of it so traumatic that suicide seems the only way out. Moreover, recent studies on gender-based violence suggest that an estimated one-fifth to one-quarter of all women in Europe have experienced physical acts of violence at least once during their adult lives, and more than one-tenth have suffered sexual violence involving the use of force. One particularly serious form of violence is human trafficking: the estimated number of trafficking victims in the EU is over 100.000 per year, and 80% of these are women and girls.
The general objective of Daphne III will be to contribute to the protection of children, young people and women against all forms of violence and to attain a high level of health protection, well-being and social cohesion. These general objectives will contribute to the development of Community policies, in particular those related to public health, human rights and gender equality, as well as actions aimed at protection of children's rights, and the fight against trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation.
The programme's specific objective will be to contribute to the prevention of, and the fight against, all forms of violence occurring in the public or the private domain against children, young people and women, including sexual exploitation and trafficking in human beings, by taking preventive measures and by providing support and protection for victims and groups at risk.
The programme will achieve its objectives by means of transnational actions (grant funding), the Commission's own-initiated actions (contracts) or operating grants to NGOs, which aims will be to:
- assisting and encouraging NGOs and other organisations active in this field;
- developing and implementing targeted awareness-raising actions;
- disseminating results obtained under Daphne;
- actions contributing to positive treatment of people at risk;
- setting up and supporting multidisciplinary networks;
- expansion of the knowledge base and exchange, identification and dissemination of information and good practice;
- designing and testing awareness-raising and educational materials;
- studying phenomena related to violence and its impact;
- developing and implementing support programmes for victims and people at risk and intervention programmes for perpetrators.
III) Documents and Reports
| Calls/Documents |
|---|
| 2010 |
| Call for proposals "Action grants" 2009-2010 [Expired call] |
Daphne III Annual work programme 2010     [108 KB] |
| 2009 |
| Call for proposals "Operating grants" 2009 [Expired call] |
| Daphne III Annual Work Programme 2009 [67 KB] |
| 2008 |
| Selected projects "Action grants" 2008 [177 KB] |
| Call for proposals "Operating grants" 2008 [Expired call] |
| Call for proposals "Action grants" 2008 [Expired call] |
| Annual work programme 2008 [57 KB] |
| 2007 |
| Call for proposals "Operating grants" 2007 [Expired call] |
| Call for proposals "Action grants" 2007 [Expired call] |
| Annual work programme 2007 [67 KB] |