INTERNAL SECURITY FUND (ISF) – Call for proposals on the fight against corruption – 2026

Objective

To prevent and combat corruption, by supporting actions addressing both its prevention and repression.

Priorities

• Priority 1: strengthening cross-border and EU-level responses to corruption including the implementation of EU anti-corruption recommendations
• Priority 2: enhancing prevention, detection, and enforcement capacities
• Priority 3: promoting integrity and institutional resilience

Among financed actions

• Training
• Data collection
• Development of monitoring tools…

Eligibility

• Be legal entities
  • public bodies or, by the competent authority’s mandate, a public or nonpublic implementing agency or body of a Member State participating in the ISF
  • non-profit-making public/private entities
  • profit-making entities
  • international organisations
•  Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), excluding Denmark
  • Non-EU countries
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal.
• A consortium composed of minimum 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 2 different eligible countries must be constituted.
• The following entities can not apply as coordinator:
  • international organisations irrespective of their country of establishment
  • entities established in non-EU countries

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: JUST-ISF-ANTICORRUPTION-CALL-1@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 5 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 600.000 and 2.000.000 euros

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs