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EUAF (EU Anti-Fraud Programme) – Training, conferences, staff exchanges and studies – 2025

EUAF – The EU Anti-fraud Programme aims at promoting activities against fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the EU.

2025-05-15
1 million euro
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Appeal framework

Call reference EUAF-2025-TRAI
Program EUAF (EU Anti-Fraud Programme)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Cooperation & Development Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training Justice, Security, Defence Other Research & Innovation
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Research centre & university State administration & affiliated entities

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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives 

  • To ensure a second chance to education for persons
  • To create an inclusive environment in schools
  • To protect the EU’s financial interests
  • To prevent and combat fraud, corruption, and any other illegal activities affecting the EU’s financial interests
  • To encourage transnational and multidisciplinary cooperation, exchanges of knowledge and best practices, and the creation of networks between national authorities and between practitioners and academics involved in protecting the EU’s financial interests
  • To raise awareness of the need to protect the EU’s financial interests among the judiciary and other branches of the legal profession
  • To allow for the co-funding of training activities, including conferences, seminars, webinars, e-learning activities, and staff exchanges, as well as studies

Priorities 

  • Priority 1: digitalisation of administrative reporting processes with a view to reducing the administrative burden, in relation to anti-fraud activities
  • Priority 2: Cooperation between the EU’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies involved in protecting the financial interests of the EU, in particular OLAF and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), and cooperation between these groups and authorities both inside and outside the EU
  • Priority 3: OLAF’s framework for investigations
  • Priority 4: Activities to improve the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud and corruption
  • Priority 5: Prevention of and fight against revenue fraud and corruption
  • Priority 6: Protection of the EU single market from counterfeits, tobacco-smuggling and goods that are a danger to health, security or the environment
  • Priority 7: Border protection, customs cooperation and information-sharing designed to protect the EU budget
  • Priority 8: Cooperation between customs authorities to prevent and combat certain fraudulent activities that damage the environment or human health
  • Priority 9: Cooperation between other authorities for the purposes referred to in the preceding point where the fraudulent activities concerned affect the EU budget
  • Priority 10: Prevention of the import of illicit products that do not comply with EU standards and affect the EU budget
  • Priority 11: Prevention and tackling of fraud and corruption affecting EU funds in the fields of environment, climate and food safety (actions related to the ‘Green Deal’)
  • Priority 12: Emerging challenges in the prevention of and fight against expenditure fraud and corruption in the context of the current multiannual financial framework and in instruments such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)
  • Priority 12: Identification and mitigation of potential double-funding with regard to grants allocated through the RRF
  • Priority 13: National and EU anti-fraud strategies and comparisons of the relevant law enforcement frameworks in different Member States
  • Priority 14: Effectiveness of management and control systems and the development of cost-effective approaches
  • Priority 15: The general regime of conditionality for protecting the EU budget (i.e. principles of ‘the rule of law’) in the Member States
  • Priority 16: The future of EU anti-fraud policy and programmes: challenges and opportunities
  • Priority 17: Effective identification and tackling of money laundering that accompanies fraud, corruption or irregularities affecting the EU budget
  • Priority 18: Fraud committed in cyberspace affecting the EU budget
  • Priority 19: OLAF’s added value in investigating cases of serious misconduct by staff and members of the EU’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies with an impact on the financial interests of the EU
  • Priority 20: Applicants may explore other relevant themes

Among financed actions  

  • Specialised training sessions
  • Conferences, workshops and seminars
  • Staff exchanges
  • Research activities and periodical publications

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • National or regional public authorities or international organisations that can help to achieve an EUAF objective
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the EUAF programme (Click here)
  • A consortium composed of only one applicant must be constituted

Additional information 

  • Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months
  • Contact: OLAF-ANTI-FRAUD-TRAINING@ec.europa.eu

Useful

Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 1 million euro
  • Budget per topic: Not specified
  • Amount of the grant: Not specified
  • Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs

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