INTERNAL SECURITY FUND (ISF) – Fight against organised crime – 2026

Objectives

• To dismantle and disrupt criminal networks, their ringleaders and enablers, as well as several priorities of the EU Drugs Strategy
• To dismantle organised criminal networks engaged in trafficking in human beings (THB) in the EU

Priorities

• Priority 1: improving the intelligence picture on criminal networks
• Priority 2: facilitating cross border investigations
• Priority 3: facilitating financial investigations
• Priority 4: supporting crime prevention measures and tackling criminal infiltration
• Priority 5: strengthening capabilities to fight drug production and trafficking
• Priority 6: strengthening EU and national preparedness against drug related security threats

Eligibility

• Be legal entities:
  • public bodies or, by the competent authority’s mandate, a public or non-public 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 as long as relevant for the call for proposals
• 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 participating Member States must be constituted.
• The following entities can not apply as coordinator:
  • profit making entities
  • international organisations

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: maximum of 24 months

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

• Contact: HOME-ISF@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: 16.55 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • ISF-2026-TF2-AG-OCDT — Organised crime and drug trafficking: 14 million euros
  • ISF-2026-TF2-AG-THB — Trafficking in Human Beings: 2.55 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 1.000.000 and 3.000.000 euro

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

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