Deadline Date: May 07, 2026
The European Commission is inviting grant applications to support reinforce national authorities’ capabilities in preventing and tackling fraud, corruption, and other illegal activities affecting EU financial interests.
The focus areas include providing technical knowledge, specialised and technically advanced equipment, and effective IT tools to enhance transnational and multidisciplinary cooperation; boosting staff exchanges for specific projects, including support for joint investigation teams and cross-border operations; providing technical and operational support for national investigations, particularly for customs and law enforcement authorities; building IT capacity in Member States and third countries, increasing data exchange, and developing IT tools for intelligence monitoring; and organising specialised training, fraud analysis workshops, conferences, and studies to improve cooperation and coordination between departments responsible for protecting EU financial interests.
To achieve these objectives, the Commission will fund data-analytics technologies and data purchases, including commercial specialised databases, data-analysis platforms capable of running analyses in big data environments, risk and predictive analysis tools, data mining tools, artificial intelligence systems aimed at preventing and combating irregularities, fraudulent activities, and corruption, and data collection tools for risk and anti-fraud analysis. The total budget available under EUAF-2026-TA for Technical Assistance is EUR 10,800,000, with a minimum grant amount of EUR 100,000 and a maximum requestable grant of EUR 1,620,000, corresponding to 15% of the available call budget.
Eligible participants must be legal entities, including national or regional public authorities or international organisations tasked with protecting EU financial interests, and, in the case of training initiatives, research and educational institutes or non-profit entities that support EUAF objectives. Participants must come from EU Member States, listed EEA countries, countries associated with the EUAF Programme, or countries in negotiations for association agreements that are effective before grant signature, and must have been established and operating for at least one year.
This funding opportunity represents a strategic investment in strengthening cross-border cooperation, advanced technological capabilities, and investigative expertise to safeguard the EU’s financial resources.
For more information, visit European Commission.
