Programme name
Home Affairs
Programme objective
Strengthened rule of law
Programme Area
- Asylum and Migration
- International Police Cooperation and Combating Crime
- Disaster Prevention and Preparedness
Programme budget
EUR 23.5 million, including:
- EUR 20 million from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism
- EUR 3.5 million – national contribution
Programme Operator
Ministry of Interior and Administration in cooperation with the European Projects Implementation Centre
Donor Programme Partners*
- Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security / Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
- Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection / Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
* The only Donor State of the Norway Grants – financing the Programme – is Norway.
Eligible Beneficiaries
- public bodies, i.e. institutions representing the public finance sector (in accordance with the Act on public finance, Polish Journal of Laws of 2019, item 869)
- NGOs established as legal entities in Poland, operating in the Programme areas indicated in the calls for proposals
- international organizations or their bodies or agencies operating in the field indicated in the call for proposals
Project funding
Grant amount
from EUR 200,000 to EUR 1.5 million – for calls for:
- international police cooperation and combating crime
- asylum and migration
Project funding level
from 90% to 100% of eligible costs, depending on the type of applicant
Partnership at the project level with institutions from Norway
It is not required, however, additional points are awarded for submitting the project in partnership with entities from the Donor-State.
Method of selecting projects
I. Calls for proposals
Subjects of the calls
1. International police cooperation and combating crime
The call aims to strengthen cooperation between law enforcement services, including prevention and detection of organized crime by providing law enforcement officers with access to new technologies and appropriate training, as well as strengthening cooperation between national and international law enforcement authorities, such as Eurojust, Europol, Interpol and Frontex.
2. Asylum and migration
The call aims to ensure the functioning of national asylum management systems and migration, and ensuring the right to seek asylum, including through:
- support for national asylum and migration management systems, including voluntary returns
- services supporting asylum-seekers in the exercise of their fundamental rights (psychological and legal assistance, providing comprehensive information to migrants and asylum seekers)
- activities in the area of voluntary returns, including in particular training, workshops for officers and staff members who have direct contact with migrants
- assistance to unaccompanied minors and other groups with special needs
Schedule of calls for proposals under the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021
All calls for proposals have been launched and closed (as of October 2022).
Detailed information on calls for proposals under the Programme
II. Pre-defined projects
In the frame of the Programme, six pre-defined projects are financed in the field of:
1. Improving the safety of children in centers for foreigners, as well as reducing the phenomenon of violence against children on the part of their parents
2. Improving the process of collecting, analyzing and evaluating evidence in the area of fight against cross-border cybercrime
3. Police and non-police international cooperation in the search for the most dangerous criminals in Europe
4. Documents – safety and control
5. Strengthening EU border protection
6. Strengthening the security in the field of CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives)
Ad 1
Project title: Protect minors, including unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, from abuse
Project description: Improving the safety of children in centers for foreigners, as well as reducing violence against children committed by their parents, peers and employees of centers, institutions cooperating and being in contact with minors, including through training and workshops
Project promoter: Office for Foreigners
Donor project partners: not applicable
Polish project partners: Empowering Children Foundation, Border Guard
Grant amount: EUR 461,000
Ad 2
Project title: Improving the process of gathering, analyses and estimation of evidence in the the area of fight against cross-border cybercrime with use of IT labs network of the Polish Police
Project description: Improving the specialist knowledge in fields covered by the project and purchase of specialized equipment (for Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police)
Project promoter: National Police Headquarters
Donor project partners: Norwegian Police University College
Grant amount: EUR 4.4 million
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Project title: Police and non-police international cooperation in the search for the most dangerous criminals in Europe
Project description: Improvement of qualifications of the police officers responsible for searching the most dangerous fugitives
Project promoter: National Police Headquarters
Donor project partners: Norwegian National Criminal Investigation Service (KRIPOS)
Grant amount: EUR 262,000
Ad 4
Project title: Documents – safety and control, including tactical ID control
Project description: Increasing the qualifications of police officers and employees of the Polish Security Printing Works – through training in the field of ID control
Project promoter: Warsaw Metropolitan Police
Donor project partners: Norwegian ID Center (NID)
Polish project partners: National Police Headquarters, Polish Security Printing Works
Grant amount: EUR 776,000
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Project title: Strengthening the protection of the EU borders through the development of cynological training activities, infrastructure expansion, redevelopment and upgradingof the Border Guard (in Lubań)
Project description: Combating drug crime and terrorism by improving the work of service dogs
Project promoter: Border Guard Centre for Specialized Training
Donor project partners: not applicable
Foreign project partners: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in Velyki Mosty (Ukraine), State Border Guard Service of the Republic of Lithuania
Grant amount: EUR 535,000
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Project title: The Process of Coordination and Standardisation in the field of CBRNE as an Element of Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Project description: Improving the security of the state and its citizens by preventing and combating chemical, radiological, biological, nuclear and explosive threats in Poland
Project promoter: Internal Security Agency
Donor project partners: Norwegian Military Research and Crisis Planning Institute (DSB), Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection
Polish project partners:
- Main School of Fire Service
- Military Institute of Chemistry and Radiometry
- Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
- Government Security Center
- Military University of Technology
- Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- National Headquarters of the State Fire Service
- Counter-terrorist Operations Office of the National Police Headquarters
- Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police – Poland
- Epidemiological Response Center of the Polish Armed Forces
- Ministry of Health – Poland
- Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- National Atomic Energy Agency
- University of Łódź
- Jagiellonian University Medical College
Grant amount: EUR 7.25 million
More information
Events
1. Signing the agreement on the “Home Affairs” Programme during the conference inaugurating the 3rd edition of the EEA and Norway Grants in Poland (September 12, 2019):
- Report on the conference on the website of the EEA and Norway Grants
- Information (in Polish) on the Facebook profile of the EEA and Norway Grants
- Report (in Polish) on the conference on the website of the European Projects Implementation Centre of the Ministry of Interior and Administration
2. Conference launching the “Home Affairs” Programme (September 18, 2019):