Project applications submitted under the present call for proposals must address at least one of the following priorities:

• Structural and/or operational obstacles in the detection, investigation, prosecution and adjudication and sanctioning of corruption, in particular high level corruption;
• The implementation of recommendations to Member States highlighted in the annual Rule of Law reports, as well as the objectives of the Commission outlined in the Communication on the fight against corruption and the proposed Directive on combating corruption;
• Integrity and anti-corruption in law enforcement and judicial authorities, and the enabling of corruption by financial and professional services;
• Areas with a high risk of corruption, including, but not limited to corruption in public procurement, sports, health, construction and infrastructure, logistical and financial sectors;
• Corruption as an enabler of organised crime and as a means to infiltrate the licit economy and the society, including in ports;
• Challenges linked to corruption-prevention in the public sector and transparency of decision-making, including, but not limited to, management of conflicts of interest, asset disclosure, rules on post
• employment (revolving doors), codes of conduct or ethics, transparency of lobbying;
• Challenges linked to corruption-prevention in the private sector including, but not limited to, rules on post-employment (revolving doors), codes of conduct or ethics, corporate compliance programs, transparency of lobbying;
• Supporting civil society, journalists and citizens to expose and report corruption;
• Supporting the inclusion and progress of anti-corruption, ethics and integrity education at all educational levels, including by engaging and empowering young people with non-formal educational approaches;
• The promotion of evidence-based policy making in the anti-corruption field, including but not limited to the collection of appropriate statistics and building of robust databases.

Project applications submitted under the present call for proposals should provide for activities supporting the prevention of and the fight against corruption, in line with the objectives described above, including one or more of the following activities (non-exhaustive list):

• Activities supporting the repression of corruption, including strengthening the digitalisation of law enforcement as well as police’s investigative capacities;
• Activities that further the implementation of recommendations to Member States highlighted in the annual Rule of Law reports, as well as the objectives of the Commission outlined in the Communication on the fight against corruption and the proposed Directive on combating corruption;
• Measures improving integrity and anti-corruption in law enforcement and judicial authorities;
• Measures to reduce corruption in areas with a high risk of corruption;
• Identification of challenges to corruption-prevention in the private sector and public sector, as well as measures to mitigate these;
• Activities supporting the monitoring of the application and effectiveness of preventive anti-corruption measures, such as on transparency registers, declarations of asset and interests, others in line with the activities of the Commission’s annual Rule of Law Report;
• The promotion of evidence-based policy making in the anti-corruption field, including but not limited to the collection of appropriate statistics and building of robust databases;
• Analysis of enablers and the modus operandi of corruption to expand corruptionspecific research, knowledge and understanding in law enforcement, prosecution  services and/or the wider public, including, but not limited to, new methods used by criminals and criminal networks;
• Development and dissemination of good practices in the prevention of, or fight against, corruption across the EU, in particular good practices of measures to mitigate corruption in areas at high risk of corruption;
• Supporting the anti-corruption action targeted at youth and the wider public by, for example, reinforcing the work of civil society, citizens and journalists in exposing corruption, and reinforcing the role of young people in fostering a culture of integrity.
• Promoting the development and implementation of good practices and data exchange in the area of anti-corruption at EU level.