Standardisation

Thanks for spotting this. Indeed, the table is incorrect as regards the topic Standardisation. For this topic profit making entities, international organisations and entities established in non-EU countries cannot apply. We will publish an updated version of the call document correcting this.

This seems to be the default setting in the submission system. You indeed receive a warning when you include any non-EU country, but you can still submit the proposal. Your proposal will not be rejected for this as long as you have met the criteria and conditions in the call document related to this.

For the period 2021-2027 the HOME Funds (AMIF, BMVI and ISF) apply the unit costs for travel, accommodation and subsistence (as specified by the Model Grant AgreementPDFand Annotated Grant AgreementPDF).

The use of the unit costs should be seen as a simplification and cutting red tape. Specific rationale for applying the unit costs can be found in the Commission Decision C(2021)35PDF that was amended by Commission Decision C(2023)4928 finalPDF. Decision specifies in which cases the unit costs are mandatory to be applied – in general all travels above 400km independent of the direction as well as in the range 50-400km within and between the Member States. For directions not covered by the decision (e.g. travel between 50 and 300km in a third country; travel between 50 and 300km and between a Member State and a third country, and; land travel between 50 and 300km in Luxembourg, Cyprus or Malta), actual costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence, also in line with the local accounting and tax rules are to be used. For specific rules, please refer to section ‘General > Article 6.2.C.1 Travel and subsistence’ of the Annotated Grant AgreementPDF.

In practice, it is advised to use the unit costs as reference while establishing your draft budget at proposal stage.

During the implementation of the project you will incur costs according to your usual practices but you will have to declare your travel, accommodation and subsistence, in your final payment request, as unit costs in accordance with the article 6.2.C.1 of the model grant agreement.

Financial support to third parties is indeed not allowed, but unfortunately this category could not be removed from the budget sheet.

The European Commission, DG Migration and Home Affairs, will hold an online information session on 10 November 2027, from 15:00 to 17:30 CET, to explain the ins- and outs as well as the rules and procedures of interest to those who may want to submit a proposal under the call for proposals Digital Investigations and Standardisation (ISF-2026-TF2-AG-CYBER).

For those who are not able to attend a video-recording will be made available.

You can join the meeting using this Webex meeting link: ecconf.webex.com

Please join the meeting at 14:45 CET.

In case of problems, contact: HOME-ISF@ec.europa.eu

The list of the previous projects as a separate mandatory annex is mentioned in point 5 of the call text.

As mentioned in point 11 of the Call for proposals document, applicants shall submit their proposal via the Electronic Submission System of the Funding & Tenders Portal (SEP). There, applicants can find a document entitled “Part B template”. They shall download this document and cut from it the content of its last page, entitled a “List of previous projects” including a dedicated table. That list shall be duly filled in by the applicant, saved as a separate document, and then uploaded (in PDF format) in the dedicated space in the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System.

That way we ensure that only part B, related to the description of action, is subject to the control of the maximum page-limit set in the call text.

Thanks for flagging this. Indeed in some browsers the link does not go to the correct page since a hyphen was added in the formatting of the text. The correct link is:

joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu