Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers

23 January 2023

27 January 2023

20.01.2023 - Contemporary Europe was built on the ashes of the Holocaust; it is a defining, terrible legacy of European history. This is why next week, we will commemorate the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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This online info session with DG Justice and EACEA staff will take place on 26 January 2023 from 9:00 to 13:00. Don’t miss it!

JUST-2023-JTRA and JUST-2023-JCOO

Call for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters

Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects on judicial training covering civil law, criminal law or fundamental rights

Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects in the fields of e-Justice, victims’ rights and procedural rights

Call for proposals to promote equality and to fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination

Call for proposals CERV-2023-DAPHNE

INFO session on 2023 EU project funding CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH

INFO session on 2023 EU project funding CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI

23 January 2023, 17.00 - 19.00 CET

Online Info-Session on CERV-2023-DAPHNE

Created in collaboration with the Children and War UK Foundation, the Rucksack Project is a book created not only about the children of Ukraine, but for the children of Ukraine. Every picture book distributed to displaced Ukrainian children comes with a separate exercise book, a simple booklet of advice for parents, carers, teachers - wherever they might be - who are reading RUCKSACK to the children, with the aim of the book becoming a soothing personal possession to support the mental health of the young readers.

At the occasion of the first Annual Seminar "A 360 view on child friendly Justice" on 12-14 October 2022, the Child-friendly justice European network (CFJ-EN) released its first handbook on child friendly justice. It includes a compilation of resources, key legal standards and case law, agendas and opportunities at European level for 2022-2023. The handbook, updated yearly, is available in English and will soon be available in French. The Child Friendly Justice European Network, co-funded by the EU under CERV Programme, aims to ensure that justice systems are adapted to children’s needs and specificities. It intends to exchange information and expertise, further disseminate useful tools produced and gather them to make them more accessible.

Hope and Homes for Children published a roadmap for global care reform ‘Families. Not Institutions’. The publication is a seminal analytic report on their thirty-year experience with reforming child protection and care systems to ensure the end of institutionalisation of children globally. For global, regional and national decision makers, ‘Families. Not Institutions.’ can help build political will, define strategies and policies, and target funding that transforms care systems.

A high level event at the European Parliament launched a study, run by UNICEF- Innocenti Centre, Learning for Well Being Foundation and Fetzer Institute, called “What Make Me?” The report depicts 9 core capacities fundamental for developing competencies and skills that support lifelong learning and child wellbeing. These capacities - empathizing, relaxing, observing, listening, inquiring, reflecting, sensing, embodying and discerning patterns- need to be cultivated at the early stage of our life. Adults also need to be aware of them since they are essential for learning and living during the entire circle of our life. MEPs, the European Commission, UNICEF, researchers and stakeholders discussed with civil society participants the importance of putting children at the centre of decision-making.