Transnational projects on children's rights in judicial proceedings – Action grants 2014

The projects should include interactive activities (such as mock trials/moot courts) that

allow secondary school students or assimilated to understand their rights, with some degree of customisation for each participating country to take account of the nationalcontext, and taking account of relevant EU legislation and the Council of Europe

Guidelines on child-friendly justice. Applicants should also take account of the findings

of the Study to collect data on children's involvement in criminal, civil and administrative

judicial proceedings, for which the criminal justice EU summary was published. Projects should enable children to experience the phases of mock criminal, civil or administrative cases, and improve their understanding of the various roles and

responsibilities (e.g. child subject to or party to proceedings, witness, guardian, parent,

lawyer, prosecutor, judge, social worker, police officer, etc.) as well as their own rights.

In order to ensure optimal implementation of the projects, they must be prepared together

with and involve children, teachers and/or staff in a participatory and empowering

manner and have the prior commitment of participating schools/structures to facilitate the

activities. The actual involvement of judicial and other practitioners who deal with real

life cases involving children would be welcome.

Projects should also aim to gather anonymised feedback from the participants and share it

with the relevant practitioners in the Member States concerned, and with the European

Commission, with a view to improving child-friendly justice practices in the Member

States.

As this project will involve direct contact with children, the applicant must describe

the child protection policy it will adhere to .

Proposals under the priority of this call for proposals must make provisions to document

the number of children, teachers and/or staff reached, as well as the number of judicial

and other practitioners involved or reached, providing anonymised data disaggregated by

gender and by age and must describe in their grant application how this will be done.