c) Financial support for national campaigns and awareness raising

The Commission is supporting awareness-raising and compliance efforts undertaken at national level by awarding grants that can be used to provide training within data protection authorities, public administrations, legal professions and data protection officers 49 and to familiarise them with the Regulation. Around EUR 1.7 million will be allocated to six beneficiaries covering more than half of EU Member States. Funding will be targeted at local public authorities, including data protection officers of local public authorities, of public authorities and from the private sector, judges and lawyers. The grants will be used to develop training materials for data protection authorities, data protection officers and other professionals, as well as ‘train the trainer’ programmes. The Commission has also issued a call for proposals specifically aimed at data protection authorities. It will have a total budget of up to EUR 2 million and will support them in reaching out to stakeholders 50 . The objective is to provide 80 % co-financing to measures taken by data protection authorities in 2018-2019 to raise awareness among businesses, in particular SMEs, and reply to their queries. This funding can also be used to raise awareness among the general public.

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