Deadline: 25 October 2017
The European Union (EU) is seeking applications for its action grants to support transnational projects on judicial training covering civil law, criminal law or fundamental rights.
The objective is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU law in the areas of civil law (including consumer law), criminal law and fundamental rights, to judicial ethics and the rule of law, by covering training needs’ gaps in these fields.
Priorities
- Tackle gaps in cross-border cooperation of training providers.
- Tackle gaps in training on EU law for court staff and bailiffs by cross-border training activities on all areas of EU civil, criminal and fundamental rights law relevant for their judicial work.
- Support the training of mainly judges, prosecutors, lawyers and notaries on EU civil, criminal and fundamental rights law, legal systems of the Member States, judicial ethics and the rule of law, knowledge of cross-border IT tools and linguistic skills of legal practitioners in areas with particular added value.
Target Groups
The programme supports training of members of the judiciary and judicial staff, meaning judges, prosecutors, court officers, other legal practitioners associated with the judiciary, such as lawyers, notaries, bailiffs, insolvency practitioners and mediators, as well as court interpreters and translators, prison and probation staff.
Activities
- Organisation of interactive, practice-oriented seminars (including implementation of training modules created by the European Commission on EU legislation in civil law.
- Multilateral exchanges between legal practitioners (except for judges and prosecutors whose training bodies are members of the EJTN and may thus take part in the exchanges organised by the EJTN).
- Creation of training content, whether for presential learning, blended learning or e‑learning, either ready-to-use by trainers or by practitioners for self-learning.
- Tools for training providers (for example: train-the-trainers events, tools to support the organisation of training in other Member States, etc.).
Expected Results
- Increased knowledge of EU civil, criminal and fundamental rights instruments among legal practitioners.
- Improved mutual trust between legal practitioners in cross-border judicial cooperation.
- Improved cooperation of training providers of the different legal professions.
- Increased awareness on the added value and scope of application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights among judges, public prosecutors, lawyers and practitioners to strengthen fundamental rights protection across the EU.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicants must be public entities or private organisations, duly established in one of the countries participating in the Programme, or international organisations. Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations.
- The applications must be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries.
- The EU grant applied for cannot be lower than EUR 30 000.
- The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their Overseas Countries and Territories, without UK and Denmark, including Albania are eligible countries.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Greenland, Montserrat, New Caledonia and Dependencies, Pitcairn, Saba, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Helena Ascension Island Tristan da Cunha, Saint Eustatius, Saint Maarten, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Turks and Caicos, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Albania.
For more information, please visit EU Action Grants.