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he 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. It also targets the specific training needs of court staff.

The priorities of 2017 will concentrate funding on training activities and tools for training providers described below:

1. tackle gaps in cross-border cooperation of training providers, mainly by
a) setting up or expanding a network of contact points of training providers (or similar cooperation mechanisms) for lawyers, notaries, court staff/bailiffs, prison and probation staff with the aim of exchanging information on training needs in EU law or implementation of sanctions in respect of fundamental rights and countering radicalisation, opening national training activities to foreign participants, exchange of trainers, finding partners for regional training activities and/or collecting information on training possibilities for the European Training Platform,

b) start cooperation among private training providers for legal professions (in particular lawyers), aiming at expanding the offer in EU law training, the implementation of the advice for training providers by DG Justice and contributing to the yearly report on European judicial training by DG Justice,

c) preparatory work that will facilitate more recognition of foreign training activities to fulfil training obligations for lawyers (e.g. analysis of gaps of current recognition practice and development of a system to close them),

d) cross-border initial training activities (face-to-face activities or exchanges), covering as many Member states as possible, to create a common European legal culture from the start of entering a legal profession (except for newly appointed judges and prosecutors for whom the equivalent activity is funded via the operating grant for the EJTN),

e) organising joint study visits to EU courts by legal practitioners (other than judges/prosecutors, already covered by the operating grant for the EJTN) from as many different Member States as possible;

2. 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;

3. 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, in particular via
a) seminars with easy linguistic access (for example, by providing interpretation in the languages of all participants, national breakout groups or linguistic programme components) to attract also legal practitioners to cross-border training activities that are reluctant to participate in a seminar in a foreign legal language and therefore have not been reached by previous cross-border training activities,

b) cross-border training activities for multipliers, such as judicial trainers or EU law court coordinators, where there are guarantees that the multipliers will pass on their knowledge to other legal practitioners in a systematic way,

c) training activities with participants from at least two of the profession areas judges/prosecutors, lawyers/notaries, courts staff/bailiffs, court experts/court interpreters, prison/probation staff, in order to stimulate discussions across judicial professions about the application of EU law and so to contribute to create a European legal culture across professional boundaries.

For priority area 3), the topics of the training activities could cover EU legislation that recently entered into force and / or demonstrate the interconnection of the different EU instruments relevant in a specific field, such as: family matters, commercial matters, recovery of assets, procedural criminal rights, mutual legal assistance, etc. An evidenced-based needs assessment for the topic of the training activity is essential.

In general, this call 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. For each priority it is indicated which part of the target group is addressed.
Projects must be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries. In addition the training activities implemented by each project must include participants (trainees) from different participating countries.

As far as nothing more specific is indicated in the priorities, this call will fund training activities such as:
Organisation of interactive, practice-oriented seminars (including implementation of training modules created by the European Commission on EU legislation in civil law[1];
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.)

Further information:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/just/topics/just-jtra-ejtr-ag-2017.html