The 2021 priorities will concentrate funding on training activities and tools for training providers, in order to support cross-border training activities for justice professionals, and/or multipliers, such as judicial trainers or EU law court coordinators, where there are guarantees that the multipliers will pass on their knowledge to justice professionals in a systematic way. Additionally, those for cross-professional training, in order to stimulate discussions across judicial professions about the application of EU law and contribute to a European judicial culture across professional boundaries on precisely identified topics of relevance to the concerned professions.

The activities of the Call may cover EU civil, criminal and fundamental rights law, legal systems of the Member States, and the rule of law. An evidenced-based training and assessment for the topic of the training activity are always required. Furthermore, the assessment of the training should take into account a gender equality perspective. Skills such as the multidisciplinary competencies, judge-craft, professional skills, topics like conduct, resilience, unconscious bias, case and courtroom management, leadership, digitalisation, modern technologies and IT tools, linguistic skills might be addressed, only if the training is linked to training on legal topics.

This call supports training of members of the judiciary and judicial staff. This means judges, prosecutors, court and prosecution offices’ staff, other justice professionals associated with the judiciary, such as lawyers in private practice, notaries, bailiffs, insolvency practitioners and mediators, as well as court interpreters and translators, prison and probation staff. Non-justice professionals cannot participate in the training activities as participants unless there is a duly justified exception acknowledged at the moment of the grant award. When deciding on the allocation of grants, a fair balance between topics and/or target audience shall be sought. Moreover, priority will be given to projects that do not duplicate existing training material or on-going projects but that act in complementarity and/or that innovate.

The project duration shall not exceed 36 months.