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With its staunch commitment to quality judicial training and the promotion of a genuine European judicial culture in the areas of freedom, security and justice, the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) has been expanding for over a decade to meet the challenges facing the European judiciary. One such challenge is the growing threat of terrorism and radicalisation to violent extremism in Europe.
The pressing need for joint and coordinated action and training programmes focused on the root causes of violent extremism and the prevention of radicalisation, as well as judicial and law enforcement cooperation in the fight against terrorism and the exchange of best practices on the investigation, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of terrorist offenders, have been repeatedly stressed by a number of recent high-level statements, including the Communication from the Commission on ‘Preventing Radicalisation to Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Strengthening the EU’s Response’ on 15 January 2015, the Joint Statement of the JHA Ministers in Riga on 29-30 January 2015, and the statement by EU Heads of State and Government during its meeting on 12 February 2015.
It is in this context that the European Commission Directorate-General for Justice has entrusted the EJTN, together with its members and partners, with the development of an EU-funded, multi-phased and cross-sector Training Programme on Counter-Terrorism and Radicalisation to Violent Extremism, tailored to the needs of the relevant stakeholders and practitioners across the EU.
This comprehensive programme will provide judges, prosecutors and other justice sector professionals with a unique forum to exchange experiences and best practices with their counterparts across Europe, to discuss the most recent legal developments and challenges in the prosecution and adjudication of cases involving foreign fighters and other violent extremist offenders, and to address issues of radicalisation within prisons, and the mechanisms for the prevention and detection of radicalisation to violent extremism.
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Specialised trainings - Call for Applications to be launched in July
A total of four, day-and-a-half training seminars will be organised in October and December 2015, and in February and March 2016. Two seminars will address ‘radicalisation – prevention and detection’, and two will focus on ‘tackling terrorism – procedural and substantive law challenges and best practices’. These trainings, under the coordination of the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature (ENM) and the German Judicial Academy (GJA), will be hosted by the ENM in Paris, the GJA in Trier, the Centro de Estudios Jurídicos (CEJ) in Madrid, and the Institut de Formation Judiciaire (IGO-IFJ) in Brussels.
All seminars are held in English and are open to an average of 54 judges, prosecutors and judicial trainers applying through their national EJTN Member institutions.
Participants selected to attend these trainings are reimbursed for their international travel costs as well as provided with a per diem to cover their accommodation and sundry expenses. Please consult our Terms and Conditions of Participation and Reimbursement for further information on our funding policy.
Professional exchanges and study visits
In addition, 5-days study visits of non-specialised judges and prosecutors to specialised counter-terrorism units in public prosecution offices and tribunals will be carried out for a total of 28 participants. Furthermore, 5-days professional exchanges of 28 public prosecutors and judges directly dealing with counter-terrorism related matters will provide participants with a unique opportunity to exchange experiences, challenges and best practices with their colleagues from partner EU Member States.
For more information on this specialised Professional Exchanges & Study Visits, please visit the EJTN Exchange Programme page.
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A total of 4 seminars will be held between October 2015 and March 2016, open to the participation of judges, prosecutors and judicial trainers from all EU Member States, applying through their national training institutions.
* Please note that, although connected, these modules are independent of each other. Participation in Module 1 neither entails nor requires participation in Module 2.
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