Good training practices

Training needs´ assessment

Innovative training methodology

Innovative curricula or training plans

Training tools to favour the correct application of EU law and international judicial co-operation

Assessment of participants´ performance in training / effect of the training activities

European workshop on building upon good practices in European judicial training

'Promising', 'good' or 'best' practice

The examples of good training practices belong to different fields of training:

• training needs´ assessment
• innovative curricula or training plans
• innovative training methodology
• training tools to favour the correct application of EU law and international judicial co-operation
• assessment of participants´ performance in training / effect of the training activities.

The examples were gathered as part of the Pilot project on European judicial training proposed by the European Parliament in 2012 and executed by the European Commission in 2013-2014. The study on good training practices was conducted by the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) and the examples were collected from 23 training institutions such as national judicial training institutions, the Academy of European Law (ERA), the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) and the EJTN itself.

Each factsheet presents the main features of the practice, the contact details of the training institution and any other useful comments regarding the practice's transferability.

Training needs´ assessment

Innovative curricula or training plans

Innovative training methodology

Training tools to favour the correct application of EU law and international judicial co-operation

Assessment of participants´ performance in training / effect of the training activities

European workshop on building upon good practices in European judicial training

Good training practices were discussed and debated on 26-27 June 2014 during a workshop organised by the Commission to enable training providers to exchange ideas for further developing training for legal practitioners in how to apply EU law. The workshop also explained how EU-funding can help to introduce new training techniques (generally for projects involving cross-border cooperation).

The videos of the debate can be found on the workshop's website.

'Promising', 'good' or 'best' practice

The training practices presented in this section are identified as 'promising', 'good', 'best' or 'unclassified' according to the criteria defined by the EJTN when conducting the study.

A best practice is a training programme or strategy having the highest degree of proven effectiveness supported by objective and comprehensive research and evaluation.

A good practice is a programme or strategy that has worked within one or more organisation and shows promise of becoming a best practice, as it has some objective basis for claiming effectiveness and potential for replication among other organisations.

A promising (sometimes only experimental) practice in judicial training is a practice with at least preliminary evidence of effectiveness or for which there is potential for generating data that will be useful in determining its promise to become a good or best practice for transfer to wider, more diverse judicial training environments.

An effective practice is potentially transferable anywhere either fully or in an adapted format, according to the circumstances.

Some practices are unclassified since they appeared interesting but insufficient data was available to classify them according to the criteria described above.