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Search tool for legal practitioners and justice professionals to find EU law training courses and training materials for self-training on any practice area of EU law.

About the Platform

The European Training Platform (ETP) is a search tool put at the service of legal practitioners and justice professionals who want to train themselves on any practice area of EU law or related matters. On the ETP, justice professionals can find both, training courses and self-learning material on a great variety of EU law-related topics. The training providers inform potential trainees about the training activities they organise everywhere in the EU and in different languages. The European Commission contributes to the platform with ready-to-use training materials or handbooks produced notably thanks to EU financial support.

What's new

The 2024 European Commission project 
‘CJEU Hearings’ Recording as a Judicial Training Tool’ has just been published!

This project is EC financed, aiming at creating the videos to assist and support practitioners in their work.

There are a million lawyers in the EU and 120 thousand judges and prosecutors. Some have never seen the inside of the Court of Justice. This is why the Commission and the Court jointly developed this concept to take you on a virtual journey. 

In the six videos, you travel from the cloakroom, where you hang your things before entering into a courtroom, to hearings in the Court of Justice; via explanations of how cases make their way to the Court:

  • You see how the Court runs day-to-day, with interviews from the ‘who’s who’ of the Court: Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Advocates General, Registras and former Judges.
  • You see how cases are discussed during the weekly meeting.
  • You see how important the job of interpreters is.

In sum, the use of recordings of CJEU hearings provides a great potential for initial and in-service training of justice professionals, both at national and European level. With these videos you have an expert guide, and we would like to see it used as much as possible.

Here, we are pleased to present the six training videos on the CJEU as an outcome of the project and we strongly encourage the use of the videos as training tools, as well as their dissemination as a self-learning tool for justice professionals. 

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You are a legal practitioner or a justice professional?

You will find many training courses on EU law advertised on the European Training Platform as well as EU law related training material for self-learning.

You can search according to different search fields and set different filters (such as topic of the course, venue, date, language and practice area: from civil law, public law, criminal law to fundamental rights, legal language, deontology or legal skills) suiting the topics you are interested in.

You are a training provider?

The platform is now open to EU-level training providers, whose expertise has been recognised by the EU as the recipients of annual operating grants per their mention in EU funding programmes.

Once the test phase is over, the Commission will explore the possibility to open the European Training Platform to other training providers, so that they may advertise their training offer on EU law or on a national topic which includes EU law or cross-border elements. For this, the interested training provider will need to register first, according to a procedure, which would be described here in due time.

Notifications

You can subscribe to the notifications if you want to stay updated on courses and training materials. The notifications allow you to receive e-mail updates when courses and training materials related to practice areas that interest you are added or updated. You must be registered on the European Training Platform to subscribe to the notifications.

An EU Login account is required for the European Training Platform registered users. Please consult the EU Login Help page to obtain an EU Login account.

After obtaining your EU Login account and logging in to the ETP, you will access the subscription management page here.