32 prosecutors, judges and lawyers from Hungary attended a seminar held in Budapest on 18 October 2023 to launch the Council of Europe (CoE) HELP course on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence, in cooperation with the Office of the Prosecutor General of Hungary.

The group was welcomed by Zoltan Peter, appointed head of division from the Department for International and European Affairs from the Office of the Prosecutor General of Hungary and Ana-Maria Telbis, Deputy Head of the Justice and Human Rights Training Division at the CoE, who also introduced the group to the Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme and made an overview of the CoE HELP e-learning platform and the training catalogue containing over 50 online courses and various human rights related topics.

The event was organised with support from the CoE project “Foster transparency of judicial decisions and enhancing the national implementation of the ECHR (TJENI)” that was presented to the participants by Elena Yurkina, Head of Innovative Solutions for Human Rights and Justice Unit of the Council of Europe.

Jan Kralik from the Council of Europe Cybercrime Division presented the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and the work of the Council of Europe on cybercrime and electronic evidence.

The national context related to cybercrime and electronic evidence and some practical challenges were introduced by Attila Kökényesi-Bartos, Prosecutor assigned to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Hungary, who is also the HELP national tutor accompanying the group for the implementation of the online course. He presented the specific national content added on the course page, the timeline and the evaluation methods. Successful participants will receive HELP certificates issued in cooperation with the Office of the Prosecutor General of Hungary.

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The HELP online course on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence has a duration of 10 hours and is accessible also in self-learning (open, self-paced) format at this link. It is available in 15 languages, among which English and Hungarian. Participants who complete all the modules can generate electronic Statements of Accomplishment in proof of their acquired knowledge and skills.