The main partners of the Project are EU national training institutions and bar associations, with the Spanish Bar Association as key partner.

The main beneficiaries are lawyers, judges and prosecutors from EU countries.

The main aim is to contribute to an increased protection of fundamental rights and rule of law in the EU member states in areas such as fundamental rights and rule of law,  including children’s rights, ethics for judges, prosecutors and lawyers, family law, international cooperation in criminal matters, procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings and victims’ rights etc.

The specific objectives are:

  1. To enhance EU legal professionals’ capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level and through cross-border training, mainly referring to the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights (the Charter), the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the (revised) European Social Charter (ESC) and other relevant EU and Council of Europe law.
  2. To strengthen the HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal professionals) Network of Judicial Training Institutions and Bar Associations in the EU and increase mutual trust between EU practitioners.

Project information

  • Duration: 30 months (1 March 2022 – 31 August 2024)
  • Place/ country: European Union
  • Budget: 1 389 448.50 €
  • Funding: Joint Programme, funded by the EU and the Council of Europe, implemented by the Council of Europe

Project documentation

Courses developed/updated under the Project
Interplay Between the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Interplay Between the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Published: July 2023

Length: Approximaterly 6 hours

Modules: 

  1. Introduction
  2. Introduction to Human Rights Protection in Europe
  3. Protection of Human Rights within the Council of Europe and the European Union
  4. Interplay
  5. Practical Implication

 

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Child Friendly Justice

Child Friendly Justice

Developed jointly with Council of Europe Children’s Rights Division.

Last Updated: June 2023

Length: Approximately 9 hours

Modules:

  1. Introduction
  2. Basics of Child-friendly justice
  3. The Right to Effective Participation in Justice Systems
  4. Diversion and Restorative Justice
  5. Children's Rights Prior to Judicial Proceedings
  6. Children's Rights during Judicial Proceedings
  7. Children's Rights after Judicial Proceedings
  8. Violence against Children and Interdisciplinarity

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Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

Developed jointly with Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Division (GRETA).

Last Updated: November 2023

Length: Approximately 13 hours

Modules:

  1. Introduction and legal framework
  2. Definitions and legal concepts
  3. Identification of victims
  4. Assistance to victims of trafficking in human beings
  5. The non-punishment principle
  6. Investigation, prosecutions and victim's rights
  7. Sentencing
  8. Compensation
  9. The rights of international protection, return and repatriation of victims of trafficking
  10. Technology and human trafficking
  11. Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation

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Project news

Back Watch the live stream of the seminar on bioethics and the launch of the HELP course on “Key Human Rights Principles in Biomedicine”

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More than 80 judges, prosecutors and lawyers from 11 EU Member States will meet for a seminar on bioethics and the launch of the HELP course on “Key Human Rights Principles in Biomedicine” to be held on 7-8 March 2019 in Strasbourg, France.

Organised under the EU-Council of Europe "HELP in the EU" project, the seminar will include sessions on the relevant case-law of the European Court of Human Rights , the Council of Europe framework related to bioethics, as well as on current challenges. The participants will get familiarised with the HELP Programme and the Council of Europe HELP e-learning platform containing more than 30 online courses on human rights.

The HELP course on “Key Human Rights Principles in Biomedicine”, has been developed jointly by the HELP Programme and the Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe.

Legal and medical professionals will be able to access the course in the self-learning part of the HELP online platform in English. Versions of the course in French, German, Italian, Romanian and Spanish will be lauched soon.

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 Live stream of the seminar (7 March: 9:30-11:00 and 14:00-17:30, 8 March: 9:15-13:00)

Strasbourg 6 March 2019
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