EJTN

The European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) promotes training and knowledge sharing of the European judiciary. EJTN benefits from operating grants under the Justice program. EJTN has welcomed judicial academies from the Western Balkans as observers for many years. This means that judges and prosecutors from the Western Balkans can participate in EJTN activities. EJTN has engaged in closer cooperation with the region by opening its programs to magistrates.

The School of Magistrates received its observer status at the EJTN General Assembly in June 2016. Since then, we have regularly participated through judges, prosecutors, school judicial trainers and magistrate candidates in activities organized by EJTN as part of programs and activities its different training.

The School of Magistrates actively participates in the following training or exchange programs:

1. Short-term exchanges - for judges and prosecutors, who visit EU courts in order to share their work with their counterparts and get acquainted with different EU judicial systems. This experience aims to enrich the professional practices of participating judges and prosecutors.

2. Trainer Exchanges - where different school trainers and experts go to different EU training institutions to get acquainted with and exchange views on training methodologies, pedagogical tools and training programs, thus adopting best practices in contemporary judicial training.

3. AIAKOS Program - this is an opportunity where candidates for magistrates or newly appointed magistrates spend 1 week in other European judicial training schools in order to increase their awareness of the European dimension of their future work and to promote mutual understanding of cultures and systems and various European judiciaries.

4. Projects in the different fields of law: School of Magistrates proposes magistrates who participate in different project activities.

5. THEMIS Competition: A regular participant, the Albanian Team has already won 2 awards in the last two competitions in last THEMIS competitions and also this year for the uniqueness and creativity of the materials presented in the competition. Teams of judicial trainees (3 candidates + 1 lecturer) participate in the competitions.

6. Continuing Education Program - This is one of the main routes of cooperation between the School and EJTN. Judges and prosecutors are nominated by the School in various training activities organized by EJTN in cooperation with judicial training institutions in EU countries.

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