e-learning National Active Charter Training (e-NACT) GA nº 763875

e-NACT targets the priority “Fundamental rights” by offering to legal practitioners – national judges, lawyers and other selected professionals chosen in light of the topic addressed – an online training toolkit which will raise their capacity to fully exploit the potential of the Charter in key areas of the Union’s activity. European fundamental rights, given the plurality of their legal sources and peculiar rules on application and interpretation, pose complex challenges to legal practitioners. Yet, the effective enjoyment of the freedom of movement by EU citizens and their families, as well as of the EU-granted rights by non-EU citizens, require that the rights guaranteed across the Member States are comparable. This is not easy to achieve in the current context of economic crisis, unrest created by the migration waves, the raising of intolerance, racism and xenophobia, and threats to the rule of law by populist movements. In fact, attacks on vulnerable groups and social exclusion affect inhabitants of the EU regardless of their origins. It is therefore compelling that legal practitioners possess the tools and capacities to provide EU citizens and non-citizens with all the protection they deserve. Accordingly, the Project aims at devising training tools and organising training activities tackling the main difficulties experienced by legal practitioners regarding: the application of the Charter, its interplay with the ECHR and national Constitutions, and the different forms of justiciability of its provisions. Special attention will be devoted to EU instruments based on mutual trust. It also aims to ensure that the Charter is used – within its scope of application – as a parameter of legality of EU and national legislation. e-NACT has five main points of strength: 1) it addresses all the fundamental rights priorities of the Call, with an emphasis on areas which are the object of comprehensive reforms or where there is a special need to protect vulnerable groups; 2) it draws on a peculiar training methodology developed and fine-tuned by the Applicant (CJC) in previous projects financed by DG JUSTICE, notably ACTIONES and JUDCOOP. The specificity of this methodology is that it does not conceive of judicial training as a one-shot experience for trained participants or a simple lecture based transfer of information. Rather, the CJC promotes a training methodology based on an ongoing process of mutual exchange and learning between academics and legal practitioners, and amongst legal practitioners from different jurisdictions, Member States, and legal traditions; 3) the richness of the Consortium, which includes qualified experts in the selected fields from both the academia and the legal professions; 4) the unprecedented efficiency as regards dissemination of its results (thanks to the mix of traditional and elearning tools) and the broad geographic coverage of the Consortium, which covers (at least 7 Member States). In addition, the trainees of the 16 training workshops will be selected amongst those involved themselves in training activities at the national level, thus multiplying the number of ultimate beneficiaries. Furthermore, the toolkit will be made freely available on-line (in its entirety) upon the Project’s completion; 5) the participation of the Advisory Board, which will guarantee additional mutual exchange, through the collaboration of judicial schools and of renowned academics with experience in areas on which the Project will touch (e.g. migration and criminal law and social rights).