Are you keen on connecting and collaborating with law enforcement professionals across Europe? Would you like to gain insights into their on-the-ground work?
The EJTN-CEPOL joint Exchange Programme offers practical training, fostering the exchange of knowledge and best practices between EU judicial institutions and law enforcement agencies. This programme allows justice professionals and law enforcement officials to visit one another’s workplace to share and contrast experiences, working approaches and investigative techniques in the following areas:
- Economic and Financial crime
- Cybercrime
- Drug Trafficking
- Trafficking in Human Beings
- Environmental Crime
- Corruption
- Joint Investigation Teams
Building a network
The EJTN-CEPOL joint exchanges are a unique opportunity to discover the work of law enforcement officials and how they act and strive in the field. In return, a law enforcement official will shadow the work of a judge or prosecutor to foster mutual understanding. These exchanges are based on the principle of reciprocity. Applicants are aware that they will have to host their counterparts in their respective office.
Although not compulsory at the application stage, a prosecutor or investigative judge can already submit an application with the name of a possible counterpart in another country.
Application process and requirements
Applications from prosecutors and investigative judges must be submitted on the Exchange Programme Platform by Monday 17 February 2025 at 18:00 (Brussels time).
Any application must contain the EJTN-CEPOL application form describing the project.
Other calls for applications
Together with the EJTN-CEPOL joint exchanges, the call for applications for the Regional exchanges and Judiciary learning grant programme 2025 is opened on 15 January. This is an opportunity to set up a tailor-made project with a foreign counterpart. The call for applications is open all year long until the budget dedicated to this initiative is spent.
Please visit the project-based exchanges page on the EJTN website to learn more about this activity.
The EJTN Exchange Programme
Launched in 2005, at the initiative of the European Parliament, the Exchange Programme for Judicial Authorities allows judges, prosecutors, court staff and trainers from different EU Member States to improve their knowledge of other judicial systems through direct contact and exchange of views and experiences.
The Exchange Programme also aims at developing a common European judicial culture based on mutual trust and cooperation between judicial authorities in the European judicial area.
