The director of the INJ participated in the EJTN and ERA judicial training meetings

Between June 11-14, 2025, the director of the National Institute of Justice, Ramona Strugariu, participated in two events of major importance in terms of European judicial training: the General Assembly of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) in Gdańsk, Poland, and the 34th meeting of the Board of Directors of the European Law Academy (ERA) in Trier, Germany.

During the EJTN General Assembly, organized under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and with the support of the National Training School for Judges and Prosecutors in Poland, the activities of the Network were presented, including the five working groups: Exchange Program, Training Programs, Judicial Training Methods, Linguistics and Digitalization, as well as the Annual Report for 2024. The meeting included the election of the Secretary General, members of the Steering Committee and the coordinators of the working groups. Workshops were also held on anti-disinformation education, EJTN governance and professional development opportunities for network watchers.

At the ERA conference, discussions focused on the successes and challenges of 2024-2025, setting the directions for the 2026 programs in the areas of asylum and migration, personal data protection, commercial law, banking and financial services, competition law, intellectual property, constitutional and institutional law, judicial cooperation in civil matters, human rights. A special emphasis was placed on the evaluation of the ERA strategy for the candidate countries for the European Union starting in 2022, including the Republic of Moldova, as well as on the integration of artificial intelligence tools in training processes, adapting training methods to the needs and expectations of digital natives, achieving carbon footprint neutrality by 2027.

Both events provided the opportunity to strengthen cooperative relations and share the best European practices that can be implemented in the national system of training professionals in the legal sector. The director of INJ emphasized the importance of the contribution of European partners to the training of practitioners from the justice system of the Republic of Moldova and identified new project opportunities for INJ within these debates.