The meeting aims to familiarize the teams of the Training for National Judges Call for Proposals 2015 selected projects with mainstream work guidelines, financial and technical reporting rules, key criteria in publicity and requirement towards the evaluation strategies, as well as with good European Commission’s practices on training for judges. The second half of the meeting was dedicated to getting together and networking experience - LIBRe Foundation’s team had the opportunity to get acquainted with adherents and experts in the field of competition law performing similar projects in other countries and representatives of DG Competition responsible for the implementation of the program on an annual basis.
CONSTANT, implemented by LIBRe Foundation, is one of the few projects approved under Call for Proposals 2015 and aims
to ensure dissemination among national judges in Bulgaria of knowledge and interpretative strategies towards the rules and notions of EU state aid law, antitrust damages actions and economic fundamentals of EU Competition Law;
to develop an interactive, dynamic, content-rich online platform to enable judges to interact with each other in a familiar setting, to share experience and opinion in an open and transparent manner, and to enjoy the benefits of a ‘one-stop-shop’ platform for access to competition law resources and content;
to incentivise judges to be proactive in their learning endeavours by encouraging them to take part in the project from its early stages, thus attaining the objective of outreach to a far broader scope of judges than the projected 60 participants in the three training events; and
to encourage the use of new learning methods for training of practicing magistrates in EU Competition Law, such as serious games, simulations, mooting etc. by providing a platform for further use, incl. video presentations and live streaming functionalities.
The project is to be implemented within 10 months, from October 2016 to August 2016.
