With this tool, the Council of Europe aims to empower countries by providing the first level of training, along with introductory courses on cybercrime and electronic evidence, as well as supporting them as they further incorporate the available training into their programmes. The objective is to work with countries to identify their needs and then supporting them to create a pool of national trainers that are able to deliver courses as part of a streamlined strategy for judicial training. Sustainable training programmes are the only effective manner of ensuring that judicial trainers have sufficient knowledge to fulfil their roles effectively.

This programme focuses on “how to deliver training” on cybercrime and electronic evidence, and was conceived having in mind a general audience of judges and prosecutors who are either already engaged as trainers within their judicial institutions, or that have an interest in becoming one. Because it focuses on the methodology of training, this work complements the already available courses on the substantive curricula on cybercrime. Knowledge and understanding of these, as well as the related material, represents the prerequisite for the implementation of the current curriculum, that will be in turn object of “cascade trainings”.