The 2022 priorities will concentrate funding on training activities and tools for training providers, as described below, in order to support cross-border training activities:

• for justice professionals, and/or
• for multipliers, such as judicial trainers or EU law court coordinators, where there are guarantees that the multipliers will pass on their knowledge to justice professionals in a systematic way, and/or
• for cross-professional training, in order to stimulate discussions across judicial professions about the application of EU law and contribute to a European judicial culture across professional boundaries on precisely identified topics of relevance to the concerned professions.

The activities may cover EU civil, criminal and fundamental rights law, legal systems of the Member States, and the rule of law.
Judicial training principles
Training should be designed and planned in cooperation with training providers of justice professions, justice professions’ associations or bodies, or judicial authorities. Training should primarily be delivered by justice professionals who have been previously trained for this purpose, involving non-judicial experts only where relevant, using active and modern adult learning techniques.
Training needs assessment
An evidenced-based training needs assessment for the topic of the training activity is always required.
Gender mainstreaming
The assessment of the training needs should include a gender equality analysis. Findings from this gender analysis should inform the design of the project. Likewise, when designing the training content, the applicant shall take into account, as relevant, the differences in situations and conditions for women and men (or girls and boys) that are subject to a legal process, and of their differing needs, which could have an impact on the application of the law.
Non-legal skills and knowledge
The multidisciplinary competencies, judgecraft, professional skills, topics like conduct, resilience, unconscious bias, case and courtroom management, leadership, digitalisation, modern technologies and IT tools, linguistic skills might be addressed, only if linked to training on legal topics.