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The Academy of European Law Trier (ERA) is one of four education centres at European level (besides the College of Europe in Bruges, the European University Institute in Florence, and the European Institute for Public Administration in Maastricht). The ERA was set up for the exclusive benefit of law practitioners throughout Europe. Its main target groups are the judiciary (judges and prosecutors) as well as lawyers in private practice. The ERA acts as an interface between the European decision-making centres of Brussels / Luxembourg / Strasbourg and all European law practitioners.
On the initiative of the European Parliament, the Academy was founded in 1992 as a public foundation based in Trier. Its founders were the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the German Land of Rhineland-Palatinate, the City of Trier and the Friends-of-ERA Association. Since 1992, the German states and the Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have joined the foundation. From among the accession countries, Poland was the first to become a member in January 2001.
Since its creation ERA has been developing its activities in most areas of law with the aim of promoting the knowledge both of Community law and of European law in a broader sense (including in particular the law of the European Convention on Human Rights). ERA offers some 100 seminars and conferences each year, specially tailored by its expert staff members to provide practitioners with up-to-date comprehensive information, be they lawyers in private practice, judges, civil servants, academics, non-governmental organisation officials, notaries and other parties involved in the application of Community law.
Judicial training has always been a priority for the Academy. The Academy has established close links to the judicial training organisations in the member states and in the candidate countries. It organises regular events for judges and public prosecutors. ERA was involved in the creation of the European Judicial Training Network and a founding member. In March 2001, the first EJTN General Assembly in Stockholm appointed ERA to the Secretariat of the Network.
The Academy employs some 40 people. It receives an annual subsidy from the budget of the European Union.
Contact
L'Académie de Droit Européen de Trêves (ERA)
Metzer Allee 4
D-54295 Trier
Germany
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