On 14 June 2021 the National Institute of Justice concluded the implementation of its second e-learning course developed under the project “Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence”, carried out with the support of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, on the topic “Domestic Violence in Cases of Factual and Legal Complexity”.
The one-month e-learning course which was developed as a follow-on training to the e-learning course on the “Criminal law aspects of Domestic Violence” (piloted within the project “Innovative products and services in the training, delivered by NIJ” funded under the Operational Programme “Good Governance” and integrated within NIJ training curriculum) addresses the current training needs of Bulgarian magistrates in the field of recognition, substantiation, qualification and individualization of liability for criminal acts of domestic violence with regard to the latest amendments introduced to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Code and the identified problems related to the integration of the relevant international and European legal standards in this field.
From a methodological perspective the course integrated complementary training approaches, inherent in the e-leaning methodology (including both individual work with training materials and group work activities supporting the exchange of good practices and experience) which contributed to the efficient acquisition of knowledge. It was successfully completed by 35 criminal judges, prosecutors, investigators, junior prosecutors candidates and judicial and prosecutorial assistants working at the regional and district level. The feedback provided by course participants certifies their high level of satisfaction with the training.