Activities calendar

At the end of the webinar the participant will be able to:

• Describe the prevalence and forms of hate crime against Jewish persons;
• Explain the importance of countering such hate crime;
• Apply this knowledge for addressing these issues in practice.

The coronavirus has had a dramatic effect on our European society and drastically changed the daily routine of citizens all over the continent. At the same time, the pandemic also presents an unprecedented challenge for law enforcement and judiciary, who are responsible for maintaining rule of law and security in a profoundly changed environment characterised by economic decline, rising unemployment and uncertainty. In order to face this shifting landscape, organisations like Eurojust have had to accelerate certain organisational-institutional reforms whose far-reaching consequences will remain with us long after the pandemic ends.

How does the coronavirus impact Eurojust’s operations and services? How have EU agencies in the forefront of European cooperation reacted to the pandemic? What can we learn from this radically novel situation and the ongoing change management? How can we further digitalise judicial cooperation and make sure that information and evidence can be exchanged under all circumstances?

Ladislav Hamran, President of Eurojust and Dr.h.c Detlef Schröder, Executive Director of CEPOL will respond to these questions and share their ideas and vision on this highly actual topic during the “Coffee talks – Eurojust – CEPOL”. The coffee talk will take a format of an informal, free-flowing intellectual dialogue between the two like-minded senior EU leaders which could easily take place over a coffee.

The objectives of the webinar are to:

• Improve Law Enforcement Agents (LEA) capabilities to respond to serious and organised crime and counterterrorism in the COVID-19 pandemic situation;
• Identify the major impacts that COVID-19 posed to Counterterrorism and Serious and Organised Crime criminal activities;
• Recognise the new threats and vulnerabilities that Terrorists and Organised Criminal groups are exploiting, during the Pandemic Situation;
• Summarize the challenges and difficulties to an effective response of LEA to those new threats.

Objectives of the webinar:

• to provide information on Joint Operational Office Vienna activities against Human Smuggling and Trafficking;
• to explain new modi operandi in the context of COVID-19;
• to raise awareness about the versatility of the following facilitators:

1. Migrant smuggling under the COVID-19 travel restrictions;
2. Police work under the influence of the COVID-19 situation;
3. Use of falsified health certifications for travelling of migrants;
4. Use of the green borders.

At the end of the webinar the participant will be able to:

• Describe the main types of electronic payment frauds and understand the differences between them;
• Understand the steps to make the international cooperation more dynamic and to enhance the efficiency of inter-agency cooperation;