Moreover, any training needs to be targeted and take into account the specific needs of the participants.127 It should thus be based on an adequate problem analysis (see above, § 2.2) as well as a thorough assessment of the needs of the target group. When assessing the current capacities, it is useful to not only focus on the deficits but also on the existing resources and achievements. An emphasis on existing promising practices and resources promotes interests, open communication, and cooperation.128 Consequently, energy is mobilised, and staff are motivated to grow.129 Moreover, a global comparative study on the effectiveness of torture prevention mechanisms found that training that equips police with specific professional skills are much more effective than general ‘human rights trainings’. Instead of training on what should not be done, the focus should be on how they can do things differently.130 In order to strengthen procedural rights, it is important to consider in which area and for which stakeholder the capacities need to be strengthened. These can include police, prosecutors, judges, as well as lawyers, medical staff and CSO representatives. In the course of our project, the training programme known as ‘SUPRALAT’ was repeatedly mentioned as a success story. SURPALAT was developed in the framework of the EU-funded Project “Strengthening the procedural rights of suspected and accused persons in pre-trial proceedings through practiceoriented training for lawyers”, which took place between 2015 and 2017 and which was coordinated by Maastricht University.131 The training occurred in Belgium, Ireland, The Netherlands, with the partners from the University of Antwerp, Dublin City University, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and Provincie Limburg Opleiding en Training.132 It consisted of a train-the-trainer program through which 50 lawyers were trained to train others and a blended learning model where participants had the opportunity to access online material and offline sessions.133 At the Madrid workshop SUPRALAT was defined as the “gold standard for solicitor training” and its success was identified in the fact that the training was interdisciplinary and covered classes of psychology and communication in addition to law, which was only one small aspect of it. Another aspect described as particularly relevant was the strong emphasis on open, uninhibited engagement within the group of participants. The project was extended with a follow-up project called NETPRALAT, always co-funded by the European Commission and executed by Catalan Bar Council (Spain), Centre for Human Rights Defence (IRIDIA, Spain), Polish Bar Council (Poland), Human Rights Monitoring Institute (Lithuania), European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association, and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). The project was executed from 2014-2020 and had similar methodology to the SUPRALAT training. In the context of NETPRALAT, lawyers were trained to train other lawyers. The guide for training lawyers and the curricular of the NETPRALAT course are fully accessible online.134 Another interesting training programmes in the field of procedural rights is the CRIMILAW project implemented between2020 and 2022 by the European Lawyers Foundation in partnership with ‘Guidelines on Human Rights Education’ (2012) 23. 127. For further information on basic characteristics see also Walter Suntinger, ‘Human Rights Trainings’ in Manfred Nowak, Karolina M. Januszewski, and Tina Hofstätter, All Human Rights for All: Vienna Manual on Human Rights (Intersentia 2012) 617. 128. Suntinger and Birk, ‘Appreciative Inquiry: Mobilizing Potentials within Police’ (2020) 8. 129. ibid 12. 130. Carver and Handley (eds), Does Torture Prevention Work? (2016) 79-80. 131. For more information can be found in Anna Pivaty, ‘Maastricht University, ‘A Quiet Revolution in the Dutch Criminal Procedure’ (Maastricht University, 02.03.2017); Hungarian Helsinki Committee, ‘SUPRALAT: Strengthening Suspects’ Rights in Pre-trial Proceedings Through Practice Oriented Training for Lawyers in Criminal Proceedings (2015-2017)’ (01.10.2015). 132. Hungarian Helsinki Committee, ‘SUPRALAT: Strengthening Suspects’ Rights in Pre-trial Proceedings Through Practice Oriented Training for Lawyers in Criminal Proceedings (2015-2017)’ (01.10.2015). 133. Anna Pivaty, ’Report on the SUPRALAT Project’ (European Criminal Bar Association) 1. 134. NETPRALAT, https://www.netpralat.eu/project/. Formació Advocacia Catalana, ‘English E-learning Modules‘ https://www. formacioadvocaciacatalana.cat/course/view.php?id=451. 42