The workshop was organised following train-the-trainer approach.
The first workshop under the ProLegis project was held between 12th and 14th of June in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The workshop was organised following train-the-trainer approach. To this end, 15 trainers from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia took part in the event. The main goal of the workshop was exchange of experience and knowledge transfer on the key novelties for local public authorities in the data protection regime.
The workshop was led by Dr. Martin Zahariev (Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm) and Dr. Christof Tschohl (Vienna Center for Societal Security). Dr. Catalin Dumitrica (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania) and Denitsa Kozhuharova (Law and Internet Foundation) also presented at the event. The ProLegis workshop was hosted by Comenius University.
The ProLegis project is implemented with the support of the Rights, Equality, Citizenship Programme of the European Commission under Grant Agreement № 769143.
The ProLegis partnership unites 6 partners from 6 different member states (Bulgaria, Austria, Latvia, Greece, Romania and Slovakia) under the coordination of Law and Internet Foundation. ProLegis activities are aimed at the local public authorities’ employees who will act as Data Protection Officers. The partnership brings together various types of organisations in a concentrated effort to provide state of the art training on the novelties that the new EU personal data protection legal frameworks brings. The project is set to develop its own methodology and training materials in order to enhance the knowledge and competences of the Data Protection Officers, working in local public authorities.
