More specifically, it aims

• to enable lawyers and human rights defenders in the partner countries to successfully litigate cases based on the ECHR and on the RESC, in proceedings before national courts, as well as before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of well-substantiated claims and
• to avoid submission to the ECtHR of manifestly unfounded or inadmissible claims.

The following activities have been implemented since the launch of the programme:

• Desk review of the current lacuna in training programmes.
• Preparation, publication and distribution of training programme/curricula and capacity building materials, CoE handbooks on human rights, training modules in national languages.
• Regional training-of-trainers (ToT) seminars for national ECHR lawyers' trainers from Bar associations and human rights NGOs.
• Cascade training seminars for lawyers and human rights NGOs and legal consultants in the capitals and in the regions.
• Quarterly thematic one-day workshops for lawyers and human rights NGOs activists in the capitals and regions
• Three 2-day regional conferences for sharing the best practices (2 conferences in participating countries + one conference in Strasbourg).
• Setting-up of a regional forum on the HELP website, to be used as a regional exchange platform between lawyers and human rights defenders.
• Drafting of country-specific guidelines on the use of domestic remedies in anti-discrimination cases.
• Translation and dissemination of the handbook on European case law on non-discrimination produced by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and the ECtHR into the national languages of the partner countries.Two-day moot court (ECtHR model) for 24 participants from the partner countries.