Capacity building and ETIAS guidance board

3.1. Training

Capacity building activities, particularly training delivery, is one of the core activities of the Fundamental Rights Office. Almost half of the Fundamental Rights Monitors participate in training delivery and development activities to ensure participants proactively respect and protect fundamental rights in their border and coast guard activities, especially when use of force is exercised. The Fundamental Rights Office provides training to Frontex staff and national authorities, within the EU and externally (at times in cooperation with the UNHCR).

In 2022, the Fundamental Rights Office participated in the following training courses and awareness raising sessions (selected examples):

◆ All the pre-deployment and operational briefings organised for Frontex Joint Operations, providing presentations on fundamental rights and Frontex fundamental rights mechanisms;

◆ Sessions on fundamental rights during border guard activities and other relevant sessions, for example access to asylum and identification of vulnerable persons were delivered to two groups of newly recruited Standing Corps Officers;

◆ Workshop on Search and Rescue (SAR) within the framework of two maritime Joint Operations in 2022;

◆ A Fundamental Rights Workshop for all Frontex Liaison Officers. During this training program eight sessions were organised related to fundamental rights in EU Integrated Border Management. At the end of the workshop, the Monitors and the Liaison Officers of the region covered by the Monitors discussed the specific fundamental rights challenges and the planning of the upcoming visits;

◆ A fundamental rights session for the Frontex Focal Points for the implementation of the Frontex Fundamental Rights Action Plan;

◆ An online learning course for Lithuanian Border Guards.