DISTANCE LEARNING ERA’s distance-learning programme is an extension and reflection of the conferences, workshops and training materials described in previous sections of this report. By offering its programmes in an online format, ERA ensures that it can reach a wider audience than can attend face-to-face events as well as leaving a durable legacy from those live programmes. An overview is available at www.era.int/elearning.
Webinars and live streams
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or a number of years ERA has been live-streaming its afternoon workshops on EU antitrust law in Brussels and in 2019 went completely online. The workshop on vertical restraints was held as a live-streamed face-to-face seminar, while the events on merger control and on the ECN+ Directive took place only in the form of webinars (with all participants attending online). Due to the higher interest in the live stream of the workshops than in their face-toface form, it was decided that the future events of this type will be organised as webinars only. In 2019 ERA also streamed live its highly topical legal policy seminars on “Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights” and “Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Single Market” as well as the conference it organised in the framework of the 30th anniversary of the Jean Monnet Programme entitled “European Law Protecting our Common Values”. In the framework of its EU-funded project on EU Disability Law and the UNCRPD, ERA also live-streamed one of its seminars with closed-captioning and international sign language. There is clear interest among practitioners for live webinars and streaming. Online participants receive all the related background documentation, can interact with speakers through a chat function, have the option to replay a recording of the stream after the event, and – by agreeing for their presence to be regularly tracked – can receive a certificate to confirm their attendance. ERA intends to offer more programmes in these formats in future.
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