The aim of the ECCE project is to create the first European Certificate on the fight against Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence (ECCE). This ECCE project has developed the basic level training course. It is intended for the exclusive use of legal professionals - judges, prosecutors and lawyers - with the purpose of providing them with theoretical and practical skills as well as with legal and technical knowledge in these issues.

The project that has a duration of 3 years is divided in two big stages:

• The first stage of the ECCE project, which has a duration of one year, consists in the drawing up of the training programme and all the academic materials. This stage has been developed by an Experts' Committee composed of a multidisciplinary team of skilled and experienced researchers and other associates.
• In the second stage of the project, 14 training seminars will be held in 11 European and 3 Latin American countries. At the end of each course, the participants will receive the first European Certificate on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence, attesting the acquisition of a basic-level theoretical and practical, legal and technical knowledge on electronic evidence and cybercrime related issues.

In addition, the implementation of the ECCE project consists in the creation of the first European e-Evidence Library on electronic evidence, computer forensics and cybercrime.

Finally, the training of legal professionals in the framework of a common European training schedule endeavours to promote better and stronger judicial cooperation on questions related to electronic evidence and cybercrime. The final objective of the ECCE project is indeed to contribute to strengthen a genuine European area of justice on the basis of mutual recognition and trust.