by Martine Otter
Objectives
The EEEI communication has several objectives :
Project support is a priority when projects are in preparation or underway, which was the case in 2022 and 2023 with the FindexII project. The FindexII project, like all EEEI projects, was by nature a communication project. Indeed, the aim was to bring together the various players in the world of justice — magistrates, lawyers, experts — not forgetting members of civil society, i.e. litigants. Helping judges, lawyers, and litigants find the right expert is first and foremost a matter of communication. As the experts will tell you, a project has no chance of success unless it is supported by all stakeholders. Communication is aimed at each stakeholder in its own right, to make it a stakeholder. It’s difficult to find volunteers who are willing to make a long-term commitment to improving the efficiency of the European justice system.
Communication initiatives accompany the project throughout its life:
- as soon as the call for tenders is issued, publicize the project to encourage participation;
- launch calls for participation to provide input for the various working groups;
- make the project visible to the various stakeholders by keeping them regularly informed of its progress;
- announce events during the project;
- motivate project information relays;
- finally, once the project is complete, publicize its results.
As well as providing support for projects, as a think tank we must continue to watch how expertise works in Europe. This is an ongoing task: announcing events organised by our members and keeping a legal watch on everything that can happen in the world of expertise in Europe.
The third objective is communication between members: to enable our members to get to know each other, to communicate with each other because our members are spread all over Europe, and even a little in North Africa as well. Getting our members to communicate by putting them in touch with each other is perhaps the most difficult part.
Resources
Our resources, both human and financial, are limited. Our secretary, who works part-time, is responsible for many organisational tasks in addition to communications. The effectiveness of our communications relies on the voluntary contributions of our members. It is they who bring us the information and then pass it on, leaving it to us to format it and distribute it via the various channels available to us.
Although face-to-face meetings are key communication moments, as is the case at annual general meetings and project conferences, our communication remains essentially digital, given the spread of our members and contacts across Europe and beyond.
The experts-institute.eu website brings together all the information disseminated via the various tools:
- the EEEI website itself, developed in English and French,
- newsletters, sent out several times a year in both English and French, and distributed to all our contacts in their own language if necessary.
- social networks, including LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter), YouTube for videos and audio recordings of conferences, which anyone can watch, listen to again and again, and rebroadcast freely,
- press contacts,
- meetings and symposia.
All information communicated is intended to be public and freely disseminated. It is intended to be shared and relayed by our partners and contacts in the various member countries.
To find out more, you can use the online contact form.
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