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Postgraduate studies

The National Service of Judicial Facilita-

tors need judges and justice operators

that understand the service in order to

guide the work of the judicial facilitators,

who are generally adults with no acade-

mic preparation.
The program lasts eight months: two of them

So as to prepare them for that task, the are for the propaedeutic course and six mon-

National Service of Judicial Facilitators ths to go through the actual content of the

Course was created. Since most of the service. Seven universities of superior quali-

participants have a heavy workload, the ty participate for free and issue the academi-

postgraduate course was designed under cal degrees.

a mixed system consisting of a monthly By September 2016, 5,535 magistrates, jud-

in-person session and discussions throu- ges, judicial civil servants, prosecutors, de-

gh an on-line platform, allowing them to fense counsels, police officers and other em-

take all of the modules without putting ployees of the judicial system had graduated

aside their duties. from the postgraduate degree in six editions
that take place in all of the countries where

there is a service of judicial facilitators.