The project concerns strengthening cooperation between NGOs and the judiciary in the Visegrad and Western Balkan countries. INPRIS, leader of the project, refers for instance to its project "Together or apart? Collaboration, interactions, communication of the Judiciary and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)". 

The aim of the project is to gather and share good practices in the area of cooperation between NGOs and judiciary, especially civic monitoring of judiciary, with focus on Western Balkans countries. We observe that NGOs are getting more and more involved in various activities related to the judiciary and many of these activities are forms of monitoring. We find it inspiring and useful to discover how this issue is addressed in other countries.

Possible civic activities include: monitoring of the judiciary by NGOs (of courts’ activities, communication with citizens, judges appointments), trial observations (court watch), strategic litigation, involvement of NGOs in court trials, amicus curiae, trainings and workshops for judges organized by expert NGOs, collaboration of NGOs with judges associations, NGOs as organizations educating citizens in about the judiciary.

The project can be divided into three phases – research, study visit in Poland combined with a seminar of all partners and workshops in Western Balkans.

The project is funded by International Visegrad Fund and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea.