Summaries of Awarded Project Proposals
Fundamental Rights & Citizenship
2011-2012
Listed by priority area
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Combating racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism (RXAS)
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Promoting the Rights of the Child (RoC)
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Informing on where the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights applies and where
to turn to if fundamental rights are violated (CFR)
Training and networking between legal professions and legal practitioners
(TRAI)
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Fighting Homophobia: Enhanced/improved understanding and tolerance
(HMPB)
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Data Protection and Privacy Rights (DATA)
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Address the gender imbalance in participation in the European Parliament
elections (GEND)
Raise awareness and improve knowledge about the EU rules on free movement,
in particular Directive 2004/38/EC (FREE)
Facilitate sharing of knowledge and exchange of best practices on acquisition
and loss of Union citizenship (BPoC)
Participation in the democratic life of the Union (DEMO)
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Raise awareness about Union citizenship and the rights attached to it and
identify obstacles to their effective exercise (CITI)
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Application Number: 4000002638
Applicant's Name: CEPS SOCIALS PROJECTS
Title of the Application: INTERNET: CREATIVELY UNVEILING DISCRIMINATION (I:CUD)
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Juan Pedregosa
E-mail: jjee-itd.com
Racism and discrimination are not new phenomena and although publicly condemned, are often
privately tolerated in online contexts. They have undergone a transformation from visible to more
latent forms and are manifested in popular social networking sites (hereafter SNS). Youth, the main
users of these sites, are particularly affected by and exposed to racist and discriminatory messages,
thatin forms of images, videos, comments, are circulated in SNS. Users can be easily mislead, since
“cloaked” (disguised) forms of discrimination are hidden in false, “politically correct discourses”, like
“I am not a racist, but”...
While taking into considerationhow these sites constitute a powerful form of non-formal learning,
recognizing how youth in particular are challenged by online racist contents, this project is directed
towards providing guidance for vulnerable community members who are more likely to face
discrimination (i.e. migrants, certain ethnic and cultural groups, young people at risk of social
exclusion, their parents and educators) and for everyone willing to act against these conducts, such
as NGOs, media content providers, community managers, local and national authorities.
By raising awareness about the phenomenon, the project seeks to establish a methodology and
implement a dissemination strategy that assures considerable local and EU-level impact. With the
participation of grassroot organizations from Belgium (P2), Italy (P3), Romania (P5), the United
Kingdom (P4) and Spain (APPLICANT), under the supervision of the academic partner (P1), the project
aims to provide a practical guide on how to unveil masked discriminatory practices: to show a way of
becoming creative “prosumers”, who do not just passively “consume discriminatory contents” but
actively produce material counteracting such conducts.
The 3accumulative phases of the project, the framing research process (1), the action pilot process
(2) and the communication and dissemination process (3) can be understood as logical steps in order
to produce, test and later share an anti-discrimination pack, an integrated and interactive tool (in 6
languages: EN,SP,CA,FR,IT,RO) that includes reflections of people working with youth and young
people themselves.
In phase 1 - the framing process -, based on previous theoretical frame and case studies collected by
partner organizations, interdisciplinary groups (teachers, social workers, youth trainers, community
managers) will discuss and work out possible ways of acting against and combating discriminatory
material in SNS. During this process the methodology of the second phase will also be outlined by the
academic partner.
Phase 2 - the action pilot process - serves for testing the previously compiled methodological guide,
but also includes creative and empowering activities with young people aged 15 to 30, at risk of
social exclusion, members of communities who are marginalized and are more likely to be exposed
to discrimination, let it be online or face-to-face. Participants of the pilot groups will receive training
followed by digital sessions, during which they can express their thoughts and reactions in form of
short videos. In this way the project gives voice to the mainly affected and integrates their ideas in a
practical tool designed for actions. The anti-discrimination pack, accompanied by a web platform, will
include recent case studies floatingin SNS, short videos, and a methodological guide divided into a
theoretical frame and an integrated practical part with concrete steps to be followed.
Phase 3 foresees a 6-month dissemination process, during which local dissemination events and a
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European conference in Barcelona will take place. By compiling all the field information in a practical
pack, the project provides an innovative model of how the most vulnerable could unveil
discrimination on the Internet and can start acting against racism in SNS.
Application Number: 4000002867
Applicant's Name: CENTER AMALIPE
Title of the Application: YOUTH IS TOLERANCE: COMBATING ANTI-ROMA STEREOTYPES AMONG
YOUNG PEOPLE
Priority: RXAS
Contact e-mail: center_amalipe@yahoo.com
The objective of the project is to establish and test comprehensive model for combating racism and
anti-Roma stereotipes in Bulgaria,Romania,Greece and Hungary among young people aged 14-25. It
usses peer education method that trains and engages active young people (both non-Roma and
Roma) with broad set of activities for overcoming anti-Roma stereotypes.
The main activities of the project include the establishment of Youth Task Force Groups (YTFG) for
combating the anti-Roma attitudes among young people and reacting onconcrete cases of racism in
their community or schools. They will be volunteer groups supported by institutions and Roma
community. The YTFGs activists will mobilise the resources of the active young people for forming
tolerance via conducting peer training in their regions, solving concrete cases of discrimination and
organizing public awareness campaigns. Exchange of experience and know how among the YTFGs
from Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Greece will be organized. In addition, advocacy activities for
ensuring extention and sustainability of the model created after the project and will be organized
The project builds upon the achievments of the project “To touch the Untouchible: combating
traditional and new anti-Roma stereotypes” moving to another key target group – young people. In
this way it contributes for forming comprehensive policy for combatting anti-Gypsism and forming
ethnic tolerance at national and European level
Application Number: 4000002868
Applicant's Name: NSII (NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION)
Title of the Application: THE ADDRESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS - JOURNALISM
Priority: RXAS
Contact e-mail: zmogui@zmogui.lt
The ethnic minorities and migrants are shown in the negative context by the media. This process is
not properly monitored in the EUMember States despite the existence of EU Racial and EU
Audiovisual Directives. The legally binding EU laws needs to be promoted.
New EU countries like Lithuania, Latvia and Bulgaria only recently started to excercise the freedom of
speech. However this freedom is not unlimited - old EU countries has already learned how to use the
Freedom of Speech responsibly.
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Our partner countries such as Belgium, Italy, Spain are being characterised by much longer
democracy traditions. In the latter new strategies are created in orderto overcome the hate speech,
racism and xenophobia. For this reason a platform for cooperation among the different profiles of
organizations will be created: Human Rights NGOs, journalistic NGOs and institutions, which prepare
journalists. Three thematic workstreams will make changes within different groups - 'Opinion
framers', 'Society at large', and potential victims of the racism and hate-speech.
Workstream 1:'Opinion Framers'
The media is not just the information channel. Media is providing opinions, insights and taking sides.
Participation within the network of editors, journalists and students of journalism will be enabled to
recognise the hate speech and harmful stereotypes. During 3 training courses participants will be
taught on how to react and on proactive behaviour. This will strenghten the cross-communal
understanding by uprooting of racism, xenophobia. In total 90 persons from 6 partner countries will
be enabled for this mission. Training courses will be based on methodology that allows to identify the
barriers, encourages to work on the skills and to transfer the practical knowledge. The project will be
enriched by the contribution of the internal and external experts in the field of Human Rights/
Journalism/ Research Centers. The final outcome will be the methodological tool aimed at the
regional media. Regional media lacks knowledge on how to portray migrants/ethnic minorities in a
responsible manner and how to act upon the hate speech.
Workstream 2: 'Society at large'
Project participants and the society at large will be invitedto take part in the media campaign for
mutual understanding. Campaign will make investigations on why do racist, xenophobic attitudes do
arise, how does the hate speech affect the society and in particular, the targeted groups. Journalists
will be invited to undertake journalistic investigations according the topics proposed in the on-line
journalistic investigation platform. This platform will be run by the participation of society, especially
minority groups concerned. They will report hate speech and hate crimes. Platform will include the
outcomes of journalistic monitoring and ethnic researches, happening all thorough the project. This
campaign will be sustained by the journalists and editors recruited from our training courses. The
latter will couch their younger colleagues thorough the journalistic investigation. Consultation
centers for journalists will be established in all the partner countries.It is planned to publish 90
journalistic investigations.
Workstream 3: Empowerment of the ethnic minorities and migrants
The mutual efforts are needed for the real changes to happen. Thus it is equally important to work
with the target group - ethnic minoritiesand migrants. The media will not present properly their
stories, unless we will prepare competent storytellers. Therefore, international training course will be
organized for 30 self-help NGOs and NGOs from the partner countries working with target group.
This training course aims to prepare the methodology on how to enable the target group to
represent themselves and communicate with the media. This methodology will be spread in all
partner countries.
The journalistic monitoring will take place during all the project in order to assess the impact.
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Application Number: 4000002845
Applicant's Name: MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR, FINLAND
Title of the Application: GOOD RELATIONS
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Liisa Mannisto
E-mail: Liisa.Mannisto@intermin.fi
The project is targeted at preventing and combating racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and AntiGypsism, and the related hate speech and hate crime by the promotion of good relations. Good
relations will be analysed and indicators to measure them in different fields of life established on the
basis of four cornerstones: 1)attitudes, 2)personal security, 3)interaction with others, and
4)participation and influence. The establishment of good relations indicators will be followed by the
development of practical promotion toolsand methods in each partcipating country. Methods and
tools will be tested at local level and a Good Relations Guide published especially for the use of local
actors.
The project will be implemented by the partnership of actors from three Member States: Finland,
Sweden and UK/Northern Ireland. Three transnational workshops will be organised and the results of
the process introduced in a transnational Conference to which representatives from the EU 27 will be
invited.
Application Number: 4000002723
Applicant's Name: C.E.G.A. Foundation
Title of the Application: CIVIC HELP FOR ANTI-RACIST MEASURES IN YOUTH WORK (CHARM)
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Emil Metodiev
E-mail: emil@cega.bg
The overall aim of the CHARM project is to transform the youth work in Europe into a sphere free of
harmful stereotypes and thus toinsure that racism and other forms of intolerance do not exist in
youth projects and youth activities across Europe and fundamentalrights are a cross-cutting theme of
youth-related initiatives.
The project will significantly raise the awareness about anti-racism and fundamental rights among
youth organizations, bodies, cooperatives, groups and centers which are not dealing specifically
withthese issues, but work with young people, support their activeness and influence their values,
attitudes and behavior. Through training seminars, exchange of experience, cross-border
cooperation and materials development, youth organizations dealing with various issues
(environment, charity, youth political participation, arts, leisure, etc.) will be challenged to explore
their contribution in building tolerant Europe and to cross-cut fundamental rights in their work. The
project uses a research to identify the attitudes and tendencies in youth organizations in relation to
anti-racism and fundamental rights and on that base shapes its approach to offer the most efficient
outputs and deliverables to its target groups.
The target group of the project includes youth organizations dealing with various issues in Bulgaria,
Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and Lithuania, but also in other EU member states. Within the project the
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term “organization” implies any entity (legal or not), which is set to organize youth activities.
The direct beneficiaries of the action are: 1) 24 trainers to develop competencies on planning,
implementation and evaluation of training seminars on anti-racism and fundamental rights; 2) At
least 120 youth organizations from 6 EU member states which participate in the in-country training
seminars; 3) At least 360 people from 36 youth organizations from 6 EU member states which
participate in the organizational training seminars tailor-made for their profile of work; 4) At least 50
representatives of youth organizations from all over Europe who participate in the virtual learning
training course.
The indirect beneficiaries of the action are: 1) members, volunteers and staff of youth organizations,
involved in the different stage of the project; 2) youth organizations, clubs and bodies in all EU
memberstates to be addressed by the project deliverables and especially the project website and
publication; 3) institutions dealing withactivities to combat racism, xenophobia and intolerance to be
addressed by the project deliverables and especially the project website and publication.
Among the expected outputs are: Two international workshops for at least 48 participants;
International training for trainers for 24 trainers; Final international conference for 50 participants; 6
researches conducted in the 6 partner countries; 12 in-country training seminars with 25 participants
each; 6 exchange training seminars with 25 participants each; 36 organizational training seminars
with 6-20 participants each; Online learning courses with 50 participants; 6 in-country dissemination
meetings.
Among the expected deliverables are: Catalogue for tools and strategies for involving youth
organizations in the theme of anti-racism and fundamental rights; 6 training modules, tailor-made for
specific profiles of youth organization; 6 guidelines for mainstreaming anti-racist measures, tailormade for a specific profiles of youth organizations; 1400 copies of the project publication with main
findings on 7 languages; 40 short video clips on the project documentation; Interactive project
website.
The proposed action is a follow-up of the project Youth against Racism (JLS/2008/FRAC/AG/1293 30-CE-0306223/00-57), undertaken by C.E.G.A. Foundation and partners in 6 European countries in
2010-2011 and builds on its findings and results.
Application Number: 4000002833
Applicant's Name: TRANSITIONS
Title of the Application: EUROPE: A HOMELAND FOR THE ROMA
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Tihomir Loza
E-mail: tihomir.loza@tol.org
Europe: A Homeland for the Roma is a project aimed at increasing the visibility of problems that
Europe’s Roma communities face with a view to contributing in that way to ending discrimination
against the Roma and creating conditions for their social inclusion. The project, which centres on
utilizing multimedia in combating prejudice, will achieve this objective through: producing high
quality media content on Roma communities; disseminating that content through traditional and
online outlets throughout Europe; and equipping a large group of Roma and journalists from other
communities with advanced multimedia storytelling and minority reporting skillsenabling them to
produce high quality content on sensitive issues, therefore increasing their employability and
ensuring continued balanced coverage.
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Building on the success of the Colorful but Clorblind project—which in 2010 and 2011 gathered 50
Roma and majority-community journalists from the five countries in Central and Eastern Europe—
Europe: A Homeland for the Roma brings together five media development and Roma rights
organisations from different European countries and the world’s leading institution specialised
inproviding education on deploying multimedia in reporting underrepresented communities.
This 24-month project will be in the following five principal parts:
1. A seven-day training in advanced multimedia skills for the project’s core group of 20 journalists
from Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, half of them Roma, half from
other communities. The training will unfold in two parallel classes of ten, with four trainers.
2. A ten-day content gathering, with the trained journalists working in teams of two made of one
Roma and one non-Roma journalist, each team joined by a graduate student from the School of
Communication at the University of Miami. The teams will cover stories reflecting contemporary
Roma life in their own countries as well as other EU countries (Italy and France) where Roma issues
have come to the fore of public attention.
3. A ten-day production activity, with the teams coming back to the project’s central newsroom with
raw footage to be produced into content for publication in the following formats: 1. A half an hour
TV documentary 2. A full-length festival format documentary 3. Ten 6-10 minutes video stories. Each
piece of content will be produced in Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and English. This
content will initially be published on the main project website. In addition, the website will feature
visualised data as well as textual, photo and video information on Roma history, demographics and
main contemporary issues the Roma face.
4. Dissemination and public events. The produced content will be republished widely in traditional
and online media outlets, including those that the participants work for. The festival-length
documentary will be offered to organisers of documentary film festivals, such as the One World
festivals. In the second year of implementation, we will organise public screenings of project content
followed by panel debates in Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava,Prague, Brussels, Paris, Milan and
London. We will also organise a series of screenings of project material in secondary schools and
universities.
5. Follow-up online training lab. In the second year, the participating journalists will use project
equipment to produce additional stories on their own with distance support from the trainers. To
this end, we will build an online training lab, a multimedia interactive website that will enable
participants to watch videoed lessons on multimedia storytelling; access training manuals; and
interact with trainers. This activity will result in 25 completed stories (6-10 minutes videos, furnished
with photo, textual and data visualisation elements) to be published in Transitions Online magazine,
the online publications of the partner organisations and in other outlets.
Application Number: 4000002844
Applicant's Name: MPU - VENETO REGION
Title of the Application: BEAMS - BREAKING DOWN EUROPEAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS
MIGRANTS/MINORITY STEREOTYPES
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Roberto.Fabian@regione.veneto.it
Marilinda.Scarpa@regione.veneto.it
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BEAMS focuses on the link between a broad definition of popular culture (PC), which comprises
different expressions that include but exceed professional media production with expressions that
cannot be regulated by codes of conduct. Media and non media cultural products are in fact
powerful agents of generalizations (both in positive and negative) that influence societal trends and
behaviours including those that refer to the relationship between mainstream and minority groups.
The project aims at analyzing the nexus between the most widespread PC production (TV fiction,
arts, including performing arts, music, sports, popular books production, comics, depending on the
local relevance) to understand how stereotypes are defined and used to create public opinion. It also
looks at the complex process of stereotyping in a multi directional way, that is, self-stereotyping,
minority-to minority in addition to typical mainstream to minority stereotyping, as the understanding
of ALL these dynamics help better understand the sources of xenophobia and racism.
BEAMS also focuses on concrete and effective awareness raising pilot actions targeting the young
generations that go beyond the mere exposure to possible discriminatory communication / cultural
production, but that facilitate – through concrete, active and creative involvement- the appropriation
of tools, capacities and attitudes to debunk stereotypical and discriminatory depiction of minorities
by creating new cultural productions as a result of a deeper understanding of the issue at stake.
This re- elaboration is necessary to counter stereotypes and to change perception. Because cultural
changes are slow to happen, such actions will take place in an adequate timeframe. The partnership
covers 13 EU countries with public authorities, civil society organization working on minorities’
issues, media and research organizations. It will implement a synergetic approach that analyzes the
sources of stereotyping in different expressions of PC and takes action against the persistence of
stereotypes conducive to hate speech and behaviours, targeting especially but not exclusively youth.
To achieve its general objective, namely to contribute to EU policy against racism, by enlarging the
scope of analysis of stereotyping mechanisms of minorities (Roma and Sinti, migrants, ethnic /
religious groups) to different realms of popular culture and by changing societal racist trends creating
cultural products that debunk stereotypes, promote intercultural understanding and improve
tolerance in the EU, BEAMS will deploy comprehensive communication and dissemination activities
online, at local, national and EU level (workshops, blog, events, conferences, exchange and
promotional material)and develop its methodology in 3 main phases:
Phase 1: identification of the mechanisms of creation / perpetuation of stereotypes in PC
production. This will result in a collection of (locally) relevant PC samples whose creation will be
analyzed through interviews with producers in order to get an understanding of the mechanisms of
their construction;
Phase 2 is an assessment of the link between PC production, the public perception of stereotypes
and discriminatory, racist trends, by setting up public showing of phase 1 collections to different
groups, to get a feedback and understanding of the perception of stereotypes and attitudes towards
other groups. The final result will be a comprehensive report of the outcomes with recommendations
on actions to increase awareness and change perception;
Phase 3: following the outcomes of the previous actions, territorial pilot actions of awareness raising
and education with young generations (in schools and cross-community level) will be implemented
in each involved area. The pilots will have a year span and directly involve over 1000 youngsters,
cultural operators, teachers and community leaders and will generate new cultural productions by
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involved groups .
Application Number: 4000002827
Applicant's Name: JFC MEDIENZENTRUM – Media Information Center
Title of the Application: U-CARE – URBAN CULTURE AGAINST RACISM IN EUROPE
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Sascha Düx
E-mail: duex@jfc.info
The current crisis has lead to a rise of extreme right-wing and anti-European populism in many
European countries, and has made thesituation worse for immigrants and minorities in terms of
racism and discrimination. Old manifestations of intolerance receive new vigour and new forms of
racism, coupled with economic, social and political marginalisation of affected groups, deepen their
exclusion from active social participation, thus putting overall social cohesion in danger.
With the project "U-CARE – Urban Culture Against Racism in Europe", we want to counteract such
tendencies among adolescents and the general public; and to foster concepts of Europe as an
opportunity and cultural diversity as a positive resource instead. The need for training on fighting
racism and intolerancehas been stressed a lot on national and EU levels recently. Experiences from
the educational sector show that changing attitudes and behaviours can be a difficult task,
specifically for adult teachers and social workers. Also, it is hard to change the public image of
immigrant and minority youth, unless this youth is empowered to speak up and to make visible their
positive energies. The use of active peer teaching methods has proven successful in reaching young
people, providing role models and changing attitudes. Cultural and media projects working with
today’s urban culture have been proven very successful in making the strengths of young people
from a diversity of cultural backgrounds visible, hence promoting cultural diversity as a positive
resource.
In this project, 11 partner organisations in 8 countries join forces and pool their knowledge to
combine an anti-racist/anti-discrimination peer coaching approach with urban culture and media;
thus reaching young people both from the majority society and from immigrant and minority
families, as well as the public in 8 countries on a deep level; spreading the message of respecting
cultural diversity, increasing mutual understanding, feeling European citizenship and combating
racism, discrimination and intolerance.
As first step, examples of good practice from within the partner organisations and beyond will be
researched, collected and shared. A curriculum for U-CARE Peer Coaches will be developed, trainers
for the future Peer Coaches will exchange and update their knowledge in international seminars. In a
second step, the project will be promoted in each of the 8 partner countries. Young people with
talents related to urban culture and media who are willing and able to become U-CARE Peer Coaches
will be scouted and selected. In national seminars, they will start their education to become Peer
Coaches.
A big international U-CARE Peer Coach Academy will be the third step: 56 adolescents from 8
European countries will learn here from professional trainers and from each other. Their curriculum
will combine cognitive, experiential and action-oriented methods from self-reflection through group
discussions up to role plays. On discourse level, the analysis of language and their function in the
production of collective negative images will be treated. On structural level, historical and economic
causes of racism as well as references to current politics will be dealt with.
After the national seminars and the international academy (95+ total training hours), the U-CARE
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Peer Coaches will do a total of at least 35 national workshops for 420 to 1000 young people in step 4.
During these workshops, they will be monitored and guided by professionals, testing and further
improving their skills. After this project, the U-CARE Peer Coaches will be ready to run further
workshops on their own.
Each of the workshops as well as the international academy will have public final events and will be
documented in audio, video, text and pictures on the internet; social media, a printed publication
and a final conference will be used to spread the results and reach a big audience forthe U-CARE
project and it’s message.
Application Number: 4000002743
Applicant's Name: RICERCA E COOPERAZIONE
Title of the Application: ROMA IDENTITY: CONFLICTS, MASS MEDIA, AND RIGHTS : A RAISING
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON ROMA CULTURE AND IDENTITY
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Natascia Palmieri
E-mail: n.palmieri@ongrc.org
The Roma community is the largest ethnic minority in Europe; it consists of 10-12 millions of people
who live in condition of extreme exclusion. In 2011 the UE Commission Resolution on “European
strategy on Roma integration” was approve. The Resolution clearly demonstrates the alarm for the
increasing levels of racism and discrimination registered in the most part of European countries, and
the fact that Roma population is victim of a systematic discrimination and a constant violation of the
fundamental human rights. Throughout the centuries, the European countries shared the same
Roma marginalising policies, and the European citizens have shown the same suspect, mistrust, fear
and refuse feelings in the regards of the Roma communities. Moreover, it is a fact that the mass
media seldom have dealt with the Roma phenomenon as a subject to be deepened in its different
aspects (economy, cultural comparison, integration) where as on the contrary they have encouraged
stereotypes and misleading information, giving often wrong figures. In additionto that, being that the
Roma community is very secretive, it has avoided all cultural exchanges among the cultures of the
host countries.
The project has the aim of promoting and increasing the willingness, on the part of European citizens,
to welcome and integrate the Roma people, improving the knowledge and perception of these
communities, and fighting the spread anti-Roma feeling.
The intervention strategy will be based on the following results:
1- The promotion, through the mass media, of information about Roma people, free from prejudices
and stereotypes, which will be attained by means of training and updating of journalists.
2- The promotionof the active participation of Roma people to the production of information,
through the training of Roma journalists and through the spread of a magazine on Roma identity and
culture.
3- A high-level scientific deepening of the knowledge about Roma identity and culture, in order to
make correct information available and to suggest good practices of social integration.
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4- The promotion of intercultural Exchange occasions among European citizens, students and youth
and Roma communities, aimed at fighting hostility and mistrust feelings.
The project will be implemented in Italy, Spain and Romania, countries witnessing important
cohabitation problems with Roma people, segregation experiences as well as positive integration
practices.
Macedonia, where Roma people are perfectly integrated in the social fabric, will be involved through
an Associate whose representatives will participate in the exchange of good practices activities. The
target groups will be: 124 European journalists, 30 Roma journalists, 415 citizens, 480 young people,
both European and Roma.
Activities: Coordination, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, kick-off meeting, training
and updating courses for journalists, international seminar for journalists, production of 3
handbooks, journalism training courses for Roma people, creation and distribution of a Roma
magazine, implementation of a social research, didactic intercultural workshops, artistic workshops,
social theatre laboratories, local events, production of video-documentary, production of material of
public circulation, international press office, creation an management of the web site, campaign of
media dissemination, final international event.
Outputs: Steering Committee meetings, monitoring visits, evaluation visits, kick-off meeting, training
courses for journalists, international seminar for journalists, training courses for Roma journalists,
stages, didactic laboratories, artistic workshops, social theatrelaboratories, local events, international
press office, final international event.
Deliverables: reports (coordination, financial, monitoring, evaluation), handbook, magazine,
publication of research, video-documentary, stickers, brochures, T-shirts, Newsletter,
advertisements, in depth articles.
Application Number: 4000002741
Applicant's Name: COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Title of the Application: MEDIANE - MEDIA EXCHANGES FOR DIVERSITY INCLUSIVENESS, ANTIRACSIM AND NON-DISCRIMINATION IN EUROPE
Priority: RXAS
Contact:
E-mail:
MEDIANE - Media Exchanges for Diversity Inclusiveness, Anti-racism and Non-discrimination in
Europe
By taking diversity and non discrimination as standard and sustained angles of coverage, the media
can implement a truly inclusive approach to their content production. In this way, the media can
contribute to fostering mutual understanding and countering old and new stereotypes. In addition,
by looking for ways of building such a truly inclusive approach, the media can prevent the spreading
of stereotypes and better understand / analyze the sources and mechanisms of exclusion and
discriminatory practices towards various population groups.
The global objective of the project is to contribute to the fight against racism and to foster mutual
understanding by supporting the exchange of media professional practices at sub-regional and
European levels between mainstream, non-profit (community) and minority media. This project is
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based on a cross-community approach between diverse professional groups. Based on the outcomes
and lessons of the 2011-12 EU/CoE MARS - Media Against Racism in Sport - programme, the
innovative and complementary aspect of this new project is to allow the media and other
professional groups to test, extend and systematize inclusive and intercultural approaches to media
content production applied to any kind of media sector and output, with a specific focus on the
coverage of political and social affairs.
The main output of the project will consist of the following tangible results:
- 1/ 160 European exchanges of media practices (EEMP) to allow various groups of media actors to
strengthen and enlarge their capacities in terms of journalism training, media content analysis and
production (160 exchanges pairing 320 media professionals),
- 2/ 10 regular media encounters organized at sub-regional and European levels (3 European and 7
sub-regional) to analyze the outputs of the EEMP and other practices, to produce knowledge to be
disseminated to all groups of media actors and to build tangible and useful indicators on
inclusiveness of media approaches, practices and contents,
- 3/ 1 Media Index on Diversity Inclusiveness systemizing the use of the outcomes (indicators) of
media exchanges and encounters; index for media organizations and professionals to assess their
inclusiveness in relation to diversity, non discrimination and fight against racism as a way of
strengthening their proper development and professional status.
The project targets all EU member states and will involve participants from training centres,
mainstream (public and commercial), non-profit and minority media, representing various media
supports (TV, radio, press multimedia). The project is based on a partnership with the major
European networks of media organizations (Media literacy centres, Journalism training organizations,
Media groups, Unions of journalists…). MEDIANE will link all the EU based members of the European
partners of the project; the direct beneficiaries of the project will also enrich MEDIANE's outputs and
disseminate them in their own networks. This way of working will result in MEDIANE having a
potential of reaching millions of people (trainees, readers, viewers…); namely the indirect
beneficiaries of the project.
The role of the European partners will be: 1/ to identify, mobilise and follow the activities of
MEDIANE together with their national members, 2/ to contribute to its global content and
methodology and 3/ to spread the learning and outcomes of the proposed inclusive approach of
media content production.
By doing so, the proposed project aims at both giving the media and their professionals the
opportunities to renew their working methods, and thus to find new ways for their proper
development, as well as strengthening the fight against racism and fostering mutual understanding.
Application Number: 4000002624
Applicant's Name: LEEDS CITY COUNCIL
Title of the Application: ROMA MATRIX
Priority: RXAS
Contact:
E-mail:
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Roma Matrix - Mutual Action Targetting Racism, Intolerance and Xenophobia
The aim of Roma Matrix is to combat racism, intolerance and xenophobia towards Roma and
increase integration though a programme of action across Europe.Roma Matrix is a partnership of 19
organisations in 10 EU member states which contain 85% of the European Union’s Roma populations.
The unique cross-sector partnership includes local and regional authorities, NGOs/civil society,
private organisations and a university. Importantly for this project, the partnership includes
significant numbers of Roma-led organisations and Roma staff working in other organisations to
shape the direction of the work, provide a voice and ensure that it is not ‘for the Roma, without the
Roma’. In order to achieve the aims of the project, Roma Matrix has four broad but interconnected
themes (workstreams):
• Research and Understanding
• Reporting, Redress and Support
• Combating Racism Through Inclusion
• Public Media Campaign
Partners will carry out a range of activities under these themes, which are similar but delivered
slightly differently to focus upon local need. Workstream partners will work closely together to plan
and deliver their activities. Themed meetings will explore workstreams in depth, forge closer
partnerships and overcome barriers. There are thirteen activities under these workstreams, delivered
by between 4 and 19 partners:
• Research and understanding, exploring anti-gypsyism and how policies and procedures are
experienced by Roma
• Reporting and care centres, support and redressfor Roma victims of racism, xenophobia and
discrimination
• Providing information to Roma about reporting, redress and rights, to improve understanding
• Improving redress mechanisms with law enforcement, judicial authorities and other public
authorities
• Policy, practice and dissemination networks, to work with different organisations to raise the
profile of the issue and work collaboratively
• Preparation for Roma children leaving care to live independent lives and integrate
• Integration of Roma children and young people, and parents
• Employment programmes
• Cross-community mediation, to improve integration and reduce discrimination
• Roma women community health mediators improving health and community engagement of Roma
women
• Roma mentoring in public authorities, to improve access, interaction, understanding and
engagement between public authorities and Roma
• Public Media Campaign, to directly combat racism, xenophobia and discrimination
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• Promoting positive images to challenge negative views of Roma
Roma Matrix partners have long track-records of collaborative working, projects with Roma in locally
and nationally and delivering at the European-level. The partnership provides the best way for the
activities to be delivered because the range of organisations will offer different perspectives,
approaches and understandings and be responsive to local need. A key activity of Roma Matrix is the
development of networks which will increase the reach of the project and collaborative working far
wider than just the formal partnership.
There are many deliverables in the project which will be disseminated widely. To ensure greatest
impact there will also be expert input in developing best practice guides across all activities, partner
support on providing a rights-based approach and dissemination to key European networks and
institutions.
Roma Matrix tackles racism, xenophobia and exclusion through a wide but inter-connected range of
activities collectively implemented, tailored to local needs and delivered by a cross-sector
partnership. The project will have a significantimpact in each local area, country and will have a
European-wide impact. It gives an opportunity to understand a range of approaches to similar
activities, working collectively to develop products, providing best practice and learning material
applicable across all organisations and member states.
Application Number: 4000002781
Applicant's Name: AFRICA E MEDITERRANEO
Title of the Application: COMIX4= - COMICS FOR EQUALITY
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Marta Meloni
E-mail: m.meloni@africaemediterraneo.it
The ComiX4= (Comics for Equality) project aims at fostering the intercultural dialogue against racism,
xenophobia and discrimination in Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia, Romania and Latvia. In order to reach this
goal, it aims at raising awareness in European societies, especially among youth, on these topics
using the innovative tool of comic strip by artists with migrant background. This innovative approach
consists in including migrants and second generations – often subject to discrimination - into the
creation of an artistic tool for combating racism and xenophobia. The project is logically divided in
two different phases: the creation of tools phase and the promotion and training one. Phase 1 - The
first activity will consist in the first “European Award for Best Unpublished Comic Strip Authors with
migrant background”. It will be divided in three categories: Fighting against racism, Stories of
migration and Stereotypes. The award will target artists with migrant background in order to
communicate the perception they have on racism and discrimination. The award will be developed
also on-line for bringing these themes to the general public and for assuring a broader diffusion to
the project. Then, an exhibition, a catalogue and a “Comics handbook” with the collection of winners
and the most meaningful comics will be created and translated in 9 languages in order to be used as
tools and promoted during the second phase of the project. Phase 2 - After the conclusion of the
award, a conference will be organized in order to present ComiX4= and the itinerant exhibition. The
exhibition will be carried out in the 5 countries involved and in many comics’ festivals around Europe
and comics workshops for young people will be carried out during the expositions. During each one
month-exhibition, young people participating in the related workshops will be asked to discuss topics
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as racism and discrimination, as well as the positive values of tolerance and equality, and to create
their own comics. The workshops, hold in libraries and cultural and youth centres, will have artists
who participated to the award as trainers for youths. In this way the project will introduce art and
comics made by artists with migrant background as means of raising awareness on racism and
xenophobia: comics are an innovative and attractive kind of art for young people and can be used for
better involving them in discussing hard issues. The project wants also to guarantee the active
participation of all the actors: artists with a migrant background and young people will be active part
of the awareness process through their participation in different activities (award competition and
workshops), while the general public will have to choose the award’s winners. The European
dimension of the project will be assured thanks to the promotion of all the 9 languages tools created
that will allow to reach a wider public as well as to share youths works and perception on racism and
xenophobia in Europe. The project will target 200 young people between 15 to 25 years old because
of the key role they will play in society as future adults, 200 artists with a migrant background and
thousand of visitors of the web site and the itinerant exhibition. The dissemination strategy of the
project will consist of creating 1 website, 1 itinerant exhibition, 9000 catalogues and 5000 “Comics
handbook” in 9 languages making the selected comics easier to read and access for general public.
ComiX4= wants to provide a structured methodology that can be repeated in future activities and be
a very useful mean for fighting all the forms of racism, xenophobia and prejudice in European
societies.
Application Number: 4000002851
Applicant's Name: FEMYSO (FORUM OF EUROPEAN MUSLIM YOUTH AND STUDENT
ORGANISATIONS)
Title of the Application: COMBATTING HUMAN RIGHTS' VIOLATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH
ISLAMOPHOBIA
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Sonia Omakhir
E-mail: somakhir@gmail.com
The rise of anti-Muslim hate crime and discrimination has been well-documented and can have a
serious effect on integration, participation and equality in Europe. The significant lack of reporting,
monitoring and enforcement allows discrimination to continue and undermines trust in local and
national institutions. Addressing Islamophobia is an important part of increasing the trust and
confidence of European Muslims in their local and national institutions: the police; local authorities,
the rule of law and all whose job it is to keep them safe. Ensuring support to victims of all types of
discrimination sends a clear message of society’s respect for the rights of all its members.
This project aims to address Islamophobia by connecting organisations in 8 countries (Belgium,
France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Holland, UK, Hungary) to work together to assist victims by
providing information and advice on legal redress, monitoring incidents, developing standards for
recording incidents and training professionals to support victims.
Aim
● Establish network for collecting data on Islamophobic incidents
● Provide clear legal overview of incidents in national and EU law
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● Refer incidents to local/national organisations
● Collect and standardise data
● Write annual report
● Empower victims (especially women and youth) to combat all forms of intolerance
● Share best practice with organisations fighting against racism, anti-semitism and intolerance
Phase 1: Establish coordination network
- Mapping - register relevant national and European initiatives
- Coordination - establish network with local and national organisations
- Data collection - set common procedures for collecting and analysing data
-Data sharing - set up structure for sharing data
- Knowledge development - set up central website as portal for information on law, developments
and cases
Phase 2: Response & Documentation
Staff will work with network to:
• Establish system to register incidents
• Provide legal analysis under national and EU law
• Establish referral system– refer victims to national/local organisations who will liaise with police,
support victim and progress case
• Documentation–translate and post information on website; produce annual report
• Bring cases to attention of institutions through monthly digest
Phase 3: Training & Best practice guide for professionals and victims
A critical part of combating Islamophobic incidents is to educate citizens. Victims are often isolated
and unaware of their rights. We will develop training sessions to make citizens aware of their rights
and responsibilities, the applicable laws in their country and where they can turn after an incident.
The aim is to empower victims (especially women, who are 76% of victims in France) to protect
themselves against discrimination and violence. Giving ordinary people a resource where they can
find information and support is part of civil society's role in a democratic system to find solutions to
common social problems.
Elements:
- Identify and register incidents
- Train & assist Victims – domestic law, EU Charter, Directives
- Best practice handbook for professionals
-Cross-community training on peaceful methods to fight intolerance drawing on experience (anti16
Roma prejudice, anti-Semitism, homophobia, etc.)
Beneficiaries
Training: Victims(250),Professionals(400), NGOs(24)
Direct Assistance to Victims (can’t estimate)
Expected results, outputs, deliverable
1. Train 400 professionals, 24 NGOs to support victims 2. Train (250min.) victims on rights and access
to support 3. Stronger coordination and information sharing between organisations 4. Provide
accessible EU-wide resource on rights, support and redress 5. Get better picture of anti-Muslim
discrimination and hate crime 6. Raise awareness of need to reject intolerance in all forms and
educate citizens on living peacefully together 7. Build partnerships with associations working on
other forms of discrimination and spread best practice
Application Number: 4000002716
Applicant's Name: GIOVANNI MICHELUCCI FOUNDATION
Title of the Application: WE: WOR(L)DS WHICH EXCLUDE
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Massimo Colombo
E-mail: progetti@michelucci.it
The project stems from the empirical experience and studies of the partners as well as from the
comparison of the results of research at the European level on the issue of the housing conditions of
Roma/Gitanos/Gypsies (RGG), and of the housing and settling policies related to them.
On the basis of the common features arising from the European context – unacceptable housing
conditions, discrimination, forced evictions, widespread antiziganism – we have asked ourselves
about the existence of a possible stereotyped social description of the RGG, which has become a
common element and tradition in European public discourse. This cognitive “core” would then take
on local forms linked to the specific context and to the relationship created between certain RGG
groups and a given territory, becoming a platform on which projects and policies are designed. The
focus of the project is therefore on the institutions and the main action (Workstream 1) is to analyse
the documents produced by national and local Public Institutions (laws, regulations, plans, acts,
resolutions) concerning RGG, both as regards the language used and the measures proposed,
Housing Policies in particular. On the issue of housing the policies of social inclusion play a certain
role, and "Romafobia" is essentially the fear of having the Roma close by. It’s important to highlight
and analyse the distance between the discourse about rights and the practical implementation of
that. Stereotypes can be used for trade or in situations of conflict in which questions of identity are
played out. The analysis of language and institutional measures include the study of the reasons and
sources of the language utilized, of the measures proposed and of the actions and it could clearly
show what the stereotypes in action are, and how they produce effects on reality and on the
everyday life of RGG.
The second action (Workstream 2) is that of making the results of research a heritage of those who
work in Institutions in the administrative and political sector. The result of this action will be a short
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manual with guidelines to fight and possibly eliminate stereotypes and mis-knowledge that can
negatively influence the elaboration of actions and policies aimed at improving the urban and
housing conditions of RGG, by respecting their rights and culture. The elaboration of these guidelines
by the partners includes involvement and exchange with the Associations formed by RGG. The
Guidelines of each single country will have a common part with all the involved countries and a
specific part on one’s own national background. They’ll be written in the language of the country as
well as in English. In order to make this tool actually adopted by Institutions, the partners will
organise a participatory dissemination initiative aimed at institutions by holding round tables,
seminars and focus-groups according to the best format assessed with the institutional targets
themselves. Moreover, a third cross-cutting initiative is envisaged (workstream 3 )that is based on a
visual anthropological approach and aims at making an ethnographic documentary on the housing
conditions and testimony of the RGG groups present in the partner countries of the project. During
the implementation of the project, we have planned meetings for the sharing of methodologies,
disciplinary approaches, research progress, local results, commonalities between countries, the
construction of guidelines. The exchange between the partners will also be facilitated via a web
platform. The phase of research, guidelines creation and their participatory dissemination in the
institutional contexts will be run by a scientific coordinator having a well-tested competence. The
project management team envisages an organic, balanced management style that aims to establish
communication between the research teams. Finally, the project provides an effective strategy for
the dissemination of knowledge, results and products, described in WS 4.
Application Number: 4000002699
Applicant's Name: REGION ABRUZZO
Title of the Application: LIGHT ON racist symbolism and languages
Priority: RXAS Contact: Roberta Copersino
E-mail: Roberta.copersino@regione.abruzzo.it
Gabriele.dimarcantonio@progettisociali.it
The project LIGHT ON - CROSS-COMMUNITY ACTIONS FOR COMBATING THE MODERN SYMBOLISM
AND LANGUAGES OF RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION aims to develop a common culture of
stigmatization of racism and promote the pro-active role of community actors contrasting racism,
xenophobia and related forms of intolerance throughout Europe. LIGHT ON addresses the dangerous
underestimation of the social disvalue and the progressive normalization of racist images and
expressions in EU societies, through a community approach involving all the relevant social parts:
citizens, victims, law enforcement and legal authorities.
International studies (CoE; Y. Sharna, 2000) highlightthat in European countries, «far from being a
fringe activity, racism, violence and neo-nationalism have become normal in some communities».
One of the most worrying issues in Europe is the trend to consider racist and xenophobic visual and
verbal manifestations in daily life (pictures, tattoos, slogans, speeches, videos, web contents) as
normal part of social relations. Sociology and history teach us that symbols and slogans are very
powerful communication tools. As they convey much meaning, intent and significance in a compact
and immediately recognizable form, they influence personal and collective behaviours, especially
nowadays, when messages can move rapidly and easily engage high potential audiences. The social
underestimation of racist expressions is demostrated by low number of cases of discrimination selfreported by citizens (victims or witnesses) and reported by judicial system’s actors. Crimes and
behaviours perpetrated for racist reasons cannot be considered as ordinary crimes or normal
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behaviours because they are violations of fundamental rights and therefore require strong and
targeted European answers.
LIGHT ON will address these concrete issues through a cross-community innovative approach based
upon the following actions:
- scientific analysis and knowledge of typical and hidden manifestations of racism and relative social
perceptions throughout Europe (EU research);
- targeted supportive actions for community key-stakeholders, notably law enforcement and legal
professionals, strengthening their capacity to recognize the racist disvalue of an offence and correctly
report it (training model and transnational pilot, smart toolbox);
- primary prevention actions, through the 5 National Watching Points that will promote the
empowerment of people (victims, witnesses) to recognize discrimination and self-report cases to
relevant authorities or entities (anti-racism smart toolbox, code of ethics for web users). The actions
will disseminate positive models through high impact communication systems (workshops, mobile
app, social network based reporting tools, transnational video-documentary with emblematic cases,
anti-racism smart toolbox);
- high potential of replication of the developed tools in many Countries ensured by the joint
implementation of the activities based upon a broad.
The wide European partnership will ensure the full coverage of the 5 EU socio-geographic macroareas (UK, Scandinavia, Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe) with a strategic multi-level
composition: 2 public Authorities (Abruzzo Region, Ministry of Interior of Finland – Ombudsman for
minorities), 1 United Nations entity dealing with crime prevention and criminal justice (Unicri), 3
research institutes (Isig, Elte, Peace Institute) with expertise in social and human rights research, 2
network of stakeholders’ organizations (Enar, Mrfc) with more of 700 members throughout Europe
and 1 social enterprise (Progetti Sociali) dealing with social innovation and awareness campaigns.
All project actions will actually be “customer-oriented” and with European added value provided by
the transnational End-user Advisory Board leaded by ENAR, that will validate results and deliverables
and launch the Recommendations for the sustainability and replication in the EU Countries in the
final Conference.
Application Number: 4000002848
Applicant's Name: ROMA SECRETARIAT FOUNDATION
Title of the Application: NET-KARD: COOPERATION AND NETWORKING BETWEEN KEY ACTORS
AGAINST ROMA DISCRIMINATION
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Javier Saez
E-mail: Javier.saez@gitanos.org
The Roma community is the primary target of discrimination in Europe, as demonstrated by recent
Eurobarometers and reports published by European bodies. There is a lack of preventive work and
awareness-raising mechanisms and insufficient attention and support is being paid to victims by
relevant stakeholders.
The project therefore aims to improve the fight against discrimination of Roma and to improve the
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assistance to victims by promoting cooperation and networking among key agents involved in the
defence of equal rights, and by improving and transferring the methodological experience in antidiscrimination networks.
There are two types of beneficiaries: direct, i.e. four of the most relevant agents in the fight against
discrimination (lawyers and jurists, police services, Roma associations and other social organisations,
media professionals); and indirect, i.e. the Roma community.
The project will involve organisations from Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain with experience in the
fight against discrimination and with connections at national and EU levels. Project partners are
social organisations, professional associations and national Equality Bodies (EB). The project will also
rely on the inputs of experts representing the direct beneficiaries.
The methodology relies on two elements: 1) cooperation/networking between stakeholders:
between project partners, experts and other relevant stakeholders at national/EU level, notably
those representing project beneficiaries, whose inputs will be sought at different stages to ensure
that outcomes and deliverables are adapted to their needs and expectations; 2) intercultural/crosscommunity approach involving Roma and non-Roma professionals/beneficiaries.
The Project builds upon existing tools/experiences identified by project partners, e.g. in Spain (EB
Network of assistance centres for victims, Platform for cooperation with police) and Italy
(cooperation with media professionals). These experiences will serve as models for the project,
because networking/cooperation between key agents, including the EB, has effectively provided
assistance to victims, raised their awareness of rights, improved the quality of services and resources,
and achieved impact at thepolitical level.
The activities are mutually supportive at national and transnational levels and developed in the
following phases: from national analyses to joint transnational development of deliverables, followed
by the promotion and use of the latter at the national level. The International Closing Conference will
serve as the forum to present project results and materials and the networking initiatives and
experiences developed.
The project's deliverables include four practical guides describing how each of the four direct
beneficiaries can develop strategies to prevent discrimination of Roma and provide proper support
to victims by adapting their services and incorporating innovative networking methodologies.
The expected outcome of the project is to contribute to providing more effective support to the
Roma community in the fight against discrimination not only in the countries involved but EU-wide. It
is expected that the direct beneficiaries will be able to access resources and methodologies including
concrete procedures and networking strategies with a view to improving their work in the prevention
of discrimination against Roma.
The experiences implemented and their results, along with the project’s deliverables, will be
disseminated and serve as innovative working models at the EU level, with a view to consolidate and
strengthen cooperation and exchange networks and mechanisms.
To maximise impact and ensure a multiplier effect, other stakeholders involved in the fight against
discrimination towards Roma, including EQUINET, FRA, ENAR, and organisations in countries large
Roma or Traveller populations, will be involved at different stages of the project, notably in its
dissemination phase.
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Application Number: 4000002861
Applicant's Name: LEICESTER UNIVERSITY
Title of the Application: HATE SPEECH AND POPULIST 'OTHERING'
Priority: RXAS
Contact: Dr Gabriella Lazaridis
E-mail: gl36@leicester.ac.uk
During the 2009 European Parliamentary elections, political parties of the far-right won substantial
support in a number of EU member states (e.g. over ten per cent of the vote in Austria and Bulgaria)
(EURACTIV 2009) and were followed by the formation of a new far-right Euroskeptic group in the UK
(UKIP) and Italy (Lega Nord) who pursue anti-immigrant and anti-EU integration agendas associated
with radical populist parties (ibid; Betz 1998). At the same time, Europe has seen the rise of extremist
religious groups, as a response to securitisation processes that have taken place after the 9/11
(Lazaridis 2009). Both of these trends have produced challenges to the fields of fundamental rights
and EU policy against racism, xenophobia and homophobia and related intolerant attitudes and
behaviour. The project aims to provide a critical understanding of these trends and recommend ways
in which these can be challenged both in policy and praxis, by using the gender-race-ethnicity-sexual
orientation intersectionality approach.
The project’s objectives are:
(a) to examine discourses and practices of selected parties and movements that are considered
‘populist’ by a growing literature in 9 EU member states: the UK, France, Italy, Austria, Finland,
Denmark, Hungary, Slovenia and Bulgaria. The parties and movements to be studied will be chosen
on the basis of their involvement in debates on and/or court trials for ‘hate speech/behaviour'.
(b) to analyse ways in which, as Europe negotiates the current economic and political crisis, the weak
position of young people (18-30), dubbed as the ‘lost generation’ with low prospects of finding a job,
buying their first home, having a career, renders them particularly vulnerable to becoming a
recruitment target for parties and movements of the extreme right;
(c) to examine the ways in which young militants of these populist parties incorporate populist
ideology in their everyday life: how they define themselves as member of a ‘community’, how they
consider gender roles and elaborate men’s and women’s representation (focusing explicitly on the
issue of homosexuality);
(d) to gain critical insight into the young people’s motivations to follow anti-other ‘hate speech’ or to
oppose to it;
(e) to identify preventive measures and good practices and raise awareness.
The project will be developed through 3 interlocking workstreams, which will be implemented
through an integrated multi-method approach (content analysis, focus group, participant
observation, qualitative interviews). This allows it to combine the advantages of extensive
transnational comparative data analysis, on the basis of primary qualitative data, and the
maximization of interpretive depth, through triangulation with qualitative data sets, combining
research at the discursive, attitudinal and behavioral levels. Round tables and conferences will assure
a large impact of the project on the civil society in order to address the sources of anti-other – be it
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racist, xenophobic or homophobic – hate speech (that can also lead to hate crime) – in terms of
societal trends, political action and communication, generational problems and subjective
perceptions.
On the basis of the information collected, it will be possible to develop activities aiming at increasing
awareness on and fight against racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and in particular hate speech and
behaviors. The target group and beneficiaries are potential victims of hate crime and behaviors,
NGOs and other civil organization practitioners, decision makers and the general public. Altogether
they represent responsible entities for the protection of victims’ rights, prevention of violence and
promotion of intercultural dialogue and education. A list of recommendations on how to develop
cross-community approaches aiming at raising awareness on fundamental rights and promoting
fundamental values fighting against the in-depth causes of ‘hate speech’ and behaviors will be
produced.
Application Number: 4000002866
Applicant's Name: ANIMUS ASSOCIATION
Title of the Application: STRENGTHENING CHILDREN’S VOICES IN EU SOCIETY THROUGH CHILD
HELPLINES
Priority: RoC
Contact: animus@animusassociation.org
The overall goal of the project is to create the best possible conditions for children’s voices to be
heard at 5 EU child helplines using as a guiding principle the children’s right to participate and their
fundamental rights for care and protection as necessary for their well-being. The action seeks to
approach the issue on four content levels: the individual child, children’s helpline professionals, the
child protection system, and the general public.
Specific project objectives include: encouraging children to take active part in developing child
helpline services, building the capacity of helpline professionals to communicate with children with
particular vulnerabilities, improving the capacity of child protection systems to respond to children’s
issues voiced at child helplines, and voicing children's hot issues in EU society.
Project activities are: 0. Project management, 1. Methodology of child participation in shaping child
helpline services, 2. Exchange of best practices, field visits, trainings and levelling of standards 3. Case
studies, analytical reports, reccommendation paper, lobbying 4. Awareness-raising campaign.
The project targets up to 80 children aged 12 - 19 who will be empowered to participate in
developing child helpline services. It also targets 102 helpline professionals and 4 000 professionals
of 5 EU child protection systems, as well as teachers, parents and citizens of EU participant countries.
The implementation of the methodology of child participation will improve helpline services, thus
benefitting all child users of these services and their parents. The dissemination of project results will
also benefit other child helpline professionals who might multiply the experince gained under the
current project.
Expected project results are: better opportunities for children to participate in matters that concern
them, thus realising their fundamental right of care and protection; increased capacity of helplines
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staff to work with children with vulnerabilities and respect their viewpoints; improved 5 EU child
protection systems in terms of providing children with their right to participate; increased quality and
levelling of standards of the child helpline service in6 EU countries.
The various project outputs include: 1 Brussels kick-off seminar, 1 project kick-off and 1 project wrapup meeting, 2 press conferences, 6 Skype calls, 2 mid-project coordination meetings, 32 children's
workshops, 12 working group meetings, 6 field visits, 7 thematic and 25 local trainings, 314 group
supervisions, 12 open door days, Facebook campaign, a review of best practices and deficits in
ensuring children’s right to participate, comparative analysis of the profile of callers, analysis of
protocols for referal between child helplines and state structures, elaboration of criteria for setting
up a monitoring & advisory children’s group, elaboration and piloting a methodology of child
participation.
Project deliverables comprise 1 mid-term narrative report, 2 final reports (narrative/financial), 5
reports of conducted reviews, 4 reports on child participation, 1 comparative analysis on callers
profile, 4 summaries of children’s workshops, 4 analytical case reports, 1 recommendation paper,
minutes of project meetings, field visits, working groups, feedback forms and participation lists of
trainings, e-version of the methodology, 12 press releases, a virtual helpline tour movie, leaflets, ebulletins, online virtual campaign.
Application Number: 4000002765
Applicant's Name: SAVE THE CHILDREN ITALY
Title of the Application: CLAIM (CHILD LAW: ACTION FOR AN INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY)
Priority: RoC
Contact: Luca Bicocchi
E-mail: luca.bicocchi@savethechildren.it
The 24-month project is aimed at promoting effective approaches to enhance the meaningful
participation of children in the justice system. The general objective of the project is the promotion
of the rights of the child through the implementation of a child-taylored justice system. This
objective will be reached by enforcing the children's rights justiciability and with the promotion of a
multidisciplinary and multilevel approach which will involve legal professionals (lawyers, attorneys,
lawyers, judges), academics and NGOs.
The objective and scope of the project aim at implementing the Child-friendly justice guidelines
promoted by the Council of Europe. Specifically the project wants to implement the setting up of
information offices for children's rights, possibly linked to bar associations, welfare services,
(children’s) ombudsmen, Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), etc (Part V par d). For the
purpose of the project the Guidelines inter alia states that: children should have the right to their
own legal counsel and representation (par 37), children should have access to free legal aid (par 38),
lawyers representing children should be trained in and knowledgeable on children's rights (par 39)
In order to promote a correct access to justice for children at risk of social exclusion the project will
set up a legal clinic in each of the countries, offering free legal support to children. A legal clinic is a
law school program providing hands-on-legal experience to law school students and services to
various clients. Clinics are usually directed by clinical professors. Legal clinics typically do pro bono
work in a particular area, providing free legal services to clients.
Students typically provide assistance with research, drafting legal arguments, and meeting with
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clients. The clinic will have a front office where NGOs' legal experts will receive children for free legal
advice and orientation. If necessary the case will be referred to bar associations to take in charge
children and their families in judicial proceedings. Students of law faculty will give their support
providing assistance to legal experts through legal researches, drafts of documents, interviews with
clients etc. At the same time a specific course will be activated within the Universities involved in the
project: there students will discuss the most relevant cases with professors and other students. The
activities of the clinic from one side will support children and families at risk of social exclusion
providing support in accessing the justice system, from the other to encourage a debate and
discussion within the academic institutions on children’s rights.
Besides the activities of the clinic other parallel actions will take place in order to strengthen the
effectiveness of the project: laboratories with children in order to produce child friendly material
with the scope to promote the activities of the Legal Clinic and to inform their peers on the theme of
access to justice; a Summer School on children’s rights will be held with the participation of EU
experts; a final report will be produced on the activities done and on the most significant cases
followed by the Legal Clinic.
The main beneficiaries of the project will be children at risk of social exclusionand their families.
Indirect beneficiaries will also be lawyers and law students.
The principal expected result of the project is the setting up of child friendly legal clinics in the
countries involved. The clinics are expected to continue their activities after the end of the project.
The outputs foreseen are:
Child friendly material produced - around 40.000 children at risk of social exclusion reached
Legal Clinic: 40 cases reported and 20 students trained in each countries
Around 2.000 legal professionals and practitioners reached by legal tools (website, newsletter)
Field-oriented research paper sent to 250 contacts in each country
Application Number: 4000002671
Applicant's Name: PROVIDUS
Title of the Application: KEEPING YOUTH AWAY FROM CRIME: SEARCHING BEST EUROPEAN
PRACTICES
Priority: RoC
Contact:
providus@providus.lv
ilona@providus.lv (project director)
Overall objective: To find, identify and apply the best European practices in work with the children
from risk groups thus improving the welfare and social inclusion of the children, reducing risks for
crime and rejection, and creating safer environment for a successful child development within
Europe. In order to achieve the objectives, the Project activities are divided into 4 workstreams:
1. European field study (researchers from 5 European countries gather the examples of innovative
methods, tools and practices in their countries to share the experience among the specialists from
Europe; the study includes 2 steps: the analysis of rights and practice in European countries (UK,
Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) and the result analysis from the pilot projects activities;
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2. Implementation of best practices and tools (specialists develop networks during the Project to
strengthen the understanding of each good practice, tool or method from the European field study
and decide on implementing them in the pilot places);
3. Approbation of good practice in the pilot places (3 pilot projects implement the good practice,
tools, methods identified by the researchers for the work with children. The pilot projects involve 3
rural municipalities of Latvia and include 120 individual programmes for at-risk children and their
families. The programmes use such methods as Child and youth participation, Early intervention
approaches, Community involvement in the integration of youth at risk; the pilot projects are
organized by the specialists from the State Inspectorate for Protection of Children's Rights in the
form of the inter-institutional model);
4. Public education campaign (publications of research in English and Project booklet in Latvian,
Lithuanian and Estonian; presentations of the booklets; final conference on the Project results
(Brussels, 100 participants); educational film on the course of the Project activities which will be
available for public and educational use thus ensuring the sustainability of Project results).
Methodology: Each Project partner’s responsibilities let them use their professional skills most
effectively to achieve the objectives: PROVIDUS and IJJO are responsible for the organization of
Project activities; IJJO, ICDI, University of Edinburgh – for the research and results dissemination;
MoJ, CSC, SIPCR – for practice examples in the Baltic States; 3 rural municipalities in Latvia – for the
pilot projects.
Expected results: identified good practices working with children from risk groups and risk situations
in 10 European countries; summary and analysis of the practice; training for the specialists of
children’s affairs from the Project partner countries; developed network for practitioners and
researchers for future cooperation.
Main outputs: 3 trainings and 2 workshops for professionals, 2-day Final event (1 day Conference and
1 day Round table) in Brussels. Deliverables: Scientific-practical European field study (245 pages),
translation of the study in 3 national languages (50 pages) and a tutorial (educational film) to
disseminate project results.
Target groups: Specialists from law enforcement agencies and state administration institutions –
prosecutors, judges, ministry officials, probation specialists, academic personnel, the police, media,
NGOs, social services, educational institutions and other relevant institutions in the field.
Beneficiaries: in a wider sense, Project results will benefit all the European children and their
relatives, including those from the Baltic States and those who may get into risk situations (in conflict
with the law, witness or victim of violence) visiting any European country). Dissemination: Project
results will be disseminated through the Project partners’ homepages, including International Child
Development Initiatives and International Juvenile Justice Observatory, as well as PROVIDUS.
Application Number: 4000002735
Applicant's Name: INCLUSION EUROPE
Title of the Application: HEAR OUR VOICES! PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION OF
CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
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Priority: RoC
Contact:
secretariat@inclusion-europe.org
c.latimier@inclusion-europe.org
“Hear our Voices!” addresses the priority of promoting children rights and in particular the rights of
children with intellectual disabilities. It has been designed based on the results of the EU financed
project “Children’s right for all!” which analysed the implementation of the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child (hereinafter CRC) from the perspective of children with intellectual disabilities.
Based on comparative qualitative and quantitative research undertaken by 22 National Experts it
found out, that provisions on the right to participate for children are rather poor and do not provide
the necessary support and adaptations to vulnerable children, like children with intellectual
disabilities.
In addition, the new CRC Optional Protocol on Communication has been signed by a number of EU
Member States and will now enter ratification. It provide inter alia for a direct complaints mechanism
for children, in which also those with intellectual disabilities should be supported to fully participate.
Therefore, the consortium, led by Inclusion Europe and Eurochild as large European networks,
decided to develop a specific action on participation of children with intellectual disabilities, with
three national partners, from Spain, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. The network of National
experts, who participated in the above-mentioned project, will also contribute with their expertise.
“Hear our Voices!” will specifically strengthen and increase the direct participation of children with
intellectual disabilities in all areas of life in the sense of Article 12 CRC. In addition, the partners aim
at making sure that the complaints procedure introduced by the new CRC Optional Protocol will also
be made available to children with intellectual disabilities.
To realise this main objective, the project contains four Workstreams:
Workstream 1 will map available information and collect evidence from law, policy documents and
practice on child participation in different areas and from all European countries in order to increase
understanding of how children with intellectual disabilities can be supported to effectively and
meaningfully participate.
Workstream 2 will build directly on this identification of existing resources and knowledge. It will
empower and train children with intellectual disabilities to directly participate in allissues that
concern their lifes and ensure their participation together with other children, through awareness
raising among their non-disabled peers as well as among children's professionals and policy-makers.
This activity will take place at school and in child-care services, where training material and model
cases will be developed and tested by National Partners. Thanks to the developed solutions to
include children with intellectual disabilities and examples of best practices, the partners will
promote the right to participation at local, national and European level.
Workstream 3 will focus on lobbying activities to raise awareness about participation of these
children and about the right to complain through the new Optional Protocol. It will encourage efforts
to enable these children to participate and promote a revised EU strategy for the child taking into
account the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Finally, the consortium will
organise a meeting with members of the CRC Committee to address also the international policy
level.
Workstream 4 will ensure a large dissemination and the use of the deliverables and results by
reinforcing collaboration with local and national authorities for the promotion of project results. It
will organise National Dissemination Events on Participation of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
as well as presentations of the project results in non-project countries.
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These complementary activities will create a real and sustainable impact towards a meaningful direct
participation of ALL children at local, national and European level.
Application Number: 4000002769
Applicant's Name: SAVE THE CHILDREN ROMANIA
Title of the Application: CLEAR: CHILDREN’S LEGAL EDUCATION–ADAPTED RESOURCES
Priority: RoC
Contact: rocs@salvaticopiii.ro
mihaela-manole@salvaticopiii.ro
Children’s Legal Education–Adapted Resources (CLEAR)
The issue of legal education of children has been gaining in proeminence at EU level during the past
years. The concern is to reform the juvenile justice systems in the way to go out of the judicial
proceedings and to find other methods to respond to juvenile delinquency. The concern is also to
tackle the problems before the young comes into conflict with the law: it means to emphasize the
prevention, that requires efforts not only from so called “specialists” but society as a whole. The role
of the family and of the educational environment is of paramount importance. On the other hand,
the EU Agenda on the rights of the child recognizes the importance of child participation and
awareness rising and is bringing forward the need to ensure a better and more effective information
of children about their rights. Following a comparative analysis of their national strategies and
programmes partners of the project identified a gap in the civic and legal education of children. Thus
the project consortium embarked in the process of shaping solid legal education instruments that not
only bring internationally recognized standards in the field, but innovate the way children learn
about the enforcement of their rights, by developing new knowledge and child-friendly methods on
the matter. With the support of a child friendly manual, children will learn from a comparative
perspective about different national legislative setups. Moreover, while legal education has been
approached mainly by official school curriculum, hence reaching only children in schools, the project
will develop more diverse educative approaches that could be implemented also in community or
street settings.
Furthermore, the project is build around a participative methodology, involving the children from the
very beginning in the development and promotion of the legal education instruments with the aim to
enhance their meaningful participation at local, regional and national level. The children will work
and will be trained together with specialists, and will act as trainers for other actors interested in
further implementing the education interventions developed in the framework of the project.
CLEAR will develop a child-friendly Legal Education Manual and Implementation Tools Guide
specifically focused on children rights among the general elements of juvenile justice and prevention
of delinquency. The Manual will be addressed to children aged 12-18 and The Implementation Tools
Guide to peer educators and specialists (teachers/educators, social workers, community workers,
prevention specialists etc).
The developed legal education instruments will be piloted through several activities, starting with the
pilot training of children, prevention and education specialists, and continuing with the legal
education campaign through which more than 3000 children’s will be reached. Furthermore, in each
partner country there will be organized at national level a Capacity Builiding Workshop adressed to
other speialists in the field.
The project information will be disseminated throughout the lifetime of the project in all partner
countries² through events such as national working group meetings, focus groups, trainings,
children's legal education, national closing seminars, transnational seminar and press conference. All
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child-friendly products and tools will be developed in all 6 partner languages and uploaded on the
project’s website.
Application Number: 4000002685
Applicant's Name: BULGARIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE
Title of the Application: CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE:
BETWEEN LEGACY AND REFORM
Priority: RoC
The project addresses priority 4.2 Promoting the rights of the Child with the aim to assess the
compliance of domestic legislation and practice with European and international standards in the
field of children deprived of liberty in the following countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and
Poland. As a result of a common communist legacy, all the mentioned countries face similar
problems in the living and placement conditions of children in closed establishments. International
organizations consistently note the need for reform in institutional care and juvenile justice in
Central and Eastern Europe and note that depriving children of liberty continues to be the norm. Yet
at the same time, there is considerable lack of reliable and comparable data in the EU to provide a
stepping stone for evidence-based policies on children’s rights nation-wide or on a EU level. There is
also very little jurisprudence of international bodies capable to guide the reforms. Thus, this project
aims to fill the gap and provide a systematic overview of the closed establishments where children
are deprived of liberty, including those for children undergoing criminal sanctions, as well as children
place in institutions for other purposes (educational supervision, medical treatment, deportation
etc.). Thus, the project will help not only in the national reform processes but for the creation of a
Europe-wide children’s policy.
Firstly, the legal research phase will assess national legislation compliance with European and
international standards. The research will serve to systematically identify significant gaps in the legal
framework and malpractices and will propose adequate legislation change and alternatives.
Secondly, the monitoring phase will evaluate different institutions where children are deprived of
liberty. To accomplish this the project will adopt non-traditional approach, broadening the frequently
used juvenile justice approach. This means that BHC and its partners will monitor not only
institutions formally and informally part of the criminal justice system but also other closed
establishments. The present approach better suits the project’s aim since recent judgements by the
ECtHR ruled that certain institutions falling outside the juvenile justice system can be deemed as
closed institutions depriving children of their liberty.
The project directly addresses the call's priority for projects covering access to justice, legal
representation and assistance, participation, protection in judicial proceedings, privacy, mediation,
detention - as it will evaluate and monitor the placement and living conditions in terms of material
base and rights/opportunities. Having experience in conducting similar monitoring studies, BHC and
its partners will use a tested research methodology in its legal research and monitoring.
The media and advocacy phase will target law enforcement officials, civil society actors and society
by raising awareness about children deprived of liberty and calling for reform in the sphere of
childcare in the region. The beneficiaries of the project are children, falling within such conditions.
The end result should encourage an approach centered on the child and its individual needs. This
phase will continue throughout the whole period of the project so that any findings by the
monitoring team will be publicized at the right time through traditional and social media work,
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campaigns, press conferences and roundtables, depending on the national context. The project will
aim to spread best practices among partnering countries through workshops and trainings as well as
among other EU and non-EU countries by making available the findings to civil society actors. The
project will end with a closing conference in Budapest, Hungary, where the organizations will jointly
present their findings in the form of a book containing national chapters.
Application Number: 4000002795
Applicant's Name: EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON REFUGEES AND EXILES
Title of the Application: RIGHT TO JUSTICE: QUALITY LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR UNACCOMPANIED
CHILDREN
Priority: RoC
Contact: Helene Soupios-David E-mail: ecre@ecre.org
The project aims to contribute to a common approach to guarantee unaccompanied children’s right
to justice. The project focuses on access to quality legal assistance as it is essential to ensure fair
access to justice in all legal procedures that can affect unaccompanied children. EU legislation
provides for the appointment of a “representative” for unaccompanied children but not necessarily
for legal assistance. Though in some cases, the representative is a lawyer, there is no common
understanding at European level of the qualifications and powers of this representative. General
Comment no 6 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child states that unaccompanied children
should be provided with legal representation in addition to a guardian when referred to asylum
procedures or other administrative and judicial proceedings (paras 21 and 36). Therefore, proper
legal assistance, by a lawyer or legal adviser with specific knowledge in issues related to
unaccompanied children should be ensured in order to safeguard the right to effective remedies, the
right to be heard and having the best interests of the child as the primary consideration.
The project therefore seeks to raise awareness, develop recommendations and promote good
practices on legal assistance to unaccompanied children among legal advisers and professionals
working with separated children.
To achieve this, the project will be implemented during 18 months and include 3 main activities:
-A comparative study in 7 Member states (AT, BE, BG, DK, ES, GB and IT) on access to and quality of
legal assistance to unaccompanied children during the border and accelerated procedures, the age
determination procedures, the asylum procedure and the return procedure. It will look at conditions
and availability of legal assistance, training and qualifications of the legal advisers, as well as how the
child’s views are taken into account. The study will include a set of recommendations informed by
the findings and the good practices identified. An executive summary and the recommendations will
be translated in the languages of the countries covered in the project.
-A workshop of experts to exchange information, good practices and challenges, as well as discuss
the draft recommendations to be included in the final study
-An international conference where the study findings and recommendations will be presented to EU
and national practitioners and policy makers.
The project will be coordinated by ECRE who will take the lead in the methodology and the drafting
of the final report and recommendations. Five national partners (Asylkoordination (AT); Legal Clinic
for Refugees and Immigrants (BG); the Danish Refugee Council (DK); the British Refugee Council (GB)
and the Italian Council for Refugee (IT)), ECRE (BE) and one consultant (ES) will carry out the research
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in 7 countries through desk research and qualitative interviews with legal practitioners, professional
working with children, policy makers and unaccompanied children. ECRE and the national partners
will receive support and feedback from an advisory board composed of Save the Children EU Office,
the Separated Children in Europe Programme (SCEP), the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
(ILPA) and UNHCR.
Application Number: 4000002799
Applicant's Name: MENTAL DISABILITY ADVOCACY CENTER
Title of the Application: ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES
Priority: RoC
Contact:
mdac@mdac.info
The project addresses the overall call priority through partnership between 10 Member States which
focuses on the priority “Promoting the Rights of the Child”. It also addresses the specific focus
regarding this priority, as it aims to ensure access to justice for children with mental disabilities
(CMD), building on existing guidance related to children (FRA, 2009), victims of crime (UK Ministry of
Justice; EC, 2011b) and people with disabilities generally (Inclusion Europe, 2005). Access to justice
for people with mental disabilities has been highlighted as an area for further research and action
(Inclusion Europe, 2003; Mears and Aron, 2003) as all children with disabilities have higher levels of
vulnerability to violence (Brown, 2003; UN Secretary-General, 2006; UN CRC, 2006) and are
highlighted as a target group for EU action in relation to children’s rights (EC, 2011a). It will address:
access to information, legal representation and assistance (e.g. intermediaries or interpreters),
participation of children with mental disabilities in all stages of the legal process, protection of
children with mental disabilities in judicial proceedings, privacy issues, and training for the judiciary
and other relevant professionals - highlighted as the relevant project scope in the call for proposals,
while accessibility and equality are also priorities of the EC (2010) Disability Strategy.
Project objectives include:
1. Development of a methodology for data gathering on access to justice for children with mental
disabilities across the EU (Workstream 1) – relevant due to a significant lack of reliable, official and
disaggregated data to enable evidence-based policy making (EC, 2011, UN Secretary-General, 2006)
and a need to address specific challenges of access to justice for children and youth with mental
disabilities (Milne et al., 2001; Inclusion Europe, 2003; Mears and Aron, 2003).
2. Development of standards for access to justice for children with mental disabilities (in relation to
protection of privacy, child participation, accessible information about access to justice options, legal
assistance, legal representation, protective measures and special assistance) based on relevant
research evidence and best available practice across the EU (Workstream 2).
3. Development of training and educational materials on access to justice for children with mental
disabilities. These packages will be designed to be of relevance and potential use to professional
bodies (including the judiciary and the police) and to providers of academic courses in Universities
(including courses on law, human rights and disability studies) (Workstream 3). Research and current
standards/recommendations from a variety of stakeholders highlight a lack of and the need for
training curricula for professionals who work with child victims and witnesses of crime/violence (EC,
2011a, 2011b; UNODC and UNICEF, 2009), including training specific to the support needs of children
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with disabilities (Brown, 2003; Inclusion Europe, 2003).
4. Advocacy actions to ensure that the methodology, the standards and the training materials are
disseminated to and considered by policy-makers in all member states (Workstream 4). The key
target audiences include: (at Member State level) Ministries of Justice and Ministries of Social Affairs,
Parliamentary Justice Committee, National Preventive Mechanisms, NGOs working with children with
mental disabilities and on access to justice issues; (at EC level) EC DG Justice, Enlargement and the
FRA.
The project partnership includes 10 University and NGO partners active in the fields of access to
justice and/or work with people with mental disabilities in Northern, Eastern, Central, Western and
Southern Europe. Their work is to be supported by an Expert Panel comprised of people with mental
disabilities, their carers and experts from different fields that are relevant for comprehensive and
high-impact work on this theme across the EU.
Application Number: 4000002877
Applicant's Name: MASARYK UNIVERSITY
Title of the Application: EVENING WITH OMBUDSMAN - EMPOWERING RURAL COMMUNITIES
THROUGH KNOWLEDGE ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
Priority: CFR
The project “Evening with ombudsman” will primarily raise the awareness of EU citizens living in
rural/remote areas about their fundamental rights as declared in the Charter of fundamental rights
of the European Union and enhance their understanding of the possibilities for addressing the
violations of their rights. This target group was selected because in these areas there is limited
presence of national and EU institutions dealing with fundamental rights. Consequently, the
awareness and the knowledge of these communities regarding the Charter of fundamental rights is
limited. Although the project focuses on the specific target group its activities will also target the
general population of participating countries. Additionally, the project will also help to develop a
sense of common EU values and encourage active participation in promoting and fostering
democracy and the rule of law.
The project directly addresses the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (CFR) priority of the call and aims to better
inform individuals who believe their fundamental rights have been violated, improving their
knowledge and their understanding of the scope and application of the Charter.
“Evening with ombudsman” will actively engage 4000 citizens of 70 towns located in remote areas
and rural parts of five EU members in Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia,
Romania and Estonia). This target group will actively participate in events designed to help them
express their concerns and guide them to solutions. These events and activities will build on inclusive
and participation-oriented pedagogical approaches, allowing trainers to design strategies to fit
specific target groups and their motivations. Another 70 000 citizens in the targeted areas will be
indirectly addressed through online and offline media campaigns. Moreover, some 150
representatives of legal advice centres and social theatre leaders will be trained in the specific issues
of Fundamental Rights and the Charter.
The central events of the project titled “Evening with ombudsman” will be organized in selected
communities and will address specific issues in regard to the (violations of) fundamental rights
concerning the targeted communities. The title of the events relates to a key aspect of the project
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that is the involvement of national ombudsmen. They are namely engaged in systematic protection
of civil rights and enjoy a remarkable level of trust from European citizens. The cooperation of
ombudsmen will be crucial for preparing, organising and implementing the central events. They will
provide information and reports that will be the basis for identifying concrete cases of violation and
for identifying examples of good practices of tackling these violations, which will later be selected
and transformed into short documentary movies and accompanied with manuals for the use in
events.
At these events not only the movies will be shown and discussion with a representative of the
ombudsman office or legal advice centre will be encouraged, but also an unusual technique of
interactive social theatre (also called legal theatre) will be employed, which will empower the
audience to identify with various characters and express their views and feelings. Social theatre is a
unique method of bringing legal issues to life and translating them to real-life experiences. This
method elicits a much deeper experience than mere informationsharing through lectures or leaflets.
Deliverables of the project will include information materials and other texts to be widely circulated.
Short films, which enable a better learning impact (as inputs are both auditory and visual) will be
publicly available for sharing on social networks, increasing the number of people reached by the
project. The project will also include various research reports that will enhance the knowledge base.
Application Number: 4000002705
Applicant's Name: LUDWIG BOLTZMANN ASSOCIATION
Title of the Application: MAKING THE CFREU A LIVING INSTRUMENT
Priority: CFR
Contact: katrin.wladasch@univie.ac.at
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union guarantees for the protection and
promotion of more basic human rights than any other Charter or Convention has done before. Still,
its concrete implication and relevance for national legislation, jurisdiction and legal practise is not
completely clear. Knowledge about its scope and effects is not anchored in legal professions, nor do
NGOs, trade unions or other stakeholders of relevance in this regard know, how CFR rights can be
protected. Based on this acknowledgement the project rolls out a wide range of activities that on the
one hand aim at clarifying the CFR's relevance at the national level as well as for EU legislation and on
the other at developing methodologies, how to transfer the content of the Charter as such and
knowledge about its concrete implications to those, who should apply its provisions in practice - and
as such making it a 'living instrument.'
The project is composed of four parts, both of theoretial and practical nature: As a first step a
research study on thelegal impact of the CFR will be conducted. The analysis will be composed by an
evaluation of CFR provisions on legislation, practise and jurisprudence on the level of the nation state
as well as on EU level both with a focus on social rights. The knowledge obtained will feed in to the
more practical parts or the project and will be published in a book as well as in research papers to be
presented at a final conference.
Judges, lawyers and other legal professionals are those, who should use the provisions of the CFR in
practise. Many of them however still lack knowledge about the scope and the concrete implications
of CFR rights for their daily work. Taking into account, what is already taught in law schools and
judicial academies, the project will develop a standardized training curriculum for making legal
professionals competent for applying CFR rights in their professional practise. Pilot trainings in
Austria, Italy, Poland and Croatia will help to draft a manual for legal professionals' education on CFR
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rights to be used EU wide.
In order to guarantee for the CFR to be widely applied it is not sufficient to educate and train legal
professionals but also to make those familiar with the rights provided and how to make use of them,
who assist persons and groups affected by human rights violations like NGOs, trade unions and other
civil society actors. Guidelines of how to use the CFR will be developed for these target groups and
for the wider public. The guidelines will inlcude easy-to-understand information about the rights
guaranteed by the CFR and practical guidance for their application in practice and will be published in
English, German, Italian, Polish and Croatian. A series of seminars and round tables in project partner
countries (AT, IT, PL, HR) will serve to raise awareness and knowledge about the CFR.The seminars
will contribute to capacity building of NGOs and trade unions in how to include CFR rights in their
legal assistance work. The round table discussions aim at reaching a wider public and at making it
familiar with the concepts of CFR rights and their applicability.
A final conference in Rome will serve to sum up all project findings and present those to practitioners
in the fieldof human rights as well as to legal professionals more generally.
Application Number: 4000002698
Applicant's Name: ACADEMY OF EUROPEAN LAW
Title of the Application: EU CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN PRACTICE
Priority: TRAI
Recognising that it is a stated aim of the European Union to provide an increased amount of training
for judges and legal professionals in matters of EU law, aware of the desire to strengthen the shared
culture of fundamental rights within the EU, bearing in mind the ambitious goals of the Stockholm
Programme and in answer to the call for proposals in "Fundamental Rights and Citizenship", the
Academy of European Law (ERA) proposes to implement a training series on the scope and
application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. The project will consist of a
decentralised, pan-European series of 8 seminars. Each seminar will have a duration of one-and-ahalf days. The overarching aim of this series is to improve the knowledge and understanding of the
principles laid down in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights among members of the judiciary and
legal professionals.
Since the Charter became binding law on 1 December 2009, the need for a sound comprehension of
the practical relevance of the principles contained therein for legal professionals has become
apparent. This series of training seminars will focus on the content and scope of the Charter
demonstrating the interpretation, applicability and relevance in the domestic legal order of the
Charter. Aside from receiving training on the Charter within the context of the EU and national legal
orders, participants will also receive instruction on the interpretation and application of the
principles of the Charter as well as its relationship to other international human rights instruments
such as the ECHR and national human rights provisions. To achieve this ambitious aim, a blended
approach of presentations, plenary and group discussions as well as more practical training elements
such as workshops and case studies will be employed. In addition, the series aims to provide an
opportunity to further the individual and inter-institutional cooperation as well as the exchange of
information and the creation of professional networks between European legal professionals in the
area of fundamental rights. In this manner, the project also aims to further the priorities enunciated
in the Stockholm Programme and further specified in the Action Plan including advancing a Europe of
rights and justice for EU nationals in the area of freedom, liberty and security.
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Over the course of the 8 training seminars, 380 legal professionals from all over Europe will receive
in-depth and expert training. It is planned to train 205 judges and 175 lawyers from all Member
States over a period of 24 months. The seminars will be organised across the entire EU in
cooperation with carefully selected national partners in Barcelona, Bucharest, Edinburgh, Krakow,
Ljubljana, Paris and Riga as well as one seminar which will take place at ERA's premises in Trier. This
breadth of partner organisations in many European regions, as well as the broad language regime
that has been chosen (7 different language formats), will ensure that judges and legal professionals
from every region of the EU are reached.
To ensure the sustainability of the knowledge imparted, presentations from each seminar will be
made available to participants both on paper and electronically. On-line access to seminar
documentation will be given to project partners to enable further distribution at national level and
for use in subsequent domestic trainings. In addition, a dedicated homepage integrated within the
ERA web presence will ensure that information on the training seminars as well as the relevant
materials can be easily accessed. Finally, to reach not only the direct participants of the training, but
also indirect beneficiaries, ERA will record, and make freely available, downloadable podcasts of
selected presentations. This ensures that participants who are unable to attend can still benefit from
the project, thereby increasing the impact of the project.
Application Number: 4000002755
Applicant's Name: EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
Title of the Application: EUROPEAN JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PRACTICE
OF NATIONAL COURTS – UNEXPLORED POTENTIAL OF JUDICIAL DIALOGUE METHODOLOGY
Priority: TRAI
Contact: serena.scarselli@eui.eu
karolina.podstawa@eui.eu
The project European Judicial Cooperation in the fundamental rights practice of national courts – the
unexplored potential of judicial dialogue methodology, includes one academic institution -the
European University Institute - and 7 judicial organizations: 6 national (Croatia, Italy, Poland,
Romania, Poland, Romania (2), and Spain) and one European (the Association of European
Administrative Judges).
It builds on the conviction that collaboration and contact between the legal professions of the
Member States and the European Union are indispensable in the field of fundamental rights
adjudication; all the more, given the multi-level system of fundamental rights protection
consolidated by the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. To
quote one ofthe practitioners, ‘the legal space we share is based on common values: the respect for
fundamental rights protected in Europe of which we are together, European and national courts, the
guardians’ (M. Guyomar’s opinion in Conseil d’Etat (France), Sect., 10 avril2008, Conseil national des
barreaux e.a.). Yet, despite the existence of these (presumed) common values, judges act in a
context characterized by the existence of different languages, judicial techniques and practices.
The project aims to trigger a process of cross-state and cross-discipline mutual learning on judicial
cooperation. Efforts need to go beyond the mere exchange of information through conferences in
search of more effective ways to foster judicial dialogue in practice. Thus, during the project, judges
from different MS will indeed practice judicial dialogue; they will engage in exploring its potential
together with academics to the end of improving fundamental rights adjudication in a multi-level
setting where provisions of EU, ECHR and national law interact.
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The project will have three phases.
Firstly, the research team and project partners will select the cases and, if need be, devise
hypothetical case-studies for the workshops. The expert team will work across two linked
dimensions. Initially, it will explore the current most controversial issues, that is those cases where
the adjudication of fundamental rights has given rise to divergent or conflicting interpretations (see:
CJEU cases 81/05 Cordero Alonso; 341/05 Laval; 346/06 Rüffert; 438/05 Viking). Rights will be
selected in cooperation with partner institutions based on thorough research and analysis of the
CJEU and ECtHR case law, as well as the case law of national jurisdictions, beyond those involved in
the project. Secondly, we will focus on the use of judicial dialogue, in its vertical and horizontal
dimensions between national and European courts. The case law, besides providing up-to-date data
about fundamental rights protection, will show the benefits of dialogue techniques developed on the
European level (margin of appreciation, proportionality test, see: ECtHR, Handyside, App. No.
5493/72; CJEU: 36/02 Omega; 112/00 Schmidberger) to promote both fundamental rights
compliance and the uniformity or compatibility of interpretations across MS.
In the second phase, three workshops, gathering academics and judges from particpating MS, will
represent a laboratory of judicial cooperation and a forum for mutual learning. To ensure the
representation of a sufficiently diverse set of legal traditions and judicial styles, invitees will belong
equally to the civil, administrative and criminal jurisdictions as well as represent different levels of
jurisdictions. The workshops will be followed by evaluation reports and debriefing meetings. The
team will prepare a methodological study to design experimental patterns involving judicial
cooperation and handbooks focusing on specific fundamental rights.
Ultimately, in phase three, the toolkit, including Judicial Dialogue Guidelines will be finalised and
presented in a final workshop; the findings will be disseminated and tested by co-beneficiaries,
partners and external experts.
Application Number: 4000002751
Applicant's Name: EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON REFUGEES AND EXILES
Title of the Application: PROMOTING THE EU CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS WITHIN THE
LEGAL NETWORKS ACTIVE IN THE FIELD OF ASYLUM AND MIGRATION IN EUROPE (FRAME)
Priority: TRAI
Contact: Caoimhe Sheridan
E-mail: csheridan.ecre.org
The objectives of the project are: 1) to promote the principles laid down in the Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the European Union (hereinafter the Charter) among members of the
network of legal practitioners, protecting the rights of vulnerable migrants; 2) to strengthen cooperation and exchange of information between asylum and migration lawyers and general law
practitioners from the 27 EU MS with a specific focus on the litigation before the Court of Justice of
the European Union (hereinafter, the CJEU).
With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the rights stipulated by the Charter are now legally
binding for all EU institutions and Member States when they are implementing Union law. The
provisions of relevant EU asylum legislation now have to be interpreted in the light of fundamental
rights. Moreover, the CJEU is engaged in interpreting the Charter. The right to asylum (Article 18) is
one of the fundamental rights set out by the Charter as well as being encompassed in the other
international and EU law instruments. The Charter also guarantees human dignity (Art. 1),
“prohibition of torture” (Art. 4), “right to liberty and freedom” (Art. 6), “protection from removal”
(Art. 19), “the right to effective remedy” (Article 47), “the right to protection of family life” (Art. 7)
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and other principles that have a direct impact in the field of asylum and migration. The potential
provided by the Charter should be used more effectively by legal practitioners litigating the cases of
vulnerable migrants, protecting their fundamental rights and holding Member States and EU
institutions accountable for asylum issues.
Through the European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA), a forum for 500 asylum and migration law
practitioners across Europe, ECRE will promote the principles laid down in the EU Charter. This will be
done through networking, research, training and strategic litigation.
The project foresees 2 meetings of asylum and migration law practitioners from across the EU,
representing the ELENA network, to identify aspects of EU asylum law as well as national practices,
not compatible with the Charter and suitable for litigation before the CJEU. The project will organise
an expert roundtable bringing together asylum lawyers and EU law experts, experienced in CJEU
litigation to share information and identify best litigation practices as well as jurisdictions most
suitable for litigation. Once the legal issues, jurisdictions and litigation practices are identified, the
lawyers in these jurisdictions will work together in order to identify cases that could be referred to
the CJEU, so that important issues of EU or national asylum law can be interpreted in light of the
Charter. Litigation Task Force, established during the project, will be able to represent cases before
the CJEU, so that more experienced lawyers can assist their colleagues with the CJEUrepresentation
on a pro bono basis. There will be emphasis on cross-country litigation and cases important for more
than one EU MS.ECRE will organise an international workshop for the lawyers from across the EU on
the Charter argumentation and general law principles applicable to asylum cases. A booklet of
general principles of EU law applicable to asylum and migration cases with a focus on fundamental
rights and principles set out in the Charter will be designed and published in least 3 European
languages. The booklet will be distributed widely among lawyers and judiciary in the EU Member
States. ECRE will draft analytical notes on the important judgements for asylum and migration
lawyers and will update them on the relevant CJEU and pilot national judgements. The lawyers will
be able to use this information during litigation and be better aware of the developments in the
other EU MS.
It is expected that the project target at least 500 legal practitioners and judiciary in all the 27 EU MS.
FRAME will have a positive impact on the protection of vulnerable migrants
Application Number: 4000002652
Applicant's Name: OMBUDSMAN OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY
Title of the Application: RAINBOW HAS (Rights through Alliances: Innovating and Networking BOth
Within Homes And Schools
Priority: HMPB
Contact e-mail: rainbowhas@ararteko.net
In continuity with the Rainbow project (2011) financed under the same programme and focused as
well as targeted to teachers and school personnel, some of the partners, together with new
organisations, aim to keep fighting against trans/homophobia, by proceeding with an action-research
involving families and institutions, because we realised that the insufficient work done on the issue in
schools reflects the silence on LGBT issues and homo/transphobia in the society at large and in public
institutions in charge of citizens’ wellbeing. Single teachers can not do all the work to prevent and
protect students from homophobia, they need a backing from institutions and a protective
environment in the first socializing agency, which is the family. Through further research into family
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discourses, best practices of support, family associations networking, institutional workshops and
training, we should be able to provide the UE with different outputs that regard strategies to make
adults (teachers and parents in particular, but also public servants) aware of these issues: LGBT
rights, sexual/affective diversity, diversity management, in order to raise a new attention to the issue
in all fields of life. The general objective is the improvement of the atmosphere for LGBT children and
their families, or children who are victims of trans/homophobic bullying because they are in some
way non conforming to social rules, often unspoken but heavily oppressing, which we aim to
challenge by involving a large part of society in defending sexual diversity rights as minority rights.
We want to develop mutual respect, a higher degree of awareness and support within families and
the challenging of stereotypes, through information and better welfare for LGBT students, who are
currently at high risk of early school leaving, underperformance, depression (if not in extreme cases,
suicide). The main activity of the project are: research (into family discourses, case studies of
homophobic bullying, of LGBT families, association practices, best practices of support, over 50
people involved per country); exchange of best practices; international and local seminars to discuss
about research and exchange results and to identify some policy recommendations/strategies for
institutions at EU, national and local level; training seminars for parents and teachers focused on
prevention and management of sexual/affective diversity and homophobic bullying (ES, UK, PL);
training for public servants in Milan (IT); networking among different types of family associations, gay
and straight, for developing alliances and lobbying actions at European level.
The main outputs/deliverables of the project will be:
• Reports about research into family discourses and best practices of antidiscrimination and LGBT
support services, as well as paper and online resources mapping.
• Collection of data on experiences of associations of gay families, families with LGBT children and
straight family associations who dealt/might want to deal with LGBT issues at school, in each country.
• Development of a European network of LGBT families, families with LGBT children and family
associations with a specific agenda containing lobbying strategies for the future (after the project
end).
• Development of a training package and recommendations for adults (parents and teachers, but
also public servants) who want to work to protect from bullying LGBT children or children perceived
as “different”.
• Design of awareness-raising multimedia lobbying actions in collaboration with associations of
families.
Application Number: 4000002619
Applicant's Name: CONSEJO GENERAL DEL PODER JUDICIAL. ESQUELA JUDICIAL
Title of the Application: DATA PROTECTION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
Priority: DATA
The Project DPiCP 2013 is coordinated by the Spanish Judicial School in collaboration (as partner
institutions) with some judicial schools and training centres, and European and national institutions
with competences in data protection and/or criminal matters. Itaims at providing judicial training in
the particular field of exchange of information and data protection in criminal matters.
60 Judges and public prosecutors of Member States are the target group of the first workstream. In a
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second workstream it aims to provide a specific training on the topic to 20 trainers of diverse
European judicial training centers, taking into consideration the pedagogical materials prepared and
published on previous projects (2008-2011) and those developed during first workstream, with the
aim of facilitating the organization of courses on this topic by the judicial Schools of the Member
States.
The course approaches, from a practical perspective, the multiple implications of the fundamental
right to data protection in criminal investigations and proceedings. It is specially centered both on
the existence of many data bases of interest for the criminal investigation and on the need to respect
fundamental rights, among them data protection, during the access, treatment and exchange of
information contained in these information systems and data bases, and in the police and judicial
files resulting from criminal investigations and prosecution of criminal offences.
The course approaches these aspects from an European perspective (legal instruments of the Council
of Europe and the EU; jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice
of the European Union), with attention to proposals relevant to criminal justice and data protection
implementing new article 16 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Declaration
21. The impact in national legislation and practice will also be analyzed (in Spain and in several of the
countries represented in the audience). Attention will also be paid to the exchange of information
between judicial and police authorities of different Member States, EU bodies (Eurojust, Europol,
OLAF) and systems (SIS II, VIS, ECRIS, Eurodac, etc.), not forgetting third countries.
Particular attention will be given to recent EU initiatives, namely:
- The implementation and practical application in the Member States of the Council Framework
Decisions 2008/675/ and 2009/315/JHA and the Council Decision 2009/316/JHA on the
establishment of ECRIS;
- The implementation of the Council Decision 2009/426/JHA reinforcing Eurojust (particular legal
provisions on ENCS and exchange of information).
- Practical issues of the Proposal (COM(2012) 10) for a directive on data protection in criminal
matters (prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of
criminal penalties, and the free movement of such data).
The speakers of the training courses will be experts of this matter from the European institutions and
Bodies (i.e., Council of Europe; Secretariat of CIS, SIS and Europol, at the General Secretariat of the
Council; the European Data Protection Supervisor; Data Protection Offices of Europol, of Eurojust and
of OLAF...) and from the EU Member States. All of them are leading professionals of the field, such as
Mr Peter Hustinx and Mr Giovanni Butarelli, from the European Data Protection Supervisor; Ms Diana
Alonso Blas, Data Protection Officer of Eurojust, Mr Joaquin Bayo Delgado, Senior Judge and former
Deputy European Data Protection Supervisor; etc.
This Project makes use of the experience gained from the Project DPiCP financed by the Commission
under the Programme "Criminal Justice 2008" (ref. JLS/2008/JPEN/020), and from the training
courses successfully organised at the Councilof Europe (September 2008, October 2009) and at the
Spanish General Council of the Judiciary (July 2010 and October 2011).
Application Number: 4000002854
Applicant's Name: LIGUE DES DROITS DE L'HOMME
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Title of the Application: FICHAGE, INFORMER LES CITOYENS : PASSEPORT POUR LA PROTECTION
DES DONNEES PERSONNELLES
Priority: DATA
Contact e-mail: administration@ldh-france.org
Contexte
Notre projet fait référence aux principes de la Convention européenne des droits de l’Homme «toute
personne a le droit au respect de sa vie privée» et au Traité de Lisbone qui consacre la valeur
juridique de la Charte des droits fondamentaux : "toute personne" a droit "à la protection des
données personnelles la concernant"; ces données ne peuvent être traitées "sans le consentement
de la personne concernée"; elle a droit à accéder aux données collectées, une autorité indépendante
assure le respect de ces droits. Nous prenons en compte la révision en cours de la Directive 95
remplacée par un règlement et une Directive en matière pénale au sujet de laquelle le CEDP a
déclaré “Les règles proposées pour la protection des données en matière pénale sont d’une faiblesse
inacceptable”.
Objectifs
Les citoyens ignorent l'étendue du fichage institutionnel dont ils peuvent être l’objet : fichiers de
police, de justice, les PNR, etc, et que ce fichage peut être abusif. Notre objet est donc, à partir d’un
état des lieux et d’une analyse comparative (législation, pouvoirs des autorités de protection –DPA et
CPDE, recours…), de concevoir des outils de sensibilisation attractifs et innovants et lancer une
campagne d'information et d'alerte visant à informer les citoyens européens de l'utilisation qui est
faite de leurs données personnelles, de leurs droits et des possibilités d’obtenir réparation en cas de
violations de leurs droits. De même, les décideurs seront alertés sur la nécessité d'un droit plus
protecteur, ceci alors que la tendance est au "sécuritaire" et au développement des fichiers. (Objectif
1 de la priorité DATA)
Activités
Notre projet mènera dans 3 pays un travail de desk research et de travail en workshops approfondi,
sur 10 autres un travail d'enquêtes téléphoniques et de workshops via skype afin d'obtenir un état
des lieux évaluatif fondé sur l'expertise de la société civile : pratiques nationales et européennes en
matière de fichiers mis en œuvre par les états (police, justice, identité, etc) ou par l’UE, législations et
possibilités de recours pour les citoyens, les pouvoirs des DPA. Les synthèses évaluatives seront
publiées sur les sites des partenaires.
Ce travail fondera les outils de communication tranversaux, utilisables dans toute l'UE : un hit parade
des législations et pratiques, un quiz et d’un passeport "Protection des DP" (édition papier et internet
dans 10 langues, possibilité de mise à jour ultérieure).
Leur lancement sera médiatisé lors d’une conférence transnationale (Bruxelles) et d’évènements
dans chacun des pays partenaires. Notre communication grand public s'appuiera sur les relais média
(conférences de presse, communiqués), ainsi que sur les relais associatifs dans ces pays (sessions de
formation/information à destination des réseaux associatifs et éducation populaire) en privilégiant la
distribution des passeports via ces réseaux. Le public pourra être également touché en direct via le
réseau des partenaires (en France, 350 sections locales). Des sessions de formation/information
seront aussi organisées à destination de membres de l'AEDH, avec le MEDEL, pour une reprise des
outils et de la campagne, dans les 10 pays enquêtés puis par tous les membres de ces réseaux. Les
décideurs seront visés par des mailings, contacts et invitations aux événements de lancement et via
les retombées presse.
La transnationalité sera soutenue par les 4 séminaires transnationaux prévus dont une conférence à
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Bruxelles (15 pays représentés)
Résultats attendus
Production des outils de communication, édition et large diffusion (15 pays, et plus par publication
sur internet), et couverture presse
Environ 100 réseaux associatifs sensibilisés et relais pour la communication grand public
Des décideurs (parlementaires européens et nationaux) sensibilisés à l'enjeu de la révision de la
directive 95
Meilleure protection des données personnelles des citoyens, amélioration de la législation dans un
sens plus protecteur
Application Number: 4000002706
Applicant's Name: UNICRI
Title of the Application: PROFILING- PROtecting citizens' rights Fighting Illicit profilING
Priority: DATA
Contact: Angela Patrignani
Francesca Bosco
E-mail: patrignani@unicri.it
E-mail: bosco@unicri.it
In the last years the society is experiencing a global evolution of the technology, and in particular of
the accelerating accumulation of data trails in different fields. Profiling is used not only to profile the
behaviour of individuals or but also to locate andfollow things and actions. For marketing
optimisation and law enforcement purposes, data subjects are derived from subject's data sets. Data
controllers try to make most reliable profiles to support adequate decision making. This is a social as
well as a technical process of different methods of data collection and processing (Hildebrandt, 2008
"Defining profiling: a new type of knowledge", in Profiling the European citizens, Springer, The
Netherlands, pp. 17-49).
The construction of profiles can lead to discrimination of citizens in a large variety of different ways.
The risk is not only linked with the nature of the data, but with the multiplication of the data
collected and matched, that allow the definition of individuals' profiles. Since the data sets and data
mining possibilities are constantly growing, it is necessary to develop a better understanding of this
phenomenon, focusing on the impact that profiling might have on individuals and on the society at
large. In so doing, we aspire to perceive the current European view about profiling, in order to glean
a better understanding of how the 27 Member States are dealing with profiling and its potential
threats. This will enable us to enhance the level of protection of citizens' fundamental rights, in
regard to the risks linked with the obscure features of profiling.
The outcome deriving from this analysis will lead to the development of new practices, capacity
building and the awareness raising.
Furthermore, we will gain an insight into the major risks linked to the use of profiling, such as the risk
of abuse, infringement of fundamental rights and freedoms, (since profiling is often used without the
knowledge of the individuals), and the risk of stigmatization.
The project will investigate the various aspects of profiling, and for that it is necessary to assess the
actual knowledge on this phenomenon and to identify all the pertaining risks. This will be achieved
through the use of focus groups activities and round tables. In addition to the technical features of
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profiling it is also necessary to consider, and therefore analyse the legal rules and remedies existing
in the 27 Member States.
The research will give us the right understanding of the logics underpinning the processing of such
data, and will allow us to identify countermeasures to be adopted in the Member States, and
guidelines how to adequately behave in special situations and contexts.
Beyond that the project has also a strong focus on protection measures in profiling like Privacy by
Design solutions. Thus, the fieldwork carried out in the three Member States, (Italy, Romania and
Germany), will provide a detailed picture of the very risks of profiling in the selected cases. The case
studies will include data retention, the use of data by law enforcement agencies and the use of data
for commercial purposes.
In order to propagate the outcomes and insights, the dissemination activities are playing a key role in
delivering all the achievements gained by the project during its entire duration. Website, conferences
and ad-hoc events will be organized to support policy decision making processes as well as
generating awareness among the different actors and stakeholders.
Application Number: 4000002761
Applicant's Name: FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS
Title of the Application: PHAEDRA
Priority: DATA
Contact
dariusz.kloza@vub.ac.be
gertjan.boulet@vub.ac.be
A principal challenge confronting data protection authorities (DPAs) is the enforcement of privacy
and data protection legislation. DPAs are constrained by a shortage of resources to investigate and
prosecute those who violate the legislation. Often, these resource-constrained DPAs may investigate
the same privacy issue, in effect, a duplication of effort. For example, several DPAs have investigated
the hacking of Sony Playstation, Google Street View’s recording of WiFi addresses and Facebook’s
collection of personal data and selling it to third-party apps developers and advertisers.
Given the constraints of most DPAs, it seems an inefficient use of resource to have several DPAs
investigating the same issue. DPAs themselves have recognised the need to improve practical cooperation.
The OECD adopted a Recommendation on Cross-border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws
Protecting Privacy in 2007. The OECD said member countries should foster the establishment of an
informal network of Privacy Enforcement Authorities and other stakeholders to discuss the practical
aspects of privacy law enforcement co-operation, share best practices and support joint enforcement
initiatives and awareness raising campaigns. Such a network has been established. This is the Global
Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN).
As another follow-up to the OECD Recommendation, the 29th International Conference of Data
Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) adopted a “Resolution on International Cooperation” at its meeting in Montreal in 2007. The 33rd ICDPPC, held in Mexico City in 2011, adopted
an even more detailed Resolution, encouraging more effective co-ordination of cross-border
investigation and enforcement.
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The European Commission’s proposal for a new Data Protection Regulation explicitly mentions the
OECD Recommendation of 2007. Articles 45 and 46 of the draft Regulation provide for international
co-operation mechanisms. The principal element in the Commission’s conception of international cooperation in Article 45.1 relates to the enforcement of legislation for the protection of personal data.
The Art 29 WP also has on its agenda enhancing enforcement and promoting international cooperation between privacy authorities.
The PHAEDRA consortium has fashioned its proposal to respond to the needs for improved cooperation identified in the documents mentioned above and in its exchanges with several DPAs in
preparing this proposal. The consortium’s key objective is to add value, complement and support the
initiatives of DPAs, especially in the context of the GPEN group.
We envisage a two-year project comprising five main Workstreams in addition to Workstream 0
(Project management).
WS1 will set the scene: We will review and summarise efforts to improve practical co-operation by
DPAs as well as international organisations. We will conduct some case studies of where two or more
DPAs have investigated the same privacy issue and analyse whether co-operation would have
helped. We will identify and evaluate existing mechanisms for co-operation between DPAs. We will
specify and characterise different forms of co-operation and co-ordination between DPAs.
WS2 will review the legislation establishing DPAs to identify whether there are provisions that act as
barriers or that inhibit international co-operation and co-ordination and what measures could be
taken to reduce such barriers.
In WS3, the PHAEDRA consortium will contact DPAs to determine how our project could reinforce
their efforts. We will hold three workshops for DPAs, desirably one in Latin America, one in Europe
and one in the Asia-Pacific region. We will co-ordinate our workshops with the GPEN meetings and
the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.
In WS4, the consortium will prepare its findings and recommendations for improving co-operation
and co-ordination.
WS5 is devoted to dissemination.
Application Number: 4000002695
Applicant's Name: LUDEN
Title of the Application: MORE WOMEN IN EUROPEAN POLITICS- MORE WOMEN IN 2014
Priority: GEND
Contact e-mail: f.centolas@ludenet.org
Context
Despite the improvements in addressing inequality between men and women over the past 30-40
years, there is still along way to go in realizing real equality. Getting more women into politics is part
of the process of making more headway in realizing the goal of gender equality. We need more
women in politics now more than ever, as globally the position of women has declined sharply as
globalization has resulted in the increasing feminisation of poverty in Europe and world wide.
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UN and EU level policy has strongly recognized the need for greater representation of women in
political life. From the Beijing Platform for Action of 1995 through to the UN Joint Statement of 19
September 2011 on ‘Advancing Women’s Political Participation’ one can read the strong affirmation
for gender equality in political life and the fact that reality still has not significantly changed.
Similarly at European Union level,the Strategy for equality between women and men – 2010–2015
underlines that the Commission will ‘support efforts to promote greater participation by women in
European Parliament elections including as candidates.’Currently,within the European Parliament
there are 35% women and 65% men.
However, this masks significant variations across member states. Only 8 members states have a 40%
or higher ratio of women in the EP. There is a long way still to go.
In addition to the above policy context, this proposal also recognises that previous attempts to
promote gender equality in politics have largely failed in that they have not involved political parties.
In contrast this proposal recognises that in order to advance gender equality we need to ensure the
participation of political parties in the promotion of women in politics.The power to recruit, select
and nominate candidates are in the hands of political parties, whatever the electoral system. That is
why the partnership created by this proposal is unique in that it brings together National /regional
NGO’s who have a well established track record in promoting gender equality alongside a range of
national political parties who wish to address the issue of gender equality.
Objectives
To achieve greater participation by young women (under 35) in voting in the EP elections and
becoming candidates.
To realise this overall goal partners would undertake the following key activities:
•Production of a common marketing logo/image and a common marketing flyer that will be
translated into all partner languages.
•Establish facebook and twitter groups
•Undertake two transnational workshops.
•Deliver an online programme.
•Undertake wide transnational dissemination.
•Each partner will set up a Local Action Group(LAG). These will be key stakeholders who can support
the project to realise its goal of increasing the participation of young women in EP elections in 2014.
The LAG will be responsible for :
oProducing a short benchmark report which draws on avialable sources for creating a profile of
womens participation in politics
oUndertaking market research to identify what detracts and would attract young women to vote
and become candidates in the EP elections in 2014.
oTo use the results in order to launch a campaign which would:
( workshops; seminars; debates, online
events)
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oUndertake national dissemination
Beneficiaries
Between 170,000-200,000 young women under 35 in 14 member states.
European democracy
Outputs/Outcomes and deliverables
1.Increase in the numbers of young women voting in the EP elections
2. At least 150 more young women standing as candidates
3. 14 benchmark reports
4.Over 170,000 young women reached and engaged
5.12 national political parties have undertaken positive action
6. A campaign handbook/toolkit
Application Number: 4000002728
Applicant's Name: MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE OF GENDER STUDIES
Title of the Application: EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN FOR PARITY DEMOCRACY
Priority: GEND
Contact E-mail: info@medinstgenderstudies.org
The overall aim of the project is to promote active democratic citizenship and parity democracy in
Europe. The specific aim is to promote the active participation of women as voters and candidates
in the European Parliament elections of 2014 as well as increase the number of women among those
elected.
Project objectives: Promote greater awareness and mobilize support of all relevant stakeholders,
including the public at large, for the equal representation of women and men in political decisionmaking; Create forums for the exchange of information, good practices, and lessons learned for the
promotion of women in political decision-making involving all stakeholders on a national and EU
level; Develop and strengthen the capacity of women’s organizations and NGOs to mobilize support
and advocate for parity democracy; Encourage voters, particularly women, to be involved in
European politics and in particular in the European elections 2014; Evaluate the political parties’
commitment to gender equality in view of the European Parliament elections 2014.
Project activities: Develop and implement a European-wide Campaign for Parity Democracy and
Active European Citizenship in light of the European Parliament elections 2014 which will include the
development of information and communications tools and material; Organization of launching
events of the Campaign at national and EU level to launch the Campaign for Parity Democracy and
Active European Citizenship; Develop and strengthen the informal cross-party coalition of women
members of the European Parliament promoted by the European Women’s Lobby; The organisation
of national consultations with stakeholders that have been identified as key in facilitating the
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promotion of women in political decision-making including women’s organisations and NGOs,
political parties and policy makers, youth organisations, and the media; The development of a
national and EU strategies to promote parity democracy and active European citizenship based on
the results of the consultations; Develop, publish and widely disseminate a lobbying kit for women’s
organizations and NGOs on parity democracy and active European citizenship; Conduct, publish and
widely disseminate the results of a gender audit of the political programmes and electoral lists for
the European elections from a gender equality perspective; Organization of a European Conference
on Parity Democracy and Active European Citizenship in Brussels immediately following the
European Parliament elections 2014 in order to evaluate and take stock of the outcome of the
elections from a gender perspective.
Target groups and beneficiaries: EU citizens, women as voters and potential candidates, policy
makers at the national and EU level, women members of the EP, political parties at the national and
EU level, the media, women’s organizations and NGOs, youth organizations.
Outputs: European-wide Campaign for Parity Democracy and Active European Citizenship; Crossparty coalition of women members of the European Parliament; A series of four national
consultations with relevant stakeholders in each partner country; National-level and EU events to
launch the campaign; Final conference in Brussels.
Deliverables: Campaign tools and information material including visual identity, website, banner,
leaflets, radio spot, video spot. All materials will be available in the national languages of the partner
countries including English and French; National and EU strategies for the promotion of parity
democracy and active European citizenship; Lobbying kit for women’s organizations and NGOs on
parity democracy and active European citizenship, translated in the national languages of the partner
countries including English and French;A Gender Audit Report of the political programmes and
electoral lists for the European Parliament elections from a gender equality perspective.
Application Number: 4000002712
Applicant's Name: GRUPPO DI VOLONTARIATO CIVILE
Title of the Application: CITIZENS WITHOUT BORDERS
Priority: FREE Contact: Stefania Piccinelli
E-mail: gvc@gvc-italia.org
Website: www.meltingpot.org
Based on information coming from the Commission Citizens Report 2010, the Communication from
the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on guidance for better transposition
and application of Directive 2004/38/EC, the project identified some obstacles to be removed. In
order to do that, it plans different activities, grouped under Workstreams (WS).
The general objective of the project is: To raise awareness and to improve knowledge about EU rules
on free movement and residence and to enhance the implementation of these rights for EU citizens
and their family members. Specific objectives are: 1) To improve the knowledge and expertise on the
EU rules on free movement, particularly Directive 2004/38/EC, of local authorities and civil society
organizations working on the field, with particular attention to some “vulnerable” categories. 2) To
improve the awareness and knowledge of EU citizens about free movement and residence and to
promote the full enjoyment of these rights. 3) To contribute to the existing state of knowledge in
involved countries and to improve exchanges of good practices.
The project will be implemented in 5 EU countries and throughout a wide partnership composed by 7
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partners and 1 associate. The activities will be carried out in 4 Italian regions, in 2 Spanish regions,
and in Bucharest (Romania), Paris (France) and Brno (Czech Republic) regions. The target groups of
the action are mainly two: the first one is composed by EU citizens who make use of their right to
free movement and their family members, with a special attention to some vulnerable categories
(such as women, non-EU family members, nomadic communities, descendants and spouses of same
sex). The second includes Local Authorities (LA), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), particularly whose
tasks relate to free movement and residence rights, as well as decision makers and Members of
European Parliament (MEPs). The final beneficiaries can be identified in EU citizens and general
public, as the implementation of free movement and residence rights will affect a large European
population.
The objectives and target groups will be reached through a set of complementary activities,
developed during the 24-month project. WS 0 relates to the general coordination among partners
and will last for the whole duration of the project. WS1 provides a comparative research aiming at
underlying good practices and critical aspects in countries involved and to contribute to redefine the
existing state of knowledge in involved countries. The outputs of the research will be particularly
useful for the following activities and to draw a strategic plan and recommendations. In fact, WS 2
provides specific training targeting staff of LA and CSOs dealing with EU citizens and their free
movement rights. In order to expand the pool of beneficiaries, training is provided both in classroom
then through an e-learning platform. WS 3 aims to implement services and strengthening EU existing
tools, such as Solvit and Your Europe Advice. In fact, those services are both help desks (counseling
services, information desks, registry offices, etc.) and online facilities. WS 4 relates to the spreading
of projects outputs, through mentioned help desks, websites and a big communication campaign
addressing EU citizens. It will also produce ad hoc materials to be disseminate in the 5 countries and,
possibly, in the entire continent. Some public events are also foreseen, at national and international
level, in order to give resonance to the outputs and link the project to the European Year of Citizens
2013.
Application Number: 4000002805
Applicant's Name: UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
Title of the Application: RIGHTS ON THE MOVE
Priority: FREE Contact: Alexander.schuster@unitn.it
Website: www.rightsonthemove.eu
"Rights on the move" looks at European protection of the rights of European families moving from
one Member State to another and residing within the EU. The focus will not be on all families, but on
a specific category, i.e. rainbow families. These are families where the parental roles are played by
persons of the same gender who live in a mutual loving relationship. Grant of family status such as
marriage and partnership, access to assisted reproductive technologies and adoption and legal
protection in critical situations (family crisis, death, etc.) vary greatly in the Union. The diversity of
regulations within the EU, and the theoretically exclusive competence of the Member States in the
family law field, expose these families to considerable restrictions on movement within the EU.
Critical situations arise due to lack of recognition of rights and status. The freedom of movement and
residence of European citizens, the protection of private and family life as guaranteed by the EU
Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR and the well-being of children become at stake.
The project focuses on children rather than on the couple alone because the most prominent victims
of discrimination, or simply of non-harmonisation, are the children of these families. By adopting a
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child-oriented approach, ‘Rights on the move’ aims at unravelling how the freedom of movement
should be read in compliance with the Charter, the European citizenship rights of the child and other
supranational sources.
The two-year project will carry out an unprecedented Union-wide survey and research on how
Directive 2004/38/EC applies today to rainbow families in all EU Member States (including Croatia)
and on access to parenthood in the EU. The project assesses the current situation in light of the
whole system of protection of fundamental rights in post-Lisbon times and makes the Directive the
target of dynamic interpretation. Boundaries, as well as hidden potentials of current EU secondary
legislation, must be assessed in relation to the protection of European citizens and third-country
nationals as guaranteed also by other sources of law (Treaties, Charter, ECHR, other international
treaties), so that each and every legal argument has its place in ensuring a fully effective freedom of
movement and the best interest of the child.
Academic research is associated witha dialogue with relevant stakeholders involved in the project
(employers' association, trade unions, and rainbow families). The project team will collect
experiences and information on the major obstacles in daily life faced by rainbow families moving
within the EU, with special attention being devoted to the parent-child relationship and the working
environment. Legal publications will describe the context today, offer an assessment of compliance
with EU standards and show potentialities that are too much unexplored and unexploited. A white
paper will suggest solutions to overcome these obstacles.
The results of the legal research are conveyed by means of central training and several regional ones
for the judiciary, legal practitioners of NGOs and public authorities. Awareness among the key
beneficiaries of the project is increased by meeting the urgent need of a multilingual handbook on
the European protection of rainbow families. This will be launched with the white paper at an
international conference on rainbow families. The project will contribute to setting up informal
networks of legal actors for sharing experience and cooperative work. A closing international
conference will target scholars, legal practitioners and stakeholders.
Application Number: 4000002770
Applicant's Name: CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES
Title of the Application: ILEC - INVOLUNTARY LOSS OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP: EXCHANGING
KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTIFYING GUIDELINES FOR EUROPE (ILEC)
Priority: BPoC
Contact e-mail: Joanna.parkin@ceps.eu
European citizenship has become the fundamental status of EU Member States’ nationals. While the
conditions for the acquisition andloss of nationality fall within national competences, it follows from
the ruling of the Court of Justice in Rottmann (C-135/08) that the legitimacy of nationality withdrawal
decisions by national authorities can be examined from an EU law perspective and must comply with
general principles of EU law as well as international legal instruments laying down comprehensive
standards.
However, there is a knowledge gap concerning the rules and administrative procedures applicable to
loss of nationality across the Union, and their relation to existing European and international legal
standards. These issues have profound implications for the effective delivery of European citizenship.
They call for an in-depth cross-country comparison of grounds and procedures of loss of EU
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citizenship andexchange of knowledge on promising practices and experiences for the facilitation of
European cooperation and a better safeguarding of the rights enshrined in Union citizenship without
encroaching on Member States’ competences.
What is ILEC?
The ILEC project (Involuntary Loss of European Citizenship: Exchanging Knowledge and Identifying
Guidelines for Europe) aims to stimulate exchange of knowledgeand identification of ‘promising’
practices, based on a new comparative analysis of the procedures for loss of nationality.
It will make a comparative inventory of the regulations, administrative practices and statistical data
concerning involuntary loss of nationality across the 27 EU member states plus Croatia, offering new
knowledge on the repercussions of the increasing judicialisation of the grounds of loss of Union
citizenship over national legal systems and providing a comprehensive study of the relationship
between regulations for deprivation of nationality and existing standards in European and
international conventions, recommendations and jurisprudence.
The project will actively engage policymakers, legal practitioners, non-state actors and umbrella
organisations through the organisation of a series of events to facilitate an active exchange of
knowledge, and feed into the selection of ‘promising’ practices and elaboration of recommendations
and common guidelines for policy makers and practitioners.
Who is ILEC?
ILEC will set up a new innovative network of experts, scholars and practitioners working on loss of
nationality and European citizenship.
The partnership is led by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) as applicant and project
coordinator, together with the University of Maastricht (UM) as scientific coordinator, the European
University Institute (EUI), the University of Liege (ULG), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR),
the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR) and the University
of Leon (LEON).
The partnership is complemented by an Advisory Committee composed of representatives of
international and EU umbrella organisations active in the domain of citizenship and loss of
nationality: the UNHCR, the European Citizens Action Service (ECAS) and the Open Society Institute
(OSI), as well as a selection of specialist legal practitioners, policymakers and experts. The umbrella
organisations will help ensure that the project’s outputs are policy relevant and tailored to meet the
needs of CSOs/NGOs and other non-state actors engaged in improving policy processes concerning
the involuntarily loss of nationality.
Application Number: 4000002766
Applicant's Name: COOPERAZIONE PER LO SVILUPPO DEI PAESI EMERGENTI (COSPE)
Title of the Application: OPERATION VOTE. ENHANCING PARTICIPATION OF EU CITIZENS IN
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND LOCAL ELECTIONS
Priority: DEMO
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Despite their growing numbers, inclusion of EU movers in the political life of their countries of
residence is limited. The added value of this project is to complement the initiatives undertaken by
Member States and local authorities aimed at raising awareness among EU movers about their
electoral rights and to increase their political participation through close cooperation between NGOs
working with EU migrants and their organizations. General objective: to improve and stimulate the
participation of EU citizens in the political and public life of the countries where they reside and of
which they are not nationals. Specific objectives: to understand better whether and to what extent
EU movers are involved in the political life of their countries of residence; to raise awareness among
them of their electoral rights in EP elections and local elections; to increase their participation in the
political life through multi-media information campaigns; to promote interaction and cooperation
between EU citizens’organizations, NGOs and local authorities in order to maximise the impact of the
actions undertaken. Direct beneficiaries: EU citizens living in partner countries of which they are not
nationals and who have electoral rights and their associations. Indirect beneficiaries: public
authorities at both local and national levels and other stakeholders that have an interest in higher
levels of political participation by EU movers. Expected results: awareness among EU movers about
their electoral rights raised; number of EU movers voting in EU Parliament and localelections
increased; engagement of public authorities and EU movers associations on these issues promoted.
Activities: a research in each partner country to map and analyse the political participation of
resident EU movers; a European comparative study on the situation of participation in the partner
countries, to find common solutions to low levels of participation; meetings with organisations of EU
movers aimed at spreading information among them and their members and identifying the best
ways to reach resident EU movers; meetings with local authorities and consular authorities of
countries of origin aimed at exploring ways in which they can contribute as multipliers in the
campaign; writing and production of a video on the topic, to be used as a tool of the European
campaign; national campaigns aimed at informing EU citizens about their political rights and the
requirements for registration to participate; a final European conference that will analyse the first
results of the campaigns and disseminate the results of the entire project; construction and updating
of a website that will present the project and its activities and at the same time, serve as a campaign
tool. Outputs and deliverables: meetings with EU movers organizations, public authorities and public
information and awareness raisingevents. Deliverables will include five national studies; one
European study; radio advertisements; advertisements and articles in newspapers and web media;
fliers and postcards; posters; an information video; project brochure; a dedicated website and lastly,
final evaluation report. Methodology: a participatory approach that will combine direct engagement
in dialogue with beneficiaries and their organisations, seeking support of various stakeholders,
providing information and distribution of campaign materials to ensure awide coverage of the
territories where the project will be implemented. Dissemination of information will follow four axis:
direct distribution of the materials during meetings and public events; use of media promoted and/or
run EU movers, radio advertising and public billposting; direct advocacy targeting to public
institutions, EU movers organizations and stakeholders through meetings and the final conference
and the use of internet and social networks. This strategy aims at reaching different segments of the
target population by combining different tools.
Application Number: 4000002722
Applicant's Name: ASSOC PAR – RESPOSTAS SOCIAIS
Title of the Application: COMMUNITY OF CITIZENS - EU YOUTH SHARING THEIR VALUES
Priority: CITI
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A project concerning the urgence and priorities of working on awareness raising within the EU
citizenship construction, namely within Youth citizenship, using the Charter of Fundamental Rights of
the EU as a reference (in full legal effect since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty) - paying
special attention to the "many obstacles standing in the way of citizens' enjoyement of their rights"
[COM(2010)603 final, the 'EU Citizenship Report 2010'].
According to the Commission, "the majority of actions identified to dismantle obstacles fall into three
main categories" - the present Action adresses directly the third category: "raising citizens'
awareness about their rights". Awareness raising, focused on youth and active citizenship, is the area
that the Applicant and all partners develop with different and complementary approaches. As the
Commission points, "European citizens' involvement is vital (…) not only as passive beneficiaries of
rights but as actors in the European project".
This project targets the priority 4.7 - Raise awareness about Union citizenship and the rights atached
to it and identify obstacles to their effective exercise (CITI). With a strong focus in Global Education
to develop knowledge and new attitudes towards the construction of Europe and a shared sense of
belonging through its Charter of Fundamental Rights, we are creating a project with strategies to
reach the youth using their tools, language, interests and spaces. Namely, through the creation of a
community of practice (CoP) that will share - through web 2.0 tools and digital narratives - their daily
experience of fundamental rights and the obstacles to European citizens and residents rights sharing ideas, creating resources and building community.
The project will enhance young people’s active engagement in European issues, the feeling of being
“European” in support to fundamental rights and values of Europe, and will promote the exchange
and sharing of this values between youth in different countries, creating ownership and a sense of
belonging to this vaste and diverse EU community.
As a process, where all the workstreams chain one in another to achieve the expected results and
progress towards the global objective, we can summarise the project 4 stages in 4 workstreams –
workstream 0 transversally creating a partnership mechanism of implementation for management,
M&E, dissemination, support and ownership of the project.
Workstream 1 is the knowledge and activation stage, where gathering of information, preparation of
CoP and start of awareness raising activities happens within the main target group of Youth.
Worktream 2 is the building of a Community Of Practice on active EU citizenship, the Fundamental
Rights atached to it and the obstacles to their effective exercise, through web 2.0 tools, sharing of
materials and the training of youth workers to achieve peer-to-peer ownership.
Workstream 3 is the project at its full, when youth is challenged to involve in the telling of their own
stories about the experience and the obstacles to fundamental rights in their lifes, producing digital
narratives to be shared in a DVD and integrated in the advocacy process through a notable jury
selection and media and peer-to-peer dissemination.
Workstream 4 is the advocacy process climax, either at national level with cultural events, creative
political advocacy and media dissemination, as well as a ttranseuropean level through an advocacy
conference to be held in Bussels with a youth forum and manifesto on Fundamental Rights to
support it - targeting MEP.
This chain process escapes traditional awareness raising projects timeline (main outputs and
deliverables achieved only at end of project) by building the online community since the start,
producing the DVD on the midterm and profiting the involvement of youth as ‘active agents’ - the
project profits from the dissemination effects of deliverables and peer-to-peer, experiential learning
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