Call for applications STARLIGHT

The Hertie School and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), have joined forces to facilitate a more effective use of a powerful yet underused tool to protect fundamental rights in the European Union: the Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR).

The STARLIGHT project provides legal practitioners in the European Union (EU) with the skills and knowledge to apply the CFR in strategic litigation. Over a period of 12 month, participants in this capacity building programme benefit from seminars, workshops, legal clinics and networking opportunities in varying formats to accomplish two main goals:

• Applying the CFR and other EU laws in three thematic areas:
• rule of law, asylum/migration, criminal justice;
• Acquiring crucial skills to engage in strategic litigation at EU level, develop EU jurisprudence and promote systemic and social changes in their respective countries.