Blog 3

O SPEED, como ficou conhecido, é um seminário de investigação científica e de desenvolvimento do ensino pós-graduado que a NOVA School of Law tem vindo a desenvolver desde 1999 – e, desde 2003, no âmbito das atividades da sua Unidade de Investigação, o CEDIS – com o intuito de aproximar a comunidade científica em torno de temas relevantes para o Direito e para a sociedade, abordando-os com um olhar crítico e inovador.

RIseEU proposes a 72-hour teaching programme on Key Fundamental Rights Issues in the European Union (EU) to be held at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. The project seeks to provide a comprehensive assessment of the key fundamental rights issues in the main areas of EU action, with an in-depth analysis of migration and asylum. Two Master-level courses will be offered: ‘Key Fundamental Rights Issues in the EU’ and ‘Key Fundamental Rights Issues in EU Migration and Asylum Law’. In the last two decades or so, a series of crises and developments have shaken the EU, posing fundamental rights challenges. The treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, the climate crisis, the rule of law backsliding in some Member States, the energy crisis in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the artificial intelligence ‘revolution’, have all sparked heated debates on fundamental rights issues and the role of the EU therein. Taking seriously EU’s ambition as a beacon of human rights and recognizing the important steps it took so far, RIseEU will assess the extent to which the EU delivers on its commitments and if this requires amendments to its current legal or institutional framework. Given the numerous critiques of the soon to be adopted New Pact on Migration and Asylum, special attention will be given to migration and asylum.