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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.

This project seeks to investigate the ways in which Cold War politics shaped Portugal’s accession to the 1951 Refugee Convention in 1960, fourteen years before the Carnation revolution marked the country’s break from authoritarian rule. While scholars have examined the relationship between the Cold War and Portugal’s membership in the NATO alliance, the context of its accession to the Refugee Convention remains largely uncharted. This is visible not only in the literature on the Estado Novo, but also in the scholarship on Cold War international law, part of which has explored how the Cold War shaped international refugee law.

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.

SINPL-EU is the first course combining EU Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Sustainability. It is a 36-hours curricular course held at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon, complemented by a 24-hours preparatory course on Foundations of IP law and a 10-hours Online Writing School component, the latter being open to the students of all the project partner universities. The need to combine EU IP law and Sustainability comes from the nature and evolution of this legal discipline: the EU is expanding its harmonization of IP rules and modernizing them to promote sustainable goals. EU IP law is becoming a fundamental part of law school curricula across the EU. However, there is a lack of learning activities on the intersection between IP and Sustainability. This is a highly problematic gap, as IP law is central to incentive all industry sectors towards technological and cultural innovation. SINPL-EU aims to fill this gap. It provides a high-profile learning experience for students passionate about EU law, IP law, and Sustainability studies.

The project aims at building a permanent network of scholarly reflection, joint research, exchange of methodologies, and advocacy to strengthening regional integration and cooperation in and between Africa and Europe. Through shared values and initiatives, the project seeks to establish an academic infrastructure to redesign the EU-Africa relationships for next generations, allowing both regions to better address: region-specific critical issues with major spillover effects; regional and trans-regional governance; economic, political, and decision-making interdependencies; ever-growing global challenges and quests for a multipolar international system. It further aims at strengthening African integration through a careful analysis of the experience of European integration.

NEAR-ER (Network on Europe-Africa Relations – Education and Research) brings together 20 HEIs from Europe (7) and Africa (13) with the shared goal of advancing a broad and well-informed conversation on EU-Africa relations by collecting, reviewing, debating, and disseminating innovative research and education materials. The network will establish a systematic process for collecting up-to-date and innovative materials that will empower our partners to deepen their own research and education agendas and promote well founded dialogue on EU-Africa relations with all relevant stakeholders.

As organised crime networks operate across borders, use legal loopholes and advanced technology, it is notoriously difficult to detect and trace hidden and illicit money flows. In TRACE, partners will co‐create innovative data management solutions combined with AI analytics to enhance the capabilities of law enforcement agencies in tracing and recovering illicit money flows and generating court‐proof e‐evidence.