The project builds on legal research on civic engagement in the EU and on the persisting need to deploy its potential in full. The activities
focus on civic engagement tools and judicial and non-judicial remedies available in the EU to promote and protect the Union’s values and
rights. The key purpose is to maximise the effectiveness and impact of these mechanisms.
In parallel, the project aims to promote a renovation wave in legal academic teaching, with a focus on innovative learning by doing
approaches, on the assumption that students can be protagonists of their own progress and direct actors of civic engagement.
To these aims, the project features high-quality teaching: an EU law course (60 h., in Italian), focusing on legal remedies; a Civic
engagement, rights and remedies in EU law course (40 h., in English - students experiment civic engagement techniques and handle real
cases); an EU Law Moot Court Competition lab (20 h., in English) engaging students with key lawyering techniques; a Collective Academic
Writing Seminar (20 h., in Italian, students co-draft a CJEU case note and submit it to open access peer reviewed journals); the EDO - Europa,
opportunità e diritti Lab (20 h., in Italian - students are trained to be involved in the EDO desk, an in person and on-line desk for info support
and advice on EU law).
The courses are directly connected to various outreach activities. Students will produce materials (podcasts, Wikipedia pages,...) and spread
civic engagement opportunities. Two MOOCs will be available to the general public and will allow students from other disciplines to acquire
university credits. The event series 'Le parole per capire l'Europa' and ‘EU-debate’ will reach schools and civil society organisations. Lastly,
activities such as the intensive Turin School, the final conference on the present and future of civic engagement in the EU, and the final
seminar on modernizing EU law teaching will secure insightful debate within academia.