Project description DEENESFRITPL Rekindling the EU integrative spirit through the power of law In the face of mounting challenges, the EU’s promise of peaceful integration through law is being tested. Can the EU rely on its legal framework to peacefully integrate a diverse European society? With martial conflicts and economic sanctions resurfacing, and the authority of EU law questioned by several constitutional courts, the promise of seamless integration is under threat. Funded by the European Research Council, the RIGHTS-TO-UNITE project views these rights as bridges between citizens themselves and between citizens, states and the EU. This will demonstrate how integration through rights can succeed in a diverse society governed by EU law. Overall, the aim is to craft a socio-legal theory of integration through rights, offering fresh perspectives for the EU and its neighbours. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Among the many crises of the European Union (EU), the fracturing of its promise to integrate the emerging European society peacefully through law represents a fundamental one. At the time of writing, martial conflict and pressure through economic sanctions are once again relied upon to assuage conflict in the EU’s neighbourhood, while the authority of EU law has been challenged by several Constitutional Courts, most recently by the Romanian and the Polish supreme courts in December and September 2021. The question thus is: can the EU still rely on the integrative capacity of its law? RIGHTS-TO-UNITE addresses this question by placing citizens’ practical usage of substantive EU-derived rights at its centre. It conceptualises rights as claims between citizens as well as between citizens and states and the EU itself. European integration is defined as a process combining citizen into a coherent, though diverse, society. This approach captures whether and if so, how integration through rights can succeed in a multipolar society constituted by European Union law, both in the EU and its neighbourhood, while also specifying conditions which are supportive and averse to achieving integration of the emerging European society. After theorising conditions for EU-derived rights to integrate the emerging European society in the EU and its neighbourhood, qualitative comparative research is deployed to identify to what extent EU derived rights are part of Europe’s living law in the EU and beyond. The qualitative research develops an innovative methodology comprising interactive vignettes visualising scenarios in which EU economic, social, and digital rights could be relevant. This enables cross-cultural exploration of citizens’ everyday experience with EU derived rights. In a final step the results are synthesised in a socio-legal theory of integration through rights for the context of the EU and its neighbourhood. Fields of science social scienceslaw Keywords Integration through Rights European Society EU citizens' rights EU neighbourhood European integration differentiated Integration variegated geography Programme(s) HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2022-ADG - ERC ADVANCED GRANTS Call for proposal ERC-2022-ADG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC Grants Host institution UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN Net EU contribution € 2 498 916,00 Address BELFIELD 4 Dublin Ireland See on map Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 2 498 916,00 Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN Ireland Net EU contribution € 2 498 916,00 Address BELFIELD 4 Dublin See on map Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 2 498 916,00 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK Participation ended Ireland Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address WESTERN ROAD T12 YN60 Cork See on map Region Ireland Southern South-East Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data
