International projects

Funding source - European Commission

Scientific Coordinator - Prof. Serena Forlati

EJNIta 2.0 is funded by the European Union  in the framework of the Justice Programme (Just – 2022- JCOO] — [iCall for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters]); it is led by the Italian Ministry of Justice and involves several academic and institutional partners. The project stems from the positive experience named “EJN - Italian network: Building Bridges”, the first project led by the Italian Ministry of Justice aimed at supporting and strengthening the national European Judicial Network, mainly creating a new digital tool, the web portal Aldricus, in order to enhance the ability of the Italian national contact points to effectively perform their tasks, vis-à- vis both Italian authorities and practitioners, and members of the Network in other Member States. Several training and dissemination activities are carried out in order to spread information and to strengthen the relationships created, which can make judicial cooperation really effective. Furthermore, the project has given the opportunities to the main actors of the Network - mainly Public Authorities - to build a new institutional frame for their cooperation, creating relationships and new means to handle cross borders cases, exchanging information via digital and secure new strong “bridges”.  The Project will be further developed in 2025-2027 thanks to new funding.

Funding source - European Commission

Scientific Coordinator - Prof. Jacopo Alberti

A famous Latin motto claims that "verba volant, scripta manent" ("what is said flies away while what is written remains"). Accordingly, in the Western legal tradition it is used to say that what is not provided in official documents has no legal value. Does it hold true in the current global scenario?

Some recent events might suggest that such a claim is not completely valid anymore. From the ECB President Mario Draghi's famous «whatever it takes», that brought to the Court of Justice's Gauweiler judgment; from the EU-Turkey so called 'Agreement' and the subsequent NF case: unwritten sources are more and more deeply impacting the EU legal order and its subjects. 

Against this backdrop, the Jean Monnet Chair "Verba volant, sed imperant? The Legal challenges of EU Communication" aims at mapping the growing influence of EU communication, at discussing its theoretical foundation and its impact on the EU institutional balance, as well as assessing whether and to what extent the existing legal remedies are capable to tackle the consequences of this phenomenon on the rights of individuals.

To this end, the Jean Monnet Chair will organise several research initiatives (conferences, workshop, Young Researchers' Platform), institutional events (roundtables and networks between EU institutions and academia), teaching activities (from high-school to PhD students) as well as public events for disseminating its studies to the general public.

For further info - Jean Monnet Chair

Funding source - European Commission

Scientific Coordinator - Prof. Jacopo Alberti

Jean Monnet “EU Specialized judicial protection” module aims at creating an innovative observatory on the protection of EU rights in highly specialized policy fields, focusing in particular on the judicial activities of the EU agencies’ Boards of Appeal.

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Funding source - Co-funded by the Training of National Judges Programme of the European Union

Scientific Coordinator - Prof. Jacopo Alberti

COMP.EU.TER is a project co-funded by the European Commission, led by the University of Turin and carried out in collaboration with the Universities of Genoa and Milan (as Beneficiaries) as well as by the Universities of Antwerp, Ferrara, KIMEP, Rotterdam, Warsaw and Zaragoza (as Associated Partners).
COMP.EU.TER offers a combined, progressive and multilateral training programme targeted at EU national judges focused on the specific functions and powers of national courts in tackling new forms of competitive concerns arising from (and peculiar to) the so-called big data revolution.
COMP.EU.TER comprises the following actions:
- 6 seminars mainly targeted at Italian judges intended to offer them an in-depth knowledge of the most important issues arising from the need to adapt EU competition rules to the digital environment and new technologies (e.g. algorithms) and phenomena (e.g. data accumulation;
- the organization of lectures mainly targeted at an audience of Italian apprentice judges (i.e., law graduates attending the relevant apprenticeship school) aimed at providing them a general introduction to EU competition law and a concise overview of problems raised by the application of EU competition law rules to digital markets;
- the development of an online platform dedicated to the Project and hosting learning materials;
- a one-day international final conference with high-profile international speakers, addressed mainly to an audience of national judges from several Member States on the topic of “Public and Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law in the Age of Big Data”.