Partners
The FAIR Project Consortium, lead by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, consists of 9 organizations based in nine different EU countries, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain.
Each partner brings unique expertise and extensive experience in coordinating and implementing European projects.
The Giacomo Brodolini Foundation (Italy), the project leader, is a research centre focused on labour and social inclusion, welfare promotion, territorial cohesion, sustainability, and technological innovation to boost employment and skills, gender and cultural diversity, and respect for fundamental rights. FGB has long-lasting experience in providing specific gender studies for several institutional clients including the European Commission, the European Parliament, Eurofound FRA and EIGE.
Between 2007 and 2020, FGB took part as a promoter, scientific coordinator, and/or partner in more than 25 EU-funded projects, involving public and private partners in most EU countries.
During 2016-2018, FGB was the leading partner of the “Pilot Project on the Fundamental Rights Review of EU Data Collection instruments and Programmes” for the European Commission – Directorate General for Justice and Consumers.
Since 2014, FGB has been the national correspondent for Italy of FRANET, the multidisciplinary research network of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). In implementing the research services for FRANET, FGB has extended its network by involving experts, civil society organisations, and legal practitioners dealing with EU data collection, social and legal research, and fundamental rights.
In recent years, the Foundation has specialised in European planning and the management of strategic networks such as the European Network on Gender Equality (EGGE), the Network on Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Health and Long-term Care (EGGSI), the European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE), and the Web Tool for Evaluated Employment Services Practices (WEESP).
Website: www.fondazionebrodolini.it
The Centre for European Constitutional Law (CECL) (Greece) is a renowned non-profit research institute founded in 1995 in Athens, promoting the development of democratic institutions, fundamental rights, and the welfare state, strengthening European integration and international cooperation. It has extensive experience in coordinating and participating in multi-country European projects focused on fundamental rights. Some recent projects include “Litigating change” for training lawyers on EU law (2023-2024), the CERV project “Preventing Racism and Discrimination” (2022-2024), “Creating Privacy awareness in civil enforcement” (2022-2024), the REC project “EMBRACIVE” for workplace inclusion (2020-2022), and “Train in your language” for multilingual training in EU civil and commercial law (2019-2021).
Website: https://www.cecl.gr/en/
The Migration Institute at the Pontifical University of Comillas (Spain), in addition to possessing extensive experience in EU-funded projects, collaborates with a network of international, regional, and national experts and researchers. The Institute has produced over 40 reports for the FRA and has been involved in high-profile projects such as “Data Culture and Sex Trafficking” and various surveys on attitudes toward migration for the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Spain. Furthermore, it has managed the project “The reality of free movement for young European citizens migrating in times of crisis” for the European Commission.
Website: https://www.comillas.edu/iuem/
CPS (Croatia) is an organization dedicated to human rights, democracy, and non-violence through education and activism. It is the principal partner and applicant for many EU-funded projects under AMIF, CERV, and Erasmus+, aimed at enhancing research capacities in the field of non-discrimination. Among the CERV projects are “Peer Action against Hate,” supporting national action plans against racism, and “City for Everybody,” supporting the EU Action Plan against racism, focusing on the inclusion of the most vulnerable groups in the cities of Zagreb, Ljubljana, and Budapest. In both projects, CPS plays an active role in research and improving anti-discrimination policies.
Website: https://www.cms.hr/en
The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (Bulgaria), founded in late 1989, is a public policy institute that promotes reform processes in Europe through its impact on policy and civil society. With over 30 EU projects implemented in the last four years in many areas closely related to fundamental rights, it has accumulated a wide range of resources, research results, and best practices in this field.
Website: https://csd.eu/
The Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) is a research institute dedicated to advanced training and research in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities with a transdisciplinary approach. CES has coordinated and participated in numerous multinational research projects focused on inclusion and promotion of fundamental rights, including SWIFT, TRACE, SPRING 2.0-STIR, Colourful Childhoods, and XMen. CES has also participated in the CFR project, funded by the European Commission, aimed at strengthening the skills of judicial operators in applying the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Website: https://www.ces.uc.pt/en/home
The Peace Institute (Slovenia), an independent and nonprofit research institute founded in 1991, believes in peaceful conflict resolution, equality, and respect for human rights standards. It has extensive experience in EU-funded projects, participating in over 30 projects annually and collaborating with international networks of experts and researchers. It has provided specific studies for national and European institutions such as EIGE, the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, and the European Commission. Since 2022, it has been a partner in the CERV project “Counter-Hate” and, since 2023, the lead coordinator of the CERV project “City for Everybody”.
Website: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/
Symfiliosi (Cyprus) is a non-governmental and non-partisan nonprofit organization combating racism and discrimination, advocating for the rights of women, children, migrants, and minorities. As a partner in the FRANET consortium for Cyprus since 2014, Symfiliosi has successfully conducted numerous EU-funded projects on fundamental rights such as “Demand for Stolen Lives” on human trafficking (AGIS, 2005-2008), Daphne II on violence against women and youth (2006), and an ERF program on detention of vulnerable asylum seekers (2007). Symfiliosi has also participated in projects such as “Mig@net” on migration and gender (7th PQ) and conducted legal studies on the return directive. Since 2004, its experts have been national consultants for the European Network of Legal Experts in the field of non-discrimination.
Website: https://symfiliosi.org/
The Fundamental Rights Research Centre (FRC) at VUB (Belgium) is a dynamic center conducting in-depth research on a wide variety of topics ranging from human trafficking and migration to European criminal law. It has extensive experience in EU-funded projects, especially in the fields of migration, human trafficking, and fundamental rights. Currently, it participates in the HEROES and ALUNA projects, which combat the abuse and sexual exploitation of minors and human trafficking, involving multiple partners in various countries. The FRC is also active in fundamental rights research in Belgium, both as a national contractor for FRANET and in the iBOF project “Future-Proofing Human Rights”.
Website: https://frc.research.vub.be/