Centre for Fundamental Rights

Research workshops

The Centre for Fundamental Rights convenes research workshops to facilitate collaborative, cutting-edge and policy relevant research in the field of human rights law and governance.  

Upcoming workshops

Research workshop

Critical Approaches to European Human Rights Law

This workshop taking place on 17 January 2025 is co-organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School as part of the project “Framing Reality and Normativity in European Human Rights Law” and supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. The submission deadline is 8 July 2024.
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Protection of human rights in the context of armed conflict

This workshop is co-organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and will take place on 13 June 2025. The deadline for submissions is 3 February 2025.
Research workshop

Annual workshop: Research methods in fundamental rights

The Centre for Fundamental Rights is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of its annual workshop on research methods in fundamental rights, taking place from 16-18 June 2025 at the Hertie School, Berlin.

Past workshops

Research workshop

Fifth Annual Workshop: Research Methods in Fundamental Rights

The Centre for Fundamental Rights hosted its Fifth Annual Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights from 10-12 June 2024 at the Hertie School, Berlin, Germany.
Conference

Constitutional Challenges - Judging under Presurre

This two-day conference discussing the urgent challenges facing constitutional democracies today, including democratic decay, persistent inequalities and the climate crisis took place on 8-9 February 2024.
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Lost in Care: Disappearance of Unaccompanied Migrant Minors from Care Facilities in Europe

This workshop was hosted by the Missing Migrants: Identifying and Shaping Obligations for Protection (MIRO) project at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School. The workshop took place onsite on 24 November 2023.
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Frames of European Human Rights: How are climate change, migration, and authoritarianism framed within the Council of Europe?

This workshop, hosted by the Centre for Fundamental with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation and in collaboration with Helmut Schmidt University, took place on 16 and 17 November 2023. 
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Legal Infrastructures of European Democracies

This workshop was hosted by the Max Planck Law Institutes, in association with the Centre for Fundamental Rights and iCourts, from 7-8 September 2023.
Research workshop

Fourth annual workshop: Research methods in fundamental rights

The Centre for Fundamental Rights hosted its Fourth Annual Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights from 7-9 June 2023 at the Hertie School, Berlin, Germany.
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Legitimate Aims and Ulterior Purposes in International Human Rights Law

This workshop, co-hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights with PluriCourts at the University of Oslo and the Academy for European Human Rights Protection at the University of Cologne, took place on 2 June 2023.
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Constitutional governance: Authoritarian pushback and workable solutions

The workshop for students, researchers and early career practitioners was co-hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights and re:constitution on 26 November 2022.
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Revising the Model International Mobility Convention: Finding solutions to the challenges of today’s migration

The Centre for Fundamental Rights, along with Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung(WZB) and the RefMig project, organised a workshop focused on challenges to migration and the revision of the Model International Mobility Convention on 14 October 2022.
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Decolonising global migration law

This workshop was hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the European University Institute and the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand, in association with the RefMig* project. The workshop took place on 10 June 2022 at the Hertie School and online.
Research workshop

Third annual workshop: Research methods in fundamental rights

The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School conducted its Third Annual Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights from 7-9 June 2022 at the Hertie School and online. 
Research workshop

International human rights courts and bodies at the edge of the climate tipping point

Workshop on 09.06.2021 - 10.06.2021 was organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, the University of Stirling and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU.
Research workshop

Second annual workshop: Research methods in fundamental rights

In a three days’ workshop focusing on eight research methods 24 researchers from 18 different institutions were selected to present their own research, discuss their research methods and receive feedback from faculty and participants.
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Old and new threats to freedom of expression: Can the European Court of Human Rights meet the challenges?

Workshop on 10.06.2021 – 11.06.2021 was organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review and the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, International Law and Human Rights Unit.
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Spotlight on the International Organisation for Migration (IOM): Obligations, accountability and ethos

The Centre for Fundamental Rights co-hosted this workshop for authors who will contribute to a new edited volume on IOM’s obligations, accountability and ethos.
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Centre launched the Undoing Discriminatory Borders project with two online workshops

Workshops brought together prominent academics in the field of migration and discrimination.
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First annual workshop: Research methods in fundamental rights

In an online CIVICA workshop, organised by the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, PhD researchers and early career researchers discussed different methods in fundamental rights research and their implementation.