After a successful implementation of the summer school in Split, the Europa-Institut and the Centre for SEELS organised a workshop within the frames of the project #FreeMedia4WesternBalkans: Promoting Legal Education in the field of Media law, Democratization and the EU accession process, with participants coming from the SEELS Network and the Europa-Institut, that took place on the 8^th of November 2019, at the Legal Clinics of the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” in Skopje.

The participants were welcomed by the Dean of the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” – Prof. Dr. Goran Koevski and the Director of the Europa-Institut, Saarland University - Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich.

The workshop was focused on how to include media law and the freedom of expression in the daily curricula of law schools as well as the outputs of the implementation of the project and a potential follow up.

In addition, a presentation was delivered by Velimir Delovski as a HELP Programme Focal Point for North Macedonia on how the courses work in general, but also about the courses related to the topic, and Ms. Ana Petrushevska from the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network(BIRN).

The Centre for SEELS participated at the regional conference that took place in Skopje, North Macedonia, on 9 October, were the continuation of the joint ‘Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey’ programme was announced.

The Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey (Horizontal Facility II) 2019-2022 is a co-operation initiative of the European Union and Council of Europe with the Western Balkans region and Turkey. The programme supports tailored reform processes agreed with the authorities, in line with relevant Council of Europe monitoring and advisory bodies’ recommendations, in the fields of human rights, rule of law and democracy.

It is our pleasure to announce our further cooperation with the Council of Europe within the area of freedom of expression and freedom of the media.

Last year, the Council of Europe in cooperation with the SEELS Network within the HELP Programme for higher legal education professionals, held a Training-of-Trainers at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

We are very pleased to announce a Call for Applications for the Summer School “#FreeMedia4WesternBalkans: Promoting Legal Education in the field of Media Law, Democratization and the EU accession process”, that will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Split from 22 till 28 of September 2019.

The selected candidates will be provided with TRAVEL and ACCOMMODATION GRANTS, as per the instructions provided in the application form bellow.
Deadline for submission of applications is 25th of July 2019 at 23:59 CET

• Call for Applicaiton
• Application Form

EU law days which are significant component of the project „Strengthening the EU Legal Studies in the South East Europe”, have been implemented by almost all faculties members of SEELS network in the past period i.e. December 2018 until May 2019.

They took various formats as lectures, presentations, debates, round tables etc.

The Law Faculty of Skopje has organized round table today, 31.05.2019.

We are looking forward to the EU Law days in the Faculties of Law in Tirana and Zagreb.

We will share more information about the second round which will be organized in the upcoming period.