CHARTERWISE – Making the EU Charter a leading human rights litigation tool in Hungary (2023-2024)

The CharterWise project by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union aims at bringing the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights from the attention periphery of the legal profession to the centre of the human rights litigation scene in Hungary.

The main areas of activities under the project:

• empower CSO representatives through blended learning and a strategy-building retreat;
• elaborate and pilot a sustainable model training curriculum for attorneys, and train attorneys around the country;
• elaborate and pilot a versatile academic curriculum on the Charter in cooperation with Hungarian law schools, completed with a public research paper writing competition for law students;
• target the wider legal profession, active citizens and potential victims in Hungary through awareness-raising campaigns.

Update at the end of the project:

The project run from January 2023 through November 2024. Products published and activities done under the project:

• tutorial video series:

• 2.5 days in-person training for 26 participants representing 13 Hungarian civil society organisations,
• project landing page,
• 5 case studies on the application of the EU Charter in Hungary (pubished at the landing page and Ars Boni journal),
• information leaflet for active citizens on using the Charter when enforcing fundamental rights,
• 3 attorney trainings in 3 Hungarian cities for 88 participants,
• curriculum of the attorney training was published to be utilised by others,
• versatile curriculum for teaching law students about the Charter which may be used for an entire semester or parts of it in stand-alone lectures,
• the curriculum was piloted in law school seminars in the autumn semester of 2024,
• 6 articles to inform on the EU Charter and the method of strategic litigation (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6),
• research paper competition for law students where the winers were published in Ars Boni journal,
• public event on the civil monitoring of EU funds spendings:

This project was funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme of the European Union.