Faculty Day: Workshop on Human Rights Foresight

Dana Wasserbacher, Karen Da Costa, Lisa Heschl, Lauri Sivonen and Gerd Oberleitner (from left to right)

The UNI-ETC successfully held a workshop on Human Rights Resilience and Human Rights Foresight as part of the faculty day of the law faculty of University of Graz.

The workshop consisted of contributions of Lauri SIVONEN, Senior Expert at the Finnish Human Rights Centre / Helsinki, Karen DA COSTA, Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg as well as Dana WASSERBACHER from the Austrian Institute of Technology. The workshop elucidated the contemporary approaches to human rights foresight as well as its challenges. Particularly insightful was the presentation of the foresight process currently run by the Austrian Institute of Technology on behalf of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA). The workshop was guided by Prof. Oberleitner and Dr. Heschl from the UNI-ETC.

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