Our Rule of Law team wins national Charlemagne Youth Prize 2024

The research project Our Rule of Law has been named Dutch finalist of the European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2024. One project from each EU country was chosen as a national finalist. The three projects to be named European winners will be announced in May.

Our Rule of Law

Our Rule of Law is founded by four former and current students of our International and European Law Bachelor Programme: Anna Walczak, Elene Amiranashvili, Zuzanna Uba and Tekla Emborg. Under the guidance of Prof. John Morijn they founded the project with the goal to establish a community for engaged students with similar values who together work on creating awareness about the importance of protecting the rule of law.

Initially, Our Rule of Law focused only on the rule of law crisis in Poland, where Walczak and Uba are from. The focus has now expanded to the rest of the EU. The project that led to a prize consisted of a mentoring programme, ORoL Academy, that engaged youth in creating pan-European policy solutions to the rule of law crisis. The new project, Vote4OurRuleofLaw, consists in training 44 first-time voters from 15 Member States to cast an informed vote for the European Parliament elections in June 2024.

European Charlemagne Youth Prize

The European Charlemagne Youth Prize has been awarded since 2008 to projects that improve mutual understanding at the European and international level. Anyone aged between 16 and 30, living in the EU and working on a project that will bring about positive change in Europe can apply.

Each year, national juries select 27 national projects from each EU country. The European jury then selects 3 European winners, who are invited to the award ceremony in Aachen. The prize provides 7,500 euros and helps in further developing the research initiative.

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This article was published by the Faculty of Law.