The University of Padua’s LIVES project wins the Jean Monnet Module Prize

The LIVES project (‘Law, Inclusion, Vulnerability & Equality Studies’) of the University of Padua wins the Jean Monnet Module Prize for European Inclusion, the award organised under the patronage of the European Parliament and supported by pro-European partners, including the College of Europe, European Alternatives and Democracy International, which invests in concrete activities in favour of inclusiveness, with an impact on the daily lives of European citizens.

Thanks to this result, the European Commission grants the winning project a total funding of 26,000 Euro for three years.

Carried out in cooperation between the Department of Private Law and Critique of Law and the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, the LIVES project is dedicated to the study of the vulnerability of people in fragile situations, such as the elderly, the disabled and minors.

The project includes a 48-hour course entitled ‘Law of Vulnerable Persons’, the first in Italy to offer such an in-depth analysis on the subject of vulnerability. The perspective adopted in this training is a multidisciplinary one in that figures from different fields such as tutelary judges, notaries, doctors, psychologists and social workers are involved. The course will be conducted with a very innovative approach that integrates interventions by national and international professionals present, with two thematic workshops dedicated to the relationship between vulnerability, gender and new technologies.

The course, which is part of a broader debate on inclusion policies and protection of the rights of the most fragile people, will be free of charge, open to all and will start on 27 February 2025 with an inaugural event at Palazzo del Bo in Padua.

The Jean Monnet Module award draws attention to the importance of the LIVES project in the European scenario of legal and social studies, and specifically relaunches the role of the University of Padua as a reference point in the context of research and training on the themes of social inclusion and the protection of rights.