The revolutionary progress of information technology (in further text: ICT), which began in the 60s of the last century and is still in full swing, inevitably reflects on all spheres of the society in which we live.
The digital revolution impacts all aspects of people’s lives and presents significant possibilities for a better quality of life, economic growth, and sustainability.
The application of ICT gradually takes over every aspect of human existence in the contemporary world. ICT unavoidably affects human rights and the legal framework of their protection.
Today, we are witnessing a situation where it is no longer possible to apply established approaches to implementing and protecting human rights in the digital space.
The Jean Monnet module DIGIRIGHTS represents an innovative and multidisciplinary legal approach that introduces human rights and its digital transformation from an EU perspective at the University of Niš, Faculty of Law in Serbia.
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DIGIRIGHTS offers a variety of teaching and research activities that promote EU studies at the University of Niš, enable higher education professors to introduce EU content in their activities, engender a better understanding of the EU human rights perspective in the digital age and enable them to develop new digital competences of the professors. It has a broad application and covers public, criminal and civil law.
The module’s work program relies on three main pillars: 1) teaching, 2) research and 3) events.
The project’s main component is the teaching activities in the five courses and student research seminar. The lecturers at the Module are professors of the Faculty of law-University of Niš, the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek (Croatia) and the Faculty of Law University of Shtip (N. Macedonia). Considering the project theme’s complexity, enhancing our collaboration with professors from other European universities experienced in Jean Monnet’s activities would be advantageous. The purpose of introducing this course is to make students aware of the impact of digital technologies on the exercising and protecting human rights. A few other auxiliary activities are included in the module, such as workshops, roundtables and conference that should foster the dialogue between the academic community and society, including local and state-level policymakers, IT lawyers and civil society members. In this way, we will put into practice an educational work that will spread the knowledge of EU law to the broader society.
DIGIRIGHTS Module coordinator
Dr Maja Nastić, Full Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Niš, Serbia
e-mail: digirightsuni@gmail.com
maja@prafak.ni.ac.rs
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