06. Institutional Documents of Reference

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    Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Venice and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
    ( 2011-07-15) EIUC ; Venice. City
    EIUC and the City of Venice signed in 2011 an MoU which came to provide a steadier grounding for the institution, both in terms of confirming the Monastery of San Nicolò in Venice-Lido as its location, and strengthening of cooperation in the realisation of joint activities focusing on human rights and democracy. It also marked the transfer of management and direction over the premises from the Municipality itself (through its articulation Centro Soggiorni Morosini) to EIUC directly.
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    20 Years of EMA : the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation
    (Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina srl, 2017) EIUC
    ‘Bearing in mind the principles of the International Law of Human Rights and in the spirit of inter-university cooperation, we declare open the Academic Year of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation.’ These words, constituting a solemn and challenging commitment, were read out in chorus for the first time at 12 noon on 6 October 1997 in the Palazzo Ducale by rectors and professors from the universities participating in EMA, for the opening of the academic year. Every year since then, this reference to the great universal values that international human rights law has turned into principles of ius positum, has been repeated, as a confirmation of the commitment of European academia for the effectiveness of this ‘new’ law. That day in 1997 was the official start date of the original undertaking that was the European Master’s Programme. The preliminary stage had begun in the latter part of 1996 and had completed in July 1997, in Villa Herriot on Giudecca Island, when the EMA Statute, known as the Venice Charter, was adopted. We wanted to combine the contents of Article 6 of the Amsterdam Treaty, signed that same year, with the incipit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that indicates teaching and education as the most effective guarantee of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The immediate idea was to develop a new higher education project in an inter-university structure that would also serve as a more general message of integration and peace. For the first six years, the University of Padua was the legal and organisational ‘womb’ for this inspiring enterprise.
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    EIUC/GC Mission and Vision
    ( 2017-02) Global Campus of Human Rights ; EIUC
    The joint vision of EIUC / Global Campus – which was adopted in February 2017 - is directed to express the network’s willingness to act and react to the increasing number of global crises and human rights challenges. At a time when some scholars and politicians speak about the end of the era of human rights, the Global Campus worldwide network has an important contribution to make in terms of strengthening of universal values of human rights, the rule of law, and democracy.
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    EIUC Statute
    ( 2017-02-18) EIUC
    EIUC was established in 2002 as natural development to the cooperation established – under the coordination of the University of Padua - between the universities organising EMA since 1997, and upon initiative of the European Union. The EIUC Statute, first signed in 2002, has come in 2017 to its latest (and most comprehensive) revision. The EIUC Statute identifies the nature of the inter-university partnership among its 38 European member universities (non-profit university association under Italian Law), the aims of the association, the composition and competence of its governing bodies, its main institutional structure and organisation, its membership and privileged cooperation with the Global Campus partners.
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    Agreement on the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA Joint Programme)
    ( 2017-12-12) EMA ; EIUC ; University of Graz ; Ruhr University Bochum ; University of Hamburg ; University of Padua ; Ca' Foscari University of Venice ; University of Ljubljana ; University of Deusto, Bilbao
    When EMA universities decided to develop into the association EIUC, this important evolution had a fundamental impact also on the conception of the EMA degree. Upon initiative of the University of Padua, the coordinator of the programme since 1997, the degree which the university was issuing on behalf of the whole university network became a true “joint degree”, one of the first examples of joint degrees in the European academic environment in line with the Bologna process and reform surrounding the ECTS system. The Agreement, which has been also recently updated, defines the relationship among the 7 universities jointly issuing the EMA Degree – the so-called Inner Circle Universities – and regulates the special role of the University of First Enrolment, i.e. the University of Padua.
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    Global Campus of Human Rights. Statute
    ( 2019, 2023) Global Campus of Human Rights
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    Global Campus of Human Rights. Brochure
    ( 2020) Global Campus of Human Rights
    The Global Campus of Human Rights is a unique network of one hundred participating universities around the world, with the mission of advancing human rights and democracy through regional and global cooperation for education research.
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    Global Campus of Human Rights. Environmental Policy
    ( 2021) Global Campus of Human Rights
    The Global Campus of Human Rights promotes, above all, the idea of human dignity, freedom and equality–an ideal that cannot be reached without also protecting the various environments people inhabit. Human rights thus embodya fair and equal society, which necessitates a responsible use of natural resources. Only when respecting ecosystems and responsibly using the planet’s resources can we enable a sustainable livelihood for all present and future generations. We, however, live in a time where wars are fought over scarce resources, where people lose their livelihoods because of environmental degradation and disasters, where thousands are forced to leave their homes due to the devastating effects of climate change, and where despite all scientific proof this reality is still de-nied by many. For these reasons, we understand our common and individual responsibility to ensure a peaceful and just world as intrinsically linked to the protection of our environment. In addition to the right to a clean environment, climate justice includes the right to life, health, work, shelter, water and food, to name but a few,thus situating the climate crisis as a primary threat to human rights. The environmental policy set out below is a step in our continued efforts to address this existential chal-lenge.
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    Global Campus of Human Rights: Vision, Mission and Strategic Objectives 2021-2024
    ( 2021) Global Campus of Human Rights
    The vision of the Global Campus of Human Rights is to foster new generations of human rights defenders able to contribute to a world in which human dignity, equality, freedom, human security, sustainable development, democracy, the rule of law and respect for all human rights are realised.
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    Charter of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation
    ( 2021-09) EMA, (Global Campus Europe)
    The so called “Venice Charter” – i.e. the EMA Statute - was signed in 1997 at Villa Herriot, in the island of Giudecca – Venice by the representatives of the 10 founding European universities of EMA, and is the document which formalised for the first time the establishment of the European Master’s Programme. The Venice Charter outlines the aim and objectives of the Master’s Programme in spreading a culture of human rights through integrated teaching and training, defines the rights and duties of the member universities, the composition and tasks of its governing bodies (EMA Council, EMA Executive Committee, EMA Academic Curriculum Group, etc.), specifies the programme essential two-semester structure, mobility programme, harmonisation of curricula, assessment system, and many other aspects of the programme's functioning. This is the fitfth and last revision of the Charter, approved in September 2021
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    Global Campus of Human Rights: Vision, Mission and Strategic Objectives 2024-2028
    ( 2024) Global Campus of Human Rights
    The vision of the Global Campus of Human Rights is to foster new generations of human rights defenders able to contribute to a world in which human dignity, equality, freedom, human security, sustainable development, democracy, the rule of law and respect for all human rights are realised.