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By 2023, the Fundamental Rights Platform – FRA’s main channel of cooperation with civil society organisations – has grown to comprise more than 800 organisations from EU27 and beyond. The Platform organisations are called upon to contribute to FRA’s work throughout the year – offering their input to FRA’s project work, strategy development, and workplan design. To serve the vast, and growing, Platform more efficiently and ensure its participants stay well up-to-date on FRA’s work, the Platform meeting will from now on follow the format of an annual general meeting.
At this meeting, we will:
- Take stock of the situation of fundamental rights in the EU
- Explore challenges and opportunities for fundamental rights in the year to come
- Discuss FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2024
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Agenda
10:30: The virtual meeting room opens: join us for an online morning coffee with Ene Patterson and Waltraud Heller!
11:00–11:15: Welcome and introduction
- Andreas Accardo, Head of Unit Institutional Cooperation & Networks, FRA
11:15–12:00: Fundamental rights dialogue with FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty, moderated by Friso Roscam Abbing, Curator, Fundamental Rights Forum 2024, FRA
12:00–12:30 Update on the Platform, followed by discussion
- Ene Patterson, Project Manager – Fundamental Rights Platform, Institutional Cooperation & Networks Unit, FRA
12:30–13:30: Breakout sessions I: Tackling changing fundamental rights realities in the EU
- Adapting to new operational realities: how to strengthen civil society security and resilience (led by Waltraud Heller)
- The right to a clean environment: addressing the human rights dimension of climate change (led by Patrycja Pogodzinska and Katerina Vyzvaldova)
- Technological change: impact of advances in AI on fundamental rights (led by David Reichel and Alice Hamilton)
- Mainstreaming fundamental rights into the implementation of the EU’s Structural and Investments Funds (led by Robert Jan Uhl and Marton Rövid)
- Fundamental Rights Forum 2024 (led by Nicole Romain and Thomas Tschernkowitsch)
- Idea lab: Better together — unlocking the potential of FRA-FRP cooperation (led by Ene Patterson and Henri Nickels)
- "Wild card" sessions led by CSOs
13:30–14:00: Break
14:00–14:15: Plenary: reflections from Breakout sessions I
14:15-15:15: Breakout sessions II: Fundamental Rights Report 2024
- Strengthening participation and the rights to freedom of association, expression and peaceful assembly (led by Robert Jan Uhl and Marton Rövid)
- Fundamental rights at the EU borders (led by Adriano Silvestri and Valerie Bauernfeind)
- Impact of the cost-of-living crisis and rising poverty in the EU (led by Lucia Mokra)
15:15–15:30: Plenary: reflections from Breakout sessions II
15:30: Closing of the meeting