Projects

Read about the Agency's current and previous projects here. For more information, please see the FRA Programming Document 2019-2021.

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106 Projects found

Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Hate crime
Launch Date
January
2011
Project Status
Findings available

Surveying LGBT people and authorities

This project encompasses two related surveys: A survey on discrimination against and victimisation of LGBT people. This survey aims to generate comparable data about the actual experiences of LGBT people living in the EU today This will be complemented by the views of public official and professionals in 19 Member States.
Launch Date
2011
Project Status
Findings available

Fundamental rights indicators

FRA is developing indicators on fundamental rights in the EU to improve comparability of research findings, and to highlight gaps in current provision and availability of data.
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Launch Date
2011
Project Status
Findings available

Victim Support Services in the EU: An overview and assessment of victims' rights in practice

The project provides Member States with concrete examples of different practices in the area of support to victims of crime. It is the first independent overview of victim support services in the EU and involves the revision of current practices and gaps at the national and regional level leading to an overview of different models of victim support from which ‘promising practices’ can be highlighted as a basis for further development and enhancement of victim support.
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Launch Date
2011
Project Status
Findings available

Data Protection: redress mechanisms and their use

The project looks at existing procedures and the legal consequences concerning data protection violations in all EU Member States.
Asylum, migration and borders
Launch Date
October
2010
Project Status
Findings available

Treatment of third-country nationals at the EU’s external borders: Surveying border checks at selected border crossing points

The purpose of the project is to examine how border guard officers deal with the challenge of ensuring that border checks are undertaken with the necessary degree of scrutiny without causing undue delays or resorting to inappropriate treatment..
Asylum, migration and borders
Launch Date
March
2010
Project Status
Findings available

Treatment of third-country nationals at the EU’s external borders: Protecting fundamental rights at the EU sea borders

Mapping the status quo, presenting good practices Estimates (in German) indicate that one out of four persons attempting to reach Europe by sea perishes during ...
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Launch Date
March
2010
Project Status
Findings available

Joined-up governance: connecting fundamental rights

The project addresses the need to support the implementation of fundamental rights at the local and regional level with concrete tools and good practice examples.
Hate crime
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Launch Date
March
2010
Project Status
Findings available

FRA survey of Jewish people’s experiences and perceptions of discrimination and hate crime in European Union Member States

The survey provides EU institutions and Member States for the first time with comparable data on Jewish people’s experiences and perceptions of discrimination, hate-motivated crime and antisemitism.
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Launch Date
February
2010
Project Status
Findings available

FRA survey on gender-based violence against women

In 2011-2012, the European Union Agency of Fundamental Rights (FRA) carried out the first EU-wide survey on women's well-being and safety in Europe - involving interviews with 42,000 women.
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Launch Date
January
2010
Project Status
Findings available

Multiple discrimination in healthcare

In 2010 and 2011, the Fundamental Rights Agency undertook its first in-depth research looking at forms of discrimination that have been relatively little studied so far: ‘multiple' and ‘intersectional' discrimination.