News from ELIAMEP’s Projects JURISTRAS and POLITIS are mentioned in the latest Social Sciences and Humanities Newsletter.

Subject: Preliminary results from the JURISTRAS research project
JURISTRAS comparatively explores processes of human rights litigation in the European Court of Human Rights judgements and its effects in national legislative reform and policy making in a number of EU Member States and Associate Candidate States. JURISTRAS seeks to explore domestic processes of implementation of Strasbourg Court judgements and their impact on the legal norms, institutional structures and policies of national states that are parties to the Convention.

Subject: Promoting active citizenship among immigrants
“Building Europe with New Citizens?” is the central topic of the POLITIS project, which is a STREP (Specific Targeted Research Project) combining academic background research with a strong empirical dimension. POLITIS runs from June 2004 to July 2007 and its partnership includes the University of Oldenburg, the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the European University Institute and the Churches’ Commission of Migrants in Europe (CCME).