The project aims at disseminating knowledge and raising awareness about benefits and risks of recent EU strategies in the field of payment services, with specific regard to the Open Banking regulatory environment. The provisions recently entered into force are susceptible to leading to a real revolution in the ecosystem of financial markets. Against this background, the present project is intended to promote, through the organization of conferences and workshops devoted to the different aspects of the general topic, the involvement of public and private actors (such as policy-makers, credit institutions, providers of payment services, consumers’ organizations) capable of playing a critical role in the new Open Banking Age.
Project Coordinator: Alessandro Palmieri
Project founded in 2021 by the European Union
Not only do the EU Treaties recognise sustainable development as one of the overarching goals of the Union, but the European Commission has also constantly sought to design adequate policy frameworks for translating this objective into secondary legislation, thereby ensuring consistency between the EU’s internal policies and between these, the EU’s external action, and the policies of its Member States.
Ever since the first European Union Sustainable Development Strategy, formulated in 2001, sustainable development has therefore become an inescapable lens for the analysis of EU law. However, it appears that an integrated approach to the study of EU sectoral strategies, policies and programmes is still lacking in academic circles. More specifically, EU legal studies will require an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity and a cross-cutting assessment of the synergies and tensions between EU policies across the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, to reflect their growing complexity and interdependence.
Advancing such an integrated approach to the study of EU law is especially critical in the light of the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As the European Union moves towards the implementation of the Agenda, a process in which it intends to act as a frontrunner, EU legal studies need to incorporate the Goals into their core activities, using them as both a research blueprint and a tool to promote knowledge and foster debate around legal solutions for sustainable development.
Against this background, the EULawSD Jean Monnet Module offered by the Department of Law of the University of Siena from 2017 to 2020 did not only seek to provide students with notions about the emergence and evolution of the principle of sustainable development in international and EU law, but it specifically analysed EU internal and external policies through the lens of the SDGs and the wider post-2015 framework.
Project Coordinator: Riccardo Pavoni
Project founded in 2020 by the European Union
The subject of security is a central aspect of the process of European integration. After the Lisbon Treaty, security constitutes a key aspect of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (including a Common Security and Defence Policy) and of a the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
In light of these dynamics, this Project intends to support activities of information and dissemination of knowledge and skills with regard to the subject of security and its role in the process of European integration, involving public and private actors who can play a role in the different areas linked to the subject of security, such as policy-makers, business representatives, staff of public administration and, in general, stakeholders in the field of European security.
The project consists of one opening event, three general conferences, three thematic workshops and one final event. The opening event is intended as a presentation of the project to the broader academic community in Siena as well as to local public and private stakeholders. The three general conferences will be dedicated to the three main areas addressed by the project: Security and Migration Flows in the European Union (Vígľaš, Slovak Republic); Security and Data Flows in the European Union (Trento, Italy); Security and Money Flows in the European Union (Roma, Italy). The three thematic workshops will be dedicated to more specific aspects and dimensions of security in the European Union: Focus on Health Data, Genetic Data and Security (Milan, Italy); Focus on Personal Data, Ethnic Data and Security (Flensburg, Germany); Focus on Integration, Asylum, Labour and Security (San Martino in Rio, Italy). The final event will consist in a conference held in Siena aimed at bringing the most engaged speakers and attendees of the previous events together with practitioners, policy-makers, business representatives and, in general, stakeholders in the field of European security.
Project Coordinator: Marco Ventura
Project founded in 2018 by the European Union
The Jean Monnet Module on European and International Environmental Law (EIEL) aims to provide students, practitioners and civil society with in-depth knowledge about the state of the art of European and international environmental law and policy, its achievements and challenges, and its interaction with emerging environmental issues and landmark intergovernmental processes. It is hosted by the Department of Law of the University of Siena (Italy) and co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission until August 2023.
Two overarching themes run through the Module:
(a) the emphasis on the most pressing and emerging issues in European and international environmental law, including the interconnected planetary crises of climate change and biodiversity loss;
(b) the particular focus on implementation and enforcement at the level of the EU and its Member States.
Project Coordinator: Riccardo Pavoni
Project founded in 2017 by the European Union