EU Charter of Fundamental rights: Awareness raising and Instruments to promote a culture of Rights

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The project “EU Charter of Fundamental rights: Awareness raising and Instruments to promote a culture of Rights” (FAIR) proposes a two-year set of awareness-raising and communication activities aimed at responding to the solicitation enshrined in the 2020 EU Commission “Strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU” to develop initiatives to promote people’s awareness of their Charter rights and of where to turn when their rights are breached, in particular by empowering local actors. The FAIR’s Consortium is made of 9 organisations based in as much EU Countries, and all are national contractors of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights multi-disciplinary research network FRANET. On grounds of the assessment of gaps and barriers in the implementation and use of the Charter at country level, the FAIR project will design and implement communication and awareness-raising activities addressing four key target groups, i.e., civil-society organizations, rights defenders, justice professionals and the general public, in order to foster community-building and the engagement of these stakeholders in the promotion and increased use of the Charter and, in the long-term , to nurture a culture of rights with the Charter at its core. The final output of the project is the development of a Toolbox of instruments – in English and in national languages – to organise and disseminate a communication campaign on fundamental rights in the selected countries, to be possibly replicated in all countries of the EU-27.