The activities of the centre include regular organisation of academic conferences and workshops, as well as monthly research seminars to which high-level speakers are invited to discuss a specific topic in the field of EU law. These seminars will take place physically and online.  

In the academic year 2023/2024, the seminars are centred around the theme of "Social justice and EU law". 

Upcoming seminars:

• Tuesday 12 December 2023: seminar with Pieter Pecinovsky (Affiliated Senior Researcher at KU Leuven, Lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and UCLouvain, Of Counsel at Van Olmen & Wynant Law Firm) on "Next GenerationEU: The Recovery and Resilience Facility as an Implementation Tool of the European Pillar of Social Rights" from 14h until 15h30.
• Tuesday 30 January 2024: seminar with Simona Demkova (Assistant Professor at Leiden University) on "The EU’s human centered digital transformation: what’s behind the name?" from 14h until 15h30. This event is co-organized with GLAW-Net.
• Tuesday 28 May 2024: seminar with Filippo Fantozzi (Climate Litigation Network, Urgenda Foundation) on "Climate change litigation and EU law" from 14h until 15h30.

Passed seminars:

• Tuesday 21 November 2023: seminar with Maja Brkan (Judge at the General Court of the European Union and Endowed Professor of Digitalisation and EU Law) on “The proposal for the AI Act. An instrument for protecting human rights?" from 14h until 15h30.
• Friday 15 September 2023: Opening Event on Social Europe with T. Capeta (Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union), Sacha Garben (Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges), and Marion Simm (Head of Legal Service, Council of the European Union).
• Wednesday 27 September 2023: seminar with Chiara Armeni (Université Libre de Bruxelles) on "Inequalities and environmental justice in the EU climate transition". This event is co-organized with GLAW-Net.

These seminars are organized by Pauline Melin (Maastricht University).