Cross-border and EU legal issues : Programme-Abstracts

Abstract

The international conference “Cross-border and EU legal issues: Hungary – Croatia” is organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs on the 16-18 September 2010 in the framework of the Establishing UNIversity Cooperation Osijek – Pécs project (EUNICOP; HUHR/0901/2.2.1/0013). EUNICOP is a one-year long common research and curriculum development project between the University of Osijek and Pécs in the field of law. The project is co-financed and supported by the European Union through the Hungary-Croatia IPA Cross-border Co-operation Program and by the two participating law faculties. The EUNICOP project is operated in various interrelated areas and through various activities. Among these, creating joint regional research in the field of law, sharing knowledge in specific cross-border issues, enhancing cooperative teaching activity and curriculum development, exchange of good practice in tendering and project management, promotion of joint results, can be mentioned. These objectives are achieved through different activities: study visits, common seminars with the participation of Croatian and Hungarian students, and common research with the involvement of Croatian and Hungarian researchers. Organizing the conference “Cross-border and EU legal issues: Hungary – Croatia”, where the knowledge gained during the joint research activities can be shared, is yet another result of activities envisaged by the EUNICOP project. It successfully brough together researchers and various fields of law are dealt with. To attract the widest possible audience who can benefit from the research results, the conference papers are collected and published in three books in the Croatian, Hungarian and English languages. The Faculty of Law of the University of Pécs is delighted to host the conference and hopes that the cooperation will be continued. Tímea Drinóczi, Tamara Takács, Mirela Župan organizers