EDUCHAR – Promoting the Charter through human rights education for public sector, GAP-101293114
Project title – Promoting the Charter through human rights education for public sector
Project duration – 2026-07-01 2028-06-30
Project number – GAP-101293114
Project implementer – Baltic Human Rights Society (Latvia)
Project partners: Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania); LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE (Latvia); The State Chancellery (Latvia); VIESOJO VALDYMO AGENTURA (Lithuania); Human Rights and Democracy Education Institute (Lithuania);
Project Leader at MRU: Dr. Aistė Račkauskaitė-Burneikienė
Project Summary: The overarching aim of the project is to embed sustainable, Charter-based human rights education in the public sector, enhancing employees’ capacity to apply the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in their daily work and to uphold the rule of law, nondiscrimination, pluralism, and inclusion. The project pursues this aim by developing, piloting, and valorising a structural training model centred on the Charter, paving the way for its institutionalisation within national civil service systems in Latvia and Lithuania. Building on the EU-supported research project (2020–2021), which co-designed the structure of an introductory course with public officials, this initiative will move from concept to practice. It will deliver training programmes structured into an introductory and specialised modules on priority Charter themes such as non-discrimination, data and digital rights, and migration and asylum. The project’s added value lies in its partnership model. It brings together civil society expertise, academic infrastructure, and the institutional authority of state partners. This ensures the training is methodologically robust, context-sensitive, and structurally anchored in the public administration. Dissemination and valorisation are integrated throughout the project. Inter-sectoral working groups, stakeholder roundtables, and an international conference will create space for knowledge exchange and policy dialogue, ensuring that pilot results feed into strategies for civil service development and are anchored within the institutional frameworks of public administration for long-term impact. At least 780 public sector employees will benefit from the training, while the project’s reach will extend further through events, dissemination, professional networks, and digital platforms. The project will thereby raise awareness of the Charter, strengthen its application, and advance the EU’s objectives of fundamental rights protection and democratic governance.
The project is funded by the European Union under the CERV-2025-CHAR-LITI program.