Innovating European Lawyers to Advance Rights of Children with Disabilities

Project duration

January 2016 – July 2017

Donor

European Union

Project goal

The Objectives of this project are as follows:

1. To enhance the knowledge and skills of lawyers representing children with mental disabilities in judicial proceedings in the following eight EU Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.

2. To share training materials and lessons learned with lawyers across the EU to enable them to roll out similar training.

Project implementing partner 

Mental Disability Advocacy Centre – MDAC (Hungary)

Project budget: 304 716 EUR

Our part in the budget: 16 841 EUR