Business & Human Rights Summer School VIII Edition - BHR Summer School
Pisa, Italy
DURATION
5 Days
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 May 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
23 Jun 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 930 *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning, On-Campus
* regular; onsite | €830 regular ; Early bird (onsite, registered up to April 23, 2025) | €820 ; students, onsite (only for undergraduate and postgraduate students) | €700 Students – Early bird (on-site, only for undergraduate and postgraduate students
Introduction
This year’s BHR Summer School will be part of AENEAS – European Due Diligence Law in Global Value Chains, a Sant’Anna School’s Jean Monnet Module funded by the European Union. Now in its VIII edition, the BHR Summer School is an advanced and intensive educational training program targeted at students, academics, and professionals (e.g. legal practitioners, consultants, NGO personnel) aiming to further their knowledge of the most significant developments in the field of Business & Human Rights. Therefore, the BHR Summer School will offer advanced and highly specialised knowledge of the most important advancements in the field of Human Rights and Sustainability vis-à-vis business operations—especially of the multinational corporate kind in the context of Global Value Chains. To this end, consistent with the AENEAS project goals, the programme of the BHR Summer School will pay specific attention, through ad hoc learning modules, to the emerging legal framework of the EU Due Diligence Law.
Every year professionals, including scholars, lawyers, and activists from all over the world come to the summer school to foster ways of thinking forward in the field of business and human rights.
Co-directors: Angelica Bonfanti (University of Milan), Marta Bordignon (Human Rights International Corner), Marco Fasciglione (National Research Council of Italy), Chiara Macchi (Wageningen University and Research), Giuseppe Di Vetta (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies).
Teaching Methodologies: The BHR Summer School aims to bring together theoretical, operational, and experience-based knowledge, by adopting a flexible and pluralistic teaching method. The programme will span over four days and a half, balancing ex-cathedra lectures—nonetheless involving direct participation of the attendees–and sessions dedicated to practice-by-doing, experience sharing, and group discussions.
Admissions
Curriculum
The Summer School’s sessions are spread over four-and-a-half days. Each day is composed of 6 hours of lessons with a lunch break of 1 hour. The Summer School is divided into sessions that focus on a variety of topics, such as:
- the UNPGs + 10 and the CSDDD in the Transnational context
- Theory and Practice of Human Rights Due Diligence
- Sustainability and Human Rights
- The implementation of EU due diligence law at the national level
- Access to Justice and Remedy for HR Abuses
- Business, armed conflict and democracy
Program Tuition Fee
Program delivery
The BHR Summer School aims to bring together theoretical, operational, and experience-based knowledge, by adopting a flexible and pluralistic teaching method. The programme will span over four days and a half, balancing ex cathedra lectures—nonetheless involving direct participation of the attendees–and sessions dedicated to practice-by-doing, experience sharing, and group discussions.
English Language Requirements
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