FRAME (Fostering Human Rights Among European Policies)

Project Overview

FRAME was a large-scale, multi-disciplinary research project on Fostering Human Rights Among European (Internal and External) Policies. The project was coordinated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and involved a consortium of 19 partners, in Europe and worldwide. The project aimed to understand the challenges and opportunities for the EU's human rights engagement and to recommend policies and tools that ensure these challenges are overcome and opportunities are seized in an optimal manner.

The research focused around four clusters: 'factors', 'actors', 'policies' and 'tools'. Nottingham participated in and co-ordinated the second cluster, 'actors', which combined four main areas of research:

• Engagement with UN/Regional Multilateral Organisations - led by Adam Mickiewicz University and the Poznan Human Rights Centre
• Regional Partnership and Bilateral Cooperation - Eötvös Loránad University
• Engagement with Private Actors, TNCs and Civil Society – HRLC
• Coherence Among EU Institutions and Member States - University College Dublin