Our project
BEUcitizen: barriers to EU-citizenship
Exercising EU Citizenship about rights, duties and possible barriers to their realisation by European Citizens.
Twenty years after the EU introduced the concept of ‘European Citizenship’ in the Treaty of Maastricht, the European Commission proclaimed 2013 the ‘Year of European Citizenship’. This was done to draw additional attention to a perceived problem: why don’t Europeans realise their rights as European citizens? With the term ‘realise’ here being used to mean both being aware of these rights and demanding, using and thereby materialising them. This year, the European Commission also awarded a consortium of 26 institutes from 19 countries in and outside Europe, coordinated by Utrecht University, a major research grant to carry out a 4-year research project to study this problem.
They are:
- University of Antwerp (Belgium)
- University of Zagreb (Croatia)
- Masaryk University (Chech Republic)
- University of Tartu (Estonia)
- University of Aalborg (Denmark)
- University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
- Institute of Economic and Social Research in the Hans Böckler Foundation (Germany)
- University of Siegen (Germany)
- Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)
- Central European University (Hungary)
- University College Dublin (Ireland)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
- University of Trento (Italy)
- University of Turino (Italy
- Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
- Jagiellonian University (Poland)
- Barcelona Institute of International Studies (Spain)
- Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
- University of Oviedo (Spain)
- University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
- University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
- London School of Economics (United Kingdom)
- University of Oxford (United Kingdom)