Development of Mediation Network in Civil and Criminal Cases to foster European Wide Settlements of Disputes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Development of Mediation Network in Civil and Criminal Cases to foster European Wide Settlements of Disputes

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Mediation is an effective interdisciplinary method of dispute resolution (where legal studies, entrepreneurship, administration and psychology converge), widely known in countries such as Canada, Australia and Great Britain, but not so well established in continental Europe where the use of mediation is just starting to spread. Students in EU countries and also governmental and non-governmental organizations working in judicial sector lack academic and practical study materials and a comprehensive book on mediation. Therefore the project team decided to gather information on needs of involved benefiting institutions and bodies to be address during the particular project. The project team aims at drafting of widely used and publicly available study materials and e-book on mediation. The objective is to create a network of practitioners and academics of mediation, to address their education raising needs, to elaborate study materials and e-book, to organize disseminating seminars and conference in participating countries, to organize Intensive course on mediation for multinational group of students, to test the project results and to publish materials and e-book in the internet.
4 universities are participating in the project from Latvia – Turiba University, Lithuania – Vilnius University, Estonia – Tallinn University of Technology and Italy – Genoa University.
The objective of this project has expanded towards creating a multinational network of academics to continue to build close cooperation teams, prepare teaching materials for mediation studies and to organize a mediation course geared at cross-cultural groups of students that will contribute to the continuous improvement of its content. In the 2nd part of the project all study materials and articles prepared by the academic team were published in its final version. This project directly addresses the needs of at least four groups – students studying law and psychology, governmental organizations involved in administration of justice, NGOs interested in the amicable settlement of disputes, and academics teaching conflict management and dispute resolution methods.
In frame of the project we created 4 main outputs: E-book on mediation, additional self study materials (Self-evaluation questions, PowerPoint presentations, group tasks and reading materials), video lectures about different mediation sub-topics and network of mediation experts. All materials are published in project webpage http://mediation.turiba.lv

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95362 Eur

Project Coordinator

SIA BIZNESA AUGSTSKOLA TURIBA & Country: LV

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
• TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL