Olga Ceran and Vasiliki Kosta present the Academic Freedom Monitor 2024 to European Parliament
On 24 June, Olga Ceran and Vasiliki Kosta, together with Peter Maassen from the University of Oslo, presented the Academic Freedom Monitor 2024 to the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT).
The Academic Freedom Monitor reports on the state of academic freedom across the EU. In 2024, for the first time, the Monitor included not only an analysis of the de facto situation - authored by Professor Maassen and his team - but also a separate report on the constitutional legal protection of academic freedom in EU Member States. The latter, authored by Dr Kosta and Dr Ceran, is titled Academic Freedom Monitor 2024: Overview of De Jure Academic Freedom Protection and is openly available here.
In their brief intervention before the CULT Committee, Dr Ceran and Dr Kosta outlined the report’s scope, main aims, and preliminary findings. The presentation aimed to inform and support the Committee’s ongoing work by offering an opportunity for members to engage with the report’s conclusions. The talk was followed by questions and comments by several members of the CULT Committee as well as a statement from the representative of the European Commission.
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