The Centre’s statutory aims include the following:

• The conduct of empirical research into current trends in both Greek and
• European public opinion
• the preparation of comparative legal studies relating to the legislative
• initiatives required by the European Union
• the coordination of information events
• the organization of educational and training programmes
• the provision of expertise to civil society institutions which seek to exercise
• their rights in the “European Citizens’ Initiative”
• the provision of expertise to academic institutions and/or civil society
• institutions seeking to establish mechanisms to protect EU rights (“Human Rights Clinics”)
• the undertaking of initiatives regarding the establishment of “A European Network of Law Schools for the European legal culture”
• the annual organization of the “Thessaloniki Forum for Human Rights”, in collaboration with local bodies and regional government, with the aim of combining theory and action for the protection of fundamental rights in Greece and Europe.