The Centre for SEELS participated at the regional conference that took place in Skopje, North Macedonia, on 9 October, were the continuation of the joint ‘Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey’ programme was announced.

The Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey (Horizontal Facility II) 2019-2022 is a co-operation initiative of the European Union and Council of Europe with the Western Balkans region and Turkey. The programme supports tailored reform processes agreed with the authorities, in line with relevant Council of Europe monitoring and advisory bodies’ recommendations, in the fields of human rights, rule of law and democracy.

It is our pleasure to announce our further cooperation with the Council of Europe within the area of freedom of expression and freedom of the media.

Last year, the Council of Europe in cooperation with the SEELS Network within the HELP Programme for higher legal education professionals, held a Training-of-Trainers at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

We are very pleased to announce a Call for Applications for the Summer School “#FreeMedia4WesternBalkans: Promoting Legal Education in the field of Media Law, Democratization and the EU accession process”, that will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Split from 22 till 28 of September 2019.

The selected candidates will be provided with TRAVEL and ACCOMMODATION GRANTS, as per the instructions provided in the application form bellow.
Deadline for submission of applications is 25th of July 2019 at 23:59 CET

• Call for Applicaiton
• Application Form

EU law days which are significant component of the project „Strengthening the EU Legal Studies in the South East Europe”, have been implemented by almost all faculties members of SEELS network in the past period i.e. December 2018 until May 2019.

They took various formats as lectures, presentations, debates, round tables etc.

The Law Faculty of Skopje has organized round table today, 31.05.2019.

We are looking forward to the EU Law days in the Faculties of Law in Tirana and Zagreb.

We will share more information about the second round which will be organized in the upcoming period.

The South East European Law School Network is glad to announce the Fourth Call for Papers for the new edition of the SEE Law Journal.

We cordially invite you to submit your contributions for the SEE Law Journal. The SEE Law Journal is open for submission of articles prepared by the academics of the SEELS network, that are dealing with aspects of EU Law separately or vis a vis their local legislation. The authorship is restricted to maximum three co-authors per article.  For further instructions please see the subsection Guidelines for Authors. 

Papers should be submitted in English language via the projects web platform www.seelawjournal.org. Please note that you need to be registered on our web platform in order to be able to submit your paper. In case you have trouble registering, you can submit your paper via regular mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

The submission deadline for this edition is 16^th  of June 2019.

http://seelawjournal.org/index.php/call-for-papers/active-calls

The first issue of the newly formatted SEE Law Journal being published with the closure of the last year, the series of EU Law Days have been organized and are to be organized in the upcoming period throughout SEELS network. First to successfully organize these events were our colleagues from the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo and Faculty of Law in Mostar where they instigated a vivid debate within the academic environment. In the upcoming period Faculty of Law in Nish and Faculty of Law in Osijek announced their preparatory activities for organizing EU Law Days, and several others of our members will organize the same in the upcoming months. Faculty of Law in Nish is organizing the EU Law days on 7^th of May, and more info on this can be found under this link: http://www.prafak.ni.ac.rs/123-dogadjaji-na-fakultetu/6901-predavanje-ambasadora-austrije.html.

We will report in more detail about these upcoming events in our upcoming posts.