Moot Court Competition on the European Social Charter – Results

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Great news received from Brussels – And we are happy to share immediately!

So, the Moot Court Competition on the European Social Charter in Brussels organized by the Belgian section of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights is over. We congratulate the winner of the competition – The University of Ferrara (Italy) – and its team members: Alexandra Busuioc, Filippo Faccin, Carlotta Rambaldi and Ilaria Asquironi. In the grand final the University of Ferrara competed with the University of Saint-Louis-Brussels (Belgium). The Sorbonne Paris-Nord University won the prize for the best procedural writing. Its team members were: Mélanie Crespo, Agathe Fourmond, Emilie Gac and Anna-Lou Raude.

The prizes for the best litigators were awarded to Balint Bodo (the Eötvös Loránd University – Hungary) and Sophie Cuignet (the Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles, Belgium).


At the initiative of its Belgian section, the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights organized the first edition of a “Moot Court” related to the European Social Charter. This bilingual (French-English) competition is based on a fictitious collective complaint and includes a written phase and an oral phase (a simulated hearing before the European Committee of Social Rights). Participation in the competition is open to law students registered at a university.

The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe treaty that guarantees fundamental social and economic rights as a counterpart to the European Convention on Human Rights, which refers to civil and political rights. It guarantees a broad range of everyday human rights related to employment, housing, health, education, social protection and welfare.

The Charter lays specific emphasis on the protection of vulnerable persons such as elderly people, children, people with disabilities and migrants. It requires that enjoyment of the abovementioned rights be guaranteed without discrimination.

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