Time & Location
27-28 August 2026
Brussels School of Governance – VUB
Location: LIC building, VUB Campus, Bd de la Plaine 2, 1050 Bruxelles – USquare
Format: Roundtable, Hybrid (online participation possible) upon invitation; exhibition open to the pubic
About the Event
The ERC Curiae Virides project is organizing a stakeholder workshop to discuss the empirical insights of the project in a roundtable format with practitioners, organisations and non-academic experts.
The Workshop will take place on 27-28 August 2026 in Brussels, on VUB Campus (LIC Building) . This will be a closed event (participation upon invitation) for mostly non-academic stakeholders, with seats limited for those invited. We invite diverse stakeholders – organisations, practitioners, lawyers, other experts who have expressed interest in the Curiae Virides project and whose opinion counts for us! This will be an opportunity to share experiences, express ideas and give us reflections. The Workshop will not produce a formal outcome document as such, but the discussions and your input will be invaluable not only for our research outcomes but also in shaping how our research findings can best serve you and other stakeholders in the future.
Following the discussion of day 1, a reception dinner (17:30-20:00) at the U-Square , will be organised together with a pop-up art exhibition titled “Roots and Connections” – linking the environment with human rights.
The exhibition brings together work by printmakers Eszter Sziksz, DA (Ringling College in Florida, US) and Justyna Mazur-Kiwer (Kraków, Poland), as well as sculptural installations created by Lexilex.be, a Brussels-based organisation working with people living with disabilities. The exhibition is open to the public. Date: 27 August 2026 – Opening with introduction: 17:00 – Closing: 20:00
Day 1 – 27 August
Programme day 1
12:30 – Welcome lunch
13:00 – Opening remarks
Speakers: Kata Dozsa and Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Roundtable Session 1: Preliminary Findings of the Qualitative Empirical Research
Chairs: Kata Dozsa and Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Selected topics:
- Typology of proceedings
- Motifs and strategies behind litigation
- Dynamics and movements of actors
- Role and status of affected communities
14:30 – Coffee break
15:00 – Roundtable Session 2: Preliminary Findings of the Qualitative Empirical Research
Chairs: Kata Dozsa and Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Selected topics:
- Regional similarities and differences
- Best practices
- Major challenges and new opportunities
Conclusion:
- The overall role of litigation in cross-border ecological conflicts
16:30 – Conclusions by Kata Dozsa
16:45 – Walk to the U-Square building
17:30–20:00 – “Roots and Connections” – Pop-up exhibition opening and standing reception with dinner for participants
Day 2 – 28 August
Programme day 2
09:00 – Welcome and coffee/tea
09:30 – The ERC Curiae Virides Dataset on Transnational Litigation
Presenters:
- Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
- João Teixeira de Freitas
- Melissa Alberini
- Mai Nguyen
11:00 – Health break
11:15 – The ERC Curiae Virides Way Forward
Chair: Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
12:30 – Lunch
13:30 – Take-away discussions and activities
Chairs: Kata Dozsa and Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
14:45 – Concluding words by Kata Dozsa
15:00 – Closing
