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APART-GSK grant for Melanie Fink
Melanie Fink has been awarded the APART-GSK grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to carry out her research project ‘No right without a remedy: Making EU fundamental rights enforceable’ for a period of four years.
Similar to the NWO’s Veni grant, the APART-GSK is an open-topic funding programme for researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to develop their own research projects for a period of two to four years.
Melanie’s project ‘No right without a remedy: Making EU fundamental rights enforceable’ is a four-year project looking into the possibilities of a much needed reform of the EU’s remedies system. While we still often associate the EU with a dreary rule-maker, deciding on the shape of bananas and cucumbers, this does not reflect the EU’s actual role and impact on individuals’ lives. The EU today investigates and prosecutes crime, supervises banks, and deploys armed border guards to control the external