The project aims are to prove the importance of environmental rights in the system of human rights, to attract more attention to the value of the protection of the right to a safe environment, to demonstrate the role of the realization of environmental rights in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, to define ways of the implementation of the European system of protection of the right to a safe environment in Ukraine, to promote the improvement of Ukrainian environmental legislation in the context of European integration and its approximation to EU standards.
The specific objectives of the project are:
– to extend the knowledge of Master’s students of the Educational and Scientific Law Institute of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University about the nature and features of EU Environmental Law;
– to form Master’s students’ understanding of EU legal mechanisms for environmental right protection;
– to share, between target groups, knowledge about the importance of environmental rights in the system of human rights;
– to form and consolidate the target audience’s system of knowledge about the place of environmental issues in the priority spheres of EU activities and its role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals;
– gradual and sustainable implementation in Ukraine of EU approaches to protecting the right to a safe environment after the project completion.