Duration: 01/04/2023 – 21/03/2025 (24 months)
Partners: ARSIS – Association for the Social Support of Youth, Foundation for Access to
Rights (F.A.R.) – Bulgaria, Fundatia Terre des Hommes (T.D.H.) – Romania, Sirius Policy
Network on Migrant Education (SIRIUS) – Belgium, Stichting NIDOS (NIDOS) – the
Netherlands, Associazione Volontarius Onlus – Italy, Associacio Comisso Catalana D Ajuda Al Refugiat (CCAR) – Spain
Funded by: the European Commission, represented by the European Education and Culture
Executive Agency, granting authority of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme (Call: CERV-2022-CHAR-LITI)

The SUN project focuses on the use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as an effective
legal instrument to promote and protect the rights of unaccompanied and separated
refugee and migrant children (UASCs) on the EU territory. UASCs are particularly
on the EU territory.

UASCs are a particularly vulnerable group due to their age,
increased risk of rights breaches and abuse.
διατρέχουν αυξημένο κίνδυνο παραβίασης των δικαιωμάτων τους και κακοποίησης.
The aim of the project is to safeguard the rights of
UASCs through the CFREU by fostering the transnational exchange of knowledge
and good practices, training of practitioners and dissemination and awareness raising.
dissemination and awareness raising.

The specific objectives of the project include:

1. Strengthening the capacity
of professionals to safeguard UASCs’ rights
through the CFREU;
2. Facilitating the cooperation of key actors at the national and
cross-national level concerned with the legal representation,
reception, care and education of UASCs in terms of protecting and promoting their
fundamental rights;
3. Strengthening the knowledge and ability of legal practitioners, CSOs and independent
human rights bodies to engage in litigation
practices at national and European level;

4. Raising awareness
about the role and potential
of the CFREU to safeguard the fundamental rights of UASCs.
Project Coordinator: Nikolas Psathas, Child Protection Lawyer, ARSIS
arsis.sunproject@gmail.com, +306948030335