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XXXI FIDE Congress Katowice 2025

  • Katowice - Poland
  • 2025-05-28
XXXI FIDE Congress

The Polish Association for European Law (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Prawa Europejskiego, PSPE) acts in its capacity as FIDE Presidency since 3 June 2023 and is organising the next FIDE Congress, which will take place in Katowice, Poland, from 28 to 31 May 2025.

In this endeavour, we are joined by the two co-hosts of the event, the city of Katowice and the University of Silesia.

On 3 June 2023, the FIDE Presidency has been transferred upon the organizers of the next FIDE Congress: Arabadjiev Alexander, President of FIDE 2021-2023, passed the torch to the President of the Polish Association, Maciej Szpunar, as for now on the President of FIDE 2023-2025.

Honorary Committee

Eminent scholars, including former Members of the Board of the Polish Association who immensely contributed to its creation and its success, accepted our invitation to join the Honorary Committee of the XXXI FIDE Congress in Katowice.

The Honorary Committee is composed of:

  • Stanisław Biernat,
  • Sławomir Dudzik,
  • Artur Nowak-Far,
  • Gráinne de Búrca,
  • Marek Safjan,
  • Eleanor Sharpston,
  • Joseph Weiler.

Topics

The XXXI FIDE Congress in Katowice will focus on three topics that were conceptualized with the involvement of:

  • national FIDE associations,
  • members of the Polish Association for European Law,
  • Topic Selection Committee,
  • EU institutions,
  • national practitioners (networks and associations).

The aforementioned three topics being:

Topic I
EU Emergency Law

Topic II
EU Digital Economy: general framework (DSA/DMA) and specialised regimes

Topic III
Energy solidarity and energy security – from green transition to the EU’s crisis management

Venue

The Congress will be held in the International Congress Center in Katowice: icc-2024.pdf (ptwp.pl)

Young FIDE Seminar

XXXI FIDE Congress in Katowice Young FIDE Seminar. More details to be announced.

Call for papers for the Young FIDE Seminar

 

On the first day of the XXXI FIDE Congress in Katowice, on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, the University of Silesia will host the Young FIDE Seminar.

The Young FIDE Seminar brings together junior EU law scholars, PhD students and practitioners and gives room to discuss the three topics of the main FIDE Congress with the eminent EU law professors and with the peers.

The topics discussed during the XXXI FIDE Congress are:

  1. EU Emergency Law
  2. EU Digital Economy: general framework (DSA/DMA) and specialised regimes
  3. Energy solidarity and energy security – from green transition to the EU crisis    management

Formal requirements and deadlines:

-          Applications from PhD students, post-doc students, junior researchers and young EU law practitioners which is under five years of professional experience and with an age requirement of under 35 years,

-          The scientific board of Young FIDE Seminar will select 9 proposals, three of each of the main topics, which will be presented during the three sessions of Young FIDE Seminar,

-          The selection of proposals will be based on abstracts of the presentations of maximum 500 words, drafted in English by 21 December 2024,

-          The selected authors will be informed by 31 January 2025,

-          Final papers submission deadline is 15 April 2025,

-          Final paper shall not exceed 7.000 words with footnotes.

 

 

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