AdvoC aims to offer attendees the chance to develop both the theoretical knowledge and a set of practical skills that will enable them to pursue a career in international human rights and humanitarian law advocacy.

The activity will be carried out in the form of a spring-summer school and will develop in two phases. In the first phase, attendees will be involved in specific advocacy projects to be agreed upon with NGOs, civil society organisations, etc. (e.g., drafting reports to be submitted to EU institutions or international human rights monitoring bodies). The second phase will consist in a series of seminars on the theory and practice of international human rights and humanitarian law advocacy and on the transversal competences that may be useful to work in this field (e.g., communication skills and legal writing), as well as a final roundtable devoted to the presentation of the clinical activity’s outcomes and the discussion of a topical issue of international human rights and/or humanitarian law with both academics and practitioners.