Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples - University of Padua (Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca e servizi sui diritti della persona e dei popoli - Università di Padova)

The structure of the Centre is composed by the Director, the Scientific-Technical Committee and the Assembly. The number of staff employed varies between 15 and 18 people, including: secretary’s personnel, aggregate professors, visiting professors, researchers, the staff of the peace human rights archives, interns and, annually, four national civil service volunteers. The sources of funding of the Centre include: the scientific and didactic structures of the University of Padua that adhere to the Centre, the Ministry of the University and of Research; the Region of Veneto; the European Union, the Council of Europe and other international organization for specific initiatives and other public and private subjects interested in the development of the activities carried out by the Centre. The average budgetary resource varies between 600,000€ and 900,00€ depending on the number of agreements and projects. The main institutional partners involved in the Centre’s activities are UNESCO, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Region of Veneto. The modalities of action include seminars, conferences and concrete projects, for example, the collaboration with the Joint European Union/Council of Europe Programme entitled “Setting up an active network of independent non-judicial human rights structures” (Peer to Peer project)