Neue Projekte
Zwei neue Drittmittel-Projekte konnten vom Institut für Zivilrecht für den Zeitraum 2025 – 2028 akquiriert werden. PI (Principal Investigator) ist in beiden Fällen Frau Prof. Dr. Brigitta Lurger, unter Beteiligung weiterer Professoren der Universität Graz.
FWF-Projekt ”3EC” - Empowering European Energy Consumers (2025-2028)
The aim of the “3EC – Empowering European Energy Consumers” project (03/2025-03/2028) is to support consumers in engaging in an active sustainability-oriented energy consumption – as envisaged by the EU and national legislators – by improving the current legal framework of the EU energy market.
The project builds on the results of the EU Horizon 2020 project EC2 ec2project.eu - Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean-Energy Transition (2021-2024) in which the 3EC research team participated.
The 3EC team, consisting mainly of social psychologists and lawyers, will, first, develop a scientifically reliable and valid measure of active sustainability-oriented energy consumption (ASEC) behavior. Second, the team will supply research on the relationship between individual characteristics of consumers, contextual factors and ASEC behavior. In a next step, these variables will be used to classify consumers into different groups using a latent variable approach.
Finally, the team will develop and test targeted strategies which better enable consumers to engage in an active sustainability-oriented energy consumption and which can be realized by changing and supplementing existing legal regulation of energy consumption. By doing so, the team will push the boundaries of sustainability oriented psychological research as well as the boundaries of traditional regulatory assumptions and techniques in targeting different groups of (energy) consumers.
Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Brigitta Lurger (University of Graz, Institute for Civil Law); lead of psychology team: Prof. Dr. Ursula Athenstaedt (University of Graz, Institute of Psychology).
For more details see: https://consumer-law-and-psychology.uni-graz.at/de/projekte-und-kooperationen/
EU-Projekt „JuWiLi II“ – Justice Without Litigation (2025-2027)
The EU funded JUST project “JuWiLi II” (01/2025-01/2027) examines “Justice Without Litigation” within the EU – which means the execution of judicial tasks outside the judiciary (courts) by other professions than judges, namely by notaries, lawyers or administrative officials.
The focus of the project – which is the successor of EU project “JuWiLi I” (12/2020-12/2022) – lies on the development of a modern European concept of “court” and of extra-judicial administration of justice, on the improvement of the EU system of acceptance, recognition and enforcement of documents and decisions in cross-border cases, the evaluation of the quality of the extra-judicial administration of justice in terms of rule-of-law and fair trial guarantees, and on the identification of best practices as a basis for policy recommendations for an innovative and beneficial future development of the EU justice system inside and outside courts. Areas of law which are of particular interest are succession and divorce (proceedings), digitalization, execution of title, other issues of family law and registration.
The legal systems of the following 22 EU Member States will be analyzed: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
Academic lead: Prof. Dr. Brigitta Lurger, Prof. Dr. Gregor Christandl (University of Graz, Institute for Civil Law), Prof. Dr. Karl Stöger (University of Vienna); administrative lead: Österreichische Notariatskammer.
For more details see: JuWiLi II-Homepage