Student's Science Academy "Rebus" aims to associate the student's community to the legislative process and to the process of taking strategical decisions in relation to the development of the European legislation. The project is going to be done through seasonal seminars between the partnership organizations and during these seminars the students in Law and International Relations will receive thorough knowledge from prominent professionals in the area of international relations and legislation. Subject-matter of the project will be the creation and the transposition of European legislative acts by the participating students from the partnering organizations. SSA "Rebus" will be representative for Bulgaria and will ensure 20 participating students for each one of the seminars and these students will be studying Law or International Relations and will be coming from different universities and there will be participants who are 1st year students to last year students. Our partner from Macedonia is Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID). The center will be represented by two participating students, who study Law or International Relations, for each one of the seminars. They will participate actively during the seminars, but we also expect them to spread the ideas and the goals of the project and associate other students in their home countries. Our partners Pi Youth Association from Turkey will also send two participating students, who study Law or International Relations, for each one of the seminars. Our main criteria in the selection process of the participants are as follows: - grades not lower than 5.00 (very good) - previous experience in other juridical and civil project/initiatives - motivation letter The activities in which the students will participate are the seminars, where they will be introduced to the European legislation, the way of its creation and transposition in the national legislative systems. There will be role play games in which the participants will be members of Parliament and they have to create legislative acts. During these role play games they will be supported and guided by professionals in the area of Law and International Relations. Our main aim is to provide practical knowledge and experience in the field of the legislative process. We will use interactive ways to bring this knowledge to the students via role play games, competitions etc., but we also aim to make the participants from the different European countries more tolerant and more understanding about the cultures and values of the different countries in Europe. We want to bring people closer by making them discuss different international and European topics and participating in cultural nights where we want to disclose the best of their cultures. The project aims to prepare the young people to become young professionals in the field of legislation process and to participate in this process in their home countries in the future. Other impact of their participation will be the sharing of knowledge and skills among them in the students' communities. This newly formed group of young lawyers, who work in different European countries will lead to better understanding of the European Law and the process of its creation and the impact of it on the everyday life of the European citizens. The long term advantages of the protect will be related to the spread and the recognition of the European values by different communities in Europe as wall as intensification of the dialogue between young professionals and the European bodies and institutions. Last, but not least we want to strengthen the exchange of good practices and the implementation of youth activities.
Rebus Student Research Academy has set itself the goal and managed to involve the student community in the legislative process and strategic decision-making in connection with the development of European legislation.In the contract period, the project was implemented through seasonal seminars between the partner organizations, where law and international relations students received professional expertise from prominent specialists in the field of international law and legislative technique. On several occasions, it was necessary to change the originally set dates for the activities due to unforeseen circumstances with the planned participants, such as illness and objective inability to travel.The last partnership meeting (TPM 6) and seminar (LTT 6) were not held due to the global crisis and the danger to the health of the participants of the Covid - 19 pandemic.(https://vt.government.bg/documents/rd-01-124-vuvejdane-protiepidemichni-merki.pdf; https://www.mh.government.bg/bg/normativni-aktove/zapovedi-pravilnitsi-instruktsii/;) the orders of the rector of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”(halls for seminar 6 - C6, TPPM6 were reserved there);(https://www.unisofia.bg/index.php/bul/novini/novini_i_s_bitiya/zapoved_na_rektora_na_sofijskiya_universitet_sv_kliment_ohridski;https://www.unisofia.bg/index.php/bul/universitet_t/fakulteti/biologicheski_fakultet2/novini/zapovedi_na_rektora_na_su_v_v_vr_zka_s_izv_nrednoto_polozhenie_za_vsichki_prepodavateli_sluzhiteli_i_studenti; )the recommendations of the Ministry of Interior for refraining from traveling in the Republic of Northern Macedonia and Turkey(https://www.mfa.bg/bg/embassyinfo/republic+of+north+macedonia; https://www.mfa.bg/bg/embassyinfo/turkey;);the long-lasting ban on closing the borders of the Republic of Northern Macedonia and Turkey traveling from there to Bulgaria and back. A decision in principle was made by the General Assembly of the Student Science Academy in agreement with our partners that the health of our volunteers and participants is in the first place and we will not put them at risk, so the last activities will not be carried out. Among the lecturers we had asked to take part in the last seminar - C6 there were those who were diagnosed with coronavirus - Prof. Yanaki Stoilov, and others were contact. As a result of the shock and danger to their lives, they flatly refused to participate in face-to-face or online seminars due to their inability to perform their duties. Two volunteers from the Republic of Northern Macedonia and Turkey, as well as 38 from the Faculty of Law of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ”, but we were faced with the hypothesis of“ force majeure ”. Namely - an objective obstacle or the so-called (circumstance, event of) force majeure - a circumstance (event) entirely dependent on and due to unpredictable or unpredictable events or factors independent of the will or actions of one or more persons and in this sense non-preventable such as: a global pandemic threatening human life and health. In case of force majeure, the parties to an agreement shall be temporarily released from liability in case of non-performance due to objective impossibility until the force majeure ceases to exist.That is why we decided to suffer the sanction of not receiving funding for these activities, but to prefer to preserve the life and health of the participants in the project.We had a wonderful relationship with our partners, which was based on the exchange of good practices and contractual relations - Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) and Pi Youth Association. The activities with which the students were engaged during the project were participation in seminars, where they got acquainted with the European legislation, the methodology and the procedures for its transposition into the national legal systems. This was done by simulating legislative sessions such as those in domestic and Community legal systems - the European Parliament.They were assisted and trained in the performance of their tasks by lecturers-experts in the field of law and international relations, and the overall idea is that they acquired practical knowledge on the creation, translation and transposition of Community legal acts in the national legal peace.The methodology of the work is based on the acquisition of knowledge through practical tasks, games and competitions between the individual participants, and last but not least will focus on understanding and overcoming cultural, socio-economic and political differences between different European communities through cultural evenings, intellectual pursuits and structured dialogue. Student Research Academy "REBUS" has set a goal and we believe that we have fulfilled it, namely to be able, through the resources of this project to prepare young people to join the legislative process in the countries they represent. On the other hand, the result of their participation was the dissemination and sharing of knowledge and skills among their colleagues in their student communities.This newly created circle of young lawyers and specialists, from the humanities, operating in different European countries has led to a better understanding, application and creation of European legislation. The long-term benefits of the project are related and we are still developing them, namely the dissemination and recognition of European values by the various European communities, as well as strengthening the structured dialogue between young professionals and European and state institutions.Last but not least, we place the long-term exchange of good practices and the implementation of youth activities.