Foreword: three colors for a new european procedural flag: teaching, scientific and technological innovation

• Author: Dra. Sonia Calaza López
• Profession: Professor of Procedural Law (UNED)
• Pages: 15-18

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FOREWORD:

Three colors for a new European procedural flag:

Teaching, Scientific and Technological Innovation

D. S C L

Professor of Procedural Law (UNED)

I am very pleased to present a work of these characteristics, conceived and

developed - by dear colleagues –within the framework of three relevant Research

Projects: “Ejes de la Justicia en tiempos de cambio”, IPs Sonia Calaza y José

Carlos Muinelo (PID2020-113083GB-I00), Ayuda PID2020-113083GB-I00 ayuda

financiado/a por MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, “Transición Digital de

la Justicia”, IPs Sonia Calaza y José Carlos Muinelo (RED 2021-130078B-100),

Ayuda Referencia TED2021-130078B-I00 ayuda financiado/a por MCIN/AEI/

10.13039/501100011033 y por la “Unión Europea NextGenerationEU/PRTR”

and “Trazando un futuro sostenible desde el Derecho (FUTURSOST). IP Andrea

Spada Jiménez–.

The work that I have the pleasure of presenting, therefore, participates

in these three extremes (Teaching Innovation, Scientific Innovation and

Technological Innovation): (i) Teaching innovation, promoted with the

aforementioned Project (“Charting a sustainable future from the Law” ), and

with the export of essential academic analytics, which favors the recruitment

of university talent, while trying to reverse the discouragement and disinterest

–in short, the intellectual prostration– that precedes, in many cases, the pitiful

abandonment of our classrooms; (ii) Scientific Innovation, endorsed by the

MICINN –“Axes of Justice in times of change”– with contributions that go

beyond the aforementioned teaching content to delve, in greater depth, into

suggestive research topics, essentially championed by the humanization and

internationalization; and (iii) Technological Innovation, supported –now by

the European Union NextGeneration EU/PRTR– “Digital Transition of Justice”

–with detailed studies on the essential digitalization of our judicial processes and

procedures.

This monograph –the fruit of the synergy of thirteen young proceduralists,

under the careful direction of Yolanda De Lucchy & Andrea Spada; and the

faithful coordination of Rubén López Picó– can be defined –in essence– as