MYKOLO ROMERIO UNIVERSITETAS

Their core work

Mykolo Romeris University is a Lithuanian social sciences university with strong expertise in law, public policy, and digital governance. Their H2020 work focuses on the legal and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies — cybersecurity regulation, digital rights, privacy-by-design, and ICT law. They contribute legal and policy analysis to technology-focused consortia, bridging the gap between technical innovation and its regulatory framework. They also bring experience in citizen science governance and environmental policy assessment.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early H2020 participation (2015-2018) centered on environmental governance — ecosystem services mapping, biodiversity policy, and flexible assessment methodologies through ESMERALDA. From 2019 onward, the focus shifted decisively toward digital law and cybersecurity governance, with SPARTA and LAST-JD-RIoE representing a clear pivot to ICT regulation, privacy, and digital rights. This evolution reflects a university repositioning itself around the legal challenges of digitalization, where legal expertise meets technology policy.

Moving firmly toward legal-regulatory expertise for digital technologies — expect continued focus on AI regulation, cyber law, and data governance in future projects.

How they like to work

Always participates as a partner, never as coordinator — they join large, well-funded consortia to provide specialized legal and policy perspectives. With 123 unique partners across 33 countries from just 4 projects, they operate in very large consortia (averaging 30+ partners each). This means they are comfortable in complex multi-partner environments and likely contribute niche legal-policy expertise rather than driving project design.

Despite only 4 projects, they have built a remarkably broad network of 123 partners across 33 countries, reflecting participation in large pan-European consortia. Their reach spans nearly all EU member states with no apparent geographic clustering.

What sets them apart

Mykolo Romeris University offers a rare combination of legal scholarship applied directly to emerging technology challenges — cybersecurity certification, IoT rights, eHealth privacy, and digital governance. For consortia that need credible legal and regulatory work packages, they bring academic rigor from a Baltic perspective that is underrepresented in many EU projects. Their joint doctorate program (LAST-JD-RIoE) demonstrates they can train researchers at the intersection of law and technology, making them valuable for MSCA and capacity-building proposals.

Highlights from their portfolio

• LAST-JD-RIoE
  A Marie Skłodowska-Curie joint doctorate (€224K) combining law, science, and technology — specifically addressing legal rights in the Internet of Everything, an unusual interdisciplinary niche.
• SPARTA
  Their largest project (€243K) in a major EU cybersecurity competence network, placing them at the center of European cyber governance discussions.
• EU-Citizen.Science
  Contributed to building a pan-European citizen science platform, showing breadth beyond their core legal focus into science-society engagement.