The mission and goals of LARC /What is LARC?

LARC’s mission is to support the creation and sustainable development of Refugee Legal Clinics in the CEBS region through the provision of trainings, materials and professional assistance.

LARC aims to strengthen the existing network of refugee legal clinics and to enhance the quality of legal aid offered to refugees around the region by creating and strengthening relationships among the region’s refugee law clinics and by assisting the establishment of clinical legal education initiatives in countries or universities where such programs do not yet exist, as well as to promote a harmonized approach between theoretical and practical training.

LARC’s goals are as follows:

- Build the capacity of refugee law clinics in the Central Europe and Baltic States region and facilitate their recognition of and progress toward the goal of self-sustainability;

- Gain influence on the academic and intellectual growth and exposure of law students in the Central Europe and Baltic States region in order to encourage on-the-job training in asylum law, personal interaction with refugees and other persons of concern, and to highlight career opportunities in the field of asylum law, thus building future national and regional capacity;

- Facilitate sustained, substantive, and mutually beneficial regional networking among legal clinic professionals for the purpose of sharing best practices and professional development resources; and

- Further the development of the body of academic knowledge on asylum law and encourage the development of appropriate standards for asylum law curricula in the Central Europe and Baltic States region.