CA25133 - European Legal Design Action (ELDA)

Principal Investigator for Faculty of Law, Comenius University Bratislava: doc. JUDr. Jozef Andraško, PhD.

Memorandum of understanding – 047/26

Implementation: 9/2026 – 9/2030

 

About the project

The European Legal Design Action (ELDA) strengthens Europe by making laws, regulations, and contracts work better in practice. Across Europe, these frameworks have become so complex that they often hinder rather than help their users, reducing innovation and competitiveness. ELDA unites legal and regulatory experts, designers, technologists, policymakers, businesses, and scholars to co-create next-generation tools and solutions that make law understandable, actionable, and easier to comply with, building on the Better Regulation and REFIT agendas.

Starting bottom-up, and drawing on advances in AI, interactive tools, and plain language, ELDA applies legal design to make existing laws and regulations more accessible, sustainable, and effective for people, SMEs, and authorities. In parallel, it aims to improve top-down policy and lawmaking, ensuring that future laws and guidance are designed with clarity, usability, and compliance in mind from the outset.

ELDA builds pan-European legal design capacity, equipping a new generation of experts with the skills and tools to develop and apply innovative solutions. It creates a collaborative platform for mutual learning and knowledge exchange across countries and sectors, moving beyond isolated projects.

By connecting top-down and bottom-up perspectives, ELDA helps turn regulatory ambition into real-world action. It integrates design, plain language, and AI into the creation and implementation of legislation, regulation, and contracts – simplifying complexity, promoting sustainability, and levelling the playing field so SMEs can compete with larger actors. In doing so, ELDA enables laws and contracts that are clearer, fairer, easier to implement, and ultimately more effective for all.

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