Wednesday 10 December 2025

14.00 – 14.15  Welcome and introduction

14.15 – 15.30  Keynote speeches

• Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford)
  Privacy Harm and Digital Harms in Collective Redress
• Stefaan Voet (KU Leuven)
  Collective Redress in a Globalised Digital Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 17.45  Panel 1: The role and place of collective action

• Joana Moreira (Ius Omnibus/Universidade Europeia Lisbon) & Lena Hornkohl (University of Vienna/University of Heidelberg)
  Collective Redress in the Digital Age: Challenges and Innovations in the EuropeanUnion Digital Single Market Framework
• Swee Leng Harris (Legal Strategies & Tech Policy Consultant)
  Empirical consideration of the disconnect between philanthropy and public interest
  litigators in digital fairness
• Axel Halfmeier (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
  Power to the People! Or to the Judges? The Democratic Value of Collective
  Litigation
• Valentina Golunova & Sarah Tas (Maastricht University)
  Guardians of Digital Rights: Exploring Strategic Litigation on Data Protection and
  Content Moderation in the EU

Chair: Vigjilenca Abazi (King's College London)
Discussant: Joris van Hoboken (University of Amsterdam)

17.45 – 18.00  Stichting Onderzoek Collectieve Actie Award
18.05 – 18.30  Drinks

Thursday 11 December 2025

9.00 – 10.45  Panel 2: Groups and representation

• Marina Federico (University of Naples)
  The Collective Online Protection of Minors in the Digital Services Act
• Carlotta Manz & Marco Giacalone (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Equitable Digital Justice: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals Within the EU
  Regulatory Framework
• Lyubomir Nikiforov (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Closing the EU Collective Redress Gap: GDPR, RAD and the AI Act for
  Algorithmic Harms & Digital Fairness

Chair: Candida Leone (University of Amsterdam)
Discussant: Gianclaudio Malgieri (Leiden University)

10.25 – 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 – 12.10  Panel 3: Remedies and redress

• Giorgio Afferni (University of Genoa)
  Collective redress for infringements of the DMA
• Francesca Episcopo, Anna van Duin & Aart Jonkers (University of Amsterdam)
  Towards Collective Redress for Data Harms under the GDPR
• Karl Wörle (University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna), Oskar Gstrein,
  Nynke Vellinga & Sophia Salziger (University of Groningen)
  Collective Settlements and the Digital Space: A Comparative Analysis of the
  Austrian, German, and Dutch Legal Framework

Chair: Sébastien De Rey (University of Amsterdam/UCLouvain/KULeuven)
Discussant: Anna Berlee (Open Universiteit)

12.10 – 12.20 Closing remarks from Conference organizers