Welcome to the website of the interdisciplinary Research Group on DIgitalization and aCCEss to justice (DIKE) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). DIKE focuses upon the possible tools in improving access to justice, digitalization of procedures, automatization – algorithmizing – of decision-making, and the further development of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and online dispute resolution (ODR).
Recent news
DIKE to Coordinate a New EU Justice Programme Project: SPLIT
We are pleased to announce that the project Strengthening Practice and Learning through Interactive Training (SPLIT) has been awarded EU funding under the EU Justice Programme (2021–2027), within the Judicial Training (JUST-2025-JTRA) call.
VUB and UNICAM on Digital Transition
Today, 12 December 2025, the DIKE Research Group welcomed the University of Camerino, hosting the International Workshop “Rethinking Digital Transition: new challenges and old issues”.
PROF. MARCO GIACALONE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM FOR THE COLLECTIVE REDRESS AND DIGITAL FAIRNESS CONFERENCE
This Wednesday, December 10, Professor Marco Giacalone, Research Professor and Co-Director of the Digitalisation and Access to Justice (DIKE) research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, participated as a panelist in the Collective Redress and Digital Fairness Conference , held on 10–11 Decembe...
Upcoming events
Practical info07/10/2022 - 13:30 - 08/10/2022 - 13:00INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ‘DIGITALIZATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CIVIL DECISIONS WITHIN THE EU’
DIgitalization and aCCEss to justice (DIKE) research group is pleased to announce the organisation of the International Conference on ‘Digitalization and Enforcement of Civil Decisions within the EU’ that will ta
Practical info02/01/2023 - 00:00 -DIKE team has just published the ROADMAP on SCAN2 website
DIKE team has just published on SCAN II website https://scan2.vub.be a roadmap, intended as an user-friendly way to show the national enforcement rules of the ESCP judgements in the 26 EU Member States.
Practical info01/12/2023 - 13:15 - 21/01/2024 - 23:59SCAN2 Call for Papers - for the Final Conference regarding Small Claims Dispute Resolution
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the entire SCAN2 Consortium are pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers to be presented at the final conference of the Small Claims Analysis Net