Apply for the European Civic Micro-Grants 2024! (only for member organisations)
The European Civic Micro-Grants are an instrument of micro-financial support to civic groups, local initiatives, and movements in the European Union. The aim is to provide a flexible response and to strengthen capacity of organisations in responding to societal and political challenges, but also to build and sustain constituencies and engage in European network building and policies. Through its operating grant from the EU’s CERV programme, the European Civic Forum has established this granting mechanism for its member organisations, launched in 2023, and now available for 2024.
A month for Peace in Niksic, Montenegro
By Alfa Centar Niksic - In September, the activities of the new Social service "ACTA NON VERBA", which was formed by the NGO ALFA Center, were in progress. Training was conducted for 40 children from socially disadvantaged families to work on computers. After the training, the children were given 40 smart tablet devices. By the…...
WHO WILL DELIVER ON
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE ?
By CIME-European Movement Italy - Supported by a grotesque vision of the relations between the representative and participatory democracy, the Council has claimed that the Conference on the future of Europe will not end with a collective dialogue and a common decision putting the parliaments (European and national), the Commission, the governments, the civil society,…...
Cap Magellan : European meeting of Young Lusodescendants in Fatima
Cap Magellan, first youth association for young portuguese or portuguese speaking people, founded in Paris in 1991, enables around flfty young people aged between 18 and 35, for more than 6 years now, to meet in Portugal each year within the framework of its European project "European Meeting of Young Lusodescendants ». This project not…...
5 new members join the ECF !
The ECF held its General Assembly on 24 June, with more than 40 member organisations present online. This was also an opportunity to approve the membership of 5 new organisations from 5 different countries. The Wheel (Ireland), LIBERA onlus (Italy), RECLAIM Europe, Ministarstvo Prostora (Serbia) and ALFA Centar Niksic (Montenegro) are now part of ECF…...
NEW EUROPEANS: Stand up for free speech in Belarus
Image: Screenshot from NBC news, Belarus rights Activist, Jana Showstak. Event: Monday 9 August 2021, 10:00-12:30 On 23 May 2021, the Lukashenko regime forced Ryan Air Flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk and the arrested Roman Protasevic and Sofia Sapega. Belarus activist Jana Showstak This act was immediately condemned by the EU and others as an…...
CSOs would help, but the government does not count on them in the Recovery Plan either – rapid analysis
Civil society organizations cooperating in the Civilisation coalition published an open letter in February addressed to dr. Szabolcs Ágostházy, the State Secretary for EU Development Programs, objecting to the lack of dialogue and meaningful civic participation in the development of plans for the use of EU funds expected in the coming years. Although we have…...
European House Budapest: join the In-Between initiative
What is the idea? Civil society organisations from the four macro-regions (Baltic, Danube, Adriatic-Ionian and the Alpine regions) will combine their efforts to contribute to the discussions of the Conference on the future of Europe (CoFE). The CoFE is a major new initiative of the three main EU institutions: the European Parliament, the Council and…...
Civic Alliance research on the sector of civil society organisations in Latvia
Civic Alliance – Latvia has published “Research on the sector of civil society organisations in Latvia 2020-2024: Problems and solutions for classification of Latvian association and foundations”. The aim of the study is to gather factual information on civil society organisations by analysing basic data and developing recommendations, as well as analysing existing classification…...
The importance of evaluation: capacity-building webinar
Impact and evaluation are more important than ever. With changes to funding and the civil society landscape, NGOs are having to adapt and show how their projects are successful in communities. Impact is more than counting how many people have engaged in a project. It is about the quality of those interactions and what sustainable changes have…...