European Civic Forum https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Contact ECF Become a member 270+ organisations sign Antwerp Counter-Declaration; call for summit with President von der Leyen We are hiring: Finance and Administration Officer February 2026: ECF at Civil Society Week European Civic Micro-Grants 2026: Introducing the selected projects! Members About European Movement Italy: And where is it heading? REGISTER: Webinars for national civil society organisations on the MFF People.Power.Planet. – Two Days of Action on Democracy & Climate Justice Civil society must remain in the avant-garde of democratic life European Movement Italy: The unlikely mosaic of European leaders ECF at Civil Society Week 2026 EDITO: Civil society must remain in the avant-garde of democratic life What is Civic Space? The European Civic Micro-Grants 2026 are open for applications! HRCN: DECiDE project demonstrates how civic participation and human rights monitoring can be institutionalised at local level Conference – Improving European youngsters’ employability in the audiovisual sector and their active citizenship Western Balkan Civil Society Groups Sign Regional Declaration on Social Dimension of EU Pact for Growth BCSDN Research Maps Alarming Contraction of Donor Support and Threats to Civic Space in the Western Balkans Per Esempio ETS goes to Slovakia: Innovative Humour Therapy training under Erasmus+ Adult Education EVENT: Find Your EU Project Partner: CERV Calls Okotars: New cycle of EEA Civil Soicety Fund Greek Forum of Refugees: Neither an accident nor an incident – Another brutal crime in the Aegean Our staff Safe Spaces: Safeguarding is a crucial aspect of all European projects. European Civic Micro-Grants Natacha Kazatchkine appointed as new ECF Secretary General We are hiring: Policy Officer Civil Society Strategy Civic Pride European Movement Italy: Europeans at the polls We are in an era of massive mobilisation and growing attacks on civic freedoms. Europe’s democrats must now back civil society — or live to regret it. Civil Society Strategy: How to move from words to action Participation Under Pressure – GFR Annual Review 2025 Civic Pride: 20 years of ECF European Civic Academy at the Nonviolence Factory & the Unsilence Forum in Barcelona​  Glopolis: Czech Republic – The new government wants to change the financing of the CSO More than 140 organisations unite to defend civil society  Civic Alliance Latvia: Latvia’s Civil Society Under Threat Amid Attempts to Undermine Democratic Processes European Movement Italy: Italy, Rule of law and the primacy of European law – an act of parliamentary stupidity? Civic Alliance Latvia: A new fund to strengthen democracy and human rights is being established in Latvia –Civil Society Fund European CSOs publish seven new country reports on civic space trends across the EU Civic Alliance – Latvia, together with civil society and media organizations, warns about the weakening of public participation Ligue de l’enseignement: Invitation – EcoReactEU the Grand Finale! Film projection and Debate at the Juliette Récamier Theatre   Welcome to the new Civic Space Watch: From monitoring to action Ways of Europe: Reflecting on the Calais and Dunkirk meeting Ligue de l’enseignement: End of the Just4All project 250+ Civil Society Organisations Call on the European Commission to Allow Cross-Border Collaboration for Non-Profits