As charities or social movements, we often have a clear idea of what our vision, missions and activities are. But when it comes to building a clear strategy that encompasses everything to forecasting our strategic moves for the next 12 (…)
WEBINAR – Thursday 24th November – 9h30-12h30 (CET) Often, too often, when we talk about racism we tend to think of it as a personal problem, a problem of personal prejudices, or personal acts for example against Roma people, Black (…)
Many non-profit organisations are seeking to maintain and expand their funding sources, as challenges for inclusion, democracy, peace, health, justice and equality have been piling up in the recent years. It is therefore beneficial to reflect on what are the (…)
Many EU funding opportunities are available for civil society organisations. Yet, access to EU funding can be a challenge: What are the programmes most relevant to my mission and actions? How do they work and what are their priorities? How (…)
The past two years have been challenging in many ways and have greatly impacted civil society organisations’ finances, mission, work development, internal functioning… Individual conversations we had with members of the network concluded that many are confronted with management issues (…)
Content & social media tips for your organization How to design and run an efficient social media strategy? How to engage your audience with relevant content and optimal up to date formats? We are happy to invite you to our (…)
After the success of our first online training on Values-Based Framing, we are happy to offer you another opportunity to grow your organisation’s skills with a training on online facilitation and co-creation organized in cooperation with CitizensLab.This training is aimed (…)
Every day, organisations are challenged by changing political contexts, new technologies, lack of resources, isolation, etc. Forging alliances and exchanging good (or bad) practices are a good start to adapt to change and have a bigger/better impact, and that’s perhaps (…)
Following our recent call for structural support and the many interesting applications received, we have listed the most recurring needs expressed by the CSOs of the Citizens for Europe’s community and decided to propose a series of joint trainings to (…)
Last September, we published a call to bring structural support to CSOs active in the field of democracy, protection of rights and freedoms, citizen participation… to further their impact and development and enable them to strengthen their capacities and long-term (…)
Cyberviolence is frequently used to target minority and discriminated groups, and to discredit their representatives in order to dissuade them from speaking out. The Internet and digital technologies are not neutral : Digital platforms and social networks are designed and developed (…)
Confronting the current challenges and threats to our European democracies, many civil society organisations (CSOs) develop initiatives to protect democratic institutions and try to reverse the trend of shrinking civic space. These efforts, which we have been committed to support (…)
« As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence ». In France, the yellow vest movement has been going on for two years, with many cases of police assaults (…)
Civil society engagement across national borders needs resilient and flexible structures. In the coming months, Das Progressive Zentrum (The Progressive Centre, DPZ) and Citizens for Europe (CFEU) will join forces to meet today’s challenges for European CSOs with common projects and networking (…)
How can we fight for a more equal Europe ? How solidarity between women can help alleviate precarity ? Are culture and education the solutions to change society’s perception of women’s role ? How can we, women and men, be actors of that (…)
All over Europe projects in connection to the European Parliament elections 2019 are being implemented by the CFEU community. If you want to know more about successful projects, follow the links below and read more about the organizations on the (…)
A strong, independent and vibrant civil society is a sign of a healthy democracy. Citizens are a force to resist democratic backslidings when they are free to monitor and hold decision-makers to account, to raise concerns about abuses of power, (…)
Citizens for Europe is happy to support with 1.500€ the special Outreach Programme of the Belgrade PlayOut Tennis Open 2019 ! This programme, also supported by the Belgrade Pride, will help a selected few tennis players with making their wish (…)
In our last post, Citizens for Europe (CFEU) offered small-scale grants to increase the impact of campaigns in connection with the #EP2019 elections. Confronting the current challenges and threats to our European democracies, many civil society organisations are developing initiatives (…)
Citizens for Europe (CFEU) offers small-scale grants for increasing your impact. Thanks again to all CFEU members that made this participative grant-making process possible through their input! Download the application template, here! Purpose Confronting the current challenges and threats to our (…)
On the 31st of May in Paris, Citizens for Europe, together with the European Movement-France and the Notre Europe-Jacques Delors Institute, organized a 4-hours training for NGOs on methods and tools to make debates and conferences less top-down and more (…)
Hungary’s Parliament passed a series of laws that criminalise individuals and NGOs that offer help to migrants in need. With this open letter, civil society organisations call European citizens to sign and mobilise behind the #WelcomingEurope European Citizens’ Initiative. Hungarian (…)
FundAction launched a new round of grants: ‘Renew’ grants, intended to support systemic change. Now, the results of the Renew grant are in! After receiving 41 proposals out of the 160 members of FundAction, the community reviewed by commenting and (…)
Last October, Citizens for Europe supported VoxPublic in the organisation of a one-day event to reflect on the topic of digital tools and their use to encourage the participation and mobilisation of marginalized populations. One of the objectives was to (…)
The second edition of the « Rencontres nationales de la participation » on democratic innovations will take place from the 6th to 8th of March in Lille (France). Organised by Décider Ensemble, this big gathering of elected officials, democracy practitioners and nonprofit (…)
On November 16th, Citizens for Europe invited members of Berlin‘s civil society scene, that share a progressive approach to European topics, to join an after-work kitchen party. We welcomed around 15 participants working in various contexts – as NGO employees (…)
Which digital tools can we use to mobilize disadvantaged citizens, defend their rights, and efficiently call out to decision-makers ? Citizens for Europe and VoxPublic are jointly organising a one-day event on the 19th of October 2017 to collectively reflect (…)
In the run-up to the general elections in Germany on 24 September 2017, a group of German NGOs challenges the status quo of voting rights for third country nationals. At this point, third country nationals do not have any voting (…)
From the 29th of September to the 1st of October, for 48h, activists, journalists, dataviz specialists and coders will gather to dive into the 2014-2017 EP votes data and try to make sense of it! What is On Our Watch? (…)
Citizen mobilization (noun): the art of mobilizing the maximum number of citizens over the long term and transforming the sum of their contributions, online and offline, into concrete victories. At the heart of Citizens for Europe mission is the will (…)
You are a NGO, association, or a social entrepreneur in the making? You have a great idea that could positively impact society, your neighborhood, city or country? You are creative, motivated, but don’t know exactly where to start? We invite (…)
The Citizens For Europe network has recently agreed to financially support its member Démocratie Ouverte and their work on the renewal of democracy by citizens, including the initiative “Place To DO” which will take place on 6-8 December in Paris (…)
Sketchnotes inspire NONLINEAR THINKING and can INSPIRE others. Ideas come to us from multiple directions. Visualising all these multiple starting points help us “see” how and where we can apply logic to a problem. Ready to become a sketchnote ninja? (…)
Civil society actors took a stand at the Civil Society Forum in Paris on 3-4 July 2016. At a moment of existential crisis for Europe, we believe that civil society need to be at the core of a renewed effort and (…)
At the heart of the Citizens for Europe project is a wish to learn from each other, to empower the network with new skills, and to grow with new practices and methods for cooperation. In our meetings, we always strive (…)
At a moment of existential crisis for the European project, of breakdown of solidarity between countries throughout the continent and of undermining of fundamental rights and democracy in many countries, it is vital to change the narrative, to put relations (…)
The Civil Society Forum Belgrade will serve as a place for EU and Western Balkans civil society to come together to develop recommendations and policy proposals for the EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. These outputs will be used in (…)
The two day International Conference “Civil Society and Beyond: A Joint Dialogue on the European Path” was organized on February 25-26, 2016 by the European Movement International and European Movement in Serbia, with the support of TACSO P2P and in (…)
Although European non-profit organisations and institutions have an increasingly stronger voice in the European dialogue, they still lack the strength to compete with representatives of business interests, which make up 70% of the firepower of Europe’s lobbying sector. Why is (…)
After the success of our first ever Garden Party in October 2015, a small group of people from the Brussels network has been working on the development of our collective “garden” and would now like to invite the Brussels community (…)
Dear Friends, Citizens for Europe is all about cooperating, co-creating, linking initiatives, sharing knowledge and practices… and we believe meeting people in real life is still the best way to achieve it! For this reason, we have decided to support (…)
