Webinar

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Democracy in Europe

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14/04/2023

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Online

In 2022, the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations launched, in partnership with the Maecenata Foundation, the Institute for Social Research, and the Mouvement associatif, a working group on Civil Society Organisations in Europe. This working group brought together 40 researchers and practitioners with mixed expertise from 16 European countries to shed light on CSOs in Europe, on their contribution to society and democracy, and on their needs. This working group was tasked with detecting European CSOs knowledge needs, drawing a state of the art, and issuing recommendations for a European research agenda on CSOs. The results of the working group were presented in a webinar, held on the 14th of April 2023.

Agenda

Presentation of a white paper on a European research agenda on CSOs
Launch of a digital library and presentation of the state of the art
A roundtable gathering academics, civic actors, philanthropists representatives from the European Parliament and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

Find the replay of the elements presented in the webinar

White paper

Digital library

To add a reference to the digital library

Speakers

Oleksandra Matviichuk

President of the Center for Civil Liberties of Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize 2022 (Ukraine)

Sergey Lagodinsky

Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) – Vice-Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee and Coordinator of the Greens/EFA Campaign « Defend Civil Society » (Germany)

Anne-Charlotte Dommartin

Strategy Advisor at The French Ministry of Armed Forces, Ex-delegate for Civil Society, Civic Engagement, and Youth at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)

Sophie Van Malleghem

Director of Student Life Administration at the Catholic University of Louvain, Ex-senior Coordinator at King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium)

Claire Thoury

President of Mouvement associatif (France)

Anna Domaradzka

Head of the Civil City Lab at the Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Member of the International Society for Third Sector Research Board of Directors (Poland)

Siri Hummel

Director of Maecenata Institute (Germany)

Bernard Enjolras

Research director of the Institute for Social Research (Norway)

Floriant Covelli

Managing Director of the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations (France)

Moderator

Claire Breschard

Previously Head of Research and International Relations at the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations (France)

This webinar was co-organised by the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations, the Maecenata Foundation, the Institute for Social Research, and le Mouvement associatif.