We are a partnership bringing together 20 specialist organisations to support democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Public Relations and amplification
• Creators and Influencers

The Changemaker Award, which celebrates and recognises the best role model and leader from within the EIT Community's education programmes, and whose activities and achievements have the potential to generate a significant social impact.

• Awards and prizes

Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

• Artificial Intelligence

The leading global knowledge platform on parliamentary development.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

• Participatory democracy
• Foundation initiatives

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Citizen Engagement

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Accelerators

Vetted methods, key principles, inspiring stories and experts from around the world

• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles
• Collective intelligence

Collection of 75 Liberal European political parties

• Civic data
• Political parties

Citizens' movement to practice democracy by sortition. Notable twist includes winning a seat in Brussels Parliament, where their elected representative must act on behalf of 50 residents chosen by lot.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Democratic Innovations

EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims made by politicians and others and rate them.

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Fight disinformation

Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association) is the leading organisation for foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good in Europe. It aims to create connections and knowledge sharing between its members.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Collective creativity for the common good

• Participatory democracy
• Building in the private sector
• Democratic Innovations

Organised by the European Social Network, the Awards shine a spotlight on successful new approaches and the extraordinary ongoing work of public social services managers, funders, planners, providers, and deliverers of social services, as well as providing opportunities for exchange and mutual learning to improve social work policies and practice.

• Access social benefits
• Awards and prizes

ProgressiveActs is a start-up that supports grassroots civic and political mobilization through a package of services and advanced technological tools.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

• Participatory democracy

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Social networks
• Mutual aid

The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Data, tools and resources. More than 10,000 datasets.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Transparency International Belgium is the Belgian national chapter of Transparency International (TI) a global movement against corruption. Together we share a common vision: a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• E-voting and I-voting

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

Participatory process facilitators and partners

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Lab for open citizen Science and tech

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

Share and reuse Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens

• The People
• The Tech
• Govtech

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe. Our long-term vision is to promote an ecosystem of European public interest and civil society organisations working on policy and technology, based on a diversity of actors and a plurality of goals that represents society as a whole.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The European Union Earth Observation Programme

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Open innovation

Bringing the town hall to your citizens

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

Transparencia is a platform for access to administrative documents (subsidies, public markets, etc.) developed by Anticor Belgium

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Online Lawyers is an online platform where individuals and businesses can connect with lawyers and seek legaladvice online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of the lobby meetings, EU Lobbyists, MEP incomes, and Revolving Doors at the EU Institutions level.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Open Data portal for the City of Ghent

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Welkom op Apps For Ghent, de site voor de Gentse Open Data community. Dit is een samenwerking tussen de Stad Gent, Open Knowledge België en het Ghent Living Lab. Apps for Ghent wil via projecten, events en co-creatie het potentieel van open data in Gent maximaal benutten en de mogelijkheden ervan bij zoveel mogelijk mensen bekend maken.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

TGL is committed to giving voice to underrepresented public interests and bringing more citizens into the public policy process.

• Advocacy tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

THE CODING SCHOOL FOR REFUGEES IN BELGIUM

• refugees

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe. We defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment.

• human rights

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

A tool to examine publicly available key financial data of the 20 largest European banks.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

event aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union

• The People
• The Tech
• Civic data