Extern: CSOs and Democracy in Europe – Advancing knowledge and recognition of CSOs’ contribution to society and democracy in Europe
Datum
14.04.2023
14:00 Uhr - 17:00 Uhr
Webinar, in French and English with interpreters The French Institute for Civil Society Organisations is honoured to welcome Oleksandra Matviichuk, President of the Center for Civil Liberties of Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize 2022, as a keynote speaker for this webinar.
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 this working group will be presented on April 14th in a webinar where Siri Hummel, Deputy Director of the Maecenata Institute will speak between others.
Speakers:
- Oleksandra Matviichuk, President of the Center for Civil Liberties of Ukraine and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (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, Delegate for civil society, civic engagement, and youth at the Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères (France)
- Sophie Van Malleghem, Senior Coordinator at the Fondation Roi Baudouin (Belgium)
- Claire Thoury, President of Le Mouvement associatif (France)
- Anna Domaradzka, Head of the Civil City Lab at the Institute for Social Studies, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Member of the International Society for Third Sector Research Board of Directors (Poland)
- Dr. Siri Hummel Hummel, Director of the Maecenata Stiftung | Maecenata Foundation (Germany)
- Bernard Enjolras, Research director of the Institute for Social Research (Norway)
- Floriant Covelli, Managing Director at the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations (France)
Moderation:
Claire Breschard, Head of Research and International Relations at the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations (France)
- Presentation of a whitebook on knowledge on CSOs in Europe
- Launch of a digital library of over 650 scientific European references and presentation of the state of the art
- A roundtable gathering academics, civic actors, philanthropists, and members of the European Parliament and of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
This webinar is open to researchers, to CSOs practitioners and to their stakeholders, who are interested in:
- Discovering what CSOs need in regard of knowledge gaps and access to existing knowledge
- Learning about key issues to reflect upon their practice, their advocacy strategy and their environment
- Hearing different – academic, political, hands on – takes on these topics
- A research and knowledge agenda on CSOs in Europe
- Joining a research and knowledge network on CSOs in Europe
>> More about the project in our last Newsletter Maecenata Info (DE)
