DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung

Philea - Philanthropy Europe Association www.philea.eu
Verband für gemeinnütziges Stiften https://www.gemeinnuetzig-stiften.at/
Network of European Foundations - https://www.nef-europe.org/
European Venture Philanthropy Association - www.evpa.eu.com
Verband der österreichischen Sparkassenstiftungen - www.sparkassenverband.at/de/s-verband

TwoNext - https://www.two-next.com/

Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

8,000,000€

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Three examples of our activities:

In 2018, we initiated EUROPE'S FUTURES, a network of some of the leading Austrian and European civil society organisations with prominent academics, activists, journalists engaged as fellows under the auspices of the Institute for Human Sciences’ (IWM) leading intellectuals Ivan Vejvoda and Ivan Krastev. We research processes driving illiberalism, nationalism and populism. We look for innovative responses to major challenges faced by the European Union in relation to the rule of law and migration. We advocate for a better functioning and enlarged European Union. The idea is to engage liberal-democratic voices from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in high-level academic, social and political debate on the future of the European Union, making Vienna a particular point of encounter. It is an endeavour based on in-depth research, concrete policy proposals, and encounters with state and civil society actors, public opinion and the media. www.europesfutures.eu

We have co-founded a cross-border journalistic platform called Reporting Democracy. Independent journalists research and question the topics, trends and events that are shaping the future of democracy in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. REPORTING DEMOCRACY publishes reports, interviews and analyses by correspondents from 14 countries. Journalists on the ground receive commissions and grants for in-depth reports and research. All articles are published in English. Most of them are also translated into the respective national language and, thanks to a growing network of local media partners, published by multiple outlets. A broad spectrum of experts from politics, society and academia comment on current issues within a geographical area that spans Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean Sea. www.reportingdemocracy.org

We have teamed up with 16 other foundations from across Europe to create a fund aimed at supporting civil society initiatives all over Europe. CIVITATES consists of three funds that select projects via public requests for proposals. The fund for a “strong and resilient civil society” promotes cross-sectoral cooperation in several European countries, primarily in the form of coalitions and networks that go beyond capital cities and the non-profit sector. The aim here is to protect and widen the space available for critical, committed citizens and their organisations. The fund for a “healthy digital public sphere” provides targeted support to initiatives that respond to the current and future problems of digitalisation by proposing new rules. We want to engage with as many experts from civil society as possible to provide information and press ahead with a reform agenda for the digital public sphere in order to help people in Europe better understand how the digital news and information ecosystem works. The third fund aims to strengthen the field of “independent public-interest journalism” in Europe so it can defend democracy by exposing abuses of power and drivers of polarisation and secure a space in which all voices are heard.

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