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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75 Fte (15)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Europe's People's Forum (EPF)
EU Transparency Register
516884238508-73 First registered on 10 Jun 2020
Goals / Remit
Europe’s People’s Forum (EPF) is a network of more than 27 national organisations, professional in organising citizens' participative and deliberative processes. Further, the EPF organises more than 50 active civil society organisations in Europe.
• The goal is to strengthen democracy in Europe, particularly with participation and engagement of citizens at European, national and local policy making between the elections. The EPF further aims to:
• Promote a permanent mechanism to the European Union for citizens participation between the elections.
• Strengthen the sustainability of the Network by working together in future European, national and local participatory processes including in pre-accessing states, through innovative methodologies and capacity to meet all tasks.
• Support each other in meeting possible political challenges to the independence of the processes
• Strengthen exchange of citizens focused research, and research on participatory democracyMain EU files targeted
The EPF and its network has primarily targeted the EP, the EC and the Council concerning models, methodologies and concepts for citizens participation in the future policy making for EU.
The EPF addresses:
• MEPs concerning hearing of Commissioners.
• MEPs concerning methodologies for the Conference on the Future of Europe at European, national and regional levels as well as online.
• MEPs concerning development of permanent mechanism.
• EC Cabinet of Ms. Suica concerning online, local, national and European level of citizens consultations.
• DG Comm concerning methodology and possible implementation.
• The Presidency of the Council concerning methodologies for the Conference on the future of Europe.
• The Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe and its presidents and co-chair to influence the methodology of the Conference.
• The member states and their use of participatory democracyAddress
Head Office
Ryvangs Alle 18
Copenhagen Oe 2100
DENMARK -
People
Total lobbyists declared
15
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 15 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 27 May 2021
Name Start date End Date Bent BONDE 20 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024 Bent BONDE 17 Jun 2022 17 Jun 2023 Complementary Information
When responsible for Europe wide consultations the Europe's People's Forum Network has its staff paid on a professional scale.
When advocating for citizens engagement and for EU-wide citizens consultations the organisation has worked voluntarily.
Significant work load has been given as assistance to develop and refine methodologies for the Conference on the Future of Europe - through the EP, the EC and the Council and member states.
The Secretary General works for EPF roughly 35 hours a week, but also carries out similar amount of hours of consultancies for his personal consultants' company Media Progress Aps
1-2 Interns work for the EPF - the last year through online.
The technical partners of EPF particularly but also national civil society and social partner organisations work actively for the EPF when preparing applications to the Horizon and Europe for Citizens programmes.
And particularly when discussing and assisting with methodological inputs to the Conference on the Future of Europe. Particularly the assistance to AFCO in EP has taken much time.
The technical partner organisations are estimated to have around 1000 employees in total working in areas related to the sector dealing with citizens' participation, democracy and similar. However, obviously the participating universities have much larger staff in other areas.Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
no
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
Budget is mainly work in kind.
All costs related to travels to Brussels or of our office in Brussels have been paid by the secretary general as personal contribution to the organisation.
All work carried out by secretary general and by members of the board of EPF has been voluntarily and covered by other work income carried by the persons as such. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
Biodiversity, hunting, countryside#Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development#Green New deal#LGTBI#Social economy#Fighting against poverty#Competitive European Industry: long-term and sustainable investment#Demographic challenges, family-work balance and youth transition#European cultural heritage, Ways of Saint-James and other European cultural routes#Urban#Freedom of religion and religious tolerance#Traditional minorities, national communities and languages#Trade Unions
Communication activities
The EPF has carried out very substantial inputs to the methodology and priorities developed by the European Parliament through an extensive collaboration with AFCO. The EPF has further provided substantial support to the methodologies developed by the European Commission and indirectly by the Council.
Really substantial support has been given to AFCO's initiative to establish a permanent mechanism for increased democracy through citizens' initiatives in a permanent mechanism.
During the last 4 years the EPF has carried out substantial public relations in favour of the participatory involvement of citizens in decision and policy making of the European Union.
In the run-up to the Conference on the Future of Europe the EPF has in 10-15 articles and interviews in European media promoted the active participation of citizens in the conference dialogue.
The EPF has been lead in preparing applications for support to cross-European projects, carrying out citizens consultations
Citizens Looking for Multidimensional Migration Challenges (CITIMIG)
Europe’s Peoples’ Forum is an active partner in this 18 months project that has been co-financed by the Europe for Citizens programme. The project aims to promote citizen participation in the EU policy-making process regarding migration from different perspectives such as economic, security and environmental among others. The goal is to gather experts, citizens and political leaders to discuss, give their views and achieve a policy briefing together. Following this strategy, the project aims to be innovative, inclusive and interactive.
JOINT CITIZENS’ FORCES – COMMON EUROPEAN FUTURE (JOCICEF)
Europe's People's Forum has been part of the project JOINT CITIZENS’ FORCES – COMMON EUROPEAN FUTURE (JOCICEF), co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union and under the auspices of the President of the European Parliament. The project aims at empowering European citizens and civil society organisations and offers them a platform for structural dialogue with the EU policy- and decision-makers on the common future in a turbulent and decisive period for European integration.Other activities
None declared
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Meetings
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The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 17 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of democracy package Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists - Open Society European Policy Institute
- Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union
- Front Line Defenders
- European Citizen Action Service
- European Partnership for Democracy
- European Youth Forum
- European Civic Forum
- European Foundation Centre
- Civil Society Europe
- Association Européenne pour la Démocratie Locale
- Centre for Democracy & Technology, Europe
- EU DisinfoLab
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Date 02 Dec 2022 Location Brussels Subject Competition and digital policy. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Stina Soewarta (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Nov 2022 Location Online meeting Subject Discussion on the Feedback on the Furure of Europe and the presentation of the EPF’s proposal “The Democracy Partnership Pilot Project for Candidate countries”. Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Mattia De Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Mar 2022 Location Online / Brussels Subject Conference on the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Colin Scicluna (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Oct 2020 Location Online meeting Subject Discussion on the update for Conference on the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Mattia De Grassi (Cabinet member)
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