Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust

- ECIT is a member of the board of Europeans around the World (ETTW) (Link: https://euromonde.eu/);

- ECIT is a participating member in the EU Sign Day coalition (Link: https://eusignday.eu/);

None declared

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.

90,000€

Grants, EU funding

- Funding received in the form of grants from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation was mostly spent on activities related to the 'Voters Without Borders' ECI; however, some funds were allocated for the ECIT Foundation's Annual Conference 2021. More specifically, 'Itemised costs' paid directly by FNF include: hire of event spaces, catering, event logistics, website design, Zoom (online event programme), Howspace (event-space platform), Canva (design promgramme), Photoshop (design programme), flyers, posters, QR code stickers and training sessions. 'Internal costs' paid directly by FNF include research briefs, policy recommendations, strategy documents, press releases, promotional videos, reporting documents;
- Funding received in the form of grants from NECE was mostly spent on activities related to the ECIT Foundation's Annual Conference 2021. However, some funds were allocated for other activities;
- Funding received from Obshtina Veliko Tŭrnovo pertains to ECIT’s participation in the project 'European Academy Network: Encouraging democratic participation at EU level', co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the EU, as part of the funding stream ‘Democratic engagement & civic participation’ and more specifically the ‘Networks of Towns’ sub-stream (March 2021 - June 2022);
- Funding received from La Fondation Zentrum fir Politesch Bildung pertains to ECIT’s participation in the project 'EU Democracy Rally(e)', an Erasmus+ funded-project (Strategic Partnership in the field of youth) (February 2021 - July 2023);
- Funds received from Université Libre de Bruxelles and Visit.Brussels pertain to a public event held to promote the Voters Without Borders ECI in December 2020.

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The ECIT Foundation is host to a 'Cross-Party Group of MEPs on European Citizenship' (sometimes called 'Inter-Party Group on European Citizenship') outside of the European Parliament's official intergroups. This group functions as a platform to the MEPs to interact and promote a dialogue between them and civil society on legislative topics pertaining to European citizenship, European political rights and the future of Europe. Around 14 MEPs - from different groups, committees and nationalities – have formed an informal collective to bring together a broad spectrum of political opinion on different topics. The MEPs in the group have expressed a preference for a 'horizontal structure', led by the ECIT Foundation from outside of the European Parliament, rather than having one of the MEPs as a chair/convener.

Here are some of the activities related to the TR that we have undertaken in the last year:

-meetings and exchanges with the citizenship unit of DG justice;

-meetings and exchanges with the Article 50 task force on loss of EU citizenship;

-meetings in the European Parliament for the revision of the regulation on citizens’ initiatives where we supported the ECI campaign and Democracy International;

-launched an ECI 'Voters Without Borders' on 1 September 2020.

-presented the ECI to both Commission and Parliamentary committees;

-ECIT's fifth Annual Conference, December 2020.

3 meetings found. Download meetings

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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

• Date	06 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member) Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	European Foundation Centre The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association Civil Society Europe The Innovation in Politics Institute GmbH European Partnership for Democracy Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting Democracy International e.V. Front Line Defenders European Youth Forum Association Européenne pour la Démocratie Locale European Endowment for Democracy European Movement International European Civic Forum

• Date	24 Apr 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Portfolio	Justice
  Attending	Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member) Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Movement International The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association Amnesty International Limited Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union Asociación de Víctimas de la Ley de Violencia de Género Madrid Open Search Foundation e.V. European Foundation Centre European Civic Forum European Partnership for Democracy EU DisinfoLab Democracy International e.V. Civil Society Europe European Citizen Action Service

• Date	03 Jun 2021	Location	Online
  Subject	meeting on citizenship education
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Toma Sutic (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven