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Overview
WARNING: As this organisation lists one or more EP accredited lobbyists, it may not be probable that its lobbying costs are lower than €10,000.
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
10 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust (ECIT Foundation)
EU Transparency Register
494832735094-65 First registered on 11 Jun 2019
Goals / Remit
ECIT Foundation (European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust) is a public foundation set up to work exclusively on concepts of European citizenship. Established as a public foundation under Belgian law on 3 June 2015. In the world of European think tanks, it fills a gap being the only one to concentrate solely on European citizenship. ECIT is becoming a resource of know-how, research, and contacts, but also one of support for civil society organisations, academics and policy makers when they work on this theme. So far, the foundation has to its credit a book 'Piecing together Europe’s Citizenship' published in English and French, five annual Summer Universities on European Citizenship in Brussels, many conferences, events and smaller projects as well as the Transeuropa Caravans - an EU project co-organized with European Alternatives and Political Critique.
This citizens’ think-tank brings together civil society activists, academics and policy makers to develop a cle...Main EU files targeted
- Revision of the European Citizens' Initiative;
- Justice and Fundamental rights;
- Future of Europe;
- Better regulation;
- Setting up an MEP cross-party group;
- Europe for Citizens Programme.Address
Head Office
Rue d'Arlon 53
1000 Bruxelles Belgium
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 9 50% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
10
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Jan 2021
Name Start date End Date Carla DONOHOE 01 Jun 2023 31 May 2024 Suzana CARP 11 May 2023 10 May 2024 Ms Caterina CAMMILLERI 22 Sep 2023 23 Mar 2024 Ms Carla DONOHOE 01 Jun 2023 26 Apr 2024 Ms Suzana Carp 11 May 2023 26 Apr 2024 Ms Martina RUBINO 17 Nov 2022 17 Nov 2023 Mr Basile PLEECK 18 Jun 2022 28 Oct 2022 Ms Suzana Carp 07 Apr 2022 07 Apr 2023 Ms Roberta MAGRO MALOSSO 19 Feb 2022 01 Sep 2022 Ms Saga SMITH 19 Feb 2022 01 Sep 2022 Ms Catriona MAIR 19 Feb 2022 01 Sep 2022 Ms Marie RONSMANS 18 Feb 2022 18 Feb 2023 Mr Justin GOSHORN 18 Feb 2022 01 Sep 2022 Diana OLIVASTRI 11 Mar 2020 01 Sep 2020 Mr Bastian LE ROMANCER 15 Feb 2020 01 Aug 2020 Ms Lea LE GUÉVEL 15 Feb 2020 01 Aug 2020 Ms Gwenaelle LARAMY LANGONNÉ 15 Feb 2020 01 Aug 2020 Mr Joran BRONS 15 Feb 2020 01 Sep 2020 Ms Anna COMACCHIO 15 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Mr Petar MARKOVIC 19 Jun 2019 01 Jul 2020 Maria Pia STERNATIVO 19 Jun 2019 15 Feb 2020 Complementary Information
None of the 12 persons involved are paid employees. A number of workers are graduates and so can benefit from the Erasmus+ grant scheme. The rest are volunteers.
This is the reason why our estimated annual cost is so low, compared to people involved in the representation.
Over half of the workers only cover tasks related to ECIT's 'Voters Without Borders' ECI - on full political rights for EU citizens.
Each trainee is involved for a varied amount of time. Turnover is high, however a replacement is always found.
At the moment we are recruiting volunteers who live in different member states in order to spread the ECI campaign.Person in charge of EU relations
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Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
ECIT is a member of the board of ETTW (https://euromonde.eu/)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
2020 funding from NECE and FNF largely was spent on Voters Without Borders ECI, however money was allocated for ECIT's Annual Conference and some other areas.
The budget was spent on event spaces, flyers, posters, Zoom, Howspace, Canva, Photoshop, stickers, trainings, website design, press releases, promotional videos, reporting documents.
Regarding employees, the budget was low for 2020 as there are no paid employees. All involved in representation activities are trainees receiving an Erasmus+ grant, or are volunteers. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
So far, the foundation has to its credit:
- a book Piecing together Europe’s citizenship published in English and French;
- an online European citizenship resource database (https://ecit-foundation.eu/citizens-rights-1, https://ecit-foundation.eu/involvement-in-the-eu, https://ecit-foundation.eu/trust-1);
- four annual Summer Universities on European Citizenship in Brussels (call for this year's edition: https://ecit-foundation.eu/summer-university-2019#33aa6198-e59a-4c1b-9d57-f1d14a5e4c51 );
- many conferences, events and smaller projects (for example, see: https://ecit-foundation.eu/ );
- the Transeuropa Caravans EU project co-organized with European Alternatives and Political Critique (https://transeuropacaravans.eu/).
- Voters Without Borders European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) https://voterswithoutborders.eu/.
- ‘Advocacy Paper for Voters Without Border Full Political Rights EU Citizens Initiative’.
https://voterswithoutborders.eu/research-and-data/Other activities
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.- Meetings
Meetings
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 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 06 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of Democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
- Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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)
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