THE GLOBAL YOUTH MOBILIZATION CALL 2024
The European Union, in partnership with the Global Youth Mobilisation (GYM), an initiative of the world’s largest youth organisations—the “Big Six”— is launching the OPEN CALL for applications to the EU YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FUND THROUGH THE GLOBAL YOUTH MOBILIZATION open until July 21. This call aims to fund innovative local ideas from young people that contribute to achieving the Sustainable […]
Next round of applications for the Transformative Partnership Award
The Collective Leadership Institute (CLI, German member of the European Network for CIGS) opens the next application round for its Transformative Partnership Award. This award is for civil society organisations who partner with other sectors. CLI would like to fill the gap that most awards purely focus on results, instead of the development of quality processes […]
Secretary reflects on developments
Our secretary ErnstJan Stroes recently had the opportunity to reflect on the development of the European Network for Citizen Initiatives in Global Solidarity at the Collective Leadership Institute’s 2024 “Transformation Literacy Conference!” Here you can find his reflections, alongside other inspiring discussions. The annual online conference of the Collective Leadership Institute is to share reflections […]
Focus or not to focus?
The funding working group met on the 6th of June 2024 to discuss the impact of focus countries or themes on funding practices for CIGS, with a rather small representation of two member organisations. Up-front the province of West-Flanders provided us with a overview of how they relate to this theme. Actually the province of […]
Annual report 2023
The coordination group of the network approved the annual report 2023 on the 12th of April 2024. In this report which is the first annual report of the network the secretariat informs about the progress made. The network has been instrumental this year for developing several larger activities which will result in the ability to […]
Civil Society for EU
As a Network of organisations that supports citizen initiatives in global solidarity we see that civil society in Europe is under pressure. Therefore we endorse the #CivilsocietyforEU campaign and call on the future European Parliament and Commission to adopt an EU-wide Civil Society Strategy and an Agreement on Civil Dialogue. We invite our members to join the campaign […]
CIGS in Senegal and Nepal compared
In 2023 a group of researchers led by Sara Kinsbergen from the Radboud University studied the role that CIGS from France, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands play in Senegal and Nepal. This research provided new insights in the importance of CIGS and as well about the impact the support they receive in their countries of […]
Social media contest Mindchangers
Member organisations COP and RESACOOP participate in the project Mindchangers – Regions and Youth for Planet and People that launched a new social media contest! The social media contest is aimed at young people living in the EU aged between 18 and 35. The request is to produce a short video that shows their commitment to […]
CIGS capacity building and the European elections
On 7 March the Capacity Building Working group of the network discussed the upcoming European elections and what direct and indirect implications they could have for the work of CIGS in Europe. We heard country reports from Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium/Flanders, Finland, and Poland. We discussed the challenges that the right-wing and populist trends might […]
CIGS capacity building and the European elections
On 7 March at 11:00 CEST the Capacity Building Working group will meet again and discuss what we can await from the upcoming European election. We will have an external view on direct or indirect implications of election result scenarios on our capacity building activities and possibilities for CIGS. And an internal view on our […]