Coordination Group Meeting – March 2025
On March 20, 2025, members of the European Network for Citizen Initiatives in Global Solidarity (CIGS) gathered online for their latest coordination meeting. Participants included representatives from CISU, 11.11.11, Wilde […]
CIGS a way of expressing global citizenship
On the conference Shaping Tomorrow through Global Education on 28-29 November 2024 in Budapest, the secretary of the network expressed the urge to give global citizenship education to adults. He […]
3rd Coordination Group Meeting Highlights
On September 6, 2024, members of the Network came together for a lively coordination group meeting. The third conference on citizen initiatives was set for late 2025. We discussed possible […]
After the European Elections
The capacity building working group of the network held its second meeting this year to discuss the impact of the political changes in Europe on CIGS. The recent European elections have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]