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  • 04.08.10 Members General Assembly and Culture Action Europe Conference 7-9 October 2010 in Brussels Read more...
  • 14.07.10 OMC working group reports have been published Read more...
  • 17.06.10 Culture Action Europe Newsletter #3 2010 Read more...
  • 06.05.10 The Platform for Intercultural Europe is recruting Read more...
  • 14.04.10 Culture Action Europe Newsletter #2 2010 Read more...
  • 12.04.10 The EU 2020 strategy: analysis and perspectives Read more...
  • 31.03.10 Culture Action Europe is looking for a translation intern Read more...
  • 29.03.10 Members’ meetings and policy consultation Read more...
  • 17.03.10 Already 6 new members in 2010! Read more...
  • 10.02.10 Culture Action Europe Newsletter #1 2010 Read more...
  • 10.02.10 Renewed EU commitmment to combating poverty and social exclusion – what perspectives for the Year? Read more...
  • 08.02.10 EP Hearing – Androulla Vassiliou Commisioner-Desginate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Read more...
  • 14.01.10 Our contribution to the EC consultation on the future EU 2020 strategy Read more...
  • 11.01.10 Our contribution to the EC consultation on financial regulation Read more...
  • 07.12.09 Culture Action Europe Newsletter #8 Read more...
  • 18.08.09 Post elections analysis – to know more about the composition of the new European Parliament and of the new Culture Committee Read more...

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Civil Society Contact Group Print

The EU Civil Society Contact Group (CSCG) brings together eight large rights and value based NGO sectors - culture, environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women. Culture Action Europe is the voice of the arts and culture in this informal grouping of civil society platforms.


The members of each sectoral platform are European NGO networks. They bring together the voices of hundreds of thousands of associations across the Union, linking the national with the European level, representing a large range of organised interests.

Jointly the Civil Society Contact group aims to represent the views and interests of rights and value based civil society organisations across the European Union on major issues, which affect all sectors across their specific activities. Its objective is to encourage and promote a transparent and structured civil dialogue that is accessible, properly facilitated, inclusive, fair and respectful of the autonomy of NGOs.

The Civil Society Contact Group works on a variety of topics of common interests for the civil society sector such as participatory democracy, civil dialogue and transparency or the future of the European Union, the European budget or the reform treaty (Lisbon Treaty).

The group also promotes capacity building and empowerment of national and regional civil society organisations through public events, research and the development of toolkits.

To know more about the EU Civil Society Contact Group: www.act4europe.org

Latest actions of the CSCG:


  • Civil Society Contact Group contribution to the EU budget review consultation: go to the website
  • NGOs concerned by U-turn on European Transparency Initiative: go to the website
  • Civil Society Contact Group aims at strengthening the code of conduct for interest representatives: go to the website
 
Tags: civil society, lobbying