Project length: 2020-2023
Implemented by 10 organizations from 8 countries:
- Bulgaria,
- Czech Republic,
- Hungary (2 CSOs),
- Poland,
- Romania (2CSOs),
- Serbia,
- Slovakia,
- Norway (as expert partner).
”Reclaim our Civil Space!” builds on broadening the grassroots basis and constituency of civil society through training and
mobilizing activist groups and movements, facilitating cross-border cooperation and networking, and linking this to the European level by developing together the outlines of a comprehensive European civil society policy.
Thus, activities will be carried out along the 3 objectives and levels:
- National: organizing trainings and workshops, mentoring support particularly to organizations/groups in rural regions (taking into account the specificities of individual countries)
- Regional: holding cross-border workshops and networking meetings (with at least 3 country represented at each)
- European: international conferences (Budapest, Brussels, Prague), developing expert and policy papers.
Context
Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index 2019

(Source: https://csosi.org/ Original table edited to show relevant countries by Ökotárs Foundation)
Funding
The “Reclaim our Civil Space!” project benefits from a 1,8 million € grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Regional Cooperation.
Website: www.eeagrants.org