Through its membership, CSE reaches out to millions of people active in or supported by not-for-profits and civil society organisations across the EU. Civil Society Europe was created by several civil society organisations as a follow-up to the European Year of Citizens and was established as an international not-for-profit under Belgian law in 2016. Since then, Civil Society Europe has become the point of reference for EU institutions on transversal issues concerning civil dialogue and civic space.
Civil Society Europe is currently composed of 23 platforms and networks which are among the most representative CSOs operating at EU level in a wide variety of areas.
Since its inception, civil Society Europe has: