CSE enables horizontal exchanges between civil society organisations and movements across Europe providing a common and permanent space to:
- Share experience and knowledge
- Scale-up campaigns and other forms of collective action
- Strengthen the capacity of its members to connect people in the diversity of their democratic
- Act for change around the shared values expressed in its Manifesto
Our work in 2024
Some of the primary objectives of CSE’s 2024 work programme are:
• Enhancing civil society organisations (CSOs) democratic participation at EU level through:
Following up on the CSE Civil Society State of the Union report.
Coordinating civil society’s perspective on the Defence of Democracy Package.
Implementing a Wiki site and a training module on civil dialogue (developed in the framework of the EnTrust project).
Contributing to the discussion on the EU legislation on non-profit organisations’ cross-border activities (ECBA).
Coordinating the participation of CSOs in the follow-up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE).
• Campaigning in favour of an enabling civic space and strengthened civil dialogue in the 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections through:
Our campaign Civil Society for EU.
• Defending EU values, fundamental rights and the rule of law through:
Our Working Group (WG) on civic space and fundamental rights.
Our Working Group on funding.