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Fondation EurActiv PoliTech [fr]

ABOUT US


What is Fondation EurActiv PoliTech ?

Eight years after its establishment Fondation EurActiv became a public service foundation, dedicated to hosting and training independent media, by Royal Decree of 29 March 2012 and published in the Official Gazette of Belgium on 16 April. Its official name has changed to "Fondation EurActiv Politech" in recognition of the integration of Politech Institute AISBL from 01/01/2011 – see link.
 
The Foundation acts primarily to bring together individuals and organisations seeking to shape or influence European Union policies. Its aim is ‘faciliter l’efficacité et la transparence de la Communauté des Acteurs Européens’.

What does Fondation do?

  • Hosting media & Supporting media independence • Work stations, meeting rooms and a conference room are used daily by members of the EurActiv Network and visitors. Around 20 stakeholder workshops on topical EU policy issues are organised and moderated annually. An advisory Group of over 20 distinguished people is regularly consulted individually and collectively on issues of media independence. In 2011, examples of such activities included providing input and feedback on revisions to the Editorial Mission and the Statutes of the Fondation; some members also sat  on an international jury to select young journalists from outside the EurActiv Network for EU training.
  • Training journalists • Training is provided to EurActiv team members in Brussels as well as to journalists from beyond Belgium. Since 2004, most of the EurActiv Network team of around 75 people have received training. In 2011, six young journalists selected from third-party media and coming from five different countries received on the job training on EU reporting, a programme realised with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
  • Social Media, Political Technologies and EU stakeholders' projects division • The social media and political technologies (e-Politics, e-Participation, e-Democracy, e-Diplomacy, e-Citizenship, e-Governance and e-Government) arm of Fondation EurActiv PoliTech and the EurActiv Network aims to reinvent politics and governance in cyberspace. It includes the EU stakeholders and European affairs blogging platform BlogActiv.eu, Social Media, Web 2.0, political technologies and mobile and smart device applications.
    It also handles the stakeholders and EU projects* side that are dealing with these issues in collaboration and with the full support of the other departments and affiliates of the EurActiv.com network. This unit is the result of the integration of:
    • POLITECH INSTITUTE (European Center of Political Technologies) • the sole independent European Centre of Excellence with a pan-European vision in Political Technologies
    • BlogActiv.eu • the leading blogging platform in EU
    • circles
    into Fondation EurActiv PoliTech.

    * List of current and recent EU Projects.

How is Fondation organised?

 

HOSTING & SUPPORTING
MEDIA & RELATED
  TRAINING JOURNALISTS
& RELATED
  SOCIAL MEDIA
DEPARTMENT
  • BRUSSELS NETWORK OFFICE
    (ALL EURACTIV NETWORK PARTNERS, including EurActiv.com + EUX.TV Video
 
  • NETWORK-INTERNAL TRAININGS
  • STAGIAIRES
  • TRAINEE PROGRAMME
  • RBS FELLOWSHIP
  • FACILITATING FACULTY &
    SPEAKER PROVISION
 
  • BLOGACTIV PLATFORM
  • POLITECH: Mainly research projects in e-Governement & e-Participation, with public funding
   

 

INITIATIVES

 

What is Fondation planning to do ?

Fondation EurActiv PoliTech is an active partner and member of Steering and Scientific Committees in prominent international events, such as: 

GOOD GOVERNANCE


How is Fondation managed?

Fondation is guided by an Orientation Committee composed of between five and forty members, and by a smaller management board composed in a majority by members of the Orientation Committee.

List of Orientation Committee as at 30 April 2012

Fondation is guided by an Advisory Council. The names of the distinguished persons who have agreed to serve are shown below.

First Name   Surname   Affiliation (NB. Members serve in their personal capacities)
Ann   Mettler   Executive Director and Co-Founder, Lisbon Council
Caroline   Jenner   CEO, JA-YE Europe
Christophe   Leclercq   Fondateur, EurActiv
Sharon   Leclercq-Spooner   EPPA
Julian   Oliver   Secretary General, Fondation EurActiv PoliTech
Diogo   Pinto   Secretary General, European Movement International
Daniel   van Lerberghe   Director Social Media -  Fondateur Politech Institute
Sylvia   Archman   European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)
Jean-Christophe   Boulanger   Publisher, Euractiv France
Dale   Chadwick   WWF European Policy Office
Giorgio   Clarotti   European Commission
Clémentine   Forissier   Rédactrice en chef, Euractiv France
Willy   De Backer   European Trade Union Institute & Founding Editor, EurActiv.com
Julie   De Groote   Member of the Brussels Capital Region Parliament
Flaminia   Gallo   Red Cross - EU Office
Dr. Julia   Glidden   Institute for European Studies, VUB
Zeynep   Gögüş   Fondatrice EurActiv Turkey
Bernd   Huettemann   European Movement Germany
Claire   Klindt   Secretary General, Global Cities Dialogue
Isabella   Lenarduzzi   Isamedia
Nathalie   Lhayani   Fondatrice EurActiv France
Dr. Francesco   Molinari   Pan-European eParticipation Network (PEP-Net)
Manuela   Preoteasa   Fondatrice EurActiv Romania
Tatiana   Repkova   Founder & Director, Media Managers' Club
Natalie   Sarkic-Todd   Director EU Projects, EurActiv.com
Ivan   Stefunko   SLOVO & EurActiv.sk
Sinan   Ulgen   AB Consulting, Turkey
Joachim   Weidemann   Founder EurActiv Germany
Richard   Wilson   Director, IZWE.com

 

List of Advisory Council members as at 30 April 2012

First Name   Surname   Affiliation (NB. Members serve in their personal capacities)
Jim   Cloos   Council of Ministers secretariat
Pat   Cox   Former President of the European Parliament
Elaine   Cruikshanks   Acumen Public Affairs
Pier Virgilio   Dastoli   European Movement International (EMI)
Michael   Emerson   Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Maria   Joao Rodrigues   Advisor, European Commission; Godmother of Lisbon Agenda
Bahadir   Kaleagasi   Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD)
Silvana   Koch-Mehrin   MEP, Vice-chair, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Peter   Kramer   Association of European Journalists (AEJ)
Tony   Long   WWF European Policy Office
Katarina   Mathernova   European Commission
Anton   Mifsud-Bonnici   BP
Cédric   du Monceau   Deputy Echevin, LLN-Ottignies
Jim   Murray   Independent Consultant, Former BEUC
Heinz-Werner   Nienstedt   Media Professor, Gutenberg University, Mainz
Philippe   Scheimann   SOSTravellers
Frank   Schwalba-Hoth   Former MEP
Tom   Spencer   Former MEP, Former European Centre for Public Affairs (ECPA)
Olivier   Swerdlow   Independent Business Intelligence Expert
Rien   Van Lent   Executive Learning Partnership
Tony   Venables   European Citizen Action Service (ECAS)
Maja   Wessels   First Solar
Aidan   White   Former Journalists, Former Secretary General, International Federation of Journalists

Fondation Finances

How is it financed and where do funds go?

The Fondation has three main sources of income:

  1. grants awarded by grant-making organisations, e.g. Robert Bosch Stiftung,
  2. grants made by the EU institutions for communication and demonstration projects, e.g. Open Discovery Space, Citadel on the Move
  3. payments (for services provided) to media organisations, notably members of the EurActiv Network and EurActiv EUX.TV .

NB apart from limited re-imbursement of services invoiced and provided, neither EurActiv.com nor any other Euractiv affiliate may receive any monies from grants given to the Fondation.

In 2010 grants were received from Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Commission, amounting to more than €78,500.

The main costs include salaries and associated charges, rent, depreciation and utility charges, communications and other routine office administration expenses.


Summary Results since 2004

 

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

  '000 € '000 € '000 € '000 € '000 € '000 € '000 € '000 €
Payments 265 347 357 434 622 614 589 651
Grants 0 0 50 125 109 101 80 211
Total 265 347 407 559 732 717 670 864
Costs 285 345 416 538 688 674 661 859
Results (-20) 2 (-9) 21 44 43 9 5,2

The complete annual accounts of Fondation are filed with the Belgian Central Bank, as required under Fondation statutes.
 

How to contact Fondation?

Fondation operates from the International Press Centre Building, within walking distance of the main EU institutional headquarters, in the heart of the Brussels European quarter.

You can contact Fondation EurActiv PoliTech using this contact form and selecting the Fondation category.

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