We’re proud and excited to start our project of a pan-European platform for civil society and Civic-Tech with our partners. Learn more about the EHCE, the ideas and organisations behind it, and the events that are planned.
Towards a pan-European civil society
The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its Civic-Tech community connect.
Together, we will develop digital and analog strategies to collaborate more effectively as we work towards a pan-European civil society.
Within a one-year pilot phase, we seek to analyse concrete challenges and opportunities for civil society collaboration by hosting workshops and a conference in Gdansk, Lisbon, Tallinn and Berlin.
Authors
Paulina Fröhlich was Deputy Managing Director and Head of the Future of Democracy Programme.
Christian Bergmann was Project Manager at Das Progressive Zentrum from 2019 to 2020. He studied European Studies (B.A.) at Maastricht University and Labour Policies & Globalisation (M.A.) at the University of Kassel/ HWR Berlin and was a visiting scholar at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
Further articles
Buried Villages, Fragile Democracies: Coal, Community, and the Unsteady Politics of the Climate Transition
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The transition away from fossil fuels is as much about democratic resilience as it is about energy. Steve Patterson explores the “political whiplash” of shifting national policies and the enduring struggle to protect community heritage from the erosion of both physical landscapes and institutional norms.
How can the new special fund and the reform of the debt brake achieve optimal effectiveness?
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The CDU/CSU and SPD parties have reached an agreement in the exploratory talks at a remarkable speed to create a special fund for infrastructure and to provide a far-reaching opportunity to increase defense spending beyond the limits of the debt brake. How should these proposals be assessed? What needs to be considered for the sustainable success of this modernization agenda? These questions were discussed on March 7, 2025, in a background roundtable with experts.
Friedrich Merz shattered a political taboo. This is a chance for the centre-left in Germany
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Progressive parties swiftly need to turn the dial, Florian Ranft states in The Guardian. The attention needs to be moved from simply despising the enemies of democracy to what people really expect.