Green European Foundation

The Green European Foundation is a political foundation at European level funded by the European Parliament. It is linked to, but independent of, other European Green actors such as the European Green Party and Greens–European Free Alliance.

AbbreviationGEF
Formation2008
TypePolitical foundation at European level
Location
Co-Presidents
Dirk Holemans & Susanne Rieger
Websitewww.gef.eu

Mission

The Green European Foundation (GEF) was founded in 2008. Modelled on many successful national Green political foundations, the mission of GEF is to encourage European citizens to participate in European political discussions and to ultimately forge a stronger, more participative European democracy.

The Green European Foundation organises debates, conducts research and publishes various documents concerning green politics. Though its main office is based in Brussels, GEF aims to reach out to people across Europe and in 2018 it organised 69 events in 17 different European countries.[1] These events included conferences, seminars, workshops and summer schools that aimed to promote study and debate, and provide opportunities for capacity-building and networking. To this end, GEF also runs training sessions for young people under its annual European Green Activists Training scheme, as well as providing free courses on its online educational platform Green Learning.[2]

The Green European Foundation produces an editorially independent publication, the Green European Journal.[3] Launched in 2012, the Green European Journal publishes in print and online articles and interviews on current affairs in Europe and general topics of significance to the European green movement.[4]

Structure

Three stakeholders are at the heart of the Green European Foundation:

  • national Green political foundations around Europe;
  • the European Green Party;
  • the Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament;

These stakeholders are represented in GEF's General Assembly, which meets on a biannual basis and which has the responsibility of electing the foundation's board. As of January 2019, the following national foundations are represented in the General Assembly as full members:[5]

  • Alexander Langer Foundation (Italy)[6]
  • Bureau de Helling (the Netherlands)[7]
  • Cogito (Sweden)[8]
  • EcoPolis (Hungary)[9]
  • Etopia (Wallonia, Belgium)[10]
  • Fondation de l'Ecologie Politique (France)[11]
  • Fundacion EQUO (Spain)[12]
  • Green Economics Institute (UK)[13]
  • Green Foundation Ireland (Ireland)[14]
  • Gréng Steftung (Luxembourg)[15]
  • Grüne Bildungswerkstatt (Austria)[16]
  • Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Germany)[17]
  • Nous Horitzons (Catalonia, Spain)[18]
  • Oikos social-economical think tank and magazine), Belgium)[19]
  • ViSiLi (Finland)[20]

The following are associate members:

  • Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG - Europe-wide)[21]
  • Greek Green Institute (Greece)[22]
  • Green Thought Association (Turkey)[23]
  • Insamlingsstiftelsen Green Forum (Sweden)[24]
  • Institute for Political Ecology (Croatia)[25]
  • Fundacja Strefa Zieleni (Poland)[26]

Directors

GEF's current directors (as of October 2019) are:[27]

  • Klára Berg
  • Teo Comet
  • Dirk Holemans (Co-President)
  • Vedran Horvat
  • Benoit Monange
  • Susanne Rieger (Co-President)
  • Ewa Sufin-Jacquemart
  • Sevil Turan

Notes
  1. "Annual Report 2018".
  2. "Green Learning".
  3. "Work Programme".
  4. "The Journal". Green European Journal.
  5. "General Assembly". Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  6. "Fondazione - Alexander Langer - Stiftung". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  7. "Wetenschappelijk Bureau Groen Links - Bureau de Helling". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  8. "Hem - Cogito". Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  9. "Okopolisz Alapítvány". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  10. "Etopia". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  11. "Accueil - Fondation de l'Écologie Politique". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  12. "Fundación EQUO". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  13. "Green Economics: Home page". Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  14. "Ireland - Green Foundation Ireland". Archived from the original on 21 November 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  15. "Gréng Stëftung". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  16. "Home - Grüne Bildungswerkstatt". 24 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  17. "Heinrich Böll Foundation". Heinrich Böll Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  18. "Fundació Nous Horitzons". Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  19. "Home". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  20. Visili Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
  21. "Federation of Young European Greens". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  22. "Greece - Green Institute". Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  23. "Yeşil Düşünce Derneği -". Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  24. Green Forum Archived 2012-07-09 at Archive.today
  25. "IPE".
  26. "Strefa Zieleni".
  27. "Board of Directors". Retrieved 23 May 2018.
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