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On 16 April 2020 at 10:00 (CET)/11:00 (MSK) Elena Bobrovskaya will hold the webinar "Facilitating online meetings and remote teamwork" How do you work online? Are you satisfied with how your team conduct online meetings? If not, if you feel the need to change and improve something, then our webinar [...]

The group of three Russian environmental lawyers and activists took part in study tour to the Netherlands organised by the Legal Dialogue Programme. The main goal of the study tour was to learn about the best practices used in environmental litigation, environmental research methods and successful forms of activism. During […]

Alumni and followers of Europe Lab know that since 2015 we have travelled to Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Italy and Slovenia with our Lab. In 2020 we finally go West! In the beginning of March, the Europe Lab coordinator Barbara Anna Bernsmeier travelled to Amsterdam, Assen and Groningen to prepare […]

The Unconference, the Partnership Project held by the members' organisations School Projects and the Centre for Civic Education and Human Rights, took place from 05 - 08 March 2020 in Antakalnis, Lithuania. 50 young activists, teachers and trainers from different countries in the EU and from Russia were developing and [...]

In the Study Tours call 2020 four Study Tours have been selected: One on migration focuses on networking within the working group and will be held in Vienna (Austria), another one will learn about the living conditions of refugees in Lesbos (Greece). The working group on Gender Equality will meet [...]

The appeal to the Council of Europe asking the Venice Commission for an urgent legal examination of the amendments to the Russian Constitution and the procedures for their adoption has been signed by more than a hundred thousand Russian citizens in a week. Among the many recent protests in Russia […]

   [ + ] 1. ↑ Read more at www.unhcr.org/europe-emergency.html 2. ↑ See https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/17/greece-violence-against-asylum-seekers-border,  www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/greece-turkey-refugees-explainer, https://helprefugees.org/news/eu-turkey-deal-explained 3. ↑ See www.un.org/press/en/2020/sc14132.doc.htm and www.msf.org/horrific-day-indiscriminate-attacks-idlib-syria 4. ↑ See www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-greece-migrants/msf-urges-greece-to-evacuate-migrant-camps-due-to-coronavirus-risk-idUSKBN2102M1 5. ↑ See www.infomigrants.net/en/post/23468/who-will-be-on-the-list-of-1-600-refugees-relocated-from-greece 6. ↑ See, e.g., https://dutchreview.com/news/dutch/leiden-ready-to-shelter-orphaned-refugee-children-from-greece 7. ↑ See the Convention text at www.unhcr.org/1951-refugee-convention.html

Dear members, supporters, donors and all interested in the activities of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, These days hardly anyone is not affected by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. So is the Forum. Due to the necessity to take care of the well-being of our members, supporters and guests, […]

EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (CSF)  is looking for two interns who will be based in the Programmes Departement at the CSF Secretariat. The first internship will last from May 4th until July 31st, 2020. The second internship will last from September 15th until December 11th, 2020. The Secretariat is based in [...]

On 7 February, 2020, a small group gathered in Berlin to discuss the path of the Europe Lab programme. Representatives of the secretariat and the board of CSF, active alumni, colleagues from DRA and former coordinators intensively reviewed the milestones, key elements, success stories and challenging moments. And took a […]

On 3-5 February 2020, the study tour ‘Report on state of civil society: disseminating the results among local communities, advancing research’ took place in Warsaw and Prague, which was organised by the expert group on civil society research, facilitated by the Institute for Public Affairs, Warsaw and the Association for […]

The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum Working Group on Public and Inclusive Health had a Study Tour to the Netherlands from 9th-12th February, 2020, on fundraising, organised by AFEW International based in Amsterdam. During the Study Tour the participants from seven different member organisations from Russia and three participants from two [...]