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

The Green European Foundation is a political foundation at European level[1] 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.

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.[2] 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.[3]

The Green European Foundation produces an editorially independent publication, the Green European Journal.[4] 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.[5]

Structure

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

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:[6]

The following are associate members:

Directors

GEF's current directors (as of October 2019) are:[8]

Notes

  1. ^ "Registered Foundations". Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations. 2017. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 2018".
  3. ^ "Green Learning".
  4. ^ "Work Programme".
  5. ^ "The Journal". Green European Journal.
  6. ^ "General Assembly". Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung ist Mitglied oder Beisitzerin in folgenden Organisationen" (PDF). Heinrich Böll Foundation. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Board of Directors". Retrieved 23 May 2018.

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