Green European Foundation

Abbreviation GEF
Formation 2008
Type Political foundation at European level
Location
Co-presidents
 Susanne Rieger and Lucile Schmid
Website www.gef.eu

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 the Green Group in the European Parliament.

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, it aims to reach out to people across Europe and in 2017 it organised tens of events in more than 20 European countries. [1]

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 June 2018, the following national foundations are represented in the General Assembly as full members:[2]

  • Alexander Langer Foundation (Italy) [3]
  • Bureau de Helling (the Netherlands) [4]
  • Cogito (Sweden) [5]
  • EcoPolis (Hungary) [6]
  • Etopia (Wallonia, Belgium) [7]
  • Fondation de l'Ecologie Politique (France) [8]
  • Fundacion EQUO (Spain) [9]
  • Green Economics Institute (UK) [10]
  • Green Foundation Ireland (Ireland) [11]
  • Gréng Steftung (Luxembourg) [12]
  • Grüne Bildungswerkstatt (Austria) [13]
  • Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Germany) [14]
  • Nous Horitzons (Catalonia, Spain) [15]
  • Oikos (Flanders, Belgium) [16]
  • ViSiLi (Finland) [17]

The following are associate members:

  • Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG - Europe-wide) [18]
  • Greek Green Institute (Greece) [19]
  • Green Thought Association (Turkey) [20]
  • Insamlingsstiftelsen Green Forum (Sweden) [21]
  • Institute for Political Ecology (Croatia) [22]
  • Fundacja Strefa Zieleni (Poland) [23]

Directors

GEF's current directors (as of October 2016) are: [24]

  • Natalie Bennett
  • Reinhard Bütikofer
  • Joachim Denkinger
  • Dirk Holemans
  • Olga Kikou
  • Susanne Rieger
  • Lucile Schmid
  • Ville Ylikahri


Notes

  1. ↑ "Annual report 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "General Assembly". Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Fondazione - Alexander Langer - Stiftung". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wetenschappelijk Bureau Groen Links - Bureau de Helling". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Hem - Cogito". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Okopolisz Alapítvány". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Etopia". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Accueil - Fondation de l'Écologie Politique". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Fundación EQUO". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Green Economics: Home page". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Ireland - Green Foundation Ireland". Archived from the original on 21 November 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "Gréng Stëftung". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Home - Grüne Bildungswerkstatt". 24 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  14. ↑ "Heinrich Böll Foundation". Heinrich Böll Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  15. ↑ "Fundació Nous Horitzons". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  16. ↑ "Home". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  17. ↑ Visili Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ "Federation of Young European Greens". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  19. ↑ "Greece - Green Institute". Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  20. ↑ "Yeşil Düşünce Derneği -". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  21. ↑ Green Forum Archived 2012-07-09 at Archive.is
  22. ↑ "IPE".
  23. ↑ "Strefa Zieleni".
  24. ↑ "Board of Directors". Retrieved 23 May 2018.
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