Map of Partners

We collaborate with an ever-expanding network of citizens, practitioners, researchers, NGOs, academic and cultural institutions, connecting different communities and perspectives across the continent and beyond.

BELGIUM

1. IHECS

2. Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts

3. Democratische Dialoog

4. Europahuis Ryckevelde

5. European Journalism Training Association

6. Federatie van Mondiale Democratische Organisaties

7. Flemish Peace Institute

8. King Baudouin Foundation

9. kunstZ

10. Mediawijs

11. PIMENTO

12. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

13. Université catholique de Louvain

14. Université de Paix asbl

15. Université Libre de Bruxelles

16. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

17. Media & Learning

18. StampMedia

19. Open Society European Policy Institute

20. De Veerman

21. Vredescentrum

22. Are We Europe

23. Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel

24. M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

25. Awe Studio

26. European Endowment for Democracy

27. Journalismfund.eu

28. PEN Vlaanderen

29. Euractiv

30. European Commission

CROATIA

31. Društvo za komunikacijsku medijsku kulturu

32. Hrvatska udruga nastavnika povijesti

33. Centar za mir nenasilje i ljudska prava

Osijek

CZECH REPUBLIC

34. EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

FINLAND

35. Mediakasvatusseura.The Finnish Society on Media Education

FRANCE

36. Bibliothèque publique d’information

37. Centre Pompidou

38. La Fondation Hippocrène

39. La Ligue de l’Enseignement

40. LE BAL

41. Media Maker

42. La Cie MPDA - Alexandra Lacroix

43. Voxeurop

44. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

45. Theatrum Mundi

GERMANY

46. Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung in Praxis

47. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

48. planpolitik

49. Allianz Foundation

50. Goethe-Institut

51. “A Soul for Europe” Initiative c/o Stiftung Zukunft Berlin

52. Institut für soziale Bewegungen

53. Die Zeit

54. Stiftung Mercator

GREECE

55. ΚΑΡΠΟΣ

56. Place Identity GR Clusters

57. The Green Tank

HUNGARY

58. Káva

ITALY

59. Zaffiria Centro per l’Educazione ai Media

60. ZaLab

61. Internazionale

NORWAY

62. Fritt Ord Foundation

POLAND

63. Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej

64. Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut

Audiowizualny

65. Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja

66. Towarzystwo Edukacji Antydyskryminacyjnej

67. Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych “ę”

68. European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

69. Polska Fundacja im. Roberta Schumana

70. Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty

71. Fundacja Krzyżowa dla Porozumienia Europejskiego

72. Instytut Kultury Polskiej, Wydział Polonistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski

73. Centrum Historii Zajezdnia

74. Wydział Nauk Politycznych Dziennikarstwa, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

75. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

76. Fundacja Im. Stefana Batorego

ROMANIA

77. Society Mediawise

SPAIN

78. Escola de Cultura de Pau

79. CREA - Community of Research on Excellence for All

80. Digital Future Society

SWEDEN

81. Göteborgs universitet SWITZERLAND

82. European Broadcasting Union THE NETHERLANDS

83. European Journalism Centre

84. European Cultural Foundation

85. EUscreen Foundation

86. Learning for Well-being Foundation

87. EuroClio - European Association of History Educators

88. Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek

89. Inside Polarisation

UK

90. Ariel Trust

91. British Academy

92. Ethical Journalism Network

93. University of Cambridge – Faculty of Education

94. Agora

USA

95. CAF America

96. Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media.

97. Bertelsmann Foundation

The year 2021 was, for the Evens Foundation, a year of recovery but also uncertainty. After years of interruption due to Covid-19 and a period of enthusiasm for recovery that marked the second part of the year 2020, we had to again limit and then postpone much of our activity. In Belgium and France, we experienced further lockdowns.

Even though the foundation was mobilized to continue its projects for an activity such as ours that requires monitoring numerous initiatives, organizing meetings, and bringing together people and communities, the situation led us to refocus our work towards preparing our strategic orientation for the next five years.

I will give two examples of this refocusing. First, the deepening of our reflection on the future of Europe and the role that European values would play: we have continued to explore the idea that the values that inspired the European Union have a very different reality today than they had in the middle of the 20th century. The notion of solidarity, for example, took on a whole new meaning as Europe embarked on a process of economic recovery and group purchases of vaccines, as was the case in the early months of 2021. In the same way, the notions of freedom and the rule of law should be scrutinized precisely and reformulated when some countries in the heart of Europe are experiencing illiberal drifts. We have brought together specialists and think tanks to debate those issues and have, as an output, published a series of podcasts on such values, a useful contribution by the Foundation when this work is put on the agenda of the

European Union. Another example relates to the exploration of a set of themes at the intersection of social and ecological concerns. They relate to exploratory work on issues dealing with the relationship between the global and the local, proximity and remoteness, with intermediate notions such as intense proximity.

The Evens Foundation lives by the strength of its projects, as we have once again been reminded during a year of uncertainty which, despite the initial difficulties, has given us a new impetus towards the future!

It is indicative of how fast-paced our world has become that 2021 already feels like half a lifetime ago – a different era.

Although we are still navigating the lingering impact of Covid-19, it is easy to forget that a significant portion of the last year was spent in some form of enforced stasis thanks to the various levels of lockdown that remained in place while vaccine programmes began to roll out across Europe. For international organisations like ours, the ongoing suspension of travel was particularly challenging.

And yet, we also found plenty of reasons to be optimistic, discovering new ways of working, collaborating, and strengthening existing relationships with our partners and building new ones.

For our teams in Antwerp, Paris and Warsaw, 2021 offered a unique opportunity to think about how the Foundation might operate in the future. The energy and research poured into the development of a new strategic plan was an illustration of the team’s commitment to and belief in the Foundation’s values. While that plan was put on hold in favour of a wider rethink of the Foundation’s mission and operation, we must recognise and celebrate that commitment. It is what binds together so many of the Foundation’s partners, supporters, board members and staff – the red thread through all incarnations of the Foundation, past and present.

This red thread runs through the diverse projects and prizes that the team materialised in 2021, despite the restrictions of Covid-19. From a public-facing initiative that reframes the way visitors engage with the often contested, institutional spaces of museums, to a project designed to help young people understand their context within the narrative of European history, a lecture on radical economics to a pilot training programme for exiled journalists, each project is distinctive to the Foundation’s way of working, centring a collaborative approach that relies on those shared values.

Now that society has returned to a state of accelerated change – environmental, technological and political – we continue to hope that the space Covid-19 created for many to explore different ways of thinking and being will have a tangible, positive effect on the structure of modern society. It is unthinkable that this extraordinary period of loss and upheaval could simply be relegated to history and not be a catalyst for change.

We must keep reminding ourselves of what connects us and not forget the overarching lessons of Covid-19: we are strongest when we work together for the common good, care for one another, and act collectively. To really achieve this we need a concrete, common understanding of a collective goal. That is the challenge facing the Evens Foundation as it determines its new path in an increasingly uncertain world: a daunting challenge, certainly, but also an exciting one.