Results 2025: ECAS Grant-making to its Members in the EU

Organisation: Fondazione ISMU ETS  

Country: Italy 

Project duration: 06/05/2025 – 06/11/2025 

Key target group(s): Italian citizens, including new citizens, young citizens aged 18-29, journalists, researchers, and the broader civil society; European researchers and other key stakeholders 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: Empower Italian citizens to exercise their right to vote in the “Citizenship Referendum” by providing comprehensive and accurate information. Bring the debate and discussion to the European level on the acquisition of citizenship. 

Activities: awareness raising campaign, public engagement, comparative analysis, knowledge sharing 

Grant awarded: €14,999.26 

Organisation: Asociația Centrul Român de Politici Europene / Romanian Center for European Policies 

Country: Romania 

Project duration: 15/05/2025 – 15/11/2025 

Key target group(s): local and national public authorities, civil society organisations 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: support a more inclusive and transparent digital transition in Romania by empowering civil society organizations and public authorities to monitor, inform, and act 

Activities: monitoring the implementation of Romania’s Digital Decade 2030 roadmap, awareness raising, promoting best case studies 

Grant awarded: € 14,994.98 

Organisation: Citizen Participation Forum and Proinfo Foundation 

Country: Bulgaria 

Project duration: 17/05/2025 – 16/11/2025 

Key target group(s): CSOs representatives 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: empower civil society organisations to confront disinformation and smear campaigns 

Activities: capacity building, testing and scaling, training, mentoring, and simulations 

Grant awarded: € 34,989.00 

Organisation: Open Estonia Foundation 

Country: Estonia 

Project duration: 23/05/2025 – 23/10/2025 

Key target group(s):  general public, NGO sector, media, policy makers and academia 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: raise public awareness about detecting and countering disinformation in Estonia; promote dialogue and discussion culture, build resilience against fake news and highlight the impact of disinformation on democracy. 

Activities: perception survey, awareness raising, public engagement   

Grant awarded: € 15,000.00 

Organisation: Gong 

Country: Croatia 

Project duration: 8/5/2025 – 7/11/2025 

Key target group(s): civil society organisations, civic activists, decision-makers 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: document and raise awareness on dangerous narratives threatening civic discourse in the digital sphere, build CSOs resilience, improve cooperation between civil society, institutional stakeholders, academia and the media in countering threats to civic discourse 

Activities: Mapping malign political content targeting civil society, capacity and coalition building, dialogue facilitation 

Grant awarded: € 14.973,73 

Organisation: Lithuanian College of Democracy 

Country: Lithuania 

Project duration: 12/05/2025 – 11/11/2025 

Key target group(s): civil society organisations, local and national policymakers, general public  

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: strengthen the resilience of CSOs against AI-generated disinformation by equipping them with tools for fact-checking, strategic communication, and advocacy. 

Activities: training, capacity building, awareness raising 

Grant awarded: € 15,000.00 

Organisation: Telecentar and ODRAZ – Sustainable Community Development 

Country: Croatia 

Project duration: 15/05/2025 – 15/11/2025 

Key target group(s): secondary school educators and students, university students, policy makers 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: enhance media literacy and critical thinking skills among educators and students while strengthening policy frameworks for digital education 

Activities: research, document analysis, expert interviews, media literacy training, awareness raising campaigns. 

Grant awarded: € 34,998.63 

Organisation: Institute for Electronic Participation (INePA) 

Country: Slovenia 

Project duration: 15/05/2025 – 15/11/2025 

Key target group(s): advocacy NGOs, NGO policy networks, government officials and general public 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities); 

Aims and objectives: apply ECAS Civic Monitoring Methodology Framework on implementation of the Slovenian national strategic roadmap for digital decade, update current shadow report on national roadmap implementation, assess the integration of good governance principles in the preparation of the national roadmap and its first update based on findings from previous CODIS projects. 

Activities: provide a standalone, open-source online dashboard displaying monitored indicator data, online training, advocacy for good governance principles, awareness raising 

Grant awarded: € 14,922.97 

Organisation: Civil College Foundation 
Country: Hungary 

Project duration: 19/05/2025 – 19/11/2025 

Key target group(s): local grassroot organisations in small and medium municipalities 

Summary of the project (aim, objectives, key activities): 

Aims and objectives: support grassroots community organisations in Hungary, particularly in smaller municipalities, by enhancing their ability to monitor public processes, advocate for their issues, and fight disinformation and smear campaigns. 

Activities: training, online workshops and videos, offline workshop and communication campaign 

Grant awarded: € 14,926.50