Annual Report 2025
All around us, people are showing that change is possible. Citizens are taking initiative, civil society organizations are developing new solutions, and they are speaking truth to power. That resilience is the common thread throughout this Annual Report.
The voices of citizens, nature and the public interest
At the same time, the space for civic action is under pressure, across Europe and in the Netherlands. In Brussels, civil society is under increasing scrutiny. Yet these organizations represent the voices of citizens, nature, and the public interest. As Faustine Bas-Defossez of the European Environmental Bureau puts it: “We contribute perspectives from science and practice that otherwise would receive too little attention and struggle to be heard over the well-funded lobby representing business interests.”
That is precisely why protecting and strengthening these organizations is at the heart of our work. Together with them, we have been working for 20 years toward a free, just, and livable society.
Read how and why in our Annual Report 2025 (pdf).
Projects in the spotlight
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Twenty years of Adessium: the journey
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Civil society organizations under pressure in the EU
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