What is MACS? The Monitoring Action for Civic Space (MACS) captures the state of civil society space in EU member states. Collectively, 9 European organisations have created this new monitoring tool to draw the attention of EU institutions, states and civil society to civic space issues that matter. The coalition The European Center for Not-for-Profit […]

The “Make transparency not war – responding to the weaponisation of transparency legislation against civic society” project, led by the Bulgarian Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (BCNL), focuses on combating the misuse of transparency legislation to target civil society organizations (CSOs) and democratic freedoms. This initiative builds on efforts to address the threat posed by weaponized […]

Project title:                  EU CHILDOCRACY Donor:                           European Commission (European Education and Culture Executive Agency) Coordinator:                  Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law Foundation (BCNL) Partners:                         European Public Law Organisation, PRISM Impresa Sociale s.r.l. Project starting date: 01/09/2024 Project duration:          24 months Countries:                      Bulgaria, Greece, Italy In September 2024, we launched the EU CHILDOCRACY project, which pilots a new […]

The REWIRE Project aims to help rising civil society leaders from Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria embrace a mindset shift to improve their effectiveness and become better at selling MORE democracy.

The project comprises three one-day workshops that aim to consolidate advocacy efforts to improve legislation and practices for protection from domestic and gender-based violence.

The aim of the project “Rights in the loop – spotlighting human rights in the digital space” is to implement a public awareness-raising campaign that will start building a movement defending human rights compliance in the online space with specific focus for protecting civic freedoms – right of expression, association and assembly.

The project "Building an Inclusive Resilient Democratic Society in Bulgaria" (BIRDS in BG) contributes to building a sustainable civil society in Bulgaria by strengthening and developing the NGO sector, including strategic and long-term funding and capacity building, developed on the basis of research on the specific needs of small and local NGOs in Bulgaria.

The BeneVict project aims at developing an evidence base to promote victims' rights and influence the future of victims' rights in the EU, as well as creating a broad pan-European partnership to tackle the challenge of improving the real situation of victims across the EU.

We work in a very complex political and social environment that will continue to be influenced by hybrid attacks. In this crisis of the decade and the region, CSOs will be the ones who will help reduce the influence of disinformation and will propose advanced decisions that help communities to develop.

The Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law in partnership with the Association of European Journalists in Bulgaria is implementing the project "Digital Democracies vs. Digital Dictatorships", supported by the Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria within the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.