Founding partners
Friends of Europe
Friends of Europe is a leading European think-tank that aims to stimulate thinking on the future of the EU. For 10 years our contribution has been the confrontation of ideas that is vital to policymaking and to wider involvement in Europe’s future. We make Europe’s policy choices lively and relevant to people outside the Brussels-based specialists, both in our debates and in our publications. Our publications are widely disseminated and written by specialists or our Trustees. They are highly readable and explain complex issues in an easily understood manner. The formats of our events are highly varied, and all are lively and adversarial. Specific initiatives led by Friends of Europe include the Development Policy Forum (DPF), the Greening Europe Forum (GEF), the Asia Programme and the Understanding China programme.
Friends of Europe has no national or party-political bias, nor do we advance the interests of any of the organisations we partner with. We work with a wide variety of partners who are attracted by our lively and jargon-free approach to Europe’s big issues, and by our insistence that all sides and viewpoints must be fairly represented in the debates.
www.friendsofeurope.org
Europe’s World
Since its launch 5 years ago, Europe’s World has established itself as the premier ideas platform for new thinking on political, economic and social issues.
Its 100,000 readers, drawn from politics, business, the media, academia, think tanks and NGOs, are a powerful and influential audience, who value Europe’s World for its thought provoking articles, Europe-wide outlook and lack of national or political bias.
To date, over 900 of today’s most respected thinkers and influential leaders have contributed articles to the journal firmly strengthening Europe’s World’s reputation as the leading forum for ground-breaking ideas, and proving beyond doubt that great minds don’t think alike.
www.europesworld.org
Supporting partners
European Parliament
Debating Europe is supported by the European Parliament Directorate General for Communication, which provides support for projects which encourage a wider public interest and participation in the decision-making process and which offer a platform for citizens to raise issues which are important to them.
www.europarl.europa.eu
Microsoft
Microsoft shares Europe’s vision of a future that is competitive, innovative and inclusive. We believe Europe has extraordinary potential thanks to its interconnectedness, educated work force, and diversity. We work in partnership with Europe to fuel the economy through innovative technology, helping develop the necessary skills for the jobs of the future, supporting SMEs and start-ups succeed, and generating new jobs.
Together with our partners and customers we drive cloud innovation in Europe, leveraging our extensive ‘ecosystem’, our Azure cloud platform and local investments including our € 370m mega data centre in Dublin. Major European corporations, SMEs and public sector organizations are among the first customers for our cloud offerings. At the same time, we are working across the EU to establish the privacy, security and open standards needed to help Europe fully realize the opportunities of the cloud.
Microsoft fuels the European economy thanks to its ‘ecosystem’: a large, diverse and inter-dependent system of organizations, from multi-nationals to SMEs, which build and sell ICT solutions using Microsoft’s platform, as well as open source and other products. Our European community of partners has more than 146,000 members who, together with in-house IT professionals at IT using organizations, employ more than 2.5 million people. In 2011, our European partners will have revenue of more than €109BN. For every €1 of revenue made by Microsoft, local EU partners make more than €9 and their products, revenue and know-how stay in Europe.
Find out more and visit our website: www.microsoft.eu
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Gallup
Gallup has studied human nature and behaviour for more than 75 years. Our reputation for delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel is the cornerstone of the organisation. Gallup employs many of the world’s leading scientists in management, economics, psychology, and sociology, and our consultants assist leaders in identifying and monitoring behavioural economic indicators worldwide.
Gallup’s 2,000 professionals in more than 40 offices around the world help leaders at every level of business, government and society improve organisational performance by understanding the voice of their constituencies.
In carrying out surveys in more than 150 countries around the world over seven decades, Gallup has developed vast expertise in applied social sciences, policy research, evaluation and behavioural economics, providing measurement-based strategic advice to public and private organisations.
In Europe Gallup started survey research in 1937 and is dedicated to researching issues with a pan-European or global spread.
Community partners
European Students’ Union
The European Students’ Union, headquartered in Brussels, is the umbrella organisation of 45 national unions of students from 38 European countries. ESU represents and promotes the educational, social, economical and cultural interests of students at the European level. To find out more about ESU, follow us on Twitter @ESUtwt, check out our Facebook page or visit www.esu-online.org.
European Youth Parliament
The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is one of the largest European platforms for political debate, intercultural encounters, political educational work and the exchange of ideas among young people. It consists of a network of 36 European associations and organisations in which thousands of young people are active in a voluntary capacity. More than 20.000 young people from 36 European countries participate in over 120 EYP events every year.
www.eyp.org
JEF
JEF is a supranational, politically pluralist youth NGO with about 30,000 members in over 30 European countries. The goal of JEF is the creation of a democratic European federation as a guarantee for peace and a more free, just and democratic society. JEF fosters European citizenship, works for the widening and deepening of the EU and aims at bringing Europe closer to the citizens. Our ideas are spread through international activities and youth exchanges, publications, public actions and co-operation with other youth organisations. Read more on a Short intro to JEF!
Erasmus Student Network (ESN) 
Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is one of the biggest interdisciplinary student associations in Europe. It was born in 1990 and is now present in more than 393 Higher Education Institutions from 36 countries for supporting and developing student exchange. ESN works for the creation of a more mobile and flexible education environment by supporting and developing the student exchange from different levels, and providing an intercultural experience also to those students who cannot access a period abroad (“internationalisation at home”).
ThinkYoung
ThinkYoung is a Brussels-based think-tank concerned with young Europeans, We aim at mobilizing young Europeans into reflecting upon their future, believing in their potential and showing the results to political, business and social actors. We not only think, we act! Our vision is to make Europe the best place to live for young people. Our mission is to make Brussels ThinkYoung!
European Movement 
The EUROPEAN MOVEMENT is an international organisation open to all political, economic, social and cultural trends in civil society. It is known as the main and most recognized platform of pro-European organisations and its objective is to contribute to the establishment of a united, federal Europe founded on the principles of peace, democracy, liberty, solidarity, and respect for basic human rights. The EM seeks to provide a structure to encourage and facilitate the active participation of citizens and civil society organisations in the development of a united Europe. Its 42 National Councils and 32 associated Member Organisations work towards bringing together representatives from European associations, political parties, enterprises, and trade unions.
Born over half a century ago, the EUROPEAN MOVEMENT has played a crucial role in the construction of Europe, influencing political, social and cultural arenas within the framework of the European Civil Society.
