ECIT Foundation (European citizens’ rights, Involvement and Trust)

On Saturday, 10th of October, we are hosting "Together Through Art" in Etterbeek. This is a festive, inclusive community art festival and fundraiser bringing together young European leaders, creators, civil society representatives, and community. 🎨 🇪🇺This event serves as the official fundraising launch for our Europe-wide campaign, All On Board, which advocates for equal access to civic education, expanded learning mobility programs (like Erasmus), and cross-border recognition of skills. Together, we can make that change a reality! Join us at Maison du MédiaLab, Av. de l'Yser 34, 1040 Etterbeek, for an afternoon of art, music, and community to help fund our campaign launch across Europe! Participate in the art auction and special raffle!! 🎟

📩 Our September 2026 ECIT Newsletter is out now! In this edition: 📆 Our “All On Board” ECI will launch on 17 November 🎨Don't miss ECIT Art Fair on 10 October ✈️Policy Insight on Promises and Failures of European Mobility And more... Read the full newsletter below 👇

📣 Call for Youth Task Forces members! 📣  Are you passionate about democracy? Do you want to defend European citizens’ rights? Are you ready to get involved in a European project? 👉 Join the All On Board Youth Task Forces and help support our European Citizens’ Initiative! 🇪🇺

🇪🇺 Two months to go until 17 November ! The countdown has officially begun. In just two months, the All On Board European Citizens’ Initiative will begin collecting signatures across Europe. ⏳ Stay tuned and join us as we work towards one million signatures to strengthen European citizenship.

📩 This Month's Newsletter is out now ! In this edition: 🎓 ECIT Summer School 2026 took place this month. Check out the opening speech by ECIT Founder Tony Venables in the newsletter ! 🎨 Upcoming event: Charity Art Fair on 3 October ! Support ECIT while discovering and acquiring unique pieces of art. ✉️ What can the EU learn from Czechia’s postal voting experiment? 🗳️ How can we tackle voter disenfranchisement? 💰 Call for support for our ECI: We need you to help us defend equal rights across Europe!  👇 Read the full newsletter below 👇

Building Europe through education 🇪🇺 Thank you to the ECIT Foundation (European citizens’ rights, Involvement and Trust) for inviting me to share the vision of my father, #DomenicoLenarduzzi, behind the #Erasmus programme. His ambition went far beyond student mobility. Erasmus was, for him, a way to build European citizenship through lived experience. “My ultimate goal in creating Erasmus was to contribute to building Europe by creating a sense of European citizenship, not only as a feeling, but through the lived experience of what Europe really means. The European Union has replaced the European Community, reflecting a much more ambitious vision. But we must not lose the idea of community: the idea that we share a common good and a common experience. This is how we can move towards a Europe rooted in the universal values that its founding fathers always envisioned. And this is how we can build a Europe that is both strong and generous: economically strong enough to play its part in history, and generous towards the rest of the world and towards those within Europe who face difficulties.” Domenico Lenarduzzi Biennale de l’éducation et de la formation Sorbonne Université, Paris — 9 April 1994 Suzana Carp Tony Venables 🙏🏻 #EU #EuropeanCitizenship European Commission

🚨 Czechia just proved that voting from abroad can work. So why are mobile EU citizens still being left behind?🇪🇺🗳️ In 2025, Czechia launched a new postal voting reform for their National Parliamentary Elections: 8,978 Czech citizens living abroad used the new postal option. While Czech citizens can now mail their ballot to Prague to elect their nationals MPs, they cannot vote from abroad in European Parliament elections. Czechia’s experience shows that when voting is made accessible, citizens participate. 🇪🇺 If Member States can modernise voting for national elections, there is no reason to leave mobile citizens behind in European elections. 🔗 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eaxRfETT #Czechia #Democracy #EU #VotingRights #EuropeanElections #EuropeanCitizenship 

Help us build a youth-led movement for equal rights across Europe 🇪🇺 Over the past few weeks, momentum behind our upcoming European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), All On Board, has been incredible. Organizations, youth networks, and passionate advocates from across the continent are joining forces to demand equal political and civil rights for all EU citizens. Our plan is to launch the official signature campaign this November, but bringing a cross-border ECI to life takes more than just passion and manpower; it takes a whole lot of resources. At ECIT, we rarely ask our community for financial support. However, to power our campaign tools, equip local youth coordinators, and fund grassroots actions across 27 Member States, we need your help. Every single euro goes directly toward building a stronger, youth-led push for European democracy. Donate to support the All On Board campaign at: https://lnkd.in/eeWtARVp #AllOnBoard #ECI #EuropeanCitizenship #YouthLed #DemocracyInAction #ECITFoundation #Fundraising

⭐ Save the Date: ECIT Summer School 2026 Civic education, European mobility, skills recognition, and participatory democracy can help reinforce active European citizenship while countering euroscepticism and anti-European narratives. Join us on 31 August 2026 at Rue Montoyer 10, Brussels, for the annual ECIT Summer School, dedicated this year to our newly registered European Citizens' Initiative, "All On Board". Connect with civil society representatives, academics, public figures, and policymakers. Take part in facilitated discussions and an interactive workshop exploring civic education, skills recognition, and mobility opportunities, and contribute your ideas to the advocacy strategy of the "All On Board" ECI. Together, let's fight for the flourishing of democracy in Europe. Connect. Exchange. Change the future. 31 August 2026 Rue Montoyer 10, Brussels Register now: https://lnkd.in/eSQrZ9V5

⚖️The independence of the Court of Justice of the European Union is not a technical issue. It is the last line of defense for millions of European citizens, when national authorities fail to uphold their rights. Our latest opinion piece warns that a draft report currently before the European Parliament's AFCO Committee risks weakening that protection by limiting citizens' access to the CJEU and undermining the EU's rule of law framework. As the report moves toward committee votes this autumn, now is the time to defend an independent European judiciary and the rights it protects. 📝 Read "Hands Off Our European Court: Why the AFCO Draft Report Threatens Citizens’ Rights" by ECIT Founder Tony Venables: https://lnkd.in/exCKs47Q