Our grantees have helped put fundamental rights and democratic freedoms at the heart of policymaking on AI. They’ve brought marginalised communities such as migrants, autistic people and sex workers into the debate. And they’re exploring how AI is intersecting in criminal justice, climate, health and more.
As well as offering financial support, we help organisations build networks, gain skills and work collaboratively to drive change.
€30.000
Italy
With the support of this grant, Hermes Center and the Good Lobby Italy developed compelling narratives and public campaigns around risks of AI and the impacts of the European AI Act in Italy. In collaboration with artists, they also hosted an exhibition in Bologna engaging new people in the debate and politics of AI and surveillance technologies.
Learn more€41.375
Netherlands
With this grant, Open Future is a European developed protocols for copyright compliance policies that establish meaningful, practical protections for information producers, creative workers, and other rightsholders from AI using content without permission. In the context of the ongoing unauthorised appropriation of creative labour, such protections are an important element of ensuring economic justice and fairness.
Learn more€30.000
Belgium / Europe
Building on the coordination CDT Europe steered during the AI Act negotiations, with this grant they brought together key civil society organisations and decision-makers to discuss and collaborate on key AI Act milestones to ensure collective work towards its successful implementation.
Learn more€60.000
Italy
With this grant, Hermes Center and the Good Lobby Italy strengthened the Italian Digital and Human Rights Network to better engage on the AI Act implementation process. Together they identified and established human rights authority, informed guidelines for managing redress mechanisms, pushed for national regulation of biometric surveillance systems and development of enforcement.
Learn more€45.540
Belgium / Europe
With support from the European AI & Society Fund, BEUC aims to ensure that AI systems are respectful of European fundamental and consumer rights and values, and that consumers are able to enjoy a fair, healthy and innovative society.
Learn more€71.585
United Kingdom
With this grant, Statewatch exposed and challenged the criminalisation and discrimination caused by data-based crime ‘prediction’ and profiling systems employed by policing and criminal justice authorities in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and the UK. It provided evidence of and information on the actual and potential harms posed by these systems to over-policed and marginalised populations and the wider public. This created a basis for affected and interested groups to seek policy changes that defend and extend civil liberties and human rights, including in the context of work on the implementation of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
Learn more€88.550
Europe | Germany
This Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte's project aimed to shape jurisprudence in Germany and the EU, with relevance beyond platform regulation to areas like public administration, workplace software, and generative AI. The networks they built also allowed us to monitor the German government's testing of Aleph Alpha's potentially discriminatory AI model and to explore litigation we expected to have impact well beyond Germany.
Learn more€60.430
Netherlands
Algorithm Audit continued reviewing high-impact algorithms used in the private and public sector in the Netherlands. They distilled these cases into public advice reports for policymakers. They also developed and maintain open source AI auditing tools so others can detect AI bias in algorithms.
Learn more€130.141
Serbia
The grant supported SHARE Foundation and Politiscope to continue their Monitoring AI-backed Surveillance Architectures (MASA) project. Both organisations maintained a vigilant focus on the deployment of advanced technologies in Serbia and Croatia, particularly focusing on the impact of AI misuse on vulnerable groups. They advocated for enhanced human rights standards in the development and application of legislation at both the national and EU levels.
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