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The EU Civil Society Contact Group brings together eight large rights and value based NGO sectors - culture, environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women. The ETUC, representing European union workers is an observer to the group.

The members of these sectoral platforms are European NGO networks. They bring together the voices of hundreds of thousands of associations across the Union, linking the national with the European level, representing a large range of organised interests. 

Jointly we aim to represent the views and interests of rights and value based civil society organisations across the European Union on major issues, which affect us across our sectors of activity. Our objective is to encourage and promote a transparent and structured civil dialogue that is accessible, properly facilitated, inclusive, fair and respectful of the autonomy of NGOs.  

For more than three years, the Act4europe campaign has focused on engaging the national networks of the Civil Society Contact Group with the Future of Europe debate. Its aim is to encourage more active participation of NGOs and their constituencies  in the debate on the Future of Europe, on the Constitutional Treaty, and in the development and realisation of the concept of participatory citizenship.

Act4europe has established networking between the European-wide networks of the sectoral members of the Civil Society Contact Group, and has promoted and organised the cross-sectoral contributions to the European Convention, to the IGC and to ratification campaigns, at both EU and national level.