The EU Civil Society Contact Group is an alliance bringing together eight large rights and value based NGO sectors acting in the public interest:

• CONCORD, the European NGO confederation for Relief and Development 
•  Culture Action Europe, the Forum for the Arts and Heritage
• EPHA, the European Public Health Alliance
• EUCIS-LLL, the European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning
•  EWL, the European Women�s Lobby
• Green10, a group of leading environmental NGOs active at EU level
• HRDN, the Human Rights and Democracy Network
• Social Platform, the Platform of European Social NGOs

The EU Civil Society Contact Group brings together European platforms that gather the voices of hundreds of thousands of associations across the Union, linking the local, regional, national with the European level, representing a wide range of organised interests.

The EU Civil Society Contact Group defends a vision of the European Union that is an advocate for and guarantor of peace, solidarity, justice, equality for all, equality between women and men, non discrimination, sustainable development, protection and improvement of the environment, the eradication of poverty and observance of human rights to ensure a high quality of life and well-being for present and future generations within the EU and globally.