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.
€200.000
France
INTERET A AGIR and its partners aim to highlight and reduce the systematic violation of AI workers’ fundamental rights in today’s globalised economy, using two legal frameworks: General Data Protection Regulation and the corporate duty of vigilance.
Learn more€120.000
Europe | Netherlands
ESWA will strengthen its digital rights and AI policy work to ensure sex workers’ voices shape the future of technology in Europe. ESWA will monitor and influence the implementation of the EU AI Act and Digital Services Act, ensuring accountability from platforms and policymakers. Their activities include research on how sex workers use AI, advocacy for safer digital spaces, and training members to protect their rights online. ESWA will continue to challenge discrimination and exclusion in AI systems, making sure those most marginalised in digital spaces are not left behind.
Learn more€80.000
Belgium / Europe
With the passing of the AI Act, Ada Lovelace Institute is now focused on engaging EU institutions in Brussels on its implementation. They will work with the AI Office to make people’s concerns and proposals heard. The Institute will also focus on how the proposed European Commission’s AI and Digital Omnibus processes and Digital Fitness Check will impact Europe and the UK. And they’ll study how the Digital Fairness Act could manage problematic AI chatbots.
Learn more€118.800
Belgium / Europe
With this grant, ANEC will strengthen how it shapes trustworthy and consumer-centred AI standards. ANEC will engage AI technologists to participate and comment on AI standards and provide expert input, comments, and recommendations to ANEC’s Digital Society Working Group and the AI Taskforce. The ANEC AI Taskforce will coordinate positions, exchange expertise and prepare contributions to AI standardisation work. ANEC will continue to actively represent consumers’ voices in the JTC 21 plenary meetings. These actions will reinforce ANEC’s advocacy in building a transparent and inclusive AI standardisation framework.
Learn more€111.708
Italy
With this grant, The Good Lobby will continue coordinating the Italian Digital Human Rights Network to shape fair, transparent, and accountable digital and AI policies. They will produce a report on Italy’s evolving AI regulatory framework, assessing its alignment with the GDPR and the EU AI Act. The Good Lobby will also investigate opaque relationships between Big Tech and the Italian government. The Good Lobby will also actively engage trade unions and youth movements to ensure inclusive participation in shaping Italy’s equitable digital future.
Learn more€120.000
Belgium / Europe
This grant will support CDT Europe’s to continue advocacy for AI regulation in Europe. CDT Europe will explore how new laws, such as the Digital Fairness Act, can address gaps in existing EU legislation on AI-related harms. In parallel, CDT Europe will continue to promote civil society participation in the AI Act’s implementation and enforcement by channelling expertise to key EU stakeholders.
Learn more€120.000
Belgium / Europe
With this grant, EDRi will continue working to put rights and justice at the heart of AI laws and policies. It will challenge the unchecked growth of AI and push for governance that puts people, the planet and democracy first. Through its civil society AI coordination group, it will monitor how the AI Act is enforced in EU Member States and use complaints and strategic litigation to redress harm. It will also expand its work beyond the AI Act, raising awareness of AI's environmental impact, building a stronger critique of generative AI, and continuing to co-lead the Protect Not Surveil coalition against the use of experimental AI on minoritised communities.
Learn more€160.000
Belgium | Brazil | France | Germany | Ghana | Ireland | Kenya | South Africa | United Kingdom
Foxglove will continue challenging Big Tech's unchecked power across Europe. It will expose the environmental cost of AI and data centres, support newsrooms in challenging Google's AI Overviews for scraping content without consent, and urge competition regulators to stop Big Tech dominating generative AI. It will also challenge governments adding AI to public services without safeguards, and back tech workers, including 900+ Amazon workers in a union-busting case and social media content moderators seeking fairer conditions.
Learn more€160.000
Belgium / Europe
With this grant, the European Disability Forum will run a two-year programme to advance disability-inclusive AI in Europe. It will help national disability organisations take part in putting the AI Act into practice, and update AI guidance on enforcement and complaints. It will influence future AI policies and guidelines at EU and national level so they protect accessibility and non-discrimination, and it will monitor the EU's possible ratification of the Council of Europe's AI convention. It will also carry out research on how AI affects women, racialised people and young people with disabilities, and create a youth-friendly AI literacy toolkit with young people with disabilities.
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