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.
€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€59.965
Denmark
The Danish Institute for Human Rights, a centre of expertise on business and human rights, partnered with the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, a leading CSO working on technology and AI, published a guide on fundamental rights impact assessments (FRIAs) to inform the European Commission’s (EC) expected template.
Learn more€30.050
Austria
With the support from the European AI & Society Fund, epicenter.works fostered social justice and the rule of law in AI regulation in Austria, establishing it as a model for EU-wide rights-respecting standards.
Learn more€59.000
Spain
With this grant, Lafede.cat consolidated their efforts, particularly through collaboration in the ‘AI Core Group’ coordinated by the European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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€30.000
Czech Republic | Europe
Through its three-year "AI and the Rights of Autistic people" project, the European Council of Autistic People worked to understand autistic people's needs and concerns about AI. It created resources on what AI is and how to shape better AI for autistic people, and ran webinars and events across Europe to train autistic advocates to bring their perspectives to decisionmakers, researchers and industry.
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