What we learnt from our Building Narrative Power open call
With nearly 400 applications from 28 countries, our €2 million Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme demonstrates the appetite across Europe to change the story around AI.
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With insight from European civil society and philanthropy, we produce research and analysis to help funders understand where their support can make a difference in the AI transformation. We also share our grantees' stories and successes, recording how they are holding governments and tech companies accountable.
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What we learnt from our Building Narrative Power open call
With nearly 400 applications from 28 countries, our €2 million Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme demonstrates the appetite across Europe to change the story around AI.
Three priorities for funders to help civil society meet the changing AI challenge
AI is moving fast, legislation is being challenged and old tactics are not cutting it. That's why in June, the European AI & Society Fund invited civil society leaders to a strategy retreat to reflect on how to build...
Call for proposals: New €2m Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme
THIS PROGRAMME IS NOW CLOSED FOR PROPOSALS. For too long the Big Tech industry has dominated our understanding of Artificial Intelligence. To counter this, the European AI & Society Fund is launching the Building Narrative Power programme to help people...
AI & Market Power – Findings from Fellows
In November 2024, the European AI & Society Fund backed eight Global AI & Market Power Fellowship teams, made up of 14 individuals, to spearhead investigations into market power dynamics in the AI ecosystem.
AI & Market Power Fellowships: Learnings for funders
The AI & Market Power was the first Fellowship programme run by the European AI & Society Fund. It brought together top researchers and investigators to closely examine market power dynamics in the current AI ecosystem. The fellows studied diverse...
Shaping the AI debate: building the public interest community’s narrative power
This new research found that, not only that representatives of the tech industry monopolise media coverage of AI, but that the underpinning ways in which AI is framed overwhelmingly serve industry, and to a lesser extent government, interests.
Funders’ briefing – AI and data centres
The current wave of Artificial Intelligence requires huge amounts of computing power. As the AI boom takes off, data centres – giant warehouses housing servers that process and store data – have mushroomed, with a further €176bn investment in...
Annual report 2025
In 2025, the European AI & Society Fund nurtured and sustained the work of our grantees who are working to shape AI in the public interest.
18 funding partners pledge €10million to redirect AI
As AI is being adopted across all areas of our lives at unprecedented speed – reshaping our economies, politics and societies – more and more philanthropists are becoming aware of the necessity to shape AI. In just 18 months,...