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.
We regularly speak at events and host regular funders' briefings. Check out our Speaking and Press page below for more details.
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As we launch the European AI & Society Fund’s 2025 annual report, we wanted to share some lessons from our grantmaking and fieldbuilding last year that we hope could inform others’ strategies in 2026 and beyond: AI is affecting all parts of society and the planet. So it makes sense...
In this funders’ briefing, the European AI & Society Fund sets out how civil society groups are rallying rapidly to respond to the EU’s deregulation push to ensure hard-won public safeguards are maintained – through campaigning, advocacy and allying across causes such as climate and...
The European AI & Society Fund has been awarded €1 million from the Postcode Loterij, the Dutch lottery foundation, backing our new five-year strategy to reclaim the direction of AI so that it serves people, society and planet.
Now more than ever, the public interest field needs sustained, flexible funding to respond to the AI challenges facing people, society and planet. That’s why the European AI Society Fund has dedicated €1.8 million to renewed funding for 14...
Civil society plays a critical role in making sure technologies are built and used in ways that promote thriving democratic societies. But they need support developing their tech skills to do so.
Artificial Intelligence should benefit everyone, not just the powerful few. The work of the European AI & Society Fund is to break the stranglehold of tech corporations and reclaim the direction of AI so that it serves people, society and planet. Our new five-year...
We are delighted to welcome Evelyne Paradis as co-director of the European AI & Society Fund. Evelyne joins our current director Catherine Miller as the Fund moves to a co-leadership model at the start of its new five-year strategy.
In this funders’ briefing paper, the European AI & Society Fund sets out how funders can support civil society to influence digital sovereignty in Europe. Funders can help build the power of public interest groups to engage in and shape...
Last month at the first face-to-face meeting of the AI Accountability Community of Practice, around 20 European AI & Society Fund grantees shared their approaches to participatory community engagement, data requests, investigations, AI-harm reporting, and strategic litigation.