Partner Information Form
Fundacja Instytut Europejski
Warszawa, Poland · NGO / Association
1. Organisation
2. Contact person
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3. Profile
Fundacja Instytut Europejski is a think tank and educational organization dedicated to fostering a safe, competitive, and sustainable Europe. It engages in interdisciplinary public policy research and provides international exchanges, training, and seminars. The foundation works with students, youth, and adults, offering project partners expertise in European affairs, vocational training, and civic engagement.
4. Fields of expertise
International networking · Human rights · Civic involvement and participation · Holocaust education · Community development · Youth education · Adult education · Sustainable development · Policy
5. Target groups
6. Programme experience
8. Background and experience
Please briefly present your organisation.
The European Institute Foundation, which was known up to 2020 as the European Institute
“Pro Futuro Europae” is an initiative created by people interested in European and
international affairs and supporting the development of Poland within the European Union.
We have been active in the youth sector for 20 years. Currently we work across three
Erasmus+ sectors – Youth (YOU), Adult Education (ADU) and Vocational Education
(VE/VET) – which allows us to design cross-sectoral projects that connect young people,
adult learners and labour-market stakeholders. Our main thematic priorities are youth civic
participation and democracy, digital and media literacy, entrepreneurship and employability,
as well as intercultural dialogue, European remembrance and green transition.
The initiative to establish the European Institute in 2004 was a follow up of its key staff
involvement in the Polish National Youth Council, an umbrella organization of major youth
and student NGOs from Poland in 2003- 2005. Educational programmes are of great
importance to the Institute. They rely on non- formal education activities, since one of the
Institute's intentions is to enhance civic engagement of young people in Poland, in Europe and
beyond. The Institute is established under Polish law on NGOs as a Foundation, and
registered in the Polish Court Registry KRS no: 0000239605. It has its headquarter in Warsaw
and also branches in Kraków and Katowice, where also our staff lives and works. During the
years of existence the Foundation realized over a few dozen projects, co-funded mainly from
the EU financial mechanisms, as well as Visegrad Fund and others. Nearly a thousand people,
especially the young, have benefited from the trainings organised by us. We have been
assessed by the Erasmus+ National Agency as an experienced applicant. We have developed a
know-how and a vast network of reliable partners.
9. Activities and experience
What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas it works in?
The Foundation has received several grants from EU programs in the field of education and
youth: "Youth", "Youth for Europe", "Erasmus", "Erasmus +". The International Visegrad
Fund was also our donor.
Within Erasmus+ we are active as an accredited organization in the Youth (YOU) sector and
as an experienced applicant in Adult Education (ADU) and Vocational Education (VE/VET),
which enables us to build integrated learning pathways and transfer good practices between
sectors. Among the implemented projects it is worth mentioning projects focusing on the
participation of young people in public life, including local government and regional: for
example the "Youth Participation in Local and Regional Life" project and the activation of
young citizens up to 35 years of age: "Architects of change", "Entrepreneurial Skills
Academy" “Video and social media for youth participation".
Other international projects are also important achievements in the Foundation's portfolio:
"Education in peace through sport", "Let's meet again" (with Israel), "Open yourself to
dialogue" (with Ukraine), "Green culture", "3 x Yes!","Ecopower"," Languages of cultures
","Tell me your story", “Language and cooking", “Mythical Europe", Democracy without
borders, Memory and totalitarianism, Memory and postmemory, From zero to the
entrepreneur hero!, Until you laugh, For the love of film. The Foundation is also the
coordinator of projects implemented under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)
programme, including “Born in 1989 – Democracy Tales for Young Europeans” and
“Participatory EU Enlargement (PEN)”. All of the above- mentioned projects involved dozens
of participants, including from European Union countries and Eastern Partnership countries.
We are also a partner in Erasmus+ KA2 project on education for entrepreneurship. Moreover,
our Foundation realized projects from the Polish Ukrainian Youth Exchanges programme. We
estimate that during the Foundation's existence over a thousand people were recipients of our
activities, and this number is certainly higher when it comes to indirect beneficiaries. We have
the necessary competences in the preparation of a grant and conducting projects financed
from public funds, as well as reporting and accounting in accordance with standards.
The Foundation is also the successful applicant and coordinator of a large scale KA2 project
in the field of youth: INTEGRA (FosterINg migranTs intEGRAtion with crowdfunding).