The European Urban Knowledge Network – EUKN EGTC was created in Rotterdam in 2004 as a result of an agreement between European Ministers on Urban Policies. The working concept was based on the experience of URBACT but with greater breadth and scope. EUKN members are national governments and knowledge institutes. EUKN works in close association with the European Commission , EUROCITIES , Presidencies of the Council of the European Union and the URBACT Program. [1] Read More…
The European Union of the Deaf ( EUD ) is a supraorganization of each respective National Association of the Deaf of the member states of the European Union . The EUD is a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 and is a Regional Co-operating Member of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), a full member of the European Disability Forum (EDF) and has a participatory status with the Council of Europe ( CoE). Read More…
The European Underwater Federation (EUF) is an umbrella organization Representing the interests of SCUBA diver training organizations operating in Both the not for profit and for profit Sectors Within Europe . [ quote needed ] Read More…
The European Sign Language Center ( ESC ) is a nonprofit organization , working towards greater recognition and use of sign language . Read More…
The European Science and Environment Forum ( ESEF ), now defunct, called itself „an independent, non-profit-making alliance of scientists whose aim is to ensure that scientific debates are properly aired, and that decisions which are taken, and which action is proposed, are founded on sound scientific principles. “ Typically this manifested itself in questioning the science of which environmental safety regulations are based. Read More…
The European Physical Society ( EPS ) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe through methods such as physics outreach . Formally established in 1968, [1] its membership includes the national physical societies of 42 countries, and some 3200 individual members. The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft , the world’s largest organization of physicists, is a major member. [2] Read More…
The European Parliamentary Union (EPU) was a private organization set up by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi , who was also its Secretary General. It held its preliminary conference on 4-5 July 1947 at Gstaad , Switzerland , and followed up with its first full conference of 8 to 12 September.
Kalergi’s love is to draft a European Constitution . The EPU asked some 4000 members of Parliament of 13 European countries to decide for or against a European Federation in the framework of the United Nations. The project was criticized by Denis de Rougemont and Duncan Sandys , his-in-law of Winston Churchill , founder of the European Movement , who advocated a model based on an intergovernmental co-operation without any loss of national sovereignty. The EPU played a prominent role in the Congress of the Hague , 7-10 May 1948. [1] Read More…
The European Optical Society (EOS), founded in 1991, is a European organization for the development of the science of optics . Membership is open to national optical societies, individuals, companies, organizations, educational institutions, and learned societies. EOS runs international conferences; lobbies for optical science at European level; offers a focus for collecting and disseminating knowledge in the field, and publishes the online journal JEOS: RP . Read More…
The European Multisport Club Association ( EMCA ) [1] is a sports organization Representing the interests of multi-sport clubs in Europe. [2] It was created with an initiative of the multisport club SS Lazio . [3] Read More…
European Jews for a Just Peace ( EJJP ) is a federation of Jewish groups in ten European countries at avocation Bringing about peace in the Middle East and Ensuring respect for the human rights of the Palestinian people . One of the claims of EJJP is Israel’s immediate withdrawal from the occupied territories . [1] Read More…