What is #EuropeFutureFringe?
About us
What is Europe Future Fringe?
We are open access, European, virtual, and physical, festival of democracy, where everyone who wants to be part of the conversations about the future of our continent, especially when it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, can find a space to tell their story. We offer a platform for everyone, starting at the grassroots and moving up to the international level, to speak out about the values of solidarity, equality, inclusion, democracy, and respect, which make up the rich diversity of our continent.
Why does it matter
We live in a time when people need to be increasingly leading the debate about the future of Europe, from calls to action on climate change, equality, protection of human and democratic rights, to new ideas about how to achieve systemic changes for sustainability, to reshaping the world of work – especially as we emerge from the pandemic. Europe Future Fringe is a platform to harness the energy, imagination, enthusiasm, expertise and ideas of people, at a time of major social, political, economic, technological and health challenges, to ensure a democratic renewal of Europe.
Who should take interest?
Every person and every organisation, association, gathering of people, who care about what happens next in Europe: from their neighbourhoods to local arts and cultural projects, to campaign groups, NGOs, educational institutions, local authorities… all, who have something to say about the future of Europe and how to shape it so that it is fully socially, economically and environmentally inclusive, and leaves no one behind.
Who is making Europe Future Fringe happen?
We have come together as a joint, informal, virtual, and physical, initiative, led by European Future Forum, New Europeans and Volonteurope. We cooperate with partners and other initiatives which have an inclusive future for Europe in their hearts and minds.
EFF – European Future Forum
New Europeans
Volonteurope
Who supports Europe Future Fringe?
People
Europe Future Fringe is an open acces festival of democracy where everyone who wants to be part of the conversations about the future of Europe can find a space to tell their story
Dominik Kirchdorfer
Founder & Managing Director at European Future Forum
Laura Bell
Communications Director at Volonteurope
Roger Casale
Secretary General & CEO of New Europeans
Lisa Duschek
ICT Director at European Future Forum
Povl Henningsen
President of New Europeans
Piotr Sadowski
Secretary General of Volonteurope
Avilia Zaverella
Registrar at New Europeans
Oonagh Aitken
President of Volonteurope
Furkan Sorkuncuk
Youth Worker at Volonteurope
Dominik Kirchdorfer
Founder & Managing Director at European Future Forum.
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Laura Bell
Communications Directors At Volonteurope
Laura is an award-winning UK-based journalist, who has spent the last 10 years leading communication teams across the UK for organisations in the public and third sectors. Most recently, she has been engaged in Government contracts as well as offering her freelance expertise to European projects such as EU Aid Volunteers and Erasmus+. Formerly Head of Marketing and Communications for Volunteering Matters, one of Volonteurope’s UK members, she recently established her own communications and marketing consultancy working national and European level, and now supports Volonteurope in coordinating its communication activities.
Oonagh Aitken
President of Volonteurope
Oonagh is delighted to serve as the elected President of Volonteurope. She is a former voluntary sector CEO and has many years of senior experience in local government and the higher education sector, having worked in the UK, across Europe and rural areas of Canada, where her work focused specifically on combating all forms of exclusion faced by people from native Canadian communities. Oonagh represents Volonteurope on the Lifelong Learning Platform and Social Platform and sits on the Steering Group of the European Civic Forum.
Piotr Sadowski
Secretary General of Volonteurope
Piotr has been Secretary General of Volonteurope since 2008. He was directly involved in the advocacy and implementation of the 2011 European Year of Volunteering. In 2017 he joined the Management Committee of Social Platform and in 2019 was elected President of Social Platform. His love for volunteering dates to his IB studies at UWC Atlantic College in Wales (1996-98) where, in his spare time, he was volunteering as a lifeboat crew member with the RNLI. He then studied Economics at the LSE in the UK. He works internationally and is based between London, Brussels and Ibiza.
Furkan Sorkuncuk
Youth Worker at Volonteurope
Furkan is a law student in the last year of his undergraduate studies at Galatasaray University in Turkey and is currently studying European law at Université Catholique de Louvain as an Erasmus student in Belgium. He is interested in volunteerism, NGO management and child protection. Furkan has implemented many volunteer projects to reduce inequalities in Istanbul and worked at Turkey-Europe Foundation as an intern where he learned EU policymaking and the relationship between Turkey and Europe. At this moment in time, he works remotely on Education and Youth Policy at the Republican People’s Party in Turkey.