Our Funders
The ECF is grateful for the core support - made possible by the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation - of De BankGiroLoterij, De Lotto and De Nationale Instant Loterij.
The rest of our income comes from partnerships, sponsorship programmes and our own resources. Our annual budget amounts to approximately 5 - 6 million Euros.
The ECF thanks the following organisations for supporting its activities in 2007:
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation; Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; HIVOS (Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation); European Union - TACIS IBPP Programme; Open Society Institute; Nordic Council of Ministers, and UNICEF. It also thanks all those who have pledged support for the four-year pilot phase of the LabforCulture initiative: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation; Compagnia di San Paolo; Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture; Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences; Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; European Union - Directorate General Education and Culture; German Federal Agency for Civic Education; German Federal Cultural Foundation (with partner Deutsches Informations Zentrum Kulturförderung); Luxembourg Ministry of Culture; Norwegian Foundation for the Freedom of Expression; Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs; Robert Bosch Foundation; Spanish Ministry of Culture and Swiss Migros Genossenschaftsbund.