EurActiv

EurActiv
Headquarters Brussels
Slogan EU News & policy debates - across languages
Website euractiv.com

EurActiv is an independent European media platform specialising in the online publication of articles dealing with European news and European-centric topics. It is present across 12 EU capitals.[1]

EurActiv publishes its articles in 12 languages, providing free, in—depth information to a Community of EU Actors.[2] The online media also has content sharing agreements with other news platforms, such as The Guardian, Der Tagesspiegel, El País - Planeta Futuro and La Tribune.

EurActiv.com[3] was founded in 1999 by Christophe Leclercq, following which EurActiv.fr[4] was launched to cater EU news to the French population.[5]

Activities

With its main office based in Brussels, EurActiv is present among EU debates, enabling it to stay up to date and relevant.[6]

EurActiv often focusses its attention on the positioning of EU Actors at the pre-legislative stage of decision-making.[7]

The content is available in 12 languages.

Apart from EurActiv’s offices in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, 9 other offices are spread around Europe: Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland.[8]

Each national website republishes content from EurActiv.com in their respective languages, with additional content relevant to their own situation within the EU.[9]

In October 2007, EurActiv launched a blogging platform named BlogActiv where over 500 contributors blog about their EU-related topic, for which they are often dedicated specialists.[10]

EurActiv also acts as a dissemination partner for EU research projects, providing communication support throughout the project life-cycle: from communication plans, through project launches, major events and project milestones, to final reports.[11]

Fondation EurActiv

EurActiv also founded the Fondation EurActiv Politech (founded under Belgian law, acting primarily to bring together individuals and organisations seeking to shape European Union policies).[12][13]

According to EurActiv, the Fondation[14][15][16]

does not lobby, except to promote online media independence, and is not aligned to any political faction or faith group.

EurActory

EurActory is a tool developed as part of the EU Community project.[17]

EU Community was initiated by EurActiv and is coordinated by Intrasoft. The project is co-funded by the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. It won a Call for Proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7).[18]

The tool monitors hundreds of EU professionals and ranks them by policy topic according to their influence, currently on Energy Union, Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Future of the EU.

Financial Model

EurActiv’s online media content is accessible for free, but copyrighted.[19]

Via sponsoring, memberships and other such ventures, EurActiv offers these actors dedicated insight into a particular area of EU policy-making.[20]

EurActiv is financed by a variety of EU Actors, be they of public or private origin. For example, in 2015, EurActiv had contributions from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sanofi and Regeneron.[21]

Notes and references

This article originates partially or in its entirety from the French[22] and German[23] versions of the same article called "EurActiv".

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 18, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.