Funky Citizens
Budget
€1,159,300
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
4
1.85 FTE
EU Grants
€47,502
Mission & Goals
Funky Citizens has been promoting concepts such as good governance, civic empowerment and activation, and media education since its inception in 2012. Our guiding principle, encapsulated in the motto "civically fit", reflects our commitment to providing citizens with comprehensive solutions and resources easily accessible, allowing them to become agents of positive change in their communities. In recent years, our organization has created and trained networks of activists, journalists and NGO representatives both nationally and regionally, centered on our areas of expertise: active citizenship, budget analysis and media literacy. Funky Citizens proudly serves as the regional coordinator for three media literacy projects, spanning across Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova.
EU Legislative Interests
Funky Citizens actively engages with the Digital Services Act as a critical framework for platform accountability and transparency, particularly relevant for our counter-disinformation work and election monitoring activities. The DSA's provisions on algorithmic transparency and content moderation create leverage points for advocacy around platform responsibility during electoral periods, directly supporting our BROD network activities and fact-checking coordination with Factual.ro. The AI Act represents both a regulatory opportunity and a capacity-building challenge for our work. As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes information environments and public discourse, we monitor implementation of the Act's provisions on transparency and accountability, particularly around AI-generated content and automated decision-making systems that affect democratic processes. This connects to our broader digital literacy programming and our emerging work on AI-powered tools for legislative monitoring. The Media Freedom Act provides essential protections for independent journalism that align with our support for Buletin de București and our broader advocacy for press freedom and media pluralism in Romania. We track implementation of provisions around editorial independence, protection of journalistic sources, and safeguards against political interference in media, using these frameworks to strengthen our advocacy work and support local journalism initiatives. The Multiannual Financial Framework serves as our primary funding architecture, with programs like Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) and the Digital Europe Programme providing crucial resources for our transparency, civic education, and counter-disinformation work. We strategically position our grant applications within MFF priorities while advocating for sustained funding streams that support civil society resilience and democratic participation.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
BROD - https://brodhub.eu EDMO - https://edmo.eu International Budget Partnership - https://internationalbudget.org IFCN - https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ EFCSN - https://members.efcsn.com/organization/factual EESC - https://memberspage.eesc.europa.eu/members/2038842
Organisation Members
https://funky.ong/despre-funky-citizens/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.