Allready around 200 activists from the civil society of eastern Europe, France and Germany have applied for the annual wechange conference this year around "Building resilient civil societies and defending democracies in the EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood". The wechange-conference-team has already setup a bautiful program, most of the high-level speakers have already confirmed and we are now selecting the final participants from the list of applications.

We hope to create a beautiful and rich conference with around 10 people from each of the following countries:

• Asia - Armenia
• Asia - Azerbaijan
• Asia - Georgia
• Europe - Austria
• Europe - Belarus
• Europe - France
• Europe - Germany
• Europe - Moldova
• Europe - Poland
• Europe - Russia
• Europe - Ukraine

The topics are all around the role of civil society in preserving democracy and the rule of law in the time of violence, militarization and war with Panels on:

• Alliances of civil societies beyond the borders: Forms, tools and effectiveness of joint action
• Strengthening Ukraine in the reconstruction, modernization and European integration triad: Approaches for international partners and donors
• Transformation of civil society in times of war and violence
• IT-security, data safety and digitalization of civil society organizations
• Psychological resilience of civil society in times of war
• Sustainable crisis management and communication for civil society actors
• Developing resilience against hostile disinformation, societal polarization and harmful radicalization
• The End of the Empire of Lies: Limits of Russian Propaganda
• Russian imperial ambition derailing: consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine for the Eastern Partnership Region and the EU

Further details can be found in the attached Program.

We want to promote stable partnerships through new projects and therefore offer lots of space for exchange, new ideas and inform about in detail about the possibilities of this online plattform for collaboration and about the application process for the funding program "Expanding cooperation with civil society in the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia"

We are looking forward to see everybody soon!