European Centre for Democratic Resilience

Overview

The European Centre for Democratic Resilience is a new hub for exchange between EU institutions, Member States and civil society to empower, protect, and promote strong and resilient democracies across the EU.

The Centre is a core component of the European Democracy Shield, which defines a broad, society-wide approach to strengthening democracy. 

What is the role of the Centre?

The Centre brings together its members’ expertise and resources to increase collective capacity to anticipate, detect and respond to threats to our democracies, such as foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) and disinformation.

It will serve as a framework for exchange and operational cooperation and coordination among participating Member States, EU candidate countries and potential candidates, and EU institutions. 

A stakeholder platform for independent stakeholders (such as civil society organisations, researchers and academia, etc.) will also support the work of the Centre by sharing expertise and research, as well as encouraging exchanges.

Read the mission statement of the Centre

Who is involved?

The Centre encourages broad participation from EU institutions and bodies, Member States, and EU candidate countries and potential candidates, as well as independent stakeholders via the stakeholder platform.

Members

Secretariat

The Centre’s Secretariat ensures operational coordination between the members. 

For questions about the Centre, you can contact the secretariat by email: EU-ECDRec [dot] europa [dot] eu (EU-ECDR[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)