Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Fédération Européenne de Finances et Banques Ethiques et Alternatives (FEBEA)
EU Transparency Register
423942616222-03 First registered on 25 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
FEBEA is the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers, an international not for profit association created in Brussels in 2001 with the goal of developing ethical and solidarity-based finance in Europe. Today FEBEA federates 33 members (ethical banks, foundations and financial companies) based across 17 European countries.
FEBEA members have always been fully committed in the social economy sector (supporting social inclusion enterprises, job creation, renewable energies, organic farming, microcredit culture, etc.), pursuing positive social impacts in the local communities where they work.
FEBEA members are:
– Financial Institutions with different legal structures;
– Having developed in each country from citizen led initiatives ;
including:
– Large Banking institutions with a strong commitment to the support of the Social Economy;
– Ethical banking institutions;
– Finance companies working for ethical finance and microfinance.
FEBEA members su (...)Main EU files targeted
FEBEA follows in particular EU initiatives linked to the banking regulation, focusing on the recognition of ethical banking, and the support to social Economy. Therefore FEBEA follows in particular the development of the Social Business Initiative, EaSI, COSME and Horizon 2020 programmes, the initiatives of the DG Internal market and Services, Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, DG Economic and financial Affairs.
EU Green Deal, InvestEU, Action Plan for the Social Economy, Sustainable Finance frameworkAddress
Head Office
rue des Alexiens 16B
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
rue des Alexiens 16B
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Jonas Joannes Martinus Van Diepen 08 Jul 2024 31 Dec 2024 Anna Ghilardi 08 Jul 2024 08 Jun 2025 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Febea is member of Social Economy Europe http://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant ESF+ 330,312€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Social economy,Unofficial groupings
Communication activities
In the context of the Italian presidency of the EU Council, the Italian government organised an event on social economy in Rome on the 17th and 18th November 2014. In this occasion the organizers launched a public consultation on the issues for the development of social economy in Europe, «Unlocking the potential of the social economy for EU growth», and a call for speaker. FEBEA answered to the consultation and FEBEA’s Chairman was invited to participate as speaker, in the workshop dedicated to financial instruments
- FEBEA participated in November 2013 to the event organised by ENSIE – European Network of Social Integration Enterprises at the European Parliament: « Work integration Social Enterprises: investing in social Europe! ». The event was dedicated to the promotion of the role of work integration social enterprises in Europe; the Federation has underlined in this occasion the role of ethical banks for the support of social enterprises in Europe.
- Participation to the EU expert workshop on "Finance for Social Impact" on the 05/12/2018
- Participation to the EaSi programme through the Call VP/2013/017(Supporting the demand and supply side of the market for social enterprise finance) within two awarded projects:
o Social Entrepreneurship Supporting Network – SES Net (Strand A) (Greece)
o 3E4SE funds - European Ethical Financial Ecosystem for local partnerships supporting new Social Enterprises – Strand C (Italy, Sweden)
- Participation to the H2020 project "PROFIT - Promoting Financial Awareness and Stability" awarded in 2015 under grant agreement No 687895.
- Partecipation to the Conference "Boosting Social Enteprise in Europe" held in Luxembourg on the 03/04 December 2015
- Co-organisation, in collaboration with the EESC - European Economic and Social Commitee and FEBEA's local members of two public events to promote the EESC's Opinion on the Role of Territorial banks for Social cohesion:
1. Leno, 29/05/2015, "Territorial Banking: How is it different?", in collaboration with the member Cassa Padana
2. Zagreb, 11/09/2015, "Role of cooperative and savings banks for territorial cohesion", in collaboration with the member Cooperative foe Ethical Financing
During 2016 the Federation participated in events organized by: Social Economy Intergroup of the European Parliament and EIF.
Osce project: OSCE GEMS Award: funded by the Italian Delegation to the OSCE, grant to young entrepreneurs from six Mediterranean countries who submit innovative ideas with a social and environmental impact.
Publications:
- REAB - Reporting on Ethical and Alternative Banks: yearly overview of FEBEA members' business models and approaches to ethical finance. (2015 and 2016)
- Gasparini, G., Panos, G., Gkrimmotsis, K., Bouzanis, C., Katmada, A., Satsiou, A., Prospero, A., Praggidis, I., Karapistoli, E. (2016). What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Insights from an online survey, Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness book, LNCS Springer International Publisher, December 2016.
- Review of impact assessment methodologies for ethical finance, in collaboration with ALTIS and ISB, 2015.
- Contribution to the GECES report
- Contribution to policy paper by Social economy Europe on The Future of EU policies for the Social Economy: towards a European Action Plan
- organisation of annual conferences with EU representatives
- Answer to EU consultation on sustainable finance
- Answer to ECB consultation on climate risks
- answer greenwashing, invest eu and csrs consultations,
- policy note on invest eu, greenwashing and council reccomandaiton on social economy
-Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 17 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Social Economy Recommendation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Sep 2017 Location Brussels - Belgium Subject New president DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Attending - Michel Servoz (Director-General)