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European Policy Center (EPC) https://epc.eu./en

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Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

772,103,945€

Sitra received EU funding for the first time as a result of cooperation within the EU in 2021. There were three projects receiving EU funding at the end of 2021: The TEHDAS Joint Action towards the Health Data Space project (3rd Health Programme) (199 568,52 € /2022) at Sitra in the Health Data 2030 project, the PS Lifestyle project (Horizon 2020 programme), at Sitra in the Sustainable everyday life project, and the DSSC Data Space Support Centre project (Digital Europe Programme, 100 % funding 308 416,80/ 2022), at Sitra in the Gaia-X project.
As Sitra’s role as the co-ordinator in the TEHDAS and PS Lifestyle projects also involves co-ordinating the flows of money, the income and other expenses in the income statement include three million euros in funding distributed to external funding partners (619 000 € in 2022). The proportion of income that remained with Sitra was 0,3 million euros in the result for 2022. Excluding EU funding, operational expenses totaled 80,9million euros.
Sitra, together with Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Belgium Development Agency, are currently preparing European Union funded action called “EU Circular Economy Resource Center” (EU CERC). The overall objective of the action is to increase the uptake of sound circular economy policies and business models, based on peer-to-peer exchanges and partnerships between EU and third country stakeholders. The action is financed under the “Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI-Global Europe)”. The grand total is 15,000,000 €. Implementing agencies are Sitra, Finnish MFA and Enabel. According to the plans, EU CERC will start its operations in 2025 and the duration of the project is 60 months.

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Artificial intelligence and digital,Unofficial groupings,Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

Projects and events: World Circular Economy Forum in Brussels 2024, Digipower Investigation, Digiprofile test, TEHDAS - the joint action Towards the European Health Data Space - advances more extensive use of health data and provides elements to the European Commission's legislative proposal on the European Health Data Space; e-learning materials on the opportunities of renewing EU data regulation (DMA, DSA, DGA, Data Act(Data Strategy 2.0). Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) Workshops and webinars on key policy topics, targeting European and international stakeholders, e.g. in October 2023 a webinar organized together with EPC titled A circular economy powered by the Single Market: Key policies ahead of the EU elections, participation in Cedefop’s foresight workshop on circular economy skills webinars on first impressions on new data regulation (EHDS, Data Act, DGA). Sitra coordinates the EU Horizon2020 funded PSlifestyle project. In 2023 Sitra started a new training program “Leadership training for the future EU” -partners: European Commission, European Parliament, Bruegel, media Publications: Sitra’s proposal to the next European Commission : put nature at the heart of decision-making, mainstream circular economy within EU single Market and continue the European Green Deal, Foster demand for low-carbon cement and steel through innovation and public procurement, Developing a 2040 vision for circularity in appliances, 35 proposals to make the European data strategy work, A roadmap for a fair data economy, the working paper on EU regulation builds a fairer data economy: the opportunities of the Big Five proposals for businesses, individuals and public sector; CEN CWA 17525 “ Elements of fair and functioning data economy: identity, consent and logging”, Fair Data Economy Rulebook Digitrail Survey, Technology Landscape of Data Sapces (2023), Toward a a Holistic EU Data Governance (2023)Sitra is collaborating with Climate-KIC, Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), European Climate Foundation, European Forest Institute (EFI), Material Economics and Vinnova in a project that provides an overview on the future demand and supply of bioresources in the EU, and seeks to chart a way forward to direct bioresources to the most advantageous uses in the transition to a net-zero economy. In 2022 Sitra published the results of Digipower investigation, which also indicates that the digital giants do not comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In December 2022 Sitra published a working paper titled Gatekeeping in the digital age which provides an insight into the nature of digital power and its different dimensions by taking the gatekeeping theory from communications studies, from the age of mass communication, and applying it to the digital environments of the 2020s. One of the key questions raised by the working paper is how to support gatekeeping that strengthens democracy in a situation where the opportunities for national regulation are limited. The EU’s comprehensive package of data legislation will respond to a genuine need, but from the Nordic viewpoint of media regulation, the perspective of mere risk and harm prevention is a narrow one. In 2023, Sitra participates in Good Lobby and Ashoka’s co-creation process to rethink policymaking in a way that enables citizens to engage and collaborate with policymakers to design more impactful policies at the EU level. Eu policy brief:sitra-finnish-eu-legislative-process-eu-policy-brief-4.10.2022.pdf and the related report Miten EU-asioista päätetään ja kuka voi vaikuttaa?, Team Europe Democracy (TED) | Team Europe Initiative and Joint Programming tracker- Report “EU kriisien aikakaudella” discussing how EU’s institutions and decision-making have been and are shaped by and current trends, and how these are feeding into the union’s future development.

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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.

• Date	25 Mar 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	The discussion topics were democracy and social participation by youth. The meeting allowed the exchange of views by Sitra elaborating their work on these domains and cabinet Urpilainen.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Attending	Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Oct 2023	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	Data economy: DSA, DMA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Mar 2023	Location	video-call
  Subject	Circular economy, biodiversity and the use of biomass
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Mar 2023	Location	Helsinki
  Subject	Issues related to democracy - deliberative democracy & citizen engagement and demographic trends
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Dubravka Šuica (Vice-President)

• Date	06 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Data policies
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	01 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	circular economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Suvi Leinonen (Cabinet member) Tuure Taneli Lahti (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Dec 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	EU Training and Development
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Tuure Taneli Lahti (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	international partnerships
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Tuure Taneli Lahti (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Oct 2022	Location	Bruxelles
  Subject	Working group on European Health Data Space
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data

• Date	30 Sep 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Data Economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Jun 2022	Location	video-call
  Subject	Tackling biodiversity loss through circular economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Jun 2022	Location	online
  Subject	DSA, DGA, DMA, AI Act, Data Act.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 May 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Follow-up discussion on strategic foresight
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Energy Union
  Attending	Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 May 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Follow-up discussion on strategic foresight
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
  Attending	Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet member)

• Date	27 Apr 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Future cooperation on strategic foresight with SITRA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Energy Union
  Attending	Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	27 Apr 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Future cooperation on strategic foresight with SITRA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
  Attending	Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President)

• Date	27 Apr 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Innovation and security
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn
  Portfolio	Budget and Administration
  Attending	Johannes Hahn (Commissioner)

• Date	26 Apr 2022	Location	BRUSSELS
  Subject	Health Data Space
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas
  Portfolio	Promoting the European Way of Life
  Attending	Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President)

• Date	26 Apr 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Data Economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member) Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Apr 2022	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	EU’s political situation and priorities of the Commission
  DG	Secretariat-General
  Attending	Ilze Juhansone (Secretary-General)

• Date	30 Nov 2021	Location	Brussels (WEBEX)
  Subject	European Green Deal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet member)

• Date	30 Nov 2021	Location	Virtual
  Subject	EU and China relations, Stability and Growth pact.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	An Economy that Works for People
  Attending	Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	30 Nov 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Digital regulation, in particular on data
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member) Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)

• Date	03 Nov 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Fair data economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)

• Date	05 Oct 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Fair data economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)

• Date	27 Sep 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC Meeting - European Health Data Space
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member) Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Climate policy, Green Deal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)

• Date	04 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Fair data economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member) Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member) Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Sky Group Access Now Europe

• Date	22 Mar 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	World Circular Economy Forum 2019
  DG	Environment
  Attending	Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)

• Date	13 Jun 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	eHealth
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Annika Nowak (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Jun 2018	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	Human-Centred Technology
  DG	Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action
  Attending	Ann Mettler (Director-General)

• Date	12 Mar 2018	Location	Helsinki
  Subject	Circular Economy and Artificial Intelligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)

• Date	27 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Human-driven data economy and links to GDPR, EIDAS, PSD2 (presentation of ongoing work in SITRA)
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Marika Lautso-Mousnier (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Outreach for the World Circular Economy Forum 2018
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Antti Timonen (Cabinet member) Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Feb 2018	Location	Bruxelles
  Subject	World Circular Economy Forum 2018, Circular Economy Mission
  DG	Environment
  Attending	Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)