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The European Crowdfunding Network AISBL (ECN), based in Brussels, is an international non-profit organisation aiming to support and promote crowdfunding as an alternative funding mechanism for small and medium sized enterprises and innovative projects.

Citizenergy
Is a platform funded by Intelligent Energy Europe - European Commission that allows citizens to invest in renewable energy projects throughout the EU. The Lisboa based company was founded in 2014 and is operational across 8 different European counties (Belgium, Croatia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom).

With the backing of many partners (Ateknea - Coordinator, Boa Energis, Lumo, Abundance, Green Crowding, Som Energia, De Windvogel, ECN, Cittadinanzattiva ONLUS, Eurada, Climate Alliance, UNDP, Eupportunity, Universidade de Santiago) the company's goal is to attract citizens to invest in citizen-owned renewable energy source projects in order to reduce emissions in the EU and contribute to the EU 20-20-20 goals.

Crowdfunding for Cultural and Creative Sectors
Crowdfunding 4 Culture is a initiative funded by the European Commission that investigates the importance of crowdfunding on the cultural and creative sectors and offers greater awareness on crowdfunding practices for cultural organizations in Europe.

In 2015 a pilot project was proposed to the European Parliament called the 'Kick-starting the cultural economy (crowdfunding) ' project. The goal of this project was to identify and analyze the best practices for crowdfunding in Europe, specifically for the cultural and creative industries. The project was later approved by the European Parliament in September of 2015. Led by the consulting group IDEA Consult and its partners European Crowdfunding Network (ECN), and Ecorys the initiative was officially launched on January 15 2016, but was publicly launched through its website Crowdfunding4Culture.eu in March of 2016.

The project was initially created to promote crowdfunding for the cultural and creative sectors, which are essential drivers of the European economy, roughly accounting for 5.3% of the European Union's GDP and employs around 7.5% of all persons employed in the European economy. . The sector has seen funding cut severely over the years making growth in these industries difficult without the help of crowdfunding.

The project will run until November 15th 2017