Within the consultation process to Portuguese Civil Society Organisations, a new report on the workshop with Portuguese NGOs that took place in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, on 30 January 2018, is now available.

On this meeting attended by members of the Financial Mechanism Office (FMO) – the Brussels based secretariat of the EEA and Norway Grants – the consortium between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Bissaya Barreto introduced the Active Citizens Fund in Portugal (2018-2024), and the guidelines for the new programme. Throughout the day, participants from several NGOs discussed the main challenges facing Portuguese Civil Society and the best way to approach them.