Association Center for Public Innovation (CIP)
The Association Center for Public Innovation (CIP) is an organization established in 2014 as a spin-off of the Foundation for an Open Society Romania (which closed down two years later, in 2016). CIP’s mission is to build the open society in Romania.
CPI is as the lead NGO working on open government in Romania, recognized by both civil society partners and the government. CPI is currently holding the secretariat of the Open Data Coalition, a civil society platform advocating for open data and open government in Romania. In 2018, despite the difficult political context, we continued to participate at the co-creation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the Open Government Partnership (OGP). We were the main civil society organization actively participating in the public debate, and six of our proposals were accepted and included in the final NAP. Our work on Open Education and Open Educational Resources (OERs) is closely connected but goes beyond to the efforts on Open Government. The commitments on Education remain present in the OGP NAP. CPI holds the secretariat of the Coalition OER Romania, which is the national civil society partner in this topic. CPI is becoming a reference point for migration policy in Romania. We the national partner of the strategic EU-funded project NIEM (NIEM – National Integration Evaluation Mechanism. Measuring and improving integration of beneficiaries of international protection), which is a trans-national project covering 16 states and including 20 partners, financed by the European Commission. CPI is linking advocacy and monitoring to close the policy circle on political rights in Romania. Starting with 2015 the political parties’ law allows the creation of new parties by only three citizens (compared with the 25.000 before). This is the result of an advocacy campaign conducted by a coalition „Politics without Barriers”, formed by CPI together with other civil society organizations/actors. We strongly believe that the power of civil society lays in our ability to work together. CPI has developed strong advocacy and research skills, and we are offering them whenever other colleagues need expertise. We are particularly proud of our involvement in successful nation-wide campaigns.
Link to the organization web page: https://www.inovarepublica.ro/
Social media: https://www.facebook.com/inovarepublica
