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23.01.2023

Do you want to learn more about the projects implemented by our Grantees? Are you interested in initiatives undertaken for the benefit of specific social groups? Do you have a desire to look for inspiration for your own actions?

We encourage you to use our new tool on the website – a project search engine. We are working on it all the time and will improve it on an ongoing basis.

16.01.2023

A debate by The Club of Rome, Open Society Foundation, Systemiq and Stefan Batory Foundation about “International System Change Compass. The Global Implications of Achieving the European Green Deal” report laying out the systems change needed for a globally just and sustainable European Green Deal.

01.12.2022

Social organizations dealing with various aspects of the elections – including the Batory Foundation – have sent a letter to the OSCE, encouraging it to send a full observation mission to Poland to look not only at events on voting day and during the election campaign, but also at everything that takes place long before it officially begins.

21.10.2022

The Supreme Administrative Court has issued a ruling on the Batory Foundation’s obligation to consider Ordo Iuris Foundation’s request for public information regarding the Citizens for Democracy programme carried out by the Foundation in 2013-2016 from the EEA Financial Mechanism (EEA Grants) 2009-2014. The ruling may affect the situation of many foundations in Poland.

30.09.2022

Poland’s ministry of culture and national heritage recently announced an open competition recruiting for a new director of the Museum of Art (Muzeum Sztuki) in Łódź. This could be a chance to stave off the crisis that the government has created within the last few months. But there is one condition: the recruitment process itself must be well organised, with the person selected having the knowledge and competences to guarantee the smooth running of one of the most important cultural institutions not only in Poland, but in the whole region – writes Piotr Kosiewski.