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Profile of registrant

Constant

Identification number in the register: 95778936601-92
Registration date: 07/09/11 13:12:01

The information on this organisation was last modified on 28/08/12 12:49:24
The date of the last annual update was 28/08/12 12:49:24


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Constant
Acronym: Constant
Legal status: association
Website address: http://www.constantvzw.org

Sections

Section: IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
and more precisely: Think tanks and research institutions

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Peter Westenberg
Position: Managing director

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mrs  Femke Snelting
Position: Programme and research development

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 5 Fortstraat 
Brussels 1060
BELGIUM
Telephone number: (+0032) 25392467
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information: Constant is a non-profit association, an interdisciplinary arts-lab based and active in Brussels since 1997.
Constant works in-between media and art and is interested in the culture and ethics of the World Wide Web. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the way that technological infrastructures, data-exchange and software determine our daily life. Free software, copyright alternatives and (cyber)feminism are important threads running through our work.

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: Constant wants to provide a context where artists, designers and other citizens can:

- Develop and share of open knowledge (images, texts, research, artworks, archives, remixes ...)
- Development and usage Free Software tools
- Participation in the organization of culture, technology and society
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • sub-national
  • national
  • European
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 5
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


2009-2011: Participation in LabtoLab (Grundtvig)
2011-2013: Coordination Libre Graphics Research Unit (EACEA)

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Audiovisual and Media
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Culture
  • Customs
  • Education
  • Employment and Social Affairs
  • Energy
  • Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
  • Home Affairs
  • Information Society
  • Justice and Fundamental Rights
  • Research and Technology
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks

Structure

Total number of members that are natural persons: 5
Number of member organisations:
Member organisations (Number of members) :
The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries):
  • BELGIUM
  • SPAIN

Complementary information:

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.




- Association Electronique Libre (AEL)
- Brussels Kunstenoverleg (BKO)
- Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
- Belgisch coördinatienetwerk voor vrouwenstudies (Sophia)
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- Verenigde organisaties beeldkunst (VOBK)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Financial data

Financial year: 12/2010 - 01/2011
Total budget: 212,000
of which public financing: 212,000
- from European sources:
- Procurement: 0
- Grants: 0
- from national sources: 173,000
- from local/regional sources: 26,000
various : 13,000
from other sources: 0
- donations: 0
- contributions from members: 0
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: < 50000  €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.