Dear friends of privacy & data protection and anyone interested in digital rights. The Freedom Not Fear 2025 team is looking for additional co-organisers. Together we want to prepare the annual self-organised conference on digital rights and data protection. #FNF25 will take place on 26–29 September 2025 in Brussels (Friday–Monday) but preparations started way before that.
At Freedom Not Fear (FNF), people from across Europe and beyond come together to advocate for freedom in the digitalized world, plan actions against attacks on civil liberties and increasing surveillance, and seek discussions with decision-makers.
If you want to make Freedom Not Fear 2025 happen, please join us. You can participate in the organising efforts and online meetings remotely. But if you are based in Brussels and/or have some speak French/Dutch, this is especially helpful as many of us are from other (European) countries.
Freedom Not Fear is a community that co-creates the conference and actions. As co-organisers we try to do the relevant preparations and outreach to make this possible. Things we do include:
- Regular meetings of the whole team (at the time of writing: bi-weekly)
- Sub-groups on specific topics, such as logistics for the conference venue, preparing a programme structure and inviting people to contribute their ideas, reaching out to policy-makers at EU institutions to engage with them on the weekend or on our ‘advocacy Monday’, fundraising, communications, awareness, event / organising tech, session documentation and much more.
- We try to enable the participation of people from civil society organisations and other activists even if they don’t have their own budget available.
- Try to create a space that is as safe and diverse as possible, acknowledging that we continuously need to learn and improve.
- Your idea! Every person can bring their own ideas and experiences to the group and together we try to make it work if it fits with Freedom Not Fear.
If you would like to shape the event, please don’t hesitate to get in touch: details can be found here on how to contact us via e-mail, where to find our social media account in the Fediverse and about the international mailing list. At the moment our meetings take place online, bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 8pm (CEST).