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<title>Our Work - FSFE</title>
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<body class="subsite">
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<h1 class="heading">Our Work</h1>
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<div id="introduction">
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<p>Free Software Foundation Europe helps individuals and organisations to
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understand how <a href="/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Free Software</a>
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contributes to freedom, transparency, and
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self-determination. We enhance users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free
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Software adoption, encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and
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provide resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software in
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Europe.</p>
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<ul id="priorities" class="subheadings">
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<h3><a href="/activities/policy/eu/policy-goals.html">Policy</a></h3>
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We work with policy makers and public bodies in Europe to enhance the
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rights of Free Software users and developers and to abolish barriers
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to Free Software.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/activities/policy/eu/policy-goals.html">Our policy goals for 2014-2019</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a href="/activities/ftf/ftf.html">Legal</a></h3>
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In our legal team, we collect and share knowledge about
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legal and licensing aspects of Free Software, safeguard the
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interests of Free Software projects, connect experts
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throughout the world and help other groups achieve similar
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goals. We provide
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assistance, <a href="/activities/ftf/education.html">training</a>
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and <a href="/activities/ftf/documentation.html">documentation</a>,
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in partnership with gpl-violations.org and members of the
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European Legal Network.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/activities/ftf/network.html">The European Legal Network</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<h3><a href="/about/team.html">Public Awareness</a></h3>
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Informing the public about Free Software is part of FSFE's
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core mission. Many people in the organisation are experts on
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various Free Software topics, and can be contacted about
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giving authoritative talks, holding workshops, or
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participating in discussions.
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<h3><a href="/activities/os/os.html">Open Standards</a></h3>
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<a href="/activities/os/def.html">Open Standards</a> allow
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people to share all kinds of data freely and with perfect
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fidelity. They prevent lock-in and other artificial barriers
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to interoperability, and promote choice between vendors and
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technology
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solutions. FSFE's <a href="/activities/os/os.en.html">work on
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Open Standards</a> has the goal of making sure that people
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find it easy to migrate to Free Software or between Free
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Software solutions.
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<h3><a href="/activities/procurement/procurement.html">Public
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procurement</a></h3>
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Free Software is a perfect fit for the public sector. It brings
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efficiency to government, transparency to citizens, and competition to
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business. FSFE works with public bodies throughout Europe to improve
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public IT procurement and open up opportunities for Free Software.
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<h3><a href="/campaigns/swpat/swpat.html">Software patents in Europe</a></h3>
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Software patents are a menace to society and economy. They
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restrict innovation, damage businesses and put collaborative
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creativity in great danger. FSFE fights to keep Europe free
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of software patents, and works at the UN level to abolish
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software patents around the world.
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<h3><a href="/activities/policy/eu/eu.html">European Union</a></h3>
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FSFE works with the <a href="/activities/policy/eu/eu.html">European
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Commission and European Parliament</a> to create a positive
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environment for Free Software and Open Standards in
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Europe. We fight against monopolies and for <a href="/campaigns/swpat/novell-cptn.html">competition</a>
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in the software market by participating as an interested third
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party
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in <a href="/activities/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.html">antitrust</a>
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cases. We inform policy makers about the opportunities that
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Free Software offers, and push for interoperability.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/activities/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.html">Microsoft versus European Union citizens</a></li>
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<h3><a href="/activities/education/education.html">Education</a></h3>
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FSFE actively promotes the use of Free Software in schools and
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universities. Free Software is pedagogically superior, its
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basic spirit involving freedom and cooperation is the same
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spirit of education in a democratic environment.
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<h3><a href="/activities/un/un.html">United Nations & WIPO</a></h3>
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FSFE has been active at the United Nations level since 2002,
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helping to create a free and equitable global information
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society. We hold observer status at the <a
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href="/activities/wipo/wipo.html">World Intellectual
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Property Organization</a>.
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<h3><a href="/activities/foss4smes/foss4smes.html">FOSS4SMEs</a></h3>
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The FSFE is partnering with five other European organisations to
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create an e-learning course about Free Software tailored to small
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and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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<p style="clear: both;">
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The Free Software Foundation Europe has worked on many other issues and
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campaigns. See our <a href="/campaigns/finished.html">Finished And
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Discontinued Projects</a> for details of what we've achieved.
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<timestamp>$Date: 2010-01-14 14:08:10 +0100 (jeu. 14 janv. 2010) $ $Author: ato $</timestamp>
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