The Eastern Partnership Summit in Prague on 7 May confirmed the European Commission proposal from December 2008 to establish the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) “to promote contacts among Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and facilitate their dialogue with public authorities” in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The summit invited the European Commission “to develop and propose modalities for the establishment of a Civil Society Forum of the Eastern Partnership”. In the course of 2009 the European Commission consulted the modalities of the Forum with all interested stakeholders. The consulted parties favoured a comprehensive approach allowing for the participation of a wide range of CSOs : trade unions, employers’ organisations, professional associations, NGOs, think-tanks, nonprofit foundations, national and international CSOs/networks and other relevant Civil Society actors from EaP Partner Countries, but also from EU Member States and international organisations/networks. The first EaP CSF took place on 16-17 November 2009 and gathered more than 200 CSOs. During the Forum participants elected the CSF Steering Committee and tasked it with the responsibility of developing a procedure for selection of the participants for the next Forum. The CSF Steering Committee elaborated the procedure which can be found below. The procedure was applied in the process of selection of the participants of the second meeting of the EaP CSF which was hold on 18-19 November 2010 in Berlin. Although the Forum was organized by the European Commission and co-hosted by the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs, all decisions regarding the aims of the meeting and its agenda were taken on the basis of proposals worked out by the CSF Steering Committee. The third meeting of the EaP CSF will be held on 28-30 November 2011 in Poznan. The application form prepared by the CSF Steering Committee can be found on the official CSF website - Submissions of expressions of interest (see application form attached) should be done in English and sent before 24 June 2011 to the contact e-mail address:applications@eap-csf.eu