• Providing preeminent consultative body for multi-national and governmental organisations on a range of issues related to religious communities, beliefs and practices.
• Providing a credible and authoritative partner for think tanks, civil society actors and academics who are carrying our research and knowledge exchange activities related to Religion’s role in Europe today.
• Convening members for careful discernment on matters of critical and common concern – outputs of many such meetings can be found below.

ECRL members have been recently active in participating in European level discourse on Hate Speech in partnership with Kaiciid (King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue) and the ODIHR (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights- OSCE). And also participated in forums on topics of Counteracting Violent Extremism. ECRL cooperated with the above mentioned partners to carry out an Expert Consultation on Countering Hate Speech. See the report here: Report on Consultation Findings

Members of ECRL are actively contributing to the RfP Europe working group on Environmental concern and a number of members participated and presented at the Global online conference Faith in Nature held in 2020, which was convened and supported by a number of partners including The Icelandic Government, Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, United Nations Association of Iceland, The United Nations Environment Program, Religions for Peace, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, along with representatives of diverse Religious communities from around the world. ECRL was responsible for organising the European Hub for this conference.

ECRL members are also supporting the Metropolitan Regions project which seeks to bring together Religious actors and government representatives to learn about effective cooperation for peace and security in diverse Cities. This new project developed out of the Three Cities Project, a project ECRL initiated with the Berlin Senate in 2016 and began with an exchange between Berlin and London.