European Whistleblowing Institute
Description
The European Whistleblowing Institute, EWI, works to strengthen how whistleblowers are supported, understood and protected across Europe. It is built on the belief that society benefits when organisations get better at surfacing the truth. EWI describes whistleblowers as people inside organisations who speak up against wrongdoing. They guard the public interest and inform the public when power is abused. EWI aims to help establish shared European norms for how they are treated.
The institute’s mission is to amplify whistleblower thinking, insights and ideas by building expertise and capacity across Europe. It aims to become the leading European institute for advancing whistleblower empowerment, acceptance and safeguarding. It focuses on education, research and policy advice.
EWI presents itself as a place where knowledge from different fields is combined. Its research can draw on direct access to relevant stakeholders. Organisations can benefit from state-of-the-art, data-based research that bridges public and private sector knowledge.
EWI works to establish a recognised legal profession around whistleblowing in Europe. Organisations with fifty or more employees are required to appoint a whistleblower officer. EWI aims to help professionals and organisations build the capacity needed to meet that requirement.
Latest news
20 July 2026
20 Jul 2026
“We are confident that this experience will have a lasting impact on our future careers”
16 April 2026 Monika Medved and Tin Šoštarić, from the University of Zagreb, won third place and the award for Best Oralist in the inaugural Myers Moot Court Competition. They reflect on their participation in this blog post. Our moot court experience was both unique and challenging, but above
16 Apr 2026
Discovering EU law through the Myers Moot Court Competition
8 April 2026 Nina Ginard, from the University of Amsterdam, won second place in the inaugural Myers Moot Court Competition and the award for Best Written Pleading. She reflects on her participation in this blog post. Before beginning my law studies in Amsterdam, I did not imagine that legal adv
14 Apr 2026
8 April 2026 Abigail Mutuaya, Philile Dladla, Tyler O’Sullivan, and Valentine Bessiere volunteered at the Myers Moot Court Competition. They are final year LLB Students, undertaking the Whistleblowing Law and Practice module at Maynooth University. On 28 February 2026, we had the opportunity
8 Apr 2026
Learning to speak up: A new generation of whistleblowing professionals
19 March 2026 Professor Cristina Fernández González coached two teams from Universidad Europea de Valencia during the inaugural Myers Moot Court Competition. She is also an EWI Fellow. On the last weekend of February, we had the opportunity to participate in the first moot court exclusively d
19 Mar 2026
Myers Moot Court Competition | Photo Gallery
4 March 2026 The Myers Moot Court Competition , the first in Europe exclusively dedicated to whistleblowing law, took place on 28 February 2026, at the Four Courts in Dublin, Ireland. Nine teams from Croatia, Spain, the Netherlands, and Ireland reached the competition day, with a team from the La
4 Mar 2026
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