It is a network of over 100 non-governmental organisations, academic initiatives, and individual experts across 39 countries.

Initially hosted as a project of its six founding organisations, the European Network on Statelessness was launched in 2012.

[1] As of 2015, it was a network of over 100 non-governmental organisations, academic initiatives, and individual experts across 39 countries.

As of 2015, the stated objective of the organisation was "committed to ending statelessness and ensuring that the estimated 600,000 people living in Europe without a nationality are protected under international law.

[4] Examples are job loss in the informal economy, lack of access to welfare support, lack of access to health care and fear of data sharing between healthcare and immigration authorities, all increasing risk of increased morbidity and extreme poverty.