How this platform is run

Last updated: 14 November 2026

This page is about the platform, not about the association. How CRES itself decides things, who sits on the board and what the General Assembly does is in the statutes of CRES, Centro di Ricerche e Studi Europei, Rome. What follows is who runs hub.asscres.eu, who can see what, and how you get something changed.

Who runs it

• CRES owns the platform and decides what it is for. The secretariat looks after the day to day: members, organisations, events and the content of the shared spaces.
• LeX Consultancy B.V. (l-e-x.nl) built the platform and keeps it running, as a processor for CRES. It is built on HumHub, open source software, with modules written for this network.

Who can see what

• Members see each other's profiles, organisations and contributions, and the spaces they belong to. A Pecha Kucha is visible to members unless its owner sets it to private.
• The secretariat can additionally reach the administration screens: the member list, registrations, invoices and the content of the shared spaces. That is what the work requires and no more.
• The technical administrator at LeX can reach the server and the database, because somebody has to be able to repair things. That access is used for maintenance and for nothing else.
• Private messages between members are not read by the secretariat.

How decisions about the platform are made

What the platform should do follows from what the network needs. Anyone can put an idea in the Feedback space; every post there gets a status from the secretariat, so you can see whether it is new, picked up, done, or not for now, and "not for now" comes with a reason. What costs real money or changes the character of the network goes to the board, and if it touches the statutes or the fee, to the General Assembly.

What we promise about your data

Your data stays inside the network. It is not sold, not shared with advertisers and not used to train a model. Features that use AI run only with your consent, and personal details are removed from the text before it is sent. The details are in the privacy statement.

Open by default

The materials this network produces are meant to travel: open where that is possible, so a partner can pick them up after a project ends. The software behind the platform is open source and the modules written for CRES are licensed AGPL-3.0.

Something wrong, something missing

Tell the secretariat at info@asscres.eu, or put it in the Feedback space if the other members should see it too. For anything about your own data, write to the same address; you will get an answer within a week.