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COFACE’s mission is to contribute to better policy making at EU level to make a positive change in the lives of the millions of families living in Europe. To this end, our advocacy is organised in three areas of action:
Mainstreaming: Providing a voice for families in the EU political arena to mainstream the family perspective as far as possible. EU politics cannot disregard this fundamental part of the nature of being human.
Linking up: We strive to strengthen EU social and employment policies, ensuring links between local grassroots organisations, national family policies, and EU realities. We also facilitate links across EU countries, driving innovation through transnational exchanges.
Monitoring: We monitor the positive and negative impacts of EU policies and legislation beyond the social/family policy fields (see other policy fields on the website)
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On this World Teachers Day, COFACE Families Europe is gathering practitioners from 20+ countries in the city of Graz, under the Austrian Presidency of the EU, to explore the role of families as first educators in building sustainable and future-proof…
Congress Graz, Kammermusiksaal, Albrechtgasse 1, 8010 Graz, Austria, 4-5 October 2018 A COFACE Families Europe conference, co-hosted with KFÖ, the City of Graz, the Province of Styria under the Austrian EU-Presidency Concept The starting point for the conference is to…
The European Pillar of Social Rights: Ambiguities, Possibilities, Implementation, is a conference organised on 5 October by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) and the Amsterdams Instituut…
A new report on burnout at the workplace was published on 10th September by Eurofound, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Burnout is a topic that has triggered widespread interest among the general public and the…
The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) has different resources on its platform including: A round-up of the latest developments in child and family policy in EU member states. Every month, a news item will be published, collating information…
SDG Watch Europe, an EU-level, cross-sectoral CSO alliance of NGOs from development, environment, social, human rights and other sectors, has launched a joint manifesto on the 25th of September, the Global Day of Action on the SDGs. The manifesto, which…
Eurostat is presenting for the first time a digital publication, “SDGs & me”, which is an interactive visualisation tool. It aims to help EU citizens to understand the 17 interconnected sustainable development goals which relate to social, economic and environmental…
On the 18th and 19th of September, a variety of stakeholders and several political groups of the European Parliament held the 2018 edition of the “post-growth” conference. The event tackled the complex topic of the interplay between our economic and…
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Following a United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs open call for oral and written statements issued earlier this year for the 2018 session of the ECOSOC High-Level Segment (HLS) for NGOs, on the topic “From global to local:…
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