Within the framework of its project co-funded by the European Commission under the programme "Europe for citizens: Promotion of Active European Citizenship ", COFACE organised the conference “Families speak up for Active European Citizenship” on June 4th, 2008 in the premises of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels. (Programme)

Participants received the conclusions and recommendations of the 8 one-day workshops staged by COFACE member organisations on topics as varied as work-life balance, men’s role in the family, families and the EU, migrant families, intimate partner violence, families with dependents (elderly and disabled people).

Partners' Study Days:

1. Integration of disabled persons and their family (UFHA, Italy)
2. Citizen forum on violence between partners (FPS, Belgium)
3. Families and European Union: A place for families in a citizen’s Europe? (UDAF-37, France)
4. The role of men in the family (KMOP, Greece)
5. Migrant families and their integration (Väestöliitto, Finland)
6. Rumanian Families and Women in Spain: rights and opportunities as new EU citizens (SYF, Spain)
7. Families with dependent members (UNCEAR, Spain)
8. Reconciliation work/family: is equality between men and women reconcilable with the recognition of parental work? (LDF, Spain)

The project consisted in helping eight COFACE member organisations to each organise a Study Day on various themes, all having in common a threefold dimension: Family – Citizenship – Europe.