Category Archives: EAPN News

Learning for Well-Being Launch conference in Brussels

EAPN secretariat and EAPN Estonia participated in the launch conference on Learning for Well Being: a policy priority for children and youth in Europe – a movement for change. 

29th-30th March: Joint Social Conference

The Initiative Committee is pleased to invite social movements and unions interested by this process to the 2nd Social Spring Conference that shall take place on: Thursday 29th & Friday 30th, March 2012 in Brussels, the ETUC auditorium ITUH (International Trade Union House) – Boulevard Albert II, 5 – 1000 Brussels. 

EAPN participates in stakeholder workshop on: Global perspectives on Poverty – Oxford University

01-02/03 – EAPN participated in stakeholder workshop as part of an international project coordinated by Oxford University on shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti poverty programmes.

OMC Peer Review on ex-ante social impact assessment – documents now on line!

06/03 – On 17-18 Nov 2011, a significant Peer Review was held in Brussels on ‘Developing effective ex ante social impact assessment with a focus on methodology, tools and data sources’, hosted by the Belgian Government. EAPN was the expert NGO involved together with COFACE, represented by Maria Jeliazkova from EAPN Bulgaria.

“How can social protection respond to this financial crisis?”’ – Greens EP conference – 26 January, European Parliament

{jathumbnail}EAPN participated in an important conference on the 26 January in the European Parliament, exploring the role and arguments for strengthening social protection systems at EU and global level in the context of the crisis, organized by Jean Lambert and Mrs Malika Benerab-Attou, MEPs (Greens/EFA).

Copenhagen Conference on children’s rights and the prevention of child poverty – Conférence Europe de l’Enfance

19/03, Danish Presidency, Copenhagen – EAPN Secretariat and EAPN Denmark participated in the Presidency Conference co-organized with the intergovernmental Group: Europe de L’Enfance and the European Commission in Copehagen this week. The focus of the conference was to deepen discussion on key issues, in preparation for the Recommendation on child poverty due out later this year.

EAPN participates in Expert Forum on pan-European macro drivers in relation to work, worklessness and social protection, their impact on health inequalities

19-20/01 – The Working for Equity in Health Progress Project lead by the Scottish Government, with Eurohealthnet, Health Action Partnership International and other partners, organized this expert forum in Brussels.

EAPN speaks at Employment Committee on future of ESF

26/01 – EAPN participated as speaker during the exchange of views on the future of the European Social Fund organised by the EMPL Committee of the European Parliament.

EAPN participates in bi-annual Stakeholder Dialogue for the European Platform Against Poverty

06/02 – The European Commission held the first Stakeholder Forum of the Platform against Poverty of the new year. The full-day workshop involved around 100 stakeholders, mainly European NGOs and networks, but also representatives from social partners, think tanks, the World Bank as well as the EESC, CoR and the European Parliament. 

NEW! EAPN Response to the AGS and the Draft Employment Report

{jathumbnail}Last week, EAPN sent its response to the Annual Growth Survey and Draft Employment Report to the Employment Committee and Social Protection Committee (EMCO and SPC), prior to their discussions on their opinion on the AGS, urging for a more coherent approach to implementing the poverty target, in the light of the dominant focus on austerity measures and fiscal consolidation and concrete proposals to deliver on the new social priority 4 in the AGS.