EAPN provided input on the challenges to social exclusion in the context of the crisis and the EU approach, and chaired the opening panel debate which included Keynote speaker – Geoff Glover, Vice President, Talent Management for the Volvo Car Corporation and other panel participants: Boyd Wood, Department of Work and Pensions/UK Governement, Ronald Dekker, Reflect Research institute Tilburg University and Vivianne Soree, EDF and advisor on disabilities. For more information see website here: http://tse.two-seas.eu/en-GB/conference/