European Health Union – not wishful thinking but a reflection of Europeans’ real concerns

Hybrid Event, 21 February 2021, Brussels Network Office - International Press Centre,  The time has come to make European health a priority. Health is define...

Specific measures for a social and affordable housing - In the EU and in Hungary

February 8 The Institute of Social Democracy in co-operation with the Foundation For European Progressive Studies organizied a conference on European housing practi...

• housing

Social and Affordable Housing policy in Europe and Czechia

Hybrid conference, Monday, 13 December 2021. As many as 350,000 Czech households are burdened with excessive housing costs and almost 200,000 Czech households are in dan...

• inequalities
• housing

Social rights and wellbeing at the heart of a new EU Economic Governance

1 December 2021 SOLIDAR and Foundation for European Progressive Studies – FEPS jointly organised their 2021 European Conference titled "BUILDING BACK BETTER: Social ri...

• inequalities
• social rights

Unequal Europe - Tackling Social, Economic & Regional Divides

Online conference, Monday 4 October 2021, 16:00 -18:00 Unequal Europe is a long-term research project which analyses regional inequalities in several EU countries. On 4 ...

Regional disparities in Romania - How do they look like and how to overcome them?

Zoom Meeting, Wednesday 23rd June 2021, 10:00 (CET) Unequal Romania | Regional disparities in Romania - How do they look like and how to overcome them? Since joini...

• inequalities
• regional disparities

Call to Europe 10

Virtual festival, 25-27 May 2021 ‘Recovering Europe: Mind the Social Gaps’ was the topic of the 10th edition of Call to Europe, as fighting inequalities and ensuring...

• call to europe

Care Workers on the COVID-19 Frontline

Online Conference, Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 09:30-13:00 CET via Zoom It took us a global pandemic to realise that we depend on care. But despite all the clapping, care worke...

• COVID19
• care

Progress Summit - Building a Caring Economy to Speed Recovery

Webinar, Thursday, 29 April 2021 , 18:00 - 21:30 (CET) / 12:00 - 15:30 (UTC -5) Building a Caring Economy to Speed Recovery (Part 2) As we start to anticipate an end to...

Inter-generational solidarity conference for Health and Care

Online conference, Thursday, 29 April 2021, 18:00 – 19:30 CET on FEPS, PES, YES Facebook pages, live streaming On the occasion of the European Day of Solidarity betwee...

• youth
• Health
• COVID19
• care
• intergenerational solidarity
• elderly
• generations

Inequalities in Europe: The post-pandemic European semester

Online conference, Friday 16th April, 17:30 - 19:15 The seminar addressed the issue of social and economic inequalities in the European Union and focused on the current ...

• inequalities
• recovery plan
• european semester

Eliminating Violence Against Women in Leadership for the Empowerment of All Women and Girls

Violence against women in politics is not only an intolerable violation of women’s human rights and civil rights but a fundamental challenge to democracy. The UN 65th&...

• gender
• United Nations
• violence

Design for Politics – Applied training

Webinar, Friday 19th March, 18:00 -20:00 Pandemic is significantly shaking the foundations of a staggering reality, marked by inequalities and in search of greater socia...

• training
• technology
• COVID19

Building gender just societies through intergenerational solidarity - CSW65 Parallel Event

Webinar, Wednesday, 17 March, 17:00-19:00 (CET) Keynote Speech by Asa Regner, UN Women Deputy Executive Director Hosted by the Foundation for European Progressive Studi...

• gender equality
• United Nations
• intergenerational solidarity

65th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) - FEPS parallel events

FEPS and its partners have organised a set of parallel events around the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), that took place from 15 to 26 March ...

• gender equality
• United Nations
• pay gap

Fair Pay Political Round table - CSW65 Parallel Event

Webinar, Tuesday, 16 March, 16:00 - 17:30 (CET) In the context of the 65th session of the UN Commission of the Status of Women, FEPS joined forces with the PES Women, Je...

• gender equality
• United Nations
• pay gap

Progress Summit. It’s Time to Tax the Rich

Webinar, Thursday, 11 March 2021 , 18:00 - 21:30 (CET) / 12:00 - 15:30 (UTC -5) Part 1: Who pays for recovery? Fair taxes and building a future for all Join us in early...

• inequalities
• taxation
• Canada

Towards a fairer, care-focused Europe!

Webinar, Thursday, 4 March 2021 , 14:00 - 15:15 (CET)  Event in the framework of the 6th Progressive Youth Forum The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate...

• gender equality
• COVID19
• care

Housing for all: time for Europe to deliver

On Tuesday, January 26th FEPS hosted the workshop ‘Concrete Actions for Social and Affordable Housing in the EU’ in the framework for Progressives’ week for af...

• inequalities
• housing
• COVID19

First look at the Digital Services and Markets Acts

Do they live up to the expectations? Thursday 16 December (13:30 – 14:45) On December 15, the European Commission will publish its proposals for the regulation of onl...

• digital economy
• digital
• platform economy

Together for the Future of Europe - Digital Transformation in the European Way?

Digital transformation is affecting the economic, political and social life in the European Union and globally. Is technology neutral? Has surveillance capitalism tipped ...

• democracy
• digital
• Digitalisation

Political Participation and Violence Against Women in Politics in Southeastern Europe

Women’s political participation and representation has made unprecedented progress over the last century. However, women are far below equal representation at every lev...

• gender
• violence
• political participation

EU Conference: Joining Forces for a socially sustainable post-Covid Europe

Wednesday, 2 December 2020 14.00-17.00 CET. Online conference.  FEPS joined SOLIDAR for its European Conference 2020 to discuss lessons learned from the p...

• Social Europe
• social rights
• COVID19

Towards a Child Union - Spain

Online Study's presentation - 20th November - 11:00 -13:30 On the occasion of Universal Children's Day, FEPS, together with Fundación Pablo Iglesias, presented their jo...

• child union
• child guarantee

Feminist Culture Café: “The Power of Afrofeminist Art”

14th October - From 6 PM to 7.30 PM In the framework of the Africa week organised by the S&D Group in the European Parliament, PES Women and the Foundation for Europ...

• africa
• gender
• gender equality

Towards a Child Union - Slovenia

24th September - 17:30 -18:30 This publication launch was hosted by Progresiva. The results from the ‘Towards a Child Union’ publication were presented and discussed...

• inequalities
• child union
• child guarantee

Inequality and the top 10% in Europe

23rd September 2020 - 10.00 (GTM+1)/ 11.00 (CET) This event marks the launch of 4-country study on the financial position and attitudes towards inequality amongst t...

• inequalities
• inequality
• income

Social and affordable housing

22nd September - 10.00 - 12.00 Despite the consistent inequalities in access to housing across the EU and the striking consequences that all kind of housing-pathologies ...

• Social Europe
• social rights
• housing

Reset! Towards digital, climate and regional justice

“Try turning it off and back on again” – How many times have we recommended this to fix our computers? With the Covid-19 outbreak, our economy was suddenly and dram...

• COVID19

Expert webinar: Towards a child union

This experts seminar (12th May 2020) is part of a research, project that FEPS carries out with Reggio Children (IT), Pablo Iglesias Foundation (ES), Institute for Social ...

• children
• child union
• child guarantee

EU Spending that Empowers: for an inclusive and more resilient Europe

Join the second FEPS COVID Response Webinar: 30 April 2020 from 10:00 to 11:30 This public online event will be the occasion to discuss how government spending...

• Social Europe
• Social Investment,
• COVID19

Civic responsibilities online and offline: Lifelong learning for digital and traditional citizenship education

The online Conference "Civic responsibilities online and offline: Lifelong learning for digital and traditional citizenship education" will take place on April the 28th v...

• digital
• education

United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – FEPS Parallel Events

Cancelled For the seventh consecutive year, the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) will participate to the 64th session of the Commission on the Status o...

• gender equality
• feminism
• Beijing25

Digital Capitalism Conference

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), together with the German Trade Union Confederation, the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, the Institute for the History and Future of Work (IGZA...

• digital economy
• digital
• Digitalisation

Inequality 2020 - Reviving Europe’s Efforts to Attain Inclusive Growth

Europe had a strategy to attain smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and deliver wellbeing to its citizens. At the doorstep of 2020, our society is increasingly polari...

• unemployment
• inequalities
• inequality

Women for Europe, A Europe for Women!

The 2019 European elections are decisive in many ways. One of the issues featuring very prominently ahead of these elections is feminism. The current new feminist wave no...

• European Elections
• Elections
• metoo
• feminism

FEPS/SAMAK Digital Future project

Workshop on a progressive approach to digital technology

• digital
• Digitalisation

Call to Europe: No step back!

Call to Europe Madrid will address two key topics that are at the heart on how we, progressives, frame a vision for more just, egalitarian and prosperous societies: Urban...

• calltoeurope
• gender
• gender equality
• call to europe
• housing
• feminism

Call to Europe: Working together for a Progressive Social Europe

In the framework of our Call to Europe project, FEPS is organising with Fundació Rafael Campalans the seminar: "Working together for a Progressive Social Europe" in Barc...

• progressives,
• Social Europe
• social

Call to Europe Budapest: towards a more gender balanced EU?

100th Anniversary of Women Suffrage Conference 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in many European countries. And yet, there is a lot still to do to...

• democracy
• European Elections
• social democracy
• gender equality

Sexual harassment and gender-based violence at work: state of play, state of emergency? European Colloquium

Whereas about every third woman has been victim of some form of sexual harassment at work, what is the stat of play in France and Europe? Which are the legal frameworks i...

• gender
• gender equality
• Me Too

Launch of 'Health Inequalities in Europe: Setting the stage for progressive policy action'

Healthcare in Europe should be equally accessible to all, but differences in gender, birthplace, and/or socioeconomic background often correlate with different standards ...

• inequalities
• social rights
• inequality

Let’s keep moving – Smart, sustainable and fair transport policy solutions for Europe

Interpretation: EN - FR - DE FEPS and the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions are organising a series of lunch debates with an invited audience in Brussels, bringi...