03 Feb 2023
9:05 am
3:30 pm
About
On Friday, February 3, 2023 the European Movement International’s held an online workshop entitled ‘The European Union and the Pillar of Social Rights‘ on Friday, February 3, 2023. The event was attended by 146 participants from 14 EU countries.
This workshop was part of the Just EU and Me project, a transnational capacity-building programme led by ActionAid, which aims at providing young people and representatives of youth associations with knowledge, skills, and opportunities for actively participating in developing recommendations to improve EU and Member States’ policies implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights and addressing social justice issues such as access to education, gender equality, equal opportunities, etc.
Besides this event, other workshops will be available in 2023 and 2024 on the theory of change methodology, solutions journalism, media literacy, and countering disinformation.
Agenda
9.00 – 9.05 Opening remarks
9.05 – 10.30 EU decision-making process, presented by Federico Terreni, Policy and Advocacy Manager, European Movement International
- Presentation of the EU
- The role of civil society in the EU processes
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 11.45 Presentation of the European Pillar of Social Rights principles, its Action plan and targets
Marco Cilento, Head of Institutional Policy, European Trade Union Confederation
Silvana Roebstorf, Policy Officer, DG EMPL, European Commission
11:45 – 12:45 Breakout sessions
- Focus on EPSR 1 – Education, training and lifelong learning
Brikena Xhomaqui, Director of the Lifelong Learning Platform
- Focus on EPSR 2 – Gender equality
Jéromine Andolfatto, Policy and Campaigns Officer, European Women’s Lobby
- Focus on EPSR 3 – Equal opportunities
Jessica Nguyen, Policy and advocacy manager, Youth rights, European Youth Forum
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Discussion: Expert Views on Social Rights within the EU
Moderator: Joe Lynam, Journalist
- Andriana Sukova, Deputy Director-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission;
- Liina Carr, Confederal Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation;
- Elizabeth Kuiper, Associate Director and Head of the Social Europe and Wellbeing programme, European Policy Centre;
- Alessia Sebillo, Executive Director, Diesis Network
- Giuseppe Palmisano, Former-President of the ECSR, Council of Europe
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