Conference on the Social Investment Package - An Irish Presidency Conference

2 - 3 May 2013, Leuven, Belgium

Venue: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven, Belgium

The Social Investment Package, adopted by the European Commission on 20 February 2013, will be presented to Member States officials, elected representatives, civil society, social partners, the private sector and others.

Workshop on 'Investment' co-chaired by Eurofound Director, Juan Menéndez-Valdés

Objectives

Special focus will be on the three key thematic elements of the Social Investment Package:

• Investment: The Social Investment Package and its relevance to EU social policies in the future

• Innovation: Why we need to foster Social Innovation and how we can put it into practice in the social economy and involving NGOs

• Involvement: What vision of a social Europe do young Europeans want to see?

The event is organised in the framework of the Irish EU Presidency and will bring together 'actors' in social investment with a view to putting forward proposals for future joint actions in support of the implementation of the Social Investment Package.

Content

High level speakers include László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and Joan Burton, Irish Minister for Social Protection.

Juan Menéndez-Valdés, Director of Eurofound, will co-chair the workshop on investment and Robert Anderson, Head of Living Conditions and Quality of Life at Eurofound, will be the rapporteur in the workshop on innovation and lead the discussion on good examples of social innovation.

More information is available.