First Annual Convention of the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion

First annual convention of the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion,  17-18 October 2011, Cracow, Poland

Venue: Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow

Objectives

This first Annual Convention, organised by the European Commission with the Polish Presidency, will be the first stage of a transition to the Convention's final format. Its key objective is to give visibility and political weight to the European Platform against Poverty and build support across various policies and institutions, different levels of government and civil society actors. The convention will review the progress made towards the headline target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least 20 million by 2020 (Europe 2020 strategy) and the implementation of the European Platform against Poverty. It will also debate suggestions for future actions.

Eurofound workshops

Eurofound is organising - with other organisations - two workshops on the following themes:

• Fighting poverty and social exclusion of older people

• Youth employment for young people not in education or training

A general programme and more detailed information on these workshops will be posted on this page soon.

Participants

More than half of the expected 350 participants will represent non institutional actors including NGOs, social partners, academics, journalists etc. The second biggest group of people will be national and regional authorities represented by their Ministers. Participation is by invitation only.